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Show Published Every Saturday WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO. INC. GODWIN'S dY A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager Editor IJErS!, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: art up-in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, ling i.:; -- $ r i ' ilx man BO ptr-"ri 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 postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- ' 13 .. INTERESTS WOULD KILL TRADE press lias created a great furore in its the western beet sugar raising states Tnafwhwl1 lmvc passed laws against cottonseed products. MarlBirmiiham, Alabama, News says: Would it not be remind those states that propose to legislate against of King Cotton that the South is icus illy hundreds of carloads of dairy products from and western states! As a matter of fact, if any states faionSvant to start any rough stuff the South can be as pro-again- st by-produ- cts anybody pleases. If these jealous commonwealths canid the competition with vegetable oils let them either foils other course or be prepared for retaliatory measures, j f people want vegetable oils in the North and heaps of rant dairy products in the South. It seems perfectly for anybody north of the cotton region to suppose that hers cannot dispense with their dairy products quite as ) liherners could cut. the vegetable oil from their ra-fgSi- ne can be played both ways. The South has made iiQer8bf the corn. belt rich, buying their corn, their iUI hogs, their butter and cheese, their glucose svrup, their mutton. All that is needed to give a tremendous stim-- a produce and buy at home movement is some fool zZB a boycott from the corn belt. Thev had better be care- (do not start something that will be finished for them by jsed region that has contributed materially to their past l iM fa ad present state of affluence. The dairying jTimes Picayune of New Orleans says: I are credited with its instigation, their evident purpose Most prptbet their home state markets against competition tsDflLrn food products. So far as we have seen it is that the Southern products are unheal tliful or jr lacking in nutritive value. The grievance seems to be a ready sale in the states, and the producers a.r? Thi foodstuffs in those states want to shut out the i The unfairness of this legislative proposal to 'm00 natural and 1 healthy exchange of products between the ?tatetf is readily seen. Its folly would be swiftly made t if the epidemic spread from nine to forty-eighd each commonwealth put up bars against the products j. 1 no-,uTiarg- ed ht Wha state of Lcan exist if it discriminates against the products of j&yjf11 commonwealths in an effort to foster its own? . ijycmisiii hope to have a market for its butter and ;s own confines if it virtually bars, by a prohibi- states? ie ail(l poanut-growin- g movement to tax oleomargarine and all other fata in order to protect butter carries with it a direct jNews & Leader of Richmond, Ya., says: cttn fcotton and peanut industries.1 Innumerable other comments have been made by the southern press, and justly so. Any one that is afraid of competition is in the wrong business and there is not a state in our Union that can thrive at the expense of another state. Interests and combinations that try to secure special and class legislation protecting their own interests should not be tolerated in any state, and governors should see to it that if any such legislation does come before them that they immediately veto such vicious measures. LEAGUE. In a statement to the Salt Lake Telegram Edward George Lowry, writer and former managing editor of the New York Evening Post and the Philadelphia Ledger, says that the United States should not enter a world court for the adjudica- tion of international disputes unless that court is completely divorced from the League of Nations. Unless the world court is preceded by an international arms conference it would be folly for this country to become a member. Unless the other nations are ready for peace and voluntarily reduce their armaments there is no place for the United States in any international combine for the adjudication of disputes. Mr. Lowry is of the opinion that England and the United States could get to gether and could control the remainder of the world, but even such opinion is far fetched. Control of nations in the past has been greatly due to invention. At any time some insignificant nation in a military way may produce an in vention which would give it absolute power. Under present con- ditions, England and this country could control but if such an effort were made there would immediately spring up a combination of all the other nations against us which in the end would quite naturally produce Avar. If all nations would tend to their own business, do away with avo could all reduce our jealousies and tried to be neighborly, armament and there would be less occasion for Avar. At present, in the army, however, avc find France Avith over 700,000 men Russia Avith a still larger army, the United States and England all jealous of each other's navy, and with little Japan strainingand iier resources to establish a huge military machine, both land water, and it would take very little to get into a fight. to get this Immediately after the Avar effort Avas made nation into the League of Nations, and from Avhat has happened since it appears on the surface that the European nations wanted us in to exploit our resources to the very limit. The statesmen of England now come out openly and say in the League, and like the United they have lost confidence to their best States, are in favor of handling their oavh affairs to an international ability instead of turning their troubles over i |