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Show THE CITIZEN 4 taxpayer is a legitimate victim and why not play him for his roll? The legislature is the lamb that is the easiest worked, and if it can be worked, an unjust law can be enforced even if the militia has to be called to enforce its demands. The time has arrived for the people to sidetrack all politicians who introduce or sanction freak legislation. Back to the Constitution of the United States and the Land of Liberty. Give me freedom or give me death. and this country should collect the money due us, or know the reason why. That England should try to block us in trying to get our just demands from our former enemy seems incomprehensible. Yes, and France says amen to Englands protests. O TROUBLES. . LIVE AS YOU PREACH. President Calvin Coolidge takes an ordinary train to go to Chicago, thereby saving the country, nearly two thousand dollars. Most men would say, The taxpayers foot the bills, I should worry about It just shows that President Coolidge is a thorough blue expense. blooded American who is anxious to install a business administration at Washington. He is not afraid to say yes or no, and he is for an economic administration for the people. If every man in the United States, be he governor, mayor or at the head of any other political office, would practice arid follow Coolidge, what a difference there would be in this great country of ours in the next year or two. In his message to Congress, the president urges good government with economy. He taboos all radical legislation and is anxious to square accounts with Europe and to reduce our great taxation. If Coolidge keeps going the way he has started, he will be reelected four years hence, if Jie so desires. The people have great confidnce in him and his methods of doing business, and judging from present indications, Coolidge will be known as the greatest business president we ever had in this country. He is for justice in all business, because he knows that when all interests are treated with equal justice, harmony must prevail and good times follow. After many months of watchful waiting City Auditor Alvin finally had his payroll o. k. by the city commission. On the face of it, it appears that the city commissioners objected to Auditor Keddington to save $20 per month brought about by a revision of the clerical force. What kind of an auditor is Mr. Keddington, anyway? What right has he to reduce office expenses, and heavens, what a reduction! Ked-dingto- n O TAXATION. It is time for the American people in their political activities to deal with the cost of taxation as a live issue and educate themselves to insist upon economy in government and to make an issue of econh of omy until that result is achieved and maintained. the income of our people now goes to taxes. We are paying three times as much per capita in taxes as we did in 1912. If, then, we are to preserve the rights of the individuals to property, which so far has proved the only incentive to material progress in the world and the only safeguard to the home and the nation, we cannot ignore the fact that our public expenditures are being recklessly made and public debts incurred on a vast scale without due regard for the effect upon that great body of citizens upon whose successful activities the nation Southern Pacific depends for its life. Paul Shoup, Railway Company. One-sevent- Vice-Preside- PARTY STRIFE. nt WATER LOSS Ride who? Why of course Senator The pitometer test in Ogden City covering a period of over La Follette and his followers who call themselves Republicans. two months and just completed showed a loss of 4,000,000 gallons of workof Such terms of expression are entirely out place. Party water per day. This amount of water which was lost would provide the in to much work do ers have to party. 16,000 homes with an average supply of 250 gallons per day, which keep people missionary Those who are always riding some one out of the party are the ones is no doubt more than half the homes in the corporate limits of Ogden. to be given some attention. Ordinarily this loss of water is unbelievable in a single day, but Suppose a person does make a mistake, or suppose he differs it does show that unless the waterworks department is up and doing in opinion, is that to be held as an offense? Heaven help us, if we every minute, that the main depreciation causes many big leaks. all thought alike, and God knows we need some help. It has been clearly shown that Salt Lake City has been losing a The Republicans won the recent presidential election by an over- great amount of water, which was sorely felt the past dry summer. This city should make a thorough pitometer test of its water whelming majority. Now let us forget our trifling petty fights and get down to business and do something for the people who mains, repair the leaks and the city would then know just how much elected us to office. water is actually needed by the residents. $ $ Teddy Roosevelt kicked over the traces, and most of us believe CONGRESS for a just cause, but who can say that Roosevelt was not a staunch Republican? We have greatly missed him in the reorganization of The Sixty-eightthe country since the world war. Congress is now in its final session. This was Pull in your horns you fault finding Republicans and get ready the first congress to be dominated by a minority insurgents wIkk switched from one side to the other, according to the favors the)$ for-- the next election. could receive in exchange for their votes. The result was that if either the Republicans or Democrats wisherd to pass WE ARE EASY. any legislation, the party leaders would first have to secure the assistance of the insurgents. Milk the United States would.be an appropriate slogan to The result was that many of those at Washington who wanted to do hang up at the entrance of all European harbors. That is one reason something for the people were helpless and at the mercy of a few polithe chief reason, that Europe wants to get us in the League of Nations. ticians. The United States prevented Germany from collecting heavy DAWES EXCLUSIVE. reparations from England, France, Belgium and Italy. Germany had the European powers licked to a frazzle, but the United States Charles G. Dawes, vice president-elect- , has his own ideas as to stepped in and saved the day. Now, however, when the United States wants to collect a mere claim of $500,000,000 from Germany, these the conduct of his office and according to present indications will not other countries, who ate collecting billions, come forward and say sit with the cabinet during his term of office. Coolidge did sit witO the cabinet and many times former President Harding relied upon nothing doing. ' Some of these nations even refuse to pay us the interest due on advice from the former vice president. Coolidge is a man who wants huge loans. They want everything they can get; they take everything to know things, and a better opportunity was never presented than the cabinet meetings. they can borrow and then tell us in a polite way to go to Some people believe that Dawes has his eye Our Congress should call for a settlement of the entire matter upon the presidency Ride em out of the party! pre-electio- n h |