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Show Published Every Saturday Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Businesa Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within ths Postal jO for six months. ilon, $4.50 per year. sble to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phono Wasatch 5409 THE SWAN SONG the onward sweep of an irresistible force the great aval-nch- e of Democratic votes rushed from east to west, last Teusday, nd engulfed nearly all the western states. At the towering hills the Sierra Nevada mountains, were Nevada leaves off and Cali-imbegins, the tidal wave was checked. Utah was rocked by the gigantic tide and only the late returns roved that it was to be a mixed victory, in a national sense, the ate giving back Senator King to the upper house and returning eatherwood and Colton to the lower chamber. Another thing Utah epublicans may be thankful for is the clean sweep registered by leir county ticket with the exception of the sheriff and the seat-t- g of the entire state senatorial and representative ticket. The lesson of the election, almost a total reversal of the gigantic orm of votes which cleaned out the Democrats in 1920 and let the it presents. It epublicans in, is contained in the an unfailing story of deep resentment because the Republican irty failed to give the farmer back his war-tim- e prices; it indices that resort to government by injunction so sweeping as to :ny workers many of the rights guaranteed them under the is not relished, nor will such injunction government be toler-eit is a roar-bac- k from the soldier boys committed to a bonus id reflects the manner in which their immediate families and their Natives voted; it is an aftermath of a war psychology which was fleered with high prices and inordinate profits ; it shows conclu-'el- y that the people resented the steps taken to bring the nation ick to normalcy and leaves that much abused slogan as flat as a incake. Above all else it discloses a radical trend in the nation and desire for something different, not caring particularly what that fference may portend, just so long as it is different. Ernest Bamberger, the Republican candidate for the senate, made grand fight against great odds. He was handicapped by the psychol-!- y of the voters as well as by other considerations which loom rge in the final results as tabulated. The fact that he nearly won election in Utah is a fine contribution to his manhood, his and to his Americanism. The machine that controls the des-n- y of this state was arrayed against him, but many thousands failed 'ke their cue from the higher-up- s and voted for protection for toh and for an outsider. In S.dt Lake county the wiseacres are now claiming that the ndidac of Ben Harries defeated the Democrats and there may be lIne little truth in their contention. It is said that hundreds who the commands of the minister and bishops seriously went to e Polls rind voted solely for Harries, leaving all other candidates Like ia voter-psycholo- gy :11s con-itutio- n, d; le per-nali- ty ltin the cold. The itizen, however, believes that the Republican ticket won llts nu-- its in Salt Lake county'. It would have returned C. Frank t office but for the blue-slacandidate, who went over Cause (i the split in the ranks of the liberals. In the face of the . te returns from the nation, the partial Republican victory in our county must be looked upon as one of the seventy wonders of the age. It is at once a compliment to the genius of the men who conducted the county campaign and a fine tribute to the men and women who have served the county so faithfully the past two years. And now the Democrats will charge the defeat of the Republicans to the late tariff. This is their usual howl when they win an election. It means little or nothing in this case. In fact, the tariff is so new, so utterly untried, that its force and effect for weal or woe to the Republican party is yet to be adduced. There is one thing patent to all serious minded people of this country and that is that the nation cannot exist under free trade; that the consummation of the Democratic free trade plan would force the country to become the economic partner of Asia and Europe and that in the fullness of time the U. S. A. would loose its identity as an independent nation. Neither crushed nor stampeded by the late national defeat it is now the duty of those pledged to preserve the integrity of the nation ; of those pledged to the protection of its workers and its gigantic business enterprises to gird anew their loins and go to work to save the party for a debacle two years hence. In the meantime the workings of the new tariff will, no doubt, do much to dispell the unrest that has taken a strangle hold upon the people all over the land. Every so often the people flock after the false prophets; but they usually live long enough to regret it. ESPEE DIVORCE DECREE DIAGNOSED. The intelligentsia of certain Utah factions apparently prefers to discover the solution of major transportation problems in glittering generalities. Definite consideration is, seemingly, much too exacting. Failure on the part of certain quasi-publassembles, such as the special committee of twenty-fiv- e representing the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of Provo and the governor of Utah and his attorney general, also other organizations of adjacent towns and cities, indicates conclusively that neither the physical conformation of the dual Southern Pacific-CentrPacific systems, nor the direct bearing of their proposed divorcement on the future industrial trend in Utah, were given even cursory consideration when they voted unanimously in favor of continued S. P. control of the C. P. lines, and intervention in the I. C. C. case. It is above all else apparent that the decree handed down by the United States Supreme Court was not given due consideration if, in fact, it was considered at all. This decree of the most eminent tribunal of our country, which came down on May 29 of this year, and which reverses the decree of the U. S. District Court for Utah, finally and forever separates the Southern Pacific and the Central Pacific systems. The ukase of this highest court of the land was predicated on the facts as presented before it during the October term, 1921. The decree was written by ic al |