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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.v INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTI0N PRICE: in the United 8tates Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal . . Union, $4.50 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter,, . payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, of March 3, 1879. Act under the City, Utah, Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. . i TAXES MUST BE RED UCED Taxation will be the big question involved in the political campaign this fall. It is the talk of every property owner and taxpayer of the city, and those who expect to get by the winning post will have to show the people something more than has been done in the past. Before every election, we find the boys who are running for office full of promises to make reforms and especially tax reduction receives a great deaf of momentum, but after election as things begin to settle the newly elected officers appear to fall in the rut of, their predecessors. The men who are in office now will have a great deal of explaining to do why taxes have been raised or rather why they have not beet) reduced, and also why this city is one of the highest taxed cities in the United States. Other cities and states are cutting down heir taxes and the same can be done here. Our form of government is very expensive, although wThen it was installed the people were told that the change was made to save the taxpayers money. Since its inauguration taxes have increased at least three to one. Many people have sold their homes because of high taxation and left the city, and many other homes are for sale on such account. Another element which enters the local campaign is the question of religion. The American party has been organized and Joseph E. Galigher for mayor, and Parley. L. Williams and George N. Lawrence for commissioners, are running upon a platform to separate church and politics and business in this city. This is not only creating a great deal of local talk, but also much comment is being made by newspapers that criticise. The cry is being raised, and much propaganda is being circulated, that the city will suffer greatly because of this new fight, but the defenders of the American party cannot see the light in that way, and they ask: Did Salt Lake City suffer when the Liberal party was organized and took over the reins of government? It did not. On the contrary, one of the biggest booms Utah and this city ever had came on after election when the news went put all over the country that church influence had been overcome by the ' people. Did Salt Lake City go backwards when the old American party was victorious and defeated church influence? Why, no! It was just the opposite. Capital came in and some of our biggest improvements of today were started in those days. Salt Lake went ahead with big strides and rapidly advanced in population and improvements, and Salt Lake City was known amon, outside people as the best place in the west to go to. There is a general feeling on the streets today that if the Amer-Pca- n party is returned to power that another boom will prevail in this city. Business will be placed upon a substantial footing, and many public improvements will be made, and all with a big reduction in taxation. With this party in power city positions will be filled regardless of a man's or womans religion, with efficiency the only consideration. You will find Mormons working alongside of Gen out-of-to- wn -- 0 t ; , ! tiles and there will be no question of religion, which there should not be, and with such a principle in vogue we will forge to the front without anyone standing on the corners proclaiming our greatness. You cannot keep people away from a progressive city where everybdy has a equal opportunity in whatever pursuit he may wish to enter. This feeling does not exist at the present time and the out side world believes that this city is no place for a Gentile to come. As a result of such outside feeling, Utah has been the least progressive of any state in the entire west, and it is the talk of the nation today and people are wondering why Utah people do not awaken to the fact that they are injuring themselves instead of those on the outside. In this new party we find Mormon and Gentile working side by side with a determination to separate church and state, to boost the city, to lower taxation and invite outside capital to come in to help develop the untold resources we have here. It all sounds like a dream. Politicians of the past, or at least since the days of the late Ezra Thompson and John S. Bradford, have not been able to deliver the goods for some reason. They may have been handicapped, but the people are getting tired of this state of coma and want action and prosprity and the new party promises that and much more. There is a slogan on the streets that this city is the best Let us change that slogan to the next year city in the world. best city in the country today. SMOOT CRITICIZED As One Man Thinketh in the Utah Democrat, we find a criticism of United States Senator Reed Smoot under the caption, A Senator Without Vision, clearly shows how the mind, of an idealist and dreamer can wander from the straight and narrow path. He says in all earnestness: It must have been anything but comforting to the people of the nation, especially to the mothers of boys, to read that Senator Smoot is on record as saying that wars will never cease What a hope he holds out of the despairing peoples of the world. Surely he cannot know what he is talking about when he makes such a woeful prediction. If his prediction is true then the worlds last hope is lost. If he states the truth then every prophet of holy writ is a falsifier and the best minds of the human race from the beginning to the present have thought and dreamed in vain. But his prediction is not true, no, not by any means. The senator, like many others, stands waiting for some being from another world to bring peace and. lay it as a gift in the lap of humanity. But in this he is mistaken. War will be overcome and peace will be established by civilized, Christianized men and women acting in concert and unison and giving their efforts to. that end. Has chattel slavery been done away with in this nation? Yes, verily. Of all questions that arc definitely settled that one is one of the mosrt definitely settled. So will war be |