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Show ZEN Published Every Saturday I OODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: l'Sy3 age in the UnitecL8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, is. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ff XH3FSKI, Editor ear. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS I . 'v- vf While it has done al damage, the people are wondering what benefits have money, and then some more wi4Mney money, jwlSeen the cry of all the state departments, and de-budget requests show increases over the past bien-li- st deficits have been allowed. her tax lias been levied upon tobacco and gasoline fort was made to tax the chewing gum consumer, but f protest killed the bill. The extra gas tax is said bf greater road improvement. Gasoline interests L bill? Rough and dirt roads mean increased consump-- 0 ill toasoline. The auto driver will not object to the in-- : noihe tax if the money is put into roads, and now it is up h 3kd commission to do something besides laying out good paper. Let us lay them in the valleys and over the St up with tiie good roads in our neighboring itali State legislature has adjourned. & and respective country, but it would also cut down to a considerable extent international trade. Canada is the first country to propose a club against the United States, and if the p resent agitation in Canada is turned into law, our trade connections will suffer some, although Canada will build up its own country by imitating our system. If all the English colonies got together and formed a trade alliance, we would be greatly injured because our immense tonnage shipped at present would nearly be eliminated. Here is a matter for our statesmen to give careful consideration and if we expect to hold our world markets we must meet our neighbors upon an equal footing. INVESTMENTS. When people save a little money they do not like to see it lay idle and look for investments and then it is that unscrupulous move fast the next two years in road building or promoters get in their real work. They are easily talked into purswitched off the main traveled highways of the chasing worthless stock and of course have no one to blame but themselves. If investing people would purchase bonds or stocks rwvne thing certain that local governments are not in their local utility corporations they would immediately end in tfie footsteps of the national government in tax their troubles. They would not only get good interest on their - 4 money, but they could cash in at will and at all times be proiVorld War created many expensive military boards tected. iihimA 1 not No one will go amiss by purchasing preferred stock in such take municipal governments long to catch the fever which has resulted in the most expensive gov-- n companies as the Utah Light and Power company, the Mountain the history of our nation. So far no one has come States Telephone and Telegraph company, or the Utah (las and o demand a return to r days in the cost of our Coke company. These companies are here to stay and they are as safe and probably safer than any banking institution because! IflostPk that the legislature has adjourned business worries these companies are not taking any chance in making investments uDfcr and business men will draw a long breath of relief, in other businesses. They supply the people with actual necescan now get down to work for at least another two sities at a fair profit and as long as we have people just so long will we need the services of the companies named. It can thereThirf fore be seen that the investment in collateral of such companies Wai is as safe as it is possible to make it. TARIFF. To invest money in bonds of foreign countries and foreign nited States has placed a high tariff upon certain food corporations outside of the limits of the United States is a risk Altering from Canada and Canadians now are going which the ordinary person should not take. German and French iS e by imposing taxes upon American made and raised bonds have been floated in this country and if these two nations If the proposed legislation is inaugurated in Canada, should go to war again, and they appear to be talking war all the LWar interests will suffer. Under the present system, time, their bonds in this country would drop far below par. It Mnterests are suffering and the Canadians have come is therefore much better to put your money into companies winch elusion that they can meet us half wav bv passing laws you know are good, and when doing so you are aiding in building ur .tariff laws. up your community. S a situation which must be met and ironed out by To purchase mining stocks is somewhat of a gamble. The & nans, and it will not be long now when we must give purchaser must decide for himself what lie wants. We have piiA alUdur trade connections mines in Utah that have paid dividends for many years and the or suffer a loss. country in the world placed high tariffs against owners of the stocks have collected enormous profits and forW18 ?PP11 nil commodities which were or could be dupli-ii- r tunes. We have other properties which are costing large sums own country, it would mean more to each individual of money in developing and which some day may also become . pre-wa- , |