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Show THE CITIZEN 4 shores and deliberately stole this country from the Indians to establish themselves in a land of freedom. Today if we want freedom we must return to good old England to get it where a man is not judged a criminal if he takes a smoke or a drink of good old wine or ale. Is it not about time that our peace officers pay some attention to the. many thugs which inhabit our city and county, and allow the taxpayers a little freedom. Abraham Lincoln freed the negro from slavery, but the white race appears to have fallen into the rut. It has not been so long ago since the average school boy poked all sorts of fun at the vorboten signs in European countries, but the old law of compensation has been working overtime and we are now receiving our just rewards for poking fun at the other fellow. We are only reaping the harvest we sowed, but we all hope that the reign of fanaticism will soon cease. If we spent one half as much time in checking up the criminal element as we do in checking up the law abiding businessmen and taxpayer, there would not be a criminal within our borders. PRICES About a year ago the cause of the low price of wheat was given on account of the accumulated surplus on hand. It was said at that time that the grainaries had in storage about three years supply. This year we are advised that the soaring price of wheat is due to shortage in the market. What has become of the three years crop which was supposed to be on hand? Was it a scheme by the middlemen to knock down the price of wheat to the farmer and then bamboozle the public with the present high cost? The minipulation of our food prices is creating a great unrest among the people and during such unrest third political parties invariably thrive. When you go out into the country and talk with the farmer, he is entirely at sea and complains that his prices are about what they always were. The past few weeks cattle have brought $5.60 per hundred on the hoof. There has been no call for hides which are selling for about 50 cents each. The sheepmen are now advised to keep their clip until next year when they will get 50 cents instead of 40 cents, the price of today. Is is worth while? There is the cartage, storage, handling, insurance and fire risk, all of which will eat up the major portion of the 10 cents increase looked for, which then may not come. Cash at a discount is much better than a future promised price which may not materialize. However, that is the way the markets are worked, and it is through such work that many drones are kept in expensive jobs for which the farmer and consumer dearly pay. The storage of crops is not advisable unless when it is absolutely necessary because in the long run the holder suffers the losses. BUREAUCRACY IN ALL ITS GLORY The present Federal payroll embraces one person in every 12 gainfully employed. In the U. S. in 1922, 3,400,000 such persons were receiving more than $3,800,000,000 by way of compensation. This is three times as many persons as are employed in all branches of the mining industry; it exceeds in number those who are required to work on all our transportation systems; is five times as many as are engaged in coal mining; and six times the number engaged in the basic production of iron and steel and the maintenance of our foundry and machine shops. The sum paid to public employes exceeds the payroll of all the automobile manufacturing concerns combined. Within the past twenty years we have doubled the number of s of the United Federal employes. At the same time the States increased only 10 per cent in number. Going back into history, we find that in the first year of the twentieth century there were only three independnt boards oprating at an annual cost of $820,000. We now have thirty-seve- n independent establishments and bureaus operating at an annual expense of more than $650,000,000. Are we becoming a bureaucratic government? This is something about which the taxpayer must give consider wage-earner- able thought in an organized way. It involves his own pocketbook. Utah Taxpayer. Are you one of the 12 that is working for the government? Do 12 of you people believe that you should support one of your number in a political job? Why not all get political jobs and make it unanimous? Instead of the people supporting the government, the government is supporting the people. No wonder our taxes are high. And yet less than half the people voted four years ago. Let us get rid of this political drone list and cut the ratio down to 1 in a 100 to work for the government. A government which lays taxes on President Coolidge says: the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizens to servitude. One of the first signs of the breaking down of free government is a disregard by the taxing powu& of the right of the people to their own property. John W. Davis, candidate for President, says: No people are truly free who are unjustly taxed. We promise to the people of America not only revision and reform but a further reduction in the taxes that weigh them down and sap the vigor of their productive energy. What are you going to do about it, Mr. Taxpayer? Are you going to continue in the rut or are you going to demand your rights? Is it right that every 11 people should support a twelfth? AN INDIVIDAUL SERMONETTE. The world is full of honorable things, for example, it is a fine thing to be well educated, or intensely religious, or fearfully honest, or super-moraor even half-wa- y decent; yes, even the last is an accomplishment. However, there is one other thing which people generally overlook, and that is the virtue of being individual. If we take the definition of God, as an Infinite Personality, admitting that the divine spark in the least of men is the expression of the Almighty, we are forced to conclude that individuality and the expression of the same is a virtue worth aspiring to. Individuality is the one thing which makes you different from all other human beings, it is the spark of your divinity, and it ought to be cultivated and demonstrated. The child who said, Ill be myself even if nobody likes me, I wont act like Flora and Maud, cause I know Im lots nicer inside anyhow, had much to recommend her, although her conventional mother believed her to be very wilfull. Too much conformity to the thing that we call convention, (and of which we have made a kind of fettish), and too much knuckling down to the people whom we fancy are rather superior, is not the very best way to bring out what is best in ourselves. Becking and bowing before the gods of popularity is just the right kind of evercise to kill the capacity for leadership in an individual. The world needs leaders, leaders who are real people, not actors on the stage of life posing to be that which they are not, oftimes hiding their individual light under a bushel. If an individual is worth anything, he is genuine. If he illilot genuine he is likewise not dependable, a pirate, we might say, sailing under false colors, afraid to know himself and let himself be known. It must be a contemptable way to feel, when a human being admits to himself that hed hate to have anyone else know him, as he knows himself. There are a lot of people in just this fix. Convention is the ruling god, and people woulej rather be built in a certain pattern, than be unique. They dont seem to know that in the growth of character lies a more worth-whil- e ambition, than in the amassing of material honors. Was it not character in the individual the Master meant when he said, Behold, the Kingdom of God is within YOU? l, $ $ , "V John McCormack, the worlds renowned songster, received the greatest ovation ever accorded any one in his London appearance recently, although he had received many threatening anonymous letters not to appear. |