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Show Published Every Saturday by goodwin8 Single 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, 1919, at the postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utaty under the Act of March 3, 1879. 8alt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 weeklyBUSINESS publishing MANAGER A. W. RAYBOULD, CO., INC. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 0 for six months. 1 , on, $4-5- 0 per year. . 311-12-- 13 BIG INDUSTRIAL CENTER at last realize the fulfillment of their dreams to make With our immense coal fields and hills of iron, ah an iron state. ital was the only requirement to start the wheels of the iron The Columbia Steel came forward with the capital and has tted a $4,500,000 plant at Ironton, which is capable of turning 500 tons of pig iron daily. The plant is now in operation and its The west will now get its pig iron from Utah; rcess assured. The installation of this enormous plant means a great deal more Utah than the average person has any idea of. The mining has been the chief factor in Utah, with agriculture a close ond, but now, however, all our industries may be superceded by i iron trade. Other industries subsidiary to the iron furnace will doubt follow in the footsteps of its predecessors, then the largest r of the state will begin to rapidly grow around the iron industry Utahns in-;tr- v. in-st- ry Utah county. say so and give reasons why they do not approve of it. Let the public have argument based upon the merit of the measure itself. . Market men follow the fish and game to the end of the earth. It is easy money while it lasts, all profit and no outlay to speak of. Nearly every state in the Union has been virtually stripped of the game fish, game birds and animals. Its public property preyed upon by private interests and so far the people have paid little or no attention to what is going on. The market men band themselves together and appear at the legislatures and dictate the laws for their benefit. Their pitiful tales of starving families, etc., get the desired results. Those who take the side of protection and conservation of .fish and game with reasonable bag limits for the citizens are denounced and as a result every year our fishing gets poorer and poorer and our game gets scarcer and scarcer. Under the present system, Alaska fish and game is doomed just as it has been in all states where market men have had their say in makihg the laws for their own convenience and interest. . what progress is going to be made is for the future to ermine. It has been reported that all the pig iron would be pped to the coast and that none of it would be made up here, GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS. hearsay is never a ruling factor. We have the, iron plant and rre is no reason why other industries dependent upon the iron Price regulation and government in business is the big question duct for their maintenance should be held back. Already several of today. If the government gives a commission the right to fix isidiary plants are under construction and many more are in sight, and rates for individuals and corporations, it must-alse more promanufacturing plants that are erected, the bigger the pay-- s prices vide a fair profit;' However, the question is often asked why a and the more people locate to perform the labor. distinction is made in business and just how far will it get the A large portion of the farming district of Utah county has now into business if it wishes to play fair with all?. fn turned into a manufacturing district. Large farms are being government Take for instance the railroads which are under government up into building lots and sold for prices never dreamed of and The owners of the railroads are provided with a cral people have become wealthy through the sale of their lands supervision. schedule of rates which arc standard and from which the road Harms. Property values have doubled in Provo. Lots which at officials cannot vary. If the rates did not produce enough money brought $250 at Ironton are now worth $1,500 ana more, and it to pay the cost of running the road, the company would soor just a beginning. Ironton is situated midway between Provo and become For that reason if the government fixes the rates, lng'ille and many are predicting that the two cities will be it must bankrupt. also fix them so that a profit can be made. uented into cne big industrial center which will become the largest of the state. However, if the government undertakes to guarantee a fair profit, say to the railroads, to an individual or a corporation, it is not treating all other businesses which do not come under the HOOVER WOULD PROTECT FISH. commission fairly. They, too, should be guaranteed a fair return Canncrs and market fishermen are assailing Secretary 'Hoover for for their outlay. stend taken to Why pick out one business to show favoritism and allow anprotect the fish of Alaska in the Conservation " "'hicli has already passed the House and which is up to the other to shift for itself? nflCThis bill was indorsed unanimously by all committees and Under the old regime, all business regulated itself. A fair profit was added to the cost of any commodity produced an it r H(ovcr This publicity campaign can have no other was solely up to the management of the business whether that says : rPse than to aid in the defeat of the bill, for there has not befen business made a profit or quit at the end of the year with a l0rJin these statements favoring the measure itself. In these days loss. Political interference in business has not brought about a result guilty and the smooth and artful way to destroy legislation that eres with some peoples private interests is not to oppose the desired and predicted it would under government control. Prices ren merit, but to slander the men who have the responsibility have been going up an taxes have been soaring, and much of it is Meeting interests. If these men are against the bill, let them blame to too much government in business. It stands to reason Just o .v - in-gato- rs. |