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Show BY Published Every Saturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLI8HINGC0., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. A 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to Tlfe Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-1- 3 WHY NOT LET PROSPERITY IN f Political indifferences as to the spending of large amounts of money and the issuing of millions of dollars of bonds to cover deficits, which has created unjust taxes; the bitter fight between the Associated Industries and labor which has resulted in the emigration from this state of nearly all of its first class mechanics; churches Amerand schools in politics which is resented by every ican, and freak legislation which has made us ridiculous in the eyes of the people of all our sister states, has created an exodus from this state which it will be harl to overcome. Just why things were allowed to drift so far without any one intaking a hand is still a mystery. One would imagine tnat such fluential clubs as the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions and Exchange would have pooled their interests and called a halt inupon the forces which were slowly but surely undermining the terests of not only this city but the state as well. One man can do nothing, but a majority must be obeyed, for the majority rule. Many thousands of families have left this city in a very short time. This cut a big swath in the receipts of all our business interests, including salable products of the farmers. When you take thousands of people out of your city business has got to drop accordingly. These people did not go because they wanted to move. Most of them refused to be abused and of the two evils they chose the lesser. There still remain many people who are anxious to get out and but few strangers are coming here. Just recently a prominent man who gave a short talk told his listeners that if there were any people who did not like the city it was time for them to get out. If everybody could get out that wanted to get out, this man would not have much company left. If he imagines he can build up business and make a prosperous city by such talk he is beyond our comprehension. Why does he imagine that people want to get away from one of the most beautiful cities on the continent with a climate excelled by none ; a city situated in the heart of the greatest mining industry of the entire world and a natural distributing point of the intermountain region ? Why should not Salt Lake City be the largest city west of St. Louis? With all the mines opening up on account of the nigh price of metals, the Utah Copper going at full blast, coal mines producing, and the Columbia Steel coming in, this city right now ought to be enjoying a big boom. Why was work not started on the federal bank building which is to be located on the southwest corner of State and South Temple streets? Because upon investigation there was not enough Utah material and labor available at this time. Why did not the Associated Industries step into the breach and tell our senators and representatives at Washington that they would be responsible for the labor and furnish it. According to the common report on the streets red-blood- ed it was this association which has driven most of the labor away from here. Yes, and the report has been circulated all over the country to keep people away from here. Work could have been started on this building long ago. Any other city would have been tickled to death to even had the opportunity to start work upon a government building. From now on skilled mechanics will have to be imported where many men are needed on big jobs. These men will not bring their families. They will arrive here in their overalls with their kit of tools and hunt up some cheap boarding house until the job is completed. They will then take their money and return home where they will spend it. It was only a few years ago when this city was the permanent residence place of many skilled mechanics and when they took on outside work they always returned home with their money. Church influence which has lately cropped out here and there in the conduct of. elections and secret pledges given by those elected is also creating great dissatisfaction and many are leaving on that account. They do not wish to get into any fight between church and state and they figure the best way out of it is to go to some place where such things ar,e not tolerated and the city naturally suffers. Religion ought to be too sacred to drag it into politics, but somehow it gets there, but the final result is disastrous. Religion and politics will not mix. It invariably creates an after fight which re-- ! suits in many instances in disrespect for religion. Because in religion as in all other organizations, there are many political followers of all parties and when an attempt is made to make a Democrat vote for a Republican or vice versa the stage is set for disloyalty and deceit and it breeds contempt for the system. We have too many people who tell us how we should live but you never see any medals on them and they never explain how they come to be dictators. Welfare leagues, lookout leagues or any other leagues are all right in their place but as a rule they are trouble makers by trying to create freak laws out of the ordinary. They always go to extremes and the people suffer as a self-appoint- result. It ed to be hoped that the public meeting of several thousand people recently who especially opposed the cigaret bill will result in the development of a boosters club for this state. By that The Citizen does not mean for one to stand on the corner and yell his busiess methwares, but by actual work performed by ods to make this city the city she ought to be one of the greatest in the U. S. A. We have everything right at our door for the most prosperous city of the country. Why not open the door and let Miss is up-to-d- Prosperity in? ate . |