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Show THE CITIZEN 4 leggers are poisoning hundreds of people with the deadly stuff they produce. Some of our prohibitionists say that the sooner the drinkers are killed off the 'better it will be for the community, but according to statistics, such as are available, drinking is on the increase.. Many of our rich even go to foreign countries to get their little drink. Every man has a God given right to his opinion. You may differ with us, 'but we are not going to call you a rat. If you are faithful in your belief you are respected, but if you use your especially if that influence is controlled by money, to accomplish your end in an underhanded way, then you must be a. hypocrite. If a dry is a beaver and a wet is a rat, what would Wheeler be? in-flen- ce, GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS. From this day forth the people of San Francisco know the names of eleven justly suspected traitors to their interests. From now on, Mr. Supervisor, the question is under which banner do you fight, that of the public utility corporations or that of the people of San Francisco? The two preceding paragraphs are typical of abuse that is hurled by public ownership advocates at members of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco who refuse to sanction a program for distributing over the city, electric power to 'be devolped by a of the Hetch Hetchy municipal water system. The original Hetch Hetchy project was to have cost $45,000,000, which amount has been nearly spent. It is now estimated that it will take $30,000,000 more to complete the undertaking. Long before water will be delivered to the citizens of San Francisco, boosters for municipal ownership advocate additional undertakings involving further expeditures of nearly $200,000,000. The power that can be developed as part of the Hetch Hetchy system can be sold to existing electric distributing companies for some $2,000,000 a year. Politicians interested in building up a tremendous municipal machine claim the city could get a great deal more if it went into the manufacture and distribution of electricity itself. They have no way of proving this statement nor do they put up any bond to the taxpayer to guarantee him against loss. City supervisors who refuse to vote to launch the city on such an expensive program, before the people are even given water, are abused by their opponents in the manner quoted in the first two paragraphs of this article. Is a public official an enemy of the people simply because he fails to burden them with bond and tax obligations to establish competing electric systems when they already have electric service furnished by private companies which are under complete state regulation and control? This is the curse of public ownership. It develops officialism which constantly expands and encroaches on the rights of individuals and industry in a manner entirely contrary to our democratic form of government. by-prod- uct AMERICAN PARTY. The American party is getting ready for the coming fall campaign. While it has not been definitely decided whether a county ticket will be placed in the field alongside the other tickets, preparations are at least being made to be ready for the coming celction to swing in a definite course to be decided upon later. At the present time headquarters have been opened in the Boston building, where Clara Randolph as secretay and treasurer is in charge. She and a corps of assistants are busy securing members for the party and the list is a large one. A1 Hoffenback has charge of the county, which he is organizing and preparing for the coming political battle. The leaders of the party have not yet reached any conclusion as to what methods will be pursued during the coming campaign, other than that they are listing all members of the party and they will be ready to shoot which ever way they may decij They say that if they do not put a ticket in the field l , . r have some say as to who shall be elected. Just how thijrigadier ( to be worked out is not made known, but if they can conlrPohimittec or fourteen thousand votes in this county during the coijO conside f tion, the American party will hold the balance of power litting si easily elect the Republican or Democratic party. There appears to be an undercurrent of dissatisfactiorteIsc the political followers of .the two big parties, of which tlprcPres can party is reaping the benefit. It cannot be said that jparirion-l- o posed of disgruntled politicians, because some of our mosfk8""0 . ; tial business men who have never been connected witllon ms heretofore have interested themselves in the new .party, and by ;ie that the American party has come to stay. Influential be chosen for the heads and managerial positions of the.f?S Pr0CI ce budg party. Their slogan is separation of church and state which wi taxation. rorld ovel THE ONE SURE WAY. A prominent Democratic paper took occasion to remar anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, that not onlyclai battle unnecessary, but the whole war of 1812 was unnere a The intimation is that if we had had a League of Xls ,n?uch those days, the issues of that war could have been settled days, 1 w laer 1 League without resort to arms. ena But it is wholly an assumption that the issues coi been settled by a League of Nations. Great Britain wasY routed 1 great power of the earth. The United States was one oftranY est. Moreover, the United States had set up a representa:0 dictate of government, which the heads of monarchies resented, was a friend of the United States, not because it waThe Salt country to prosper, but because it hated England. It isi are $44 that if we had been members of a League of Nations in brs. Thi could have submitted our quarrel with England to theThese are with assurance that we would get a square deal. But must fo get a square deal it would be because the other memberThe peop i: who League wanted to check the power of Great Britain. The-ewould have been one of temporary expediency, not o$ office t he thin! right. It would have been political, not judicial. In the League of today the British Empire has six Our Con one proposed for the United States. If there had been trts from in 1812, there can be no doubt that England and other $e in the nations would have had power therein in even greater p:es ter than the United States was looked upon with contempt, There was only one sure way to put a stop to the cs $288a. methods of great Britain, and that was to challenge her: of power. This nation could not have maintained its si Looks li if it submitted to arbitration or to a League of Nations ;e prize, tion whether Great Britain should have the right to stop :d in its ships on the high seas and take off men claimed by fc Mr. Cor British subjects. There are some questions that are juut and p that can be submitted to an adjudicating tribunal. But h mystei not one. Even to submit this question would be to adn:: the decision went against us, we would submit. The: American today who will stand upon a public platform that he would agree, to submit to any tribunal the questic right of Great Britain or any other nation to iinpn s no on seamen into the service of other governments. g 0f j The issue is not even debatable, to say nothing of unhook on it we sr Sheriff Benjamin R. Harries says that his office net edney for in 1923, which amount is about three times as much as .va? idle p( in 1921 and 1922 combined. However, the total for lielersas w months ending December 31, 1923, was $18,222.50, :woers or tl much as was collected for the first nine months. Crintfny, but to be the best paying business and quite naturally the boarently on the increase. Prohibition violators pay some of tfa'e the kii n 19-f- . bills. or |