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Show Published Every Saturday WIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. ' A. W. ' RAYBOULD, Manager t, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, , payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. . ;f Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 ) ff GOVERNOR DERN AS CRITIC . . I ! i hen you don't know what to blame high prices to, blame the h. To lieu r some people tell it, the railways are responsible our ills related to the high cost of living. But, has any one ed to figure out the cost for transportation of a necktie, a collar To satisfy yourself, get the shipping price of freight on a find & pounds f mm your nearest agent and then see if you can i? be charged to the cost of transportation, owever, every now and then the daily press spreads big headier its pages and tells the people what exhorbitant freight rates e, and yet the freight rates upon individual articles are so small significant that they cannot be figured. lit the worst of the whole. matter, is to come out and advertise feged inequalities and high prices. Just tack a sign up to all that they must not come pes to our state and notify the world pcause they will be taxed out of all their money. It play the business, game in this state like a game of. ten pins. . 1 I up good principles and make fine resolutions and then along 0 Jome one and makes a strike by knocking them all down. Jie railways have developed this 'state more than all other But for the railways we woulld be completely shut off he rest of the world. Our mines and industries could not be de-- d and but for the roads we would be living more like the Indian i small enough to fac-mhine- d. in days. I a speech to prominent men attending a banquet held under the jes of the Manufacturers association at the Hotel Utah last that the high freight rates into Utah .Motions of this territory were prohibitive to advancement, is true, and the Governor knew it, why did he not incorporate formation in his message to the legislature with a request that itter be imestigated and the alleged evil or holdup, as you will, Surely a matter which is so vital to every man, woman ma in the state, should receive strict attention from the legisla-Governmakes a direct charge, if the Salt Lake Telegram ipteted correctly, and he does not mince words in placing the yJlGpvernor Dern said -- or he believes it belongs. two sides to every Js ways question and THE CITIZEN Governor Dern in the stand he has taken. We have ills can be corrected, but it is up to the legislature to do religion in our schools, there are many people who 1 , q(!wes with r L?ii ron'i llK 8"' !LthLfl' seltlinS here. If we tax excessively corporations, lie here to invest their money. If the people paid proper legislation and tax regulation we would not l! us snie coropration upon which we could lay fr mg to. r.eforms the people have demanded, especially ' ar. In our last election, the people refused to vote d)ey. Why? Because they demanded reforms to l,r paid no heed. At the polls they repudiated him 'h ihc election of another their plans would -- governor When important legislation does come up, there is always some ; one prepared to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery. Take for instance H. B. No. 41, by Representative Sharp, which bill was passed both houses and yet was vetoed when it came to the Governor. This , bill provided that the state road commission could be sued if that body failed to live up to any contract it might make. Under present legis- lation, the state road commission is always right and the contractor is wrong and the road commission is responsible to no one. Under such conditions responsible contractors do not bid, and if they doi their price is so high that all prospective costs are covered no matter what ; they may be and as a result the people pay much more for their !im- provements than they would under well regulated conditions. The road commission lets a contract for building a road, as an illustration. After the contractor gets half done with his work, the commission ; finds that it wants some changes. The contractor is notified, he tears up some of his work and provides new changes, all of which are expensive. If he refuses to comply with the requests of the commission i there is no way for him to collect the money he has already spent and if he throws up the job he loses all the money he has put in. .. .. Is not such a condition deplorable? The big joker in the present law is that after a contractor com- pletes his work, the state does not have to pay for same and the road commission can stand back and laugh at the contractor and tell him to whistle for his pay. He cannot sue the state for it. When we have matters like this before us which need our urgent j attention to get the best results and we pass over them lightly some of our larger corporations for alleged ills, then we are surely wandering from real business principles and our. path leads tQJ nowhere. ;? and the are state they Some of our best contractors are leaving J in.cir-the stories of i and some other states, establishing themselves in culation would not prove interesting reading matter for some of our his money againstj; politicians. Why should any business man put up t an uncertainty? THE CITIZEN holds that if the state gets into business and makes a contract with an individual, that the state ought to be just as . liable as the contractor for anything agreed to and not carried out. contract is not legal and under the i The law holds that a law cannot be enforced. How then can the state force a Contractor to ; the contractor cannot force the perform what he has agreed to, but : state to do what it has agreed to? It was to correct this deplorable condition that Representative Sharp introduced his bill, which receiv- - : ed nearly the unanimous support of both houses. It was a good bill and it would have eliminated many shortcomings which in the past have cost the taxpayers much money. It all goes to plainly show that the people of this state must v for sane laws which will am- get together and inaugurate a campaign and every businessman, and the officials f ply protect every individual inwe elect be made to perform the duties required by the public, stead of elected officials dictating what shall be done. . n -- ? and-at-tac- k a one-side- d : . . . |