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Show THE CITIZEN 4 When California raised 4,000 carloads citrus fruit we talked over production. Last year we used 95,000 carloads. In all forms 17,000,000 homes now use electric current for light, power and heat, and in 1923 we made and sold 2,002,000 vacuum cleaners, electric fans and washing machines. Our little six per cent own sixty-thre- e per cent of all the telephones in the world, and use them 164 times a year per capita, to sixteen calls a year per person for the Britons. Conveniences furnished the home owners by manufactured gas and rapid street railway and interurban transportation exceed all industry upon our metals such as lead gnd copper, and all of our manufactured articles that is if we wish to remain in business. We cannot compete with cheaper labor and remain in business, and in order to avoid competetion with foreign labor, we must protect our home industries. The tariff should not be a political issue. Free trade brings low wages and kills home industry. Tariff protects businessman, keeps up the wage scale and furnishes work for all. Thats why you are not loafing today. SPEAK UP, MR. DERN. j I ! i J other nations. The six per cent Americans owned eighty-eigh- t per cent of the automobiles in the world January 1, 1924, and now own more. To supply gasoline we produce 2,000,000 barrels oil a day and import 82,000,000 barrels a year more. The American six per cent of all the people use more raw materials and put them through more complex and various processes than all the remaining ninety-fou- r per cent savage and civilized put together. Now, Mr. Voter, do you wish to change this order of things? If you wish to increase the present efficiency, then by all means go to the polls Tuesday, November 4, and register your approval by voting the Republican ticket straight. Such action upon your part will insure good times for another four years. Let us all be for prosperity, and prosperity for all! TARIFF The tirades which are lodged against the United States tariff schedules and the statements made regarding the same, either through ignorance or with the willful intent of deceiving the public, seem never to be challanged. the per capita f The American tariff, which is less than tariff of free trade Great Britain, cannot, without gross exaggeration, be called exorbitant. The truth is exactly the opposite of what is charged in statements which say that the tariff raises the price of everything the farmer buys and gives him no protection on what he sells. Anyone who will take the trouble to look at the tariff schedules will see that practically everything the farmer buys, including breeding animals, barbed wire, binding twine, fertilizers, cultivators harvesters, rakes, leather, leather gloves and harness, reapers and all manner of supplies including agricultural implements, are on the free list, while everything he raises and sells such as apples, almonds, butter, beans, corn, eggs, grapes, horese, lemons, oranges, prunes, raisins, sugar, sheep, walnuts, grains, peaches, onions, poultry, honey, lard and scores of farm products and animals are on the protected one-hal- list. The mere fact that any candidate for public office, regardless of the party with which he is affiliated, should make absolutely misleading statements on the tariff queestion is grounds for questioning his ability as an executive in or for public office. The tariff as it exists today is a matter of fact and public record and there is no excuse for any man making a mistatement regarding the same. The tariff is purely a business proposition and should not be used as a vehicle for securing votes for the Republican, Democratic or any other party. Just so long as religious cranks were able to keep the people in ignorance regarding the falsity of the power of witchcraft just so long were they able to prevent intellectual and spiritual progress. Just so long as politicians can keep the people in ignorance regarding the tariff question, just so long will they be able to upset business stability by using the tariff question as a vehicle for gaining their own selfish ends, namely, votes. The people are coming to understand that the tariff is for two primary purposes, namely, to protect American labor and uphold American standards of living, and, secondly, to raise revenue for the government which, if not collected from foreign products shipped in here in competetion with home manufactured articles, would have to be raised by additional taxes on American property and incomes. Let the people think of these fundamental facts when considering the tariff. Thus in the case of Utah we must have protection upon our sugar so-call- The La Follette party, which has endorsed you as its candidate for Governor in Utah, seeks to destroy Utahs chief industries by removing therefrom the protective tariff. The Democratic party, which made you its nominee for Governor, also would remove the protective tariff from Utahs industries; and your Democratic national chairman, Clem Shaver, says the d beet sugar industry in Utah is robbing the people. You know you cannot control or modify the action of either of those political parties. Yet you say you are in favor of a protective tariff on Utahs industries. Let us see: In 1921, there assembled in Salt Lake City, the first Legislature with a Republican majority since the Democratic law almost wiped out these Utah industries. .Mr. Day, Republican, introduced into the House Branch House Joint Resolution No. 1, asking the incoming Republican administration at Washington to pass the Fordney bill giving protection to Utahs industries. This resolution set forth that the bill was needed to stabilize business and financial conditions which in western states are prinIt passed cipally dependent upon livestock and crop production. the House, every Democratic member voting against it. In the Senate, you did what you could to delay consideration of that resolution, and when this could be done no longer, you moved to change the title to House Concurrent Resolution No. 1, which was done. The record continues as to the measure: H. C. M. No. 1 passed its second reading on the following roll call and vote: Ayes, 4; nays, 4; absent and not voting, 0. Those voting in the affirmative were Senators Adams, Bradley. Fuller, Jensen, Jenkins, Kinney, Knight, Peters, Quinney, Smart, Southwick, Standish, Tebbs, Mr. President (Thomas E. McKay). Those voting in the negative were: Senators Dern, Hayward, Jones and Lamph. Every Republican voted Aye on the request for protection of tariff-protecte- j i Utahs industries. Now, Mr. Dern, please tell the people of Utah when to believe you, whether upon your pretensions or your actions. Speak up, Mr. Dern, and dont quibble! Why should there be any property in the United States tax exempt? j $ Former Governor Bill Spry is helping to round up the herd for November 4th, and what he says goes with the most of us. j j j Jack Warner is checking up on the political leaders to see all. the machinery is well greased and in running order. tJ .it j sk sk ed If congressmen have nothing more important to do than check up slush funds it is the opinion of the people they should return home and save the taxpayers that much money. Why waste time and ) 4 energy? sk sk sk sk Ira Dern has retired from the wrestling game to become an active ward heeler. He may come out for the sheriff one of these days. He is getting acquainted with the Republican boys. sk k ss The friends of Professor John J. McClellan are pleased 3 learn and hear that the noted Tabernacle organist is again able to appear in public. Mr. McClellan made his initial appearance at an organ recital at Provo the other day, his first appearance for over a year. j i i i |