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Show THE CITIZEN they old become easy victims for the police, and so it was with the vorld, the rulers of which tried in every iway to exploit the settlers and because of their misguided ambition the grea test nation of the earth was born in the new land. The determination of Columbus can best be realized when eveiybody on board his ship had given up all hope of ever seeing land and all wanted to turn back, yet his confidence that he tfonid discover land kept him on the course of following the early western sun. After the discovery of land and his return to Spain he was great for a very short time and was finally cast into prison because of trumped up charges and intrigue. He died poor and no doubt a very unhappy man because of the thoughts he must have had of his shameful treatment after the great service he had rendered the world. What a happy man he would be if he could come back today and see the world honor his name and sing his praises. But such is fate men usually become great in death. THE HAND WRITING. As far as the World Court is concerned and our proposed entrance to it, a severe rebuke has been administered to some our most prominent senators. Here in Utah, the people were advised to leave the matter up to their senators, at once disis concerned. playing a weakness as far as The first senator to be voted upon was Senator McKinley of Illinois, who voted for the World Court and when he came home he was decisively defeated for renomination. Senator Pepper, a World Courter, followed in the footsteps of Mcof self-governm- ent Kinley. The World Court fight on the floor of the Senate was led bv Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, and when he came home his former constituents turned their backs upon him. Senator Stanfield of Oregon, Senator Means of Colorado, the late Senator Cummins of Iowa, were all defeated, the fight in each individual instance being made against these prominent men because they would entangle this country in European 5 Unless' a determined stand is taken immediately, the criminals will gain the upper hand and then they will rule. This may appear to you as far fetched, but we refer you to what has taken place in Chicago the past two years. Let us go to bat with the criminals ! Let them work or get out of the country ! ALEXANDER WAS GREAT It appears that the unexpected always happens in a worlds baseball series. While St. Louis was picked to beat the Yankees, no one ever thought that old Grover Cleveland Alexander, who Was not good enough for the Chicago Cubs( !), would become the hero of the worlds series, but the old fox marched away with all the glory. His pitching proved invincible and the heavy stickers of the Yankees were like boys before this pitching demon. Alexander has surely won a throne in St. Louis, where he is honored like a king. FIVE-DA- Y WEEK The American Federation of Labor has endorsed the five-da- y week, forty hours, as a basis for future contract renewals. Whether this step was taken because Henry Ford had made the announcement that his plan of five days a week had worked out successfully is not known, but the movement has come and we will hear more of it in the future. Most of the business in the United tSates closes Saturday noon and it is agreed that not much can be accomplished during the first half of a day. There appears to be great merit to the contention that men will give better service if they could have Saturday and Sunday off to themselves and work five days a week. After all, why should one spend all their lives in toil with no pleasure. . PRICE FIXERS The holdup on the milk question proved so successful in this politics. city that now the interests are planning a state control. Better Two Democratic candidates for president were over- milk will be furnished, they say. Are we to understand that under present conditions, with whelmingly defeated upon an outspoken platform to join the to boards of health elbowing each other out of the way, that the League of Nations, yet it remained for a Republican Senate virtually tell the people that they did not understand, and that people are supplied with inferior milk! we should The milk is clean when it comes from the farm ! join the court and become a party to European quarrels. What makes it dirty when it reaches the dairy! The idea is to eliminate all from the market who dare to sell Who is the man with the big stick that drove the United milk for. less than the fixed price by the combine, and you will States Senate to take its late stand for the court, when all innote how easily many of our politicians are falling into line to dications pointed that the people were opposed! But why must the people of Utah remain silent upon this boost the price. most important question! Why should we lose our voice in govOne dairy man said that the price of milk ought to be 25 cents a quart. ernment! Why not make it 50 cents a quart. CRIME State legislatures meet in all the states of the Union this coming year. If these law makers do not provide means to curb the great crime wave which is spreading from coast to coast in this country, cold blooded murders being committed daily, then of the people should never elect another one of them to any kind JUSTICE It is too bad that justice is measured by money justice for the wealthy and prison for the poor. This is a sad lesson that one learns from our courts throughout the land. office. Recently two young men were arrested for a crime ; one was People are shot down in cold blood without warning and held under $5,000 bail while the other was released upon $1,000, without cause and in cities the police appear to be unable and the latter simply walked out of town and has not been1 many to successfully cope with the criminal element that comes and heard from. The fellow who remained in prison was sentenced Ses aul does about as it pleases. It is time to call a halt and to many years in the penitentiary. It appears to us that if the crime called for such a stiff senjur present farcial laws ought to be substituted with laws that have a real tence, that the other criminal should not be allowed to escape kick in them. Severe penalties ought to be attached to all crime and every with such a small bail. And if the crime was so severe why was Prisoner ought to be made to work upon the highways. We need not the bail fixed at say $25,000 in order to hold the criminals! Sod rv ads and the criminals are the men who ought to build As a rule people want to bo loyal to our courts, to our judges them. and want to see law and order enforced, but such proceedings as ;y should the taxpayers feed a lot of lazy loafers whose above can only bring contempt where respect should under noronlT K m in mal conditions govern. life is to rob or kill someone! |