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Show THE CITIZEN 4 other countries ? For some reason we lead the world in crime, whereas we ought to have less crime than any nation on earth. Are other countries getting rid of their criminals and are they sending them over here? If they are, then we are not surprised at the hug criminal list. We are still of the opinion that morals must be taught at the. home during childhood. If the home training is neglected, the weak become public dependents and the result may tend toward the criminal. But the law can never force morality. Just laws make good citizens; freak laws make bad citizens. The nation is your home and if it attempts to force objectionable habits upon the person, it corrupts that person just as quickly as the ordinary child is corrupted in a badly managed household. If we are to live as some people would have us live, it would be far better that we were never born. The happy person is the one who mixes pleasure with his business, attends to his own business and Do unto others as you would be done by. obeys the Golden Rule ' INSURANCE MANIPULATION. A prominent San Francisco citizen in a recent public address alleged that because of a fire insurance trust San Francisco instaggered under a heavy burden and that money paid for surance premiums, instead of remaining at home, was distributed alTover the world. No city in the world has profited so largely by fire insurance payments as has San Francisco, when it collected on a $250,000,000 fire caused by an earthquake which in many instances would probably have nullified the responsibility of the insurance companies if they had wished to stand on technicalities. They did not do this they paid the loss. Seventeen years later a $10,000,000 fire wipes out fifty-tw- o blocks in Berkeley and insurance money again repairs the dam-- FORD CANT PLEASE ALL. All sorts of stories are now being circulated about Henry Ford and the reasons for his endorsement of President Coolidge for another term of office. He has been promised a job, or perhaps the President will turn Muscle Shoals over to the flivver manufacturer for exploitation, and a hundred and one other reasons are given. Henry has lost his prestige, says another, because he could have been president and he would have been so different. Ford has said several times that he would not be a. presidential candidate. He was more satisfied to work in his own. way where he has achieved success and has become the worlds richest man. If money is power, then Ford has more power than any president could have, because most of them have 'all been poor men, so. to speak". It is a great honor to be president and every true Am0f ican would no doubt give his all to sit for four years in the big chair at the White House. Ford would no doubt like the honor very much himself, but he is not seeking the office. If he wanted it real bad, he could open one of his pork barrels and send out a flow of money which would swamp all the politicians in the country. Ford is honest in his belief that Coolidge will make a good president for the coming four years. In the meantime, Henry will be making more flivvers than ever, and it is said that beginning March his income will be one million dollars per day; the Presidents income is one hundred thousand per year. Why make the change? , When it comes to fi'ak legislation, listen to this: Alabama recently enacted a law Avhich prohibits any American citizen eligible for the presidency from seeking support in Alabama for presidential nomination unless he be a citizen of that state. We are not surprised in the least for this kind of . legislation coming age. Supposing California had been loaded with state insurance from the South. Alabamas action is the logical outgrowth of the and such losses, instead of being distributed in companies all over system of disfranchisement of American citizens which prevails in the world, had been borne entirely by home people? What would every state of the Democratic Solid South, in violation of the' have happened to insurance policies of insured or to taxpayer? United States Constitution and in defiance of the principles of One-othe other would have suffered a crushing loss. representative government. This constitutes the most malignant The fact that San Franciscos insurance was scattered over cancer upon the American body politic today. Southern Republicans and the negro are not allowed to vote and they are disthe world saved insurance companies from bankruptcy and consefranchised in Southern states. But when it comes to Congress, quently saved San Francisco. The insurance premiums from the rest of the world are then the Southern states count their entire population, but in paying the fire losses for the San Francisco bay district. If San voting only the Democrats are eligible. In fact, in many of the Francisco paid $5,000,000 a year in premiums to insurance comSouthern cities there is only one ticket on election day the Demopanies, it would take fifty or sixty years to repay its one great cratic none others need apply. fire loss. But the evil extends higher and further. A states vote in the Agitators favoring state insurance should look at the figures electoral college is based upon its representation in both branches from Illinois, where out of $40,000,000 paid in premiums by Illiof Congress. The Solid South casts 114 electoral votes in every nois citizens, $38,000,000 remained in the state, while of the presidential election. Everybody knows that these votes are sure 1 remaining, companies made per cent as underwriting to be cast for the Democratic nominee, regardless of who he is or for what he stands. Everybody also knows this is true because profit. There apears to be some agitation locally for state insurance. honest elections and the free exercise of the franchise is impossiic It is all well and good so long as there is only, the ordinary risk. in any of the Solid South states. Insurance is not figured upon great disasters for the premiums The Republican party starts into every presidential campaign would be too high to pay, but when such disasters occur, some with a- handicap of 114 votes to overcome before it can begin one must foot the bill. In case of state insurance the people would even with the Democratic party in a contest for the presidency. be compelled to pay all the losses, which under company insurance There are certain states in the North which are the battlegrounds would be. divided among peoples of .the entire world. every presidential campaign. If the Republicans, after an intensive Can a state afford to take, the risk? The Citizen says No! fight, succeed in carrying New York, Indiana; New Jersey, Ohio. Nebraska and West Virginia, they have succeeded merely in carryWe. are now going.to have colored gasoline in order to, dis- ing enough states to balance the 114 .electoral votes from the Solid South, and they must then go out and beat the Democratic tinguish it from moonshine and other inflammable fluids.. Why not take the kick out of the gas for the benefit of the cigarct party in the remaining northern states. V fiend .who must smoke while inspecting a gas tank filling his The Democratic Solid South attempts to justify its defiance machine? of the Constitution, its disfranchisement of American citizens, its ' ' undermining of representative government, its pollution of elecThe state auditors report shows that the Utah highway expentions, upon the ground that its action is necessary in order to have ditures far exceed the 1923 revenue, the account being overdrawn a. "whit.e ans government. .If that be true then it should be . limited in its representation in the House of Representatives and in by $207,129.87. r $2,-000,0- 00 " - . , -- . . . ...... |