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Show 1 THE CITIZEN iority tock n a Prvate concern is the manager and he has no from. The money he gets must come through the the ProPerty owners foot the bills and 5Lr in ra(e' n ?P Tl; 11, Dick and Harry must be taken care of and in many v :th no perceptible labor returns. W where favorite ones ride about in autojn ji.jlitics today we find the expense of the taxpayer; in many instances we find mobiles built with heat and light furnished to take care of flat hou. :s are Sers a? ;1 the situation is developing to a point where large sums of turned into unnecessary channels. oney a. A It i.-- true that some private corporations build homes for their of them free of cost! Rentals are Miploye:. but try to live in one f?im all tenants, and the same ought to be true in politics. 5Lrv ( f the salve is spread on thicker and every year we see our ana nigner, ana men n we neea a aime ior Ijpts mou ting higner forced to float a bond issue to pay for iiprovei aits the people are ei tionJ jo draw Pcs in-!Lc- es ; poli thee re-fliir- n ion, ofi ed it! orn We fire in favor of returning to the old council form of governelected from each precinct and a mayor ment a councilman or two j Kampil Far. at large, under party rule which makes the party responsible for its elected. One party is a perfect check upon the other and corrand the beauty of it all is that uption is held down to a minimum, the people have a voice in their government. I Tf the Deople allow commissions and manager to rule in the agents will find that within the next ten years, old party lines as m will be obliterated and the entire country will be divided into blocs the and cliques the same as they are in France and our former great moif government will be rent asunder. It looks very much like European propaganda is at work undere can mining our government and red blooded Americans ought to come forward and demand that we return to the government as provided tie pa in the Constitution of the United States. There is something more than appears on the surface for this continual changing of government mod and installing new fangled ideas in which the taxpayers become the xpe cities, we ployed trying to keep the working man, the traveling man and the club man from playing a game of cards, or chasing some "bottle" around the corner. We waste our efforts upon small things and while thus employed the criminal does his dirty work. The working men of Park City, Eureka and Bingham, and other mining camps refuse to come to our city any more. They spend their money at home in preference to coming to our city and the result is heavily felt by the local businessmen. The legislature this year ought to do away with the pardon board. There is no place for it and it has proved an absolute failure and a detriment to society. There should be no time off for criminals upon the alleged good behavior clause, because a man behind bars cannot help but be good. When our judges and juries decide the upon proper sentence of a prisoner, the sentence ought to be carried out according to law and there would not be such a rush to break into our penitentiaries, which today have become amusement and boarding house stopping places for criminals. Our police officials devote all their time and a great deal of the taxpayers' money chasing criminals and in many cases the arrests prove of no beneft to anyone. In a few days the criminals are out on the street again and laugh at the officers. It is a criminal situation which ought to be corrected today, and not wait until tomorrow. If a man wants to be a criminal, there is probably no way to check him, but when apprehended, let him pay the full penalty and there will be less of crime. i bed OUR TRADE Interesting figures are found in a survey of the world trade of the United States for the past fiscal year. These figures show that the balance of trade is slowly turning against us. France, Italy, Great Britain, Russia and Europe as a whole purchased less goods of us than in the previous fiscal year. On the other hand, the value of the goods, purchased by the United States in the above named or iArnfthfr Wv r. wrvlVii man nr nnnneol o in nripntal inpfl countries and in Europe as a whole greatly increased over the preand and believe in occidental manners and customs vious year. government. Let us. place real Americans in every important position in our To give the exact figures, Europe as a whole bought 2 arisiless goods from us in the fiscal year 1926 than in the fiscal political ofifces, and note how quickly all this present turmoil ng in our government will be eliminated. year 1925, while we purchased from Europe goods to the value of Rome for Romans and the United States for Americans. $104,376,855 more in 1926 than in 1925. It must be understood that the fiscal year closes on June 30. The figures for the month of June, which closed the fiscal year, show that this decrease of exports BAD RECORD and imports from Europe is continuing. If it keeps up during the present fiscal year, of course, the balance of trade will be against us. j During the Bar association conference held at Denver recently, The situation is quite different from what it was two or three Arthur V. Lashly of St. Louis gave astounding figures and cost of years ago. Then the balance of trade was greatly in favor of AmerMissouri's law enforcement and the cost of protection of citizens, statiGold was pouring in and the free traders and internationalists ng that it cost approximately $9,500,000 in 1923, and $10,500,000 ica. tariff barrier, were declaring that unless we took away our in 1924, while loss of to amounted $90,000,000 private property and forgave the European debts to the United States, the time was each year. when we would have all the money and all the In St. Louis, between October 1, 1923, and October 1, 1924, fast approaching there VPTP 13 A.A.A. miirrl ore anrl man clniiorVitprc. Vmrrlnries. robberies. goods, Europe would be ruined and Uncle Sam would follow suit. The thing has not worked out exactly that way. The tariff still thefts larcenies, embezzlements, frauds, forgeries and automobile The and is not as much of a barrier as was anticipated. committed. In this period 1420 cases (one m nine) were taken to stands, debts were not cancelled, and there is now no considerable tfe Droser.ntnr tlio rmlinp TVip nrnsprntnr refused to issue in 456 European sentiment in the United States that they be cancelled. And yet our of these cas. lpnvincr Qfid. whirh wprft sent to an examining maeis- - balance of trade is steadily slipping. This ought to convince us that trate for because were 300 discharged preliminary hearing. Exactly the situation in most European countries is not so desperate as it has w iauure of the the act. Ul to or going prosecutor grand jury been made out. If Europe is buying less from us and sending us to the trial were 28 the prosecutor; court, 66 were nolle prossed by more it must mean that she is more and more supplying her own mardischarged by the court for various reasons; 110 were tried and ackets and at the same time increasing her sales in the United States. quitted, or discharged on numerous grounds a total of 204 leav-to- g With imports to the United States mounting, the advocates of 20 to of these were paroled; 20 filed sentenced. Twenty-siin the United States arc going to have a harder time provtariff lower fPPeals in ilie Supreme Court; leaving 374 persons actually punithat the opposished. ing their case. A few months ago it was predicted tion party would base its campaign on the repeal of the protective .Obviously a system no more efficient than this showing of 374 But we do not hear so much about this as formerly. It is betariff. revision Punishment in needs 13,444 major crimes committed reduction will not be exactly a coming the general belief that tariff ' ,hfourfiout( says Mr. Lashly. in America this year. Even the farmers are not taksubject JNew York a as popular and criminals on state Js beginning t0 tighten up it as was predicted. The reason is obvious. The thinking farto ult several ing many of them are coming west.' We are now harboring that he benefits from the tariff both directly and knows mer these known allow and sheriff forces the ? lment' $326,-053,14- e tot ream bens he pit five joutfi rernmel action I so-call- ks usi Govtr brseiuf ; pre nsed. fficer lent 4 To Thee rovemt heir o ment' thepf Wnch f ssia I irehen rters PT Off k eJ1 Li known x eriimnals, yet police criminals to hanc around here. Their efforts are em ed |