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Show ood Published Every Saturday nY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage to all foreign countries, within the Postal six" lonths. Subscriptions 0 for on, $4.50 per year. ites iad, vay ris, pay 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 postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 811-12-- 18 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah m. L URE OF GOLD )art of 3 ids aad, for the Liberty Bonds under which money was raised to support Europes murderous war machine? Is it just to cancel one debt without the other? If we did cancel the debts, how would it increase trade? like recognition. Does any one for a moment believe that European factories, and n The League is not interested in the smaller nations. It is a European farmers will quit work in order to provide a market for us? of big powers that some day expect to gobble up or di-- e Is there one so simple among you as to believe that? the earth among them, and if such is the purpose one can readily From now on we must expect to get less trade from across the why small nations need not apply for justice. water. Trade is the life of a nation and every up and going nation There is just one more step in the League to be performed and will certainly try to produce its own products in order that its gold t is to get the United States into the ring. When that is done there may be held at home. Any nation that depends upon another for I he no more dictation by Washington, but the welfare of the commodities is at the mercy and price fixing powers of that nation, Id will be planned at Rome, or Geneva, as an alibi, by world hence the necessity for local production. ild be dictators. The rubber industry is a good example. We have no rubber There is no good reason why a new and unexperienced trees in this country and those who control rubber tell us how much ntry like ours should dictate to the oldest countries in the world, we have to pay and we have been paying a very excessive price. If more than should a child dictate to its father its desires? If there we had local rubber we could compete, but where there is no compee any Americans who are kidding themselves that Americas tition price fixing becomes criminal and excessive and the people , to the League is desired for any other purpose than exploita-are exploited to the greatest degree. the time will come when they will awaken from their The trouble in this country is that we have too many Europeans dictating our politics and the time has come when we must call a The handling of the present debt situation is a super illustration halt. diat we can We claim that the man who refuses to pay an honest debt is the expect in any transaction which directly effects Euro-- n interests. rankest kind of swindler because under the guise of honesty he seThe disarmament conference, hatched in London and fed in cures a loan with the pure design of never paying. The old English law that required a person to remain in jail unslington, is another illustrious example. At the close of the rid War, this was the greatest maritime nation and we superseded til he paid his debts, after all is a just law because under it no one land as mistress of the seas. will contract debts he cannot pay, and the swindler is eliminated. When we look back and scrutinize the rush to this country for I But after the conference, those good hearted Europeans knock-jtl- e loans upon the pretext of continuing the war, we often times wonprops from under us and through well laid plans, not only big der if there was not some mutual understanding to come over here pped our navy building plans but we burned several high priced Every While we, poor and get all the money they could before the war was ended. jkhips and England once again took command. nation sent its ministers for money and our treasury was thrown open ls, were discouraging armament, Europe was speeding up in orand they grabbed the money without any security outside of to keep ahead of us. their word. It was the greatest money orgy in the history of the j France even refused to levy a war tax upon her citizens and world. a Jpe to this continue dollars to of billions and borrowed country Their word and honor is at stake. Are they going to sacrifice which we had refuses France and no interest, today absolutely both for gold? Has greed displaced Christianity in Europe? Are the pay us. of this country going to chain their own people down and politicians there every merican would secure the war data and read it, make them pay the cost of the World War in order that Europe can Be nt one vote in America for allegiance with Europe, j? build larger navies, keep large standing armies, continue their wars, n most this in but gambling games the player has a chance, f as France has been doing in Africa and Syria? Pean the cards are stacked against us. Why should we pay the cost of the war? When this beef is cut, ey want is our money and they are trying to get it under why should Europe take the good meat and we the bones? guise of world Taxation without representation is as unjust today as it was peace. Sor of propaganda has been used to make the United in Colonial days. Taxdodgers cannot build a community no more cancel he war debts of than can grafters. Europe. Let Europe take the bankruptcy and let it be set down in history Be European war debts, are we going to be cance ilne,a like and in order also cancel the obligation of our own people? that they repudiated their debts through a legal channel, p uropean- should not pay, why should United States citizens pay that rising generations may profit thereby. refused to be a pawn in the League of Nations to be kicked buffed about like a football, and when Germany was voted a per-neseat in the League, Spain resigned because she could not se-- e Spain dof 1 000 nof iree two nt com-atio- vei land see ling ion nda- - ires, nda- con- - ining en-lc- lines a tie r the Cental unity not, iithw your paved ment 11 end lance. rfta Facts H 5 dENT N ling ,utah jtioi id tie te pu-'zl- H Son i e . - |