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Show THE CITIZEN 5 and get into unforseen international complications not looked for. Tabert was a youth of good family but had become stranded The European and other nations do not agree with our Eighteenth in Florida. While hunting a job, he stole .a ride on a freight train amendment, and it looks very much as if Uncle Sam has been talked and was arrested. His offense . was in violation of law, and he into something which is beyond the control of mankind. The saloon should have been duly punished. But due punishment in Florida was a curse upon the land, but the bootlegger with his poisoned seems to have an almost limitless significance. He was sentenced to stuff is undermining the stability of the entire nation. After all, can pay a fine or be imprisoned at hard labor for several months, and man made laws curb a mans appetite? It is a crime to take a drink, was immediately leased to the owner of a lumber camp. When his yet no one can convince the average man. that it is a crime, and he parents sent money to pay the fine, the money was returned to them. cites the Holy Bible for his authority.- The Bible might be revised .He was put at work in a swamp where he worked in water from condemning all drinkers to the regions below, and even that would ankle to waist depth, and, when he could not do as much work as the boss thought he ought to do, he was whipped with a heavy leather npt stop many people from taking a drink. Unless the government can find some method to solve the present lash. The whippings were repeated and increased in intensity until. deplorable predicament, the growing generation will be. the. most Tabert died. expert distillers and brewers of any nation on earth. Turkey welcomes American capital for the development oLits resources because it is believed that political complications will not SLAUGHTER. be involved. Believing that American commerce usually goes into a country with clean hands, remarked a member of the Turkish It has often been said that we should have automobile laws and that Americans are not interested in territorial agsimilar to those of Chicago. In that city an automobile driver must assembly, we are favorably inclined to welcome the of. take an examination in driving and in the partial assembling of his gression, American capital. After the bloody intrigues that ..have featured' car. In order to secure a permit the applicant must subject himself recent attempts of other nations to exploit the oil and other resources to a lot of red tap which in the end means nothing. Yet this law of Turkey, it is little wonder that the Turks are turning .to the was a good talking point and the people fell for it. It also provided United States for relief. The countries that are nominally back of numerous jobs for political workers. The people were told that the pious protestations of the league of nations covenant have not with such a strict law, auto accidents would be kept down to a minihesitated at any measures likely to improve their commercial posimum. What are the actual facts and what has been the result? tion in the Near East. Deeds speak louder than words in establishin the leads automobile the Chicago. slaughter. During country ing national honor, a fact that the Turks have appreciated in grantpast year it is reported that 651 people were killed. In many cases the American concession. it was sheer murder where people were run down by drunken drivers ing ' who sped away and left their unfortunate victims lay on the street. President Harding says he is helpless in the sugar situation. Automobile slaughter would soon cease in all cities if the authorities confiscated the automobiles and forever barred the driver He has been asked to boost the sugar boycott which i$ being inaugurfrom driving another car in the city or state. Automobile accidents ated by the women of the country, but the president says that as will happen occasionally, but these inhuman drivers who run down the chief executive of the nation it would be impossible for him to people and then leave them on the street to die when immediate take sides. assistance might save their lives, should forever be barred from the Secretary Hoover says the women are on the right track and the way to bring about reasonable prices is to control the consumppublic highways. tion. If every one in the nation would cut their sugar consumption Utah cannot afford two highways west from this city to the . in half, which would make the price of sugar about what it ought Nevada state line, and the best and most suited road should be to be it would not be long before the trusts would get back to selected. If a mistake was made when the roads were surveyed it sanity. The women of this city ought to also get together and join should now be corrected and the entire matter amicably settled. against With the limited number of people we have in this state road with the women all over the country. National which is boosted beyond a reasonable price should building becomes an expensive proposition, and we are indeed lucky any commodity if we can support two highways, one going north and south and the be regulated by refusing to purchase same for such time until it other east and west. As the government provides a large portion of reaches- its proper level. the cost of construction it ought to have some say in the matter. If the United States produces 80 per cent of all the world The Lincoln highway officials are of the opinion that Utah should select their route, but if that road is not the best it should not silver and allows four men in London to fix the price every. mornbe the first to be favorably considered. However, this state took ing, there surely must be something wrong on this side of the pond. $125,000 from the Lincoln Highway association for road building, However, if London capitalists also own our big silver mines, there and here is a matter that must be given consideration. Utah wants cannot be much of a mystery in the price fixing, but one would think the government would have some say in the matter. the best road for travel and that is as it should be, and if any mistake has been made, such should be rectified immediately. Bonar Lw, prime minister of England, flatly told the farmers A millionaire investor can buy himself free of federal and other that the government could do nothing for them and that agriculture taxation by investing in a bond of an Oklahoma county. He may must get on an economic basis and solve its own. existence. He said but it could not be supported by. the state. It is better to tell the farmer pay something more for the bond than if it were not he will not pay a sum at all commensurate with the value of the the truth than beating around the bush endeavoring to secure a few federal exemption. votes. The government of any country must be supported by the people, and not the people by the government. Just how much longer it will take to remove the folly cannot be estimated but it is safe to say that it will not long be The daily press appears to think that because of the many, possible for those least able to pay taxes to continue to pay double, taxes in order that those most able to pay may escape all forms of radicals elected to Congress last fall, the farmer bloc will receive securities. material support for the purpose of boosting agricultural prices. taxation by placing their funds in Aside from all local taxes, the amount the government loses on There were a great many Republicans defeated last fall, and already the income tax is enormous and keeps the rates higher for the rest do we hear that the radicals will become a big factor in the Sixty-cigt- h of us. Congress. I. . 4 - . . i . co-operat- . co-operat- - tax-exem- pt tax-exempti- on tax-exem- pt . ion ion ' |