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Show THE CITIZEN 4 What nation in Europe goes to the aid of the distressed as we ent horseplay at public expense will rest on somebodys shoulder and there will be no dodging the issue. have done? We must demand sound and economical government and hanj Why dont the propagandists publish the main points and sections of the proposed world court in order that the people may decide to the principles of our constitution as a drowning man would to for themselves whether they want it or leave it? No, it is tied up in strong rope. Support men for public office who stand for such a sack and we are supposed to take it without looking at it or reading program and down with the wasters and demagogues.! The Manu it. We dont even have a gamblers chance with it. If the present facturer. decision is carried out, it will be forced into each platform so that L WHERE IS THE MONEY? the people have no voice in the matter. Are we going to stand for this kind of jugglery in American Its Now that the bonus has been passed the,thing that is worryim politics ? a great number of representatives and senators is how the money i Have we forgotten Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln? t going to be raised to pay for the bonus. Financial experts have estimated that the cost to the people o fit SENATOR WALSH THROUGH. the country will be somewhere around $4,500,000,000.., This morie it Senator Walsh, prosecutor of the oil investigating committee, must come from the pockets of the taxpayers. There is no provisio fir announces that he is through with the oil investigation unless, of in the pending tax bill for the money with which to pay the bonus course, the courts should compel Sinclair to testify and that he is and even the wisest politicians are unable to explain how any rea preparing a report. Aside from the irrelevant gossip and bunk, the tax reduction measure can be passed in view of the recent action o F investigation has shown that under specific authority of congress congress. thr insisted has President out and tha H. E. to No. 1, reserves leased naval has administration Coolidge this pointed Doheny, repeatedly no and No. 3 (Teapot Dome) to H. F. Sinclair ; that most of naval reserve the taxes of the people must be reduced. The pending tax measur No. 2 was leased by the Wilson administration; that all the leases certainly will not provide enough revenue to allow the government t were made because there was abundant evidence that the naval oil pay the bonus and at the same time produce enough money to pa was being drained off by private wells on surrounding property; its debts. It is not probable that the 25 per cent reduction of taxe that the Doheny leases are yielding the government nearly twice as for 1923 that President Coolidge asked for can now be granted, bu large a royalty as the leases on reserve No. 2 ; that the Sinclair lease Coolidge will undoubtedly at the next session of congress demand! is yielding above the average royalty; that while there are some scientific revision of the tax program. Those responsible for th contrary opinions the preponderance of expert opinion is that the framing of the bonus bill did not arrange it so that the soldiers wh( leases are a most excellent thing for the navy and the nation; and expected immediate cash payments will get their money now, the to that this was all known to congress two years before Senator Walsh will be disappointed, for the payments will not be made, even if som found it politically expedient to make a scandal out of it. way is ultimately found to meet them, until March 1, 1925. Th The investigation has also shown that Albert B. Fall, secretary adjusted service certificates also will not be available until 1925 su of the interior who made the leases with the approval of Secretary It is estimated that a force of 4,152 clerks gill be required to hand! the issuance of the certificates. This means just that many mor Denby then borrowed $100,000 from his old friend, Edward L. on the government payroll at the expense of the taxpayer PI Doheny, and $25,000 from Sinclair as a condition precedent to his employes Unless some financial wizard can be found in congress, the mone; going to Russia for Sinclair. the several billions of dollars needed to provide fo The president, with the approval of the senate, has appointed necessary to pay the bonus, the money will have to be raised by additional, taxes two able lawyers to present to the courts the questions: which will be levied upon the people. Was there anything criminal in Falls borrowings? Yes, we have no panannas, to pay for this legislation today. Are the leases in the public interest or should they be canto ph Tal ;- 1 -v r chi Ke of n pec n cor aft Cai Fn Hr pie Jos !0I Hr IS! ihi of , celled? .r? No one expects anything but a wholly partisan report from Senator Walsh, but all sensible persons have every confidence that actual justice will be done by the courts. HARD BLOW FOR JAPAN. st President Coolidge has signed the immigration provides for the exclusion of the Japanese after July 1. The presi dent severely criticised certain portions of the bill but he was giver POLITICAL HORSEPLAY. to understand that the west demanded Japanese exclusion and tha Nero fiddled while Rome burned and the United States congress if he failed to sign the bill it would be passed over his head. According to reports received by the Salt Lake Tribune fron is doing the same thing while the wealth of this nation is being Japan, the people of that country are greatly wrought up over thi turned up in useless governmental extravagance. a: The country is rapidly coming to the conclusion that about all matter and many even predict war. The American is branded the majority of its public servants are doing is playing personal unselfish and does not believe in the Christianity he preaches. wil With such feeling prevalent in Japan all trade connections politics at Washington by raising hell generally with business and suffer and it vvould not be surprising to see a boycott on ail Amer industry. ican made goods as a retaliation for excluding their people fron When June 15 rolls around, the taxpayers will have dug up over our. country. $150,000,000 in six months that could have been lopped from their Our action will no doubt more strongly cement the yellow race! tax bill for 1923 if the treasury departments businesslike plan for and the future can only determine the final result. bill tax been milhad hundred and One readjusting adopted. fifty lion dollars is a lot of money for the people to pay out in six months DO YOU VOTE? in order that public officials may play politics. The manager of a private company would be fired for such Less than half the people entitled to vote, taking the ci untry a wasteful methods. a whole, go to the poles to vote. In 1920 compiled figures siowtha Not only has congress failed to give tax reduction when it can 54,421,832 citizens were entitled to vote but only 26,786,753 ss tha be given, but it has exerted itself to pass measures to increase half the people found their way to the poles to cast their taxes. If you dont vote, dont kick because the men in of fee don The people are waiting to see the final result. They are not please you. The ballot box is the place to register all cc nph11 such fools as some politicians think. The responsibility for the pres but dont overlook the primaries. bill which . i ba-ot- f I i i 4 I 4 . bil tei th n ti a Hi G ot It h( F. Fl th It m |