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Show THE CITIZEN L and suggested that a league be immediately formed by the thousand dollars. He then inherits a fortune and you hear of it. You this into to ; a vast empire write him for your money but are informed that he mav never be mountain states expand great territory !uch as ti e world has never seen. able to pay. He makes big money and spends much money foolishly Just how the Denver Post felt about the matter may be seen but he cannot pay. headlines across the front page of that paper published That is just the position of the Allies. They have i the big money for shows herewith. the is It that Post ITSeptc ber 5, and reproduced every extravagance, but they cannot pay their honest debts. We sent and ping all the time and never loses an opportunity to boost a finance commission to Germany and Dawes found that Germany could pay. the Rocky Mountain Region for that matter. Denver, tr Now we should send another commission to the Allies and inL It v- ill be remembered that when the Denver Post started in had about as much life in it as we now find in this vestigate them. The Allies would never allow us to make an investigaDenver, that city P gut he owners of the Post could look into the future and they tion in the first place, and in the second place if we made an investigation we would find that they could pay within a few years and Ifoke up ihe people and the city began to grow. Notwithstanding, lat-L- f never feel it. Ijat Salt Lake City is about ten years older than Denver, yet the as we have people in our city contains nearly as many people OBNOXIOUS WATER fhole state. The Citizen is trying to do here what the Post has done in Denver Bishop Neslen, boy scout mayor of Salt Lake City, warns the wake up the people to the many golden opportunities for those people to strictest economy of the water supply at the present time, ho will get in on. the ground floor. This vast Rocky Mountain empire can be established. It is because the big soup kettle at Mountain Dell is running low. The warning comes too late. The people have absolutely disconset re. All we need to do is to get together, work in harmony and for tinued to drink city water and are now taking to tea and coffee drinkother's benefit and the thing is done. Qi I ing and to soft drinks. This citys reputation for clear and sparkling Among the states that should get together because of their locatmountain spring drinking water has ben knocked into a cocked hat. ion and the benefits. that could be derived are Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, People all over the country are talking about the bad smelling and bad tasting water we have. lew Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. A stranger remarked the other day that it was too bad our water An intermountain league composed of the states named could ilk was so contaminated with typhoid germs that it had to be doctored. ictate their own terms and the population would double in the next It is a good ad for the town. With about an average of 8,000 tourists t years. We would not be paying tribute to any one and the develop-lenin the city every day, we are getting a reputation that we will never would progress at big strides. So far we have been satisfied to live down, and already we are feeling the effects of less motor travel. iirrow in the ground like pairie dogs, with only one object in view tlx In a check made at Granger, Wyoming, it is found that out of extract the valuable metals deposited and stored in our mountains. hundred tourists, seventy-fiv- e turn off on the Portland highway, Let us get out of our holes. We have been hibernating long every while twenty-fiv- e come to this city. iough. Let us put into action the suggestion of the Denver Post and Of course one of the chief reasons is the bad roads encountered iganize this intermountain country. There are millions of dollars to this city, whereas two or three hundred wagon loads of shale would iting for some one. have filled the chuck holes. Will Utah be one of the developers of the new empire or are we In regard to the water, it has not been a month ago when all the tin do it. let and sit back George ingto reported algae was killed. Had it been killed, it would not have The Moffat Tunnel which is to tap the Uintah basin means a grown again this year. the unless and reat deal to Utah if we the people opportunity, grasp We never had this trouble with our water in past years. Chlorine ii this side of the Wasatch awake, the riches of the Uintah will be is put into the water to kill the alleged typhoid germs and now we bn east. Yes, they will be taken from under our very eyes if we in Is the board of health to kill the must Cj - i Wy-Lfflin- g, algae. trying to embalm us while we are yet alive? Will not some chemist discover something else wrong with our water. We suggest that the water department now purchase several tons of salt and pepper to flavor this Mountain Dell soup and make it palatable. The new Dutch Lunch is a limberger sandwich and a glass of Mountain Dell soup. The smell of both is said to be a sure cure for sleeplessness, and nervous people, and like many of our patent medicines, it will reduce the fat and add weight to the thin. put . e ts MINISTERS DELIGHT carloads of beer were poured into a gutter in a Pennsyl- with all manner of utensils and Sia city. The people rushed out ped up the beer and now they are sick. The wonder to us is that the police did not arrest these vicious limnal men, women and children and throw them into the bullpen a bread and water diet. Yes, and the nation takes pride in posing as a leader in civiliza- m. We have another name for it. Two v OUR RICH ALLIES copper sulphat BASIS OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY As a national election approaches there are many theories advanced as to the probability of a financial depression. Some argue and too much expansion of credits. on the line of Others argue that the people are buying too many motor cars. Out of over-speculati- Do n tony c tong ut m leojl one you know that the United States paid France over $1,000,-w,00- 0 foi supplies we purchased in France, for transportation and other expenses us by the French? Talk about heaped upon gouged, the Frenchmen gave us a dose of medicine that went a way towards paying her real war bill. On top of this enormous sum paid to France, we loaned her tor billions of dollars which France now asks us to cancel. hat would France do if we cancelled her debt? She would : ethe money and equip a better fighting machine than she has toShe would take of the money and perfect her industries part s to better the compete against us. We would not only lose vve would furnish equipment superior to our own and their c:ieap labor we would have a swell time in bidding for fide. Suppose, you had a brother across the pond and loaned him a on 20,000,000 automobiles in use in the world, 17,000,000 are said to be owned in this country.- - Then there is talk, mainly for political effect, that while there has been a general improvement in farm and market conditions, a great many farmers are still on the verge of bankruptcy. As a matter of fact, there never has been a lime when there were not some weak places in the financial, industrial or agricultural structure of a great nation, which could be magnified out of all pro- portion in creating campaign issues. Let us consider five of the primary sources of new wealth, nationally speaking, of this great country of ours, that are constantly offsetting any posiblc collapse in the soundness and stability of national business affairs. The first source of new wealth is farm crops, soil products; |