OCR Text |
Show s THE CITIZEN 0 b' dy to our back sane stead to of for be no but there the government, legislatui getting money boys, something for appears them. There are only two states that have not complied with ing to force another reform upon the people that olfult the request of the soldiers, and Utah is one of those two states. gership for oiir larger cities. If manager form of goverf. ideal, it is better for the little city than it is for the for f,SOJs in that one man could take care of all the business in A REAL PILOT. town, whereas the usual city council is forced upon the la Will the backers of the manager form of governii farm relief President Coolidge vetoed the McNary-Hauga- n the people where they will save money for the people ;h bill. We took a stand against the bill when it was first introwill they reduce taxes in the city under such form off duced. The bill provided for the most radical legislation ever intro- ment. duced in Congress. It provided for purely class legislation No, they dont tell you that, they just say that a ma which in the end would create all kinds of trouble, and it would better than our present form of government. Let the never have worked out to the interests of the farmers. It was some figures and facts and all taxpayers will be ready putting more government into business, and had it been passed ing to talk business, but we have had enough of experia it would have been the beginning of business control by the govLEAGUE ernment in this country. If the farmers have a problem working a hardship against The London Spectator says that many people are ai them, they must solve it themselves. In our large cities, we find that carpenters, bricklayers and question why the help of the League of Nations is not all people interested in building and construction work are com- voked in settling the Chinese problem and then to tac pelled to remain idle all winter because of climatic conditions, question by declaring that the reason the league cant such as snows and heavy frosts. What is the government going problem is because Russia and the United States are no to do for them? Surely they are just as deserving as the farmer league. So once more the buck is passed to America. Russia is credited by most diplomats with being resp or anybody else. When the government undertakes to guarantee some one a job or a price for his work, or a price for some com- for a great deal of the trouble in China, and is said to h this modity, the government is undertaking a task which it can never up the wily orientals against the western world. If fulfill and one which will create no end of trouble. Such legisla- is there any assurance or reason to believe that Russia? be doing the same thing if she were a member of the! tion would be of the most radical. It is a good thing that in these days of the red and radical Taking the oath at Geneva certainly would not purify the that we have a strong man at the head of the nation, and there viks and they would probably be in position to do a gre is no doubt that the people will demand that Coolidge run for more plotting inside the league than out. It is therefore absence in handicapping the president again. He only ran for president once and was elected. difficult to see why Russias to any appreciable extent, so far as China is concerned The case of the United States is different. We RACING charged with stirring up the Chinese trouble at least The state provided a commission to supervise horse racing. What difference would it make in the Chinese question if? An investigation has shown double payrolls, etc., and the efforts a member of the league? Quite a bit. In the leagues of the special investigating committee to run down rumors of al- be bound by the majority decision and would have to t leged race track scandals connected in promoting the races has with the diplomacy of the. European countries. Havingthe uncovered much matter that has set the people thinking. money and the most men it would be up to us to put on China, Why has it become necessary the past few years to appoint part of any war which might be declared to pacify special commissions to look after interests where large sums of would be a much bigger undertaking than the Boxer exp money are involved? It appears to us that the secretary of the of a generation ago. So the Spectator is fifty per cent right. It is right state fair could have handled the matter for the state. During the halcyon days of horse racing in the United States there were says that something would be done by the league in Chiu The no government commissions to look after racing and the sport United States were a member of that organization. then was conducted along orderly lines. pean powers would be much more ready to use force would put on through the league a real Chinese policy ani to do most of the work because we are a favored nation LESS REPRESENTATION . a go now. states whose legislatures meet this year efAnd if we hesitated to send our money and men deck: forts are being made to repeal the primary laws. For the first Orient a lot of our own international clackers would has time since the primary struck the country almost a generation we were duty and honor bound to do it because we situation t defensive. Chinese It Geneva. The on the at of are the oath the of the allegiance proponents primary ago, used to be that the drives were launched against the convention es another convincing proof of why we ought to he gW system. Now the primary is held up to us as the horrible ex- outside the league and not even looking in. In the forty-fou- r J ample. The reason must be apparent. The primary has failed to live up to advance notices. Instead of giving us more representative government as its friends claimed, it has given us more scandal and less representative government. The American system of government still depends on representative authority and party responsibility. Both are maintained in the nominating convention. Both are eliminated in the direct primary. The convention theory accords with the American system of government. If the results of the direct primary nevertheless were better, the better theory would be discarded. Experience proves that results are not better. Thy are worse. eviThey are confused, scandalous, irresponsible and with little dence of good judgment.Utah is not exempt from these political experiments. In - In no MUSCLE SHOALS Discussion as to whether electric power or the manJ; of nitrates should be the man object of the Muscle She is s opment is futile as long as this big white elephant stand idle. The real point is when on earth is this plaft tli to run and bring back to the taxpayers some share of which was dumped into it? Why argue about o the plant begins to produce? Here we have millions tied up in this vast power project and not a wheel tur Lets get busy, somehow, on this question. Ts elsethe government going to run it? If so, let it start, or . elephant to someone who can use him. vl Muscle Shoals looked for a long time like a f'nr s pre fa mere $?jurie nr by-pi'- 0, .Action en 5, fatal r?t ro U |