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Show THE CITIZEN administration and this Congress had done nothing to assist industry, labor, business; finance and agriculture, toward a return to normal, prosperous times. The universal reports of all lines of business and industry, as set forth in the columns of the press of the country and in the trade journals at the close of the year, completely refute the small partisan charges made gainst the administration. No one can soberly contemplate conditions of all kinds of business and industry today, in comparison with what it was when the Republican administration came into power, and not know within his own mind that there has been a tremendous change for the better. The best and most effective answer to the Democratic arguments are the economic facts set forth by the press of the land. alien forces which is being made evident through specious pleas by Manufacturing Associations and Farmer Organizations for a return to the miasmatic days when immigration was unretarded and our Americanism almost slipped into the discard. The shout is that cheap labor is needed if we are to compete with the world. Unrestricted immigration would bring only additional swarms to our already crowded cities where Asiatic and European nationals now hibernate by the million. We are already battling the largest army of home grown and imported criminals the world has ever known to have been permitted to assemble in one country. Why increase their number? Our chief cities are already swallowed up by aliens who flout our laws and demand a change in government. It appears it would be foolish to permit them to absorb the farm districts! THE DOMINANT PROBLEM PENNY ANTE HOLT. Aside from mosquito abatement, taxes and bootleg liquors, the dominant problem now before the people is the dominant trend in commodity prices to higher levels. During 1923 the rate of commodity price increase will again Qndoubtedly seek to return to war levels. It will be a problem for everybody beand especially for the humble workers. Fortunately there is a peak-pric- e yond which it is impractical to go as the meat packers realize rather convincingly at the present time. The closest relatives in this indicated advancing price trend are production costs and employment. On these considerations much higher prices may be justified and against the same factors higher prices can be paid by the consumer. We are not insisting that inflated prosperity is as good as the more conservative or deflated variety we are simply trying to analyze the situation. After two years of unremitting toil the Woodrow Wilson Foundationers have cajoled $800,000 out of the public toward their goal of $1,000,000 with which to purchase the entry of the United States into European entanglements. The result is hailed with glee by Hamilton Holt, the executive director of the Foundation, and he recently sent a telegram of congratulations to 'Mr. Wilson, in which he said: We regard the support given the Foundation by men and women in every state and in all walks of life as a splendid expression of faith. The facts that give Hamilton Holt such apparent satisfaction would considerably dampen the ardor of any but a internationalist of the Holt type. Two years labor has brought an average of seven-tentof a cent from each of the men and women in all walks of life. Anybody who can see in that a splendid expression of faith would detect a tremendous enthusiasm for the League of Nations covenant in the 7,000,000 pluralself-opinionat- ed, hs Wages are higher due partially to a howl about restricted immigration and really because so many of our former workers are now engaged in the Production costs more pleasant and profitable business of bootlegging. will be higher not only from these causes, but that also of inefficient labor and continued labor troubles caused by the present labor unrest which is Volvery widespread and due, largely, to the prohibition amendment and the stead act. Labor feels it is being legislated against and hounded by the and its ranks have become resentful to the and the higher-up- s point of seeking relief in new and correlated political effort. The consumers must pay, as he always pays, and the seller can find sate isfaction in added profits and a partial return to the profiteering self-righteo- us ity that sent President Harding to the White House. The real reason why the good die young seems to hinge on the fact that under the stress of present day prohibitive laws that if they lived long they wouldnt be good. sillllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllltlllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIlir. war-tim- days. Further elements in the price trend are present indications that those That the from the farm will be much higher. This conclusion is two-folfarmer will receive sufficient banking accommodations to remain more independent of monetary market conditions and that weather, indications left out of the computation, there will be severe drop in total output. There are also positive factors in high transportation charges. At the beginning of the year it does look that the farmer and the Farm Bloc in congress are both going to have their respective innings in 1923. The situation briefly analyzed is one of partly suspended momentum, as determined by easy money positions and the justified greater activities superinduced by the higher commodity price trend. In short, American business men are apparently going to speed up probably even at a greater Those who pace than during the war period if nothing untoward happens. will derive the most during the year 1923 will be the ones who are able to like the bond join in the high speed movement to the utmost extent. It looks period has passed into history and that 1923 will usher in a era. Obviously there will be a reaction later on there always is probably before the year is over, when further soundings must be made and a new course mapped out. In any event it is due the laboring man that his wage shall keep pace with the fast increasing commodity costs. Otherwise there will be more radicalism and more bolshevism abroad in the land. SALT LAKE THEATRE d: share-speculativ- 3 DAYS DAYS Starting MONDAY JANUARY 22 Matinee Wednesday AT LAST SALT LAKE CITY IS TO SEE THE MOST TALKED OF COMEDY OF TIIE DAY DAVID BELASCO n Present AVERY HOPWOODS FAMOUS COMEDY After two solid years Lyceum Theatre New York Five months Powers Theatre Chicago Seats Now on Sale Nights. 50c to $2.50; Saturday Mat.. 50c to $2.00 TIIE SEASON'S EXTRAORDINARY EVENT e AMERICANS ON GUARD! NEXT ATTRACTION 2 DAYS COMMENCING FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 WILLIAM MORRIS ANNOUNCES "' tt niFii tft Mew sawas and out fAVomtci. High and powerful alien forces in American life are constantly agitating for a break down in our immigration laws. These foreign entities have in peoples the past succeeded in raising great hallabaloos over the of Europe and Asia and have always enlisted the whole hearted services of internationalists in their cause. Today the predatory rich and the we are witnessing examples of fine haired propaganda directed by these same down-trodde- n sap-heade- Company of noted artists Special Symphony Orchestra PRICES Nights 75c. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, plus tax Matinee Saturday SALE $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, OPENS JANUARY plus tax 20 d .liiiiiniiiiiiiititimiiiiitfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiDitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. |