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Show THE CITIZEN jt least In once instance the indicted traders not only gave Thus the rear, iic. GEORGE WASHINGTON. tribuu to George Washington by an English admirer: ustritj is man! Deriving honor less from the splendor of his ion than from the dignity of his mind, before whom all borrowed ness sinks into insignificence. I cannot, indeed, help admiring isdom and fortune of this great man. Not by the expression 5tune do 1 mean to derogate from his merit ; but notwitn standing lose iipctraordinary talents and exalted integrity, it must be considered an t yjjhgularly fortunate that he should have experienced a lot which seldom falls to the portion of humanity and have passed through och'a variety of scenes without stain and without reproach! It Lusl indeed create astonishment that placed in circumstances so Critical and idling, for a series of time, a station so conspicuous, his fhararter should never once have been called in question that he arne; braid in no one instances have been accused either of peevish inso- cise; 4 or 0f mean submission, in his transactions with foreign nations m ntfTias been reserved for him to run the grace of glory without ex- d it tneicing the smallest interruption to the brilliancy of his career. rn. lie breath of censure has never dared to impeach the purity of his onduct, nor the eye of envy to raise its malignant glance to the indexation of his virtue. Such has been the transcendant merit and fever paralleled fate of this illustrious man. Charles Fox in the House 5 Do you know that bread made from American flour is selling for four cents a pound loaf in England? Probably the price of our bread includes the freight charges paid on the flour to England by American consumers. This is probably paid in order to get the foreigners to eat our humble bread. Senator Frank L. Green of Vermont narrowly escapes death from being hit by a bullet which was sent after fleeing alleged bootleggers. Some cities are equipping the police with armored cars to run down the bootleggers, while the navy is building fast boats to catch the pirates on water. And still we have some people who insist that prohibition is a success. Well, we wish it was. We alo wish for a million dollars. s Frank A. Vanderlip showed his calibre when he was placed on the witness stand at Washington to testify. to accusations and utterances made by himself regarding President Harding. He stumbled and fell flat. They were only rumors I repeated, he said. ) 1 : ( Commons, 1794. vvha: I t pays more road tax than does the inf. road tax is more than double in a by of cases. The majority argue that the license registration ndjtW should be uniform wherever there is a gasoline tax, for the at bfevenue is derived from the gas tax. A small car can be driven from e m to 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline, whereas the large and heavy ouMJiachines only make from 8 to 12 miles. If both cars were run the mileage during the year the small car owner would pay less vlManjhalf for his gasoline. The owner of the big car not only has an(& pay more for gasoline to cover the same number of miles as the iwner of the small car but he is also held up for double or more ong brliis license number. This is an unfair tax and should lie remedied. He Also the federal government has seen fit to overlook the auto-i- r Piiobile on the proposed reduction' of war tax on many items. car owners ought to get together and protect their innraise The owner of a big automobile wner of a small car. In fact the Hf-milli- on Street cars of Victoria, Australia, carry children to and from school free of charge. Just a paragraph from Lincolns first political speech: I pre sume you know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. 1 have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics can be briefly stated. I am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If not, it will be all the same. If elected, I shall be thankful. Postoffice employees are forbidden to disclose the particulars of an account to any person except the depositor himself. The account of a married woman is free from any control or interference by her husband. The newspapers are carrying columns of reported vice in Mexico over the border south of San Diego. These things could not flourish if there was not some one to pay for them. The matter has even been taken up with Washington. Let us first get the Teapot Dome settled. Before the World War the strength of European armies stood at 3,700,000 men. Now, with Germany, Austria and Bulgaria eliminated, the standing armies have increased to 4,300,000 men. With such hot bed of militarism allowed under the League of Nations which is supposed to control there, one may well ask, what is the g answer? Europes engine is twice as large as it was man-killin- twelve years ago. s- wests . i j ! Teapot Dome has provided Hiram Johnson with plenty of inlooked for campaign material, and he is soaking the powers that J1 with his fluent oratory. He says the Republicans must clean an(f H he is put at the head of the ticket he will see that it is the proper manner. Coolidge may beat him to it. In the jtime, the people are patiently waiting for the next gusher. ; ! BSfl The ?whi Denby has resigned as secretary of the navy. lie e8Soat of the present 10 took in the oil deal. Fall-Dohe- ny oil scandal. lie got is the no money He leased the oil lands because th' best interest of the people, but the deals put through ?Cr enShKiTed by expert politicians who could and who did swing s v they wished, with Denby sitting in only as a figurehead. IS "DpfiK" evidently tried to do the best for the country lie could but with S no amount to much. However, his friends, and ie he people the United States feel grateful that their trust in him mi placed, and his services could not be purchased, as the of ome of the others have been. lI1 ft ; -- Ed McGowans, colored, who shot Bob Blevins, colored, in the abdomen as the latter entered his own home, and then made the wife of the mortally wounded man and her two daughters strip off their clothes and submit to his assaults for nearly twelve hours, is now having his trial at Price, Utah. The just laws of Utah allow this mongerel cur to have a trial. He has already been allowed to live six weeks. He should have been forgotten ere this, although his poor victims will never forget. Emigration to Canada is one proposed relief for the unemployment situation in Great Britain. It is understood that each emigrant will receive $S0 toward the payment of his expenses, and that household workers will receive all of their transportation expenses as a loan. The plan ought to prove beneficial, but the United States has not yet been brought to such an extremity to assist is own workers. A wise tariff law to protect our wage earners from the disasters of foreign competition, coupled with intelligent aid in the development of our export trade, has been sufficient to give our own people an abundance of employment. |