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Show 0 THE CITIZEN i i thought and attention on the part of those most interested and upon the assurances of the city officials that their desires would be com plied with. : I , J ' ! ! 1 I : j Now, what has happened? The head of the Street Department uses the discussion over parking to obscure the fact that he is not will the ing to proceed with the improvement along the lines asked for by has become. too property owners and continues that discussion until it late to proceed with the improvement this year. He hopes, no doubt, that by next year the people will have forgotten the issue or will be manwilling to forego their desires as to the type of pavement and the ner of the improvement and let him proceed along the line of his own desires. Thus, as in the case of the Fourth East street paving last this year, year and again in the case of the Fourth East street paving n the will of the people is by one of its public servants. A home industry is made to suffer for the benefit of a California indus- when the try and the people pay a high price for an inferior paving of superior product they desire, manufactured wholly in the state Utah, could be obtained on a much fairer basis. As an example of how far this thing is going, we have at pres- ent the instance of the proposed paving district on Military Drive and Seventeenth East street, where the specifications provide for a competition thickness of the inferior California paving in thickness of the superior product manufactured in Utah. with a The Utah product is thus placed at a 40 per cent disadvantage with the foreign product. The commissioner in charge of the Street Department has perhaps not heard the slogan, What Utah Makes, Makes Utah. over-ridde- 5-in- so-call- 7-in- the study of law. Lawyers who new him, who have tried to ana his impelling force, declare that his life contributes proof to tli u'ne dage that Blood Will Tell. During legal battles which followed when he opened his c ilry. as a lawyer, Mr. Senior scored victory after victory against son The The the ablest legal minds in the state; it is said that as the result 0 force behind his clear legal and analytical mind his briefs and( mot legal papers and arguments, which came before the United $ Court, actually contributed to a revision of the land laws. For his briefs, which came before the Supreme Court at Washing The C., were sought and read by the most noted land lawyers in Ame led Law schools were influenced by his clear sightedness. And yet, Mr. Senior, never had a college education and his & i tods. mon school training was scant indeed. In the study which lawyers have made of the remarkable ci Dur of Mr. Senior it was learned just a few years ago that his son Qai 50,0 Senior, who became his law partner, graduated from Stanford ofi versity in California as an honor law student. In addition hisc ghn Now son, Raymond, has finished his first year, with remarkable pro) sett as a law student at Stanford. I 9 leof ch ed fei WAGES CUT ithe ch IN MEMORIUM After all is said blood will tell, observed a prominent member of the Utah Bench and Bar when he had reviewed the remarkable career of E. W. Senior, who died last week, it is said without a peer anywhere in America in fundamental and progressive knowledge of land law. In this connection that Blood will tell it is interesting to know that Mr. Seniors father was a barrister in England of high standing. But he died almost before his son Edwin William had time to know anything concerning him. Brought to America by his grand parents, who also died, when Mr. Senior was still scarcely out of swathling clothes, he found himself thrown upon his own resources at ten years of age to earn his livelihood. Almost from the beginning of his busy life as a little orphan, when he had to turn his hand swiftly to anything to earn his daily bread, Mr. Senior appeared to have been impelled by an irresistable force to gain knowledge of law. Scarcely before he was able to read well, and when he served as an elevator boy, it is reported authentically that he searched waste paper baskets in office buildings in "Salt Lake for law pamphlets. His hands darted by folders with illustrations, which ordinarily would have attracted a boy of his years, and grasped eagerly discarded law reports, representing the dryest and most uninteresting reading material. These he read and read, far into the night, sometimes under the glow of a candle, sometimes under the street light and he memorized much of this information. And yet, it is declared that it was not unitl later in life that he knew his father was a renowned lawyer. Work more renumerative soon became necessary and he gained employment as a sheep herder. When he went far out on the range to the flock which had been assigned him, under arm he carried a bulky volume of the Utah Statutes, wrapped in heavy brown butcher paper, which he felt would tend to protect the laws from the elements. He tended his herd well, became known as a herder of remarkable vigilance, but when he was through with herding it is reported that he not only had read every word in the Utah Statutes, but had memorized a mass law, the Constitution of the United States, and lengthy comments, every Utah Statute of importance, in a manner which later amazed veteran barristers against whom he became pitted. This was practically his only appreciable education and it has been said of Mr. Senior that lie almost learned to read and write in In commenting editorially on the situation of the New Eng textile manufacturers and their recent cut in the wages of their ployes the New York World assumes that the depression in the in try disposes of the argument that a protective tariff actually prol industry. The World admits however that the situation is an uni one and that there are various reasons given why the textile situi in New England is not good. Among these reasons given are over expansion of mills due to the war, changes in the fashions, petition of southern mills, and European competition in fine goo If those reasons are substantial, can any one explain why tes are held so high in the retail market? Prices are high and wage low. As a rule, when wages are low prices come down, but sui not the case. Fabrics are sold at three and four times the prices formerly brought in this country. The manufacturers claim that high wages keeps up the pi but how is it that American manufactured articles are cheaper in ign markets than their local manufactured goods? Also, why is it that imported textiles, which are said tobei by cheap labor are held at exhorbitent prices in this country? Ti one who analyzes the situation there appears to be a graft somew American high priced goods sell cheaply in foreign markets,! foreign cheap made goods are held at the highest prices in bacon country. The same holds good in food prices. American hams are the cheapest meat of their kind in the London market bacon and hams are the most expensive in London. The poor purchase the American bacon, the cheapest bacon, if you please. We call attention to these things because the average Amei newspaper tries to make the people believe that they are gettingshi thing for nothing, and that our higher prices are ba?ed upon so be wages. If such were the case, American products couM not tw cheaply in foreign markets. It must therefore be admitted can manufacture products in this country more cheaply thantnei i in any other country in the world, and our modern Machinery reason. ad It is said that it is true that the industry suffer from in fashions, and from European competition in fine f ton goods feminine taste has turned from cotton to silk, and th ' southern Euro are cutting in because of lower costs of production, That a trip sending us a flood of fine cotton goods can be prove by salej dry goods store and an examination of the materir on broad dish Nothing in the cotton line is selling like imported Em V and similiar fabrics. If you will compare the pri!' you out find that the imported cotton goods are higher price than cheaper goods at higher prices. The American is held up on prices because he ill pay; aPi tariff eigner will not purchase at random. The protective course, of only as a talking point. 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