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Show THE SLAVE What chance lias a workingman got? To follow closely the history of the Salt Lake firemen and sum up all the evidence is to come to the nautral conclusion that the working man must consign himself to his lot and becomes a slave under the lash of his master. The handling of this matter appears as if some of the commissioners wanted to make political capital out of it but they made a miserable failure. A straw was turned into a straw stack. That somefor several years is a thing has been wrong in the well known fact, but who is or was to blame or who is responsible for the rumpus we do not know. If the men did not want to work, there are many men in the city who could take their places, and many of them well trained men. If the men were at fault, they should have been fired without any parleying; if Chief Bywater was at fault he should have been removed at the beginning. The fact that he has been removed proves that the men had some grievance. But the greatest injury to the workingman came when one or more of the commissioners notified their employes, or some of them, that they would have to become firemen or quit their jobs. Slave drivers of that character should never be allowed to act as city commissioners in any city in any part of the United States There ought to be work for every man in this great country of ours that wants to work, but to browbeat a man, especially one that has a family, and make him do things against his will, is a crime. fire-departme- nt on their money invested. A combination of these safety and stability for these indispensable public sen ant ? 1 l of SPECIAL TAXES. Last year, 13 states had no gasoline tax; this year 3 left that has not passed or up to March first, was nol cons CpI gas tax law. Arkansas had a cent tax last year, the hi g? this year, four have decided on a tax, and four hat S 5 cents. Only New York sticks to the tax; all the 1 from 2 cents upwards. The amount collected last year 851; using the same amount of gas, the states under the: Jb Jte may expect to collect 8198,985,138. Tfc Taxes must be paid to support governments but tion and unequal taxation has for centuries been a curse, inJ stroyer of many governments. The Standard Oil company of California has made an Ai above board fight against the constantly increasing gas tax, ter of principle, not because the tax hurts the Standard Oil( for it is simply transferred to the public with each gallon of F but because the system of special taxation is unsound ai curbed, will gradually be extended from one business to Mr. Taxpayer, here is something to wrorry and think ah -- 4-ce- nt 1-ce- nt $ GOVERNMENT OWNED. N TARGET PRACTICE About the most asinine trick pulled by an officer was displayed at a lumber companys office the other night when a police officer took two shots at a night watchman. The latter was sitting in a chair taking a rest before making another round and just missed an opportunity for taking a rest for all time. It is a good thing the officer did not know much about firearms, because he shot wide of his human mark. The shooting officer would have been easy for a yeggman and he had better stay indoors at night. A report on Canadas discussed electric experiment sat:,bun tric consumers from the governmentally owned hydro-electr- i f in Ontario have failed to pay actual costs of service they ceived by more than 812,000,000The bills have been paid by the common taxpayer little or no electricity. Huxley, the scientist, once wrote this immortal criticise great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothec ugly fact. The cheap power hypothesis is slain bv a lo f d deficit. 819,000,000 - tax-pai- It! INSURANCE. Commenting on the agitation which has been launched from various sources to establish compulsory liability insurance, Henry Swift Ives, vice president of the Casualty Information Clearing House, Chicago, says: If insurance can be made compulsory and used for purposes of providing indemnity for certain highway accident victims who may be adjudged entitled to such relief, it may well be made compulsory in a variety of other situations. Motor vehicle accidents are not the only accidents which cause want and suffering. There are thousands of other accident victims in the country who perhaps cannot obtain indemnity but who are at law just as much entitled to indemnity as are automobile victims. I do not think the establishment of the solvency of a judgment debtor in a highway accident case is any more the function of the state than is established of solvency of a judgment debtor in any other action involving civil liability. GAS FUEL. Those who thought they saw the end of the gas industry when electricity began to eliminate gas for illumination, have been much disillusioned. There was three limes as much gas consumed in Portland, Oregon, in 1923 as in 1910, while the number of users increased almost four times. Both consumption of gas and number of users showed a much greater increase proportionately than population. In this city the gas company was never so busy as this year and it will be months before the company can catch up with its business which has been piling up since the first of the year. Thus does the modern public utility become a living organization financed, managed and controlled by the people who are most interested in getting good service, reasonable rates and fair dividends Smaller farms, better crops and business judgment is: foundation of farm prosperity. It is not a matter of legish federal or state aid. r Q They do not tear up old roads in California any more. I of the road are collared and a filling of two or three inchest work and makes of an old road a new highway at a saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. c Ogden citizens are getting busy to take every alvanta Salt Lake basin project and are preparing plans to put the Echo dam under way. The dam would store many million waste water during months and which 'vaterft into the Great Salt lake, where it is lost to all. p: non-irrigatin- g Secretary Heber C. Hicks of the Utah Securh es com: calls attention to freak corporations organized by sliemin? and warns the public against investing their hard e; rnedirc system which failed in Michigan has been brought o Utah ploitation. There are so many horrible crimes committer these inhumans who appear to have no feeling or comp; ;sion. fiends recently set off a bomb in a Bulgarian church at which nearly two hundred people paid with their lives terrific explosion took place in the church. Every lay the are full of murders and crime. For some reason or other people appear to foigctcfl night and their mourning for the unfortunate on the '.iy of changes to sympathy the next day for the criminal. This not go on as it is. After second thought it appears that if criminal- - werep' same penalty dealt out to their victims that most of liiein vou a' . |