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Show THE CITIZEN 4 The evils complained were principally that the conventions were boss controlled, the voter did hot have an opportunity to express his wishes: and furthermore, that conventions were controlled by the use of money. The panacea for these supposed evils was the enactment of the primary laws and Utah as well as a majority of our states arc now operating primary laws in some shape or form. With the primaries to take place in Salt Lake City on Friday, August 15th, it is appropriate to call attention to the outstanding defect of the primary law. This law is proving ineffective to a large degree, because the- - voters do not attend the primaries, but on the contrary by their absence leave opportunity open to the gangster to control selection of delegates. Take the conditions at the Salt Lake primaries two years ago. Much to the surprise of the undercover men in many of the districts there was a large turnout of voters, a condition that is death to the plans of the ward heeler. Quickly something had to be done and much to their disgust the voters learned that if they were not in favor of a certain candidate for United States senator their presence was undesirable. How did the undercover men handle the situation? They fraudulently organized the primaries ; stuffed ballot boxes ; counted and failed to count ballots. This is what happened in Salt Lake two years ago and the voters awakened when it was too late. What can be expected to occur at the primaries Friday, August 15th, if you, Mr. Taxpayer, should fail to attend? The undercover men of two years ago are going to do the same thing again. True they do not have the same candidate or one for the same office, but they are the same ward heelers and with a slush fund that would buy all the bootleg whisky in Salt Lake they seek to defeat the will 7 1 . of the taxpayer. Such work can be made of no avail if the taxpayers of Salt Lake will go to the primary and vote to protect his own interests. There is not a man or woman who 'will fail to take time to attend to a business matter that means money in his pocket and yet they will neglect to vote at the primary when it will be the means of saving them manv dollars in taxes. Mr. Voter, wake up. Stop having your af- fairs run by a bunch of under cover men who have no interest in protecting your pocketbook. VOTE AT THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FRIDAY, AUG. 15. The following from the home paper of the candidate of the HOW TO DO IT GANG, published in the Ogden Standard Examiner October 30th, 1922, is a striking example of the kind of loyalty the Republican party might expect if their candidate was placed in IT IS BETTER charge of the leadership of the party in Utah : TO HAVE A TOWERING DEMOCRAT THAN A PIGMY REPUBLICAN, now that the tariff issue has been disposed of for a period of years. Two years ago the home newspaper of the HOW TO DO IT The tariff issue GANG, in their issue of October 30th, 1922, said: has been disposed of for a period of years. At the recent meeting of Republicans held in Ogden,' Candidate Wattis said: At this time we should all be thinking, seriously of protection protection of our industries which at the present time in some lines have but little and in others none. This is one of the issues upon which the The former statement shows campaign will be fought this year. the extremes to which the HOW TO DO IT GANG stooped in their efforts to defeat a Republican candidate for United States Senator. The HOW TO DO IT GANG say in their newspaper that it would be unwise to follow advice from Salt Lake and shatter precedents established by the party in its method of selecting delegates, especially when such a move is made with the object of furYet thering the interest of an outside candidate for Governor. this same gang presume to come into Salt Lake City and claim that they are going to capture the primaries for their Ogden candidate. Arc Salt Lake voters going to allow Ogden to dictate how they shall vote? We think not. LINCOLN PERSEVERES. When Abraham Lincoln was a young man he ran for the legislature of Illinois and was badly swamped. He next entered business failed and spent 17 years of his life paying up the debts of a . worthless partner. He was in love with a beautiful woman to whom lie became erP then she died. gaged-an- d Entering politics again he ran for Congress and was badly defeated. He then tried for an appointment in the United States Land Office, but failed. After this he became a candidate for the United States Senate and was defeated. In 1856 lie became a candidate for the, vice presidency, but lost the race. In 1856 he was once more defeated, this time by Douglas. In the face of all this, he eventually became one of the coun trys greatest men, if not the greatest. How would you stand in face of such setbacks? Think it over. j Since when were the under cover men of the HOW TO DO IT GANG at the county building considered leaders of the Republican party in Utah? TAX ANTE. How nice it sounds! But supposing some one proposed double taxation for the majority of people in order that a minority might, go tax free. Such a proposal today would cause unqualified condemnation yet our lawmakers by refusing to change our old laws so as bonds are sanctioning to prohibit the further issuance of the double taxation method for the masses in order that may be enjoyed by the few. Let us send men to the legislature this year who will lift the tax burden. Let us begin at home. Let us also get rid of politicians who at all times are advocating higher taxes and devising methods to raise the tax ante. tax-exem- pt tax-exempti- on The Ogden Standard Examiner in a recent editorial said, Economy in public affairs must be. practiced and a greater degree of effiAll taxpayers will agree with the statement as it ciency exacted. is the approval of the policy Governor Mabey has carried out fpr nearly four years. TAXES CONSUME PROPERTY. That any state should confiscate all farm lands and make tenants of the occupants would seem unbelievable. But the process is under way, and at present rate of progress will be accomplished within lifetime of present generation. Dr. R. T. Ely, of University of Wisconsin, shows, by official tax records of states, and also figures compiled by bureau of economics of Department of Agriculture, that the states will soon absorb by taxation all income of farm lands. It is a principle of law that to take the income from property is practically the same as to take the property itself. In Ohio farm lands between 1880 and 1920 increased in value 1 increased from $45.97 to $113.17 an acre, while taxes from 177 per cent. In Kansas values increased from $10.98 in 1880 to $62.30 in 1920, and taxes 271 per cent from 1913 to 1921. Since 1920, land values have decreased at an average of 20 per cent. Taxes, on the other hand, have shown the opposite tendency. A statistical chart of taxes and farm income would show the line for taxes steadily curving upward in past eight years, and now near to line of farm income. When it crosses that line the work of con- J 1913-192- fiscation is complete. The power to tax is the power to destroy. The problem confronting the delegates to the Republican state convention is not what candidate to nominate, but what candidate to nominate that can be elected. v |