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Show THE CITIZEN government operation, a substantial guarantee of rail ly. or by kiting rates to offset an assumed exorbitant labor charge. d( Hither convincing reports regarding the condition of rail equip-o- r blic perhaps, lack of condition recently emanated from ilai of the Interstate Commerce Commission. His report ikn back up the charges of the strikers resident Harding, tended to k da Four men who went out, that engines and other (he Big iei was fast deteriorating and would soon be ready for the. Hi more skilled and efficient mechanics could be o heap unless hop go back to work. . wit all this big fuss, which is causing a national loss in millions pin hours, is stranded on the rock of priority rights r twenty-fo)si workers and new employees. It appears to be a sense-issu- e oil which to tie up the vital transportation lines of the led and yet it is fraught with grave importance to the try at large, 3S To permit the railroad executives to defeat the shop unions. wil on strike, on this seniority issue, ;ers and othe'r small unions, now be tantamount to writing into the present transportation law, u clause doing away with ming the action of the railroad board, a id It would mean that seniority rights of all other railroad unions. Pi railroad board would be backed by precedent in future squables am their rights ail affairs, in decreeing that men who strike forfeit fr lose who remain at work and to new employees. This is the rea-th- e )ot Big Five came to the rescue, and if their proposition to end em strike along lines securing full seniority rights for the striking imen is not acceptable to the railroad executives, then the status led rail strife automatically changes from a strike to a lockout. In that event President Harding must act swiftly in the interests ag he The nation must show ablic good and governmental solidarity. bo f bigger than any faction, be it composed of laborers, skilled ;t kers, or arrogant and reactionary representatives of gigantic pit of od 1 Chair-JfcCho- rd roll-stoc- in-jt- S will be saved from ruinous competition of cheap foreign labor, foreign produced sugar and foreign operated factories ; it will mean a domestic supply of sufficient size to insure that the nation will not be placed entirely at the mercy of foreign producers and domestic speculators. Such a duty as proposed, will not shut out foreign sugar especially Cuban, which comes in at a differential of 20 per cent, but it will give our home product a chance to secure equality in the market and at a minimum price, because it will establish a leveling price for all sugars, either foreign or domestic. STATE INCOME TAX FALLACY. ur M ic i ci 1th. M Aside T is, THE WISE FOLKS. liti You 11 ought to. be as wise as your wife. Your wife could churn over an butter ; but she doesnt. She could orj fashioned tub ; but she doesnt. She could bake the family bread on coal stove in the good old summer time, instead of buying a ten-- t ;e loaf of bread for fifteen cents; but she doesnt. She could keep tn iw; but she prefers to buy milk in the bottle. n Wife is a wise one! She manipulates affairs so that she has kle ilc time to look after her social and political duties. She goes n town skirt and every afternoon sporting a lighter-than-a- ir ps into a drinking parlor where she sips a modern concoction loaded ice cream and fruits, the while she listens to the latest neighbor-- d rub-a-dub-d- ub own : h scandal. ts our iflto Fiv wife figured the dim and political m atch eni out her home drudgery problems and shunted distant hereafter. Now she has time to figure future. your wife oa th b tit i 3 $ iti n io s co-relat- ed tax-exem- pt SAVING AMERICAN SHIPS. The shipping bill remains a very live issue with the country at large. The speech delivered by Senator Ransdell, in the senate recently, on the subject, Shall Britain Dictate Our Sea Policy, .has drawn public attention to the grave danger of leaving the American merchant fleet unprotected and, thereby, play directly into the hands of our foreign competitors. This is being reflected in editorial comment from all sections of the country; and while opponents of the bill, here and abroad, are disseminating vicious material against enactment of the measure, it is noted that a great majority of the press of the country has rallied in favor of the bill and a steady increase is being recorded in the number of newspapers supporting the home cause. Socialistic and red organs are a unit against the measure, a significant feature of this campaign being the preponderance of the foreign element in this class of circulation. Realization of this fact is strengthening sentiment among Americans in favor of early passage of the shipping law. We have had the stone age, next the iron age, and now the booze age. Future. historians will record that the present prohibition-ma- d era was about the dampest affair every indulged in by Mother Earth since the deluge. ! SALVATION FOR BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. itK the private affairs of every citizen. It means the extension of a vicious system of spying on business men and others to discover if they are hiding any tangible income assets. It means another army of officials with the and officious expert to overhaul your books, pry into your investments and examine your bank accounts, for which the taxpayers must pay the salary roll. If you want more of this sort of governmental supervision of your private and business affairs if you want to contribute to fat salaried political appointees to become additional cogs in the gigantic political machines of today vote for it and it will be fastened on you forever. They will tell you a state income is to cinch the big fellow, but nine out of every ten of such will find a way to shunt it onto the little bonds may still be issued, bought and fellow. Remember speaking softly and using a big stick. for k ita x from the deplorable economic aspect of the rail strike, it said to be hurting politics. Thus, there arises another vital na lits tax-eate- rs sold. be on tax a state income tax is designed with more revenue. A state primarily to supply the income-tameans a new political machine established in the state with an endless chain wound around the taxpayers neck. It means a new department of state government with inquisitorial powers over On top of a federal income by the senate of the committee rate of 2.3 cents per on imported sugar, appears to be a compromise between the 2.5 Approval lnd Louisiana cane and western beet producers, and the proposed by the house and approved by the senate finance !Urged by 2-fa- te The Public Utilities Commission has at last issued a sane order.. It requires motor drivers to stop, look and listen before crossing railroad tracks. Will they concur? unittee. compromise rate be finally established it will mean that estern beet will be greatly encouraged and given sugar industry er kasc of life, so long as the rate remains. This compromise e."as proposed by Senator Reed Smoot and voted by the senate as fe work-th- e over the insistent demands of its opponents who were interests of American owners of Cuban sugar plantations refinerics. It will mean that our western beat sugar industry this Prosperity is not a product of idleness. It cannot come to us by buying abroad what we should manufacture at home. Free trade builds homes in foreign lands. If we want to speed up home building in America we must espouse protection for our American workers and American products. You cant crack the egg and hatch the chicken at the same time. |