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Show THE CITIZEN 4 trade and territory and as a result the meeting would generally bust forup, in a row. Then someone in the United States would come ward and say, If only the United States were represented all matters could be peacefully and justly settled. ' How could we settle. anything in Europe? We have offered our advice and it has been spurned. The only thing we get from across the pond is, Won't you cancel our debts ? Outside of England, there has been no offer made to pay us one sou. But on. the other hand all the continental European nations are taking by force each other's possessions, both lands and money, and are taxing their peoples heavily for the enlarging of their military forces. . , , " There is absblutcly'no unity among the European nations. They do not trust each' other,' and each one is trying its utmost to become 1 the dominant power. . you get it? Benjamin Franklin said, If the riches are yours, why don't you take them with you when you die, There is a good moral in his saying. A little more time for pleasure and happiness and the comforting of our down trodden brothers, and less time in trying to beat your friend in some business deal to gain wealth, would put a different complexion on our world. Everything is being organized for profit in order that the very last cent may be secured there is in the business. It is good business to form organizations to control prices, blit it is a crime for the pbor laboring man to organize and ask for the crumbs that fall from the table. It is no wonder that Christ wept as he stood at the gates of Jerusalem and witnessed the perfidy of the rich and the miseries of the poor. : - easily guess what would become of this nation if it can be induced to enter the ring. President Wilson went through one experience and that ought to be enough for this nation for the next was handled with kid gloves five hundred years. The and was rolled about until he did not know whether he was coming or going. His fourteen' points furnished matter for the European newspaper cartoonists and the waste paper basket. Yet we have men among us who would like the United States to become the. receiver of Europe. To advance the money and pay all the bills and to place Europe, on. a. sound money basis. In the name of .all that is righteous, what is to become of the United States after we assume all the responsibilities across the pond. years ago. the people voted to keep out of Europe, and if the people of this: country are ever induced to entangle themselves with European affairs to such an extent that Europe may dictate what we shall do, then God help us. We will be like the lone lamb which meets a hungry. wolf in. the forest. Let us get rid: of this European propaganda and work for the interests of our country, just the same as the Europeans are working for the interests of their countries. We cannot support the world. . Our taxes are too great to bear as it is. OnC can ex-presid- i ent -- -- ;i BREAD TOO CHEAP. ". BROKEN FAITH. The best advertisement that a business man can have is to pay his bills promptly. So it is with a city, a county or a state, which . enters into obligations to perform certain contracts, etc., to also make' good. iWe cannot apologize for hasty decisions which later may prove to. our dislike, but when once we give our word that should be a gold bond. If a man's word is no good, neither is his note. Several years ago the Lincoln highway was laid out and every state through which this road was to go came forward with financial support. Many of the states which did not have the necessary resources were aided by the national body, and Utah was one of those states, it accepting $125,000 from the Lincoln Highway association to build part of a road between Utah and Nevada. It appears as if our state road commission accepted this money and spent it, but that is as far as they went. As a result we are coming in for a great deal of just censure especially from Nevada and California, which shows what outside people think of us. The Citizen wonders what the chamber of commerce, which is now planning a national advertising campaign, thinks of the following editorial appearing in the Mountain Democrat of El Dora county, California: The fact that the Southern Pacific railroad has announced exMormon cursion rates to Salt Lake City, Utah, to the semi-annuconference, the Intermountain Livestock show and the Ladies' Relief Society conference, is announced as a matter of news. But who in northern California or Nevada would want to visit, even for a week, in a state and city where selfishness and greed has so engrossed itself upon the official minds that solemn contracts are as scraps of paper, where money is accepted and spent and then the donors denounced and flaunted, where roads are denied tourists in order that more of their money may be obtained before they can reach another state. No citizen of northern California or Nevada should spend a dollar in Salt LakeCity until the people there compel their state road commission to either refund the $125,000 accepted from the Lincoln Highway association or live up to their contract and complete the highway through Tooele county. The dishonest position of the Utah state road commission Should cause every state on the Lincoln highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific to denounce them. Salt Lake City is a beautiful city, but it contains some of the biggest hypocrites that ever held public office. al The wheat growers of: the; country are organizing a league in order, that they can get, what they claim, a fair price for wheat in theUnited States and then sell the surplus to foreign countries. The wheat-- growers have just as much right to organize as the sugar men or anybody else, for that matter. It means, however, that in the near future we. will pay $3 to $5 for a sack of flour. When the organization is completed the people should see to it that wheat shipped out of this country brings as much as the local people have to pay for it, and jf . price manipulation gets too strong that we may be able to import wheat at living, prices. Flour today is selling at too great a cost, but. somehow those, who control prices cannot get accustomed to pre-wprices.,. .With( all available storage places filled to capacity of our.. most with some important food supplies, the prices are kept .. f f j i. up, and no good reason. can be given for the inflation. It is no more or iess than a holdup game in which the people must pay. .There is not a farmer in the country who would exchange his . position with, the laboring man of the city during the winter months. The farmer has his milk, eggs, poultry, hogs, sheep and beef, and his bins, are filled, with flour, corn, etc. If it storms he can remain PIERCES SACRIFICE. indoors. .. . : . . . i .,' But what about the poor laborer in our cities? There is no work citizen, a credit Nephi P. Pierce a respected and during the .winter i months and .he lives from hand to mouth, principal- ly from starvation.- He can get no work and he has no larder, like? to the community, and one who gave the best part ot his life as the farmer. His rent comes due every1 month, and everything he an officer of the law to protect his fellowman, and in the pursuance of that duty sacrificed his life which was taken from him by the eats he must go to the. grocery and buy. assassin's bullet, has passed to the great beyond. He gave everyWe always hear about the poor farmer' but he is the most independent man in the world and no one ever heard of one starving, thing he had that we might live in peace, aye, even to laying down and .whats more you never will.. his life, the greatest sacrifice of all, and hearts he has left :It is' not a question of life any more with the average American. behind can never be healed until death. The city commission should see to it that his family is well It has become a question of gold. The mad race to get the money has unbalanced us.. What are. you going to do with the money when provided foi, and while nothing can be done to bring back the former - - -- : ar ' J ' " f i . 4 . V . ' I ; . .4 4 , 4 1 . v . t. . t - law-abidi- ' V ' ' 1 . ng . . 1. A - the-achin- g ' |