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Show THE Cl TIZEN the Central Pacific and should suicidally attempt to enforce discriminatory tariffs or rates against this territory as seems to be feared. To overlook or ignore the power and influence of the Western Pacific in stabilizing and correcting the situation, in case these most direful anticipations of Southern Pacific advocates should threaten to be realized, is to pay it a poor compliment. Finally in addition to all the foregoing, there remains that sheet anchor of protection against restraint of competition the Interstate Commerce Commission. The vast powers of that body under the laws of congress can be invoked at any time by anybody in obtaining relief or redress against any effort improperly to change routes, increase rates, or limit facilities against any effort, in short, to impose discrimination or restrain competition. In supporting the attempt of the Southern Pacific to retain that which the supreme court has ordered it to surrender, The Citizen cannot but feel that some of our organizations and officials are making a huge mistake, which the community one day will almost universally regret. Especially is it to be deplored that prominent officials, elected to position by the vote of the people, should commit themselves by positive action in a matter on which, in the most liberal interpretation, the part of wisdom would have been to preserve an open mind. SNOW UNDER THE TAX AMENDMENTS! - The latest output from the Utah headquarters of the system devoted to tax kiting and tax experimentation, is to prove a boomerang if the consensus of opinion as freely expressed by thousands of voters, is any criterion. This means that the three constitutional amendments will be snowed under on Tuesday next. In fact, the vote against these tax kiting proposals may easily assume the proportions of an avalanche, so thoroughly aroused have the people become to the necessity of protecting themselves from measures designed to increase their taxes. What Utah wants is a legislative body consecrated to an effort to lighten the tax load. This can only be accomplished by electing men and women who are known to be against proposals of the character of the three constitutional amendments now before the people. Those who have failed, from any reason, whatsoever, to come out boldly and state their position regarding the socialistic income tax proposal, and other tax kiting measures, should receive little consideration from the voters. Their silence indicates that they will be guided by the wishes of the bosses if they are elected. Their silence also indicates they are not prepared to think for themselves, as legislative candidates are expected to do, and that they are to become mere puppets in the hands of the systems steering committee. The Citizen has explained on numerous occasions that the system is the one under which Utah and all other sovereign states are now submerged, because of the activities of professional politicians, party workers, and habitual office seekers, for the past hundred years and which, today, has become almost a science. The chief work of the system where taxes are concerned, is directed almost solely to shifting the burden from one class of citizens to another. In this connection it is contemplated in constitutional amendment No. 2 to shift as much of the tax load as may be found convenient from real property and unto the backs of the business man, the professional man, and all others who derive large enough income to pay any part of a state income tax. Amendment No. 2 also contemplates the classification of property for taxable purpose. This is a proposal fraught with grave danger from the obvious fact that it does away with equality in taxation. You cannot say to one man that his property is worth so much under one classification for taxable purposes, and to another that his holdings, while similar, shall take another and a higher classification for the same purpose. Aside from the fact that it opens the way for political grafters to work their underground schemes with certain classes of citizens, to gain their favor and, hence, their votes, it opens the way for a grand uprising of all taxpayers, each and every last one of them clamoring for a lower classification for their, property. It troduce chaos, strife and dissention into. the assessing of propei render collection of taxes a more doubtful problem than at pre Constitutional amendment No. 1 is so obviously and p a scheme of the system to kite the. tax rate in Utah that it that Utah with needs any mention here. It is of $41,000,000 is now heavily enough envolved. She can hardly to kite the tax load without wrecking the entire institution. Amendment No. 3 has to do with the patriotism of our cit If they are patriotic they will serve their state for a mere p advocates of the system they will w If they are wild-eye- d the traffic will bear. This is patently a system proposal to the cupidity of rural politicians and hold them in line. A system without a well greased organization back of becomes impotent, anemic and finally worthless. Think it ove self-evide- eqt pdaf n e iP do nt to et s tri pen si in iones to Indu iirs, :cas ie V' ofes THE SILENCE BEFORE THE STORM. Icent T Politics in Utah have, apparently, entered the twilight zo that period of absolute silence, which always precedes the stora that voting time is only three days away. Valiant men and women, and many of them, are this year n a bid for the suffrage of the people. Some are merely C Horses while others are novices at the game. All have mai good fight irrespective of party and only the silence that and the apparent indifference of the sovereign voters leaves th( in doubt. Utah is normally a Republican state ; but this year sh be anything and everything else but normal in the usual norma The Citizen is concerned in seeing good and efficient me women elected to office, and believes the entire personnel Republican county ticket for Salt Lake county, deserving of r tion on their individual records for the past two years. For the legislative positions men and women who are patriotic, rathei fanatical , should be sustained. Utah has suffered greviously political experimentation through misguided zeal to save the from themselves by legislative acts and through the ambitio certain institutions that knew just what they wanted and got i But The Citizen is now more concerned with the apathy average voter than with any other issue of the present cam visualizing therein a decadence in Americanism. So indiffere things political has the average American become in this gl land of the free that we cannot forego the temptation to mo just a bit on this all to evident aspect. Apparently the American public plays politics and the game much the same way. The public is very apt to go era bulls and to go broke as bears. This same voting public buyso and sells on fear or pique, instead of trading on obvious fac good judgment. th :is d any fo ie1 Beg Is to ke b Imat that Ink ccc he ie e! iti f'pre teet land her: jt e rob I'tah is at y a land ch O The speculator in stocks, or politics, always loses in the cause he lacks knowledge and patience; because he is usually s hilt by emotion instead of facts ; because he is a believer in gl Seen prospectuses and platform pledges without much investigation fair because he is often more impressed by vague and hazy promise m by concrete possibilities. You can show one voter a thousand Russias and he wi res clamor for a chance to buy more communism, or crowd the bit add to his stock of socialism. A fanatic, or a theorist, always ant hardest when confronted with facts that disprove his fantastic dr st You can show another type of sucker the red side of the late M ledger and he will start in immediately to pyramid his holdings pes and hate. He will then rise up on his hind legs and shout lusti w Uncle Sam to marshall his war heroes and his battleships to st n Europes wars. The average voter is one who has childish faith in the phi,c' ers stone, the extraction of gold from sea water and perpetual m 01 Thi He believes in political crystal gazing, table rappings, Lvitatfo1 ouija board seances. He relishes easy sledding, so he accepts P at U: as dished out to him regardless of facts, fundamental conditio en |