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Show THE CITIZEN I debt, rapidly reduce the debt, and mean greater reduction in interest charges and consequently less taxes in the future. This is certainly sound business judgment. There are some who maintain that a great part of this debt should be left for the next generation to pay, on the theory that the next generation will benefit equally with us in whatever advantage we got out of the World War. This seems a trifle to the average thinker, and it would be a little difficult to estimate in and cents, right now, just how much benefit the next generation will derive from the great war. It would seem that the logical thing to do is to reduce the public debt as fast as it is practicable and so reduce the interest charges which the taxpayers have to meet. This is sound business far-fetche- d, dol-dola- rs judgment. FREE TRADE Some of our free trade newspapers n are already declaring that the of 1928 is to be fought on the cam-pig- iniquitous protective tariff now on the statute books. Of course it is a little early to predict what is going to be the paramount issue in 1928, but one thing is fairly certain, and that is that such issue will not be the protective tariff. The free traders told us early in 1926 that the tariff would be the issue in the congressional campaign but it was not made the issue. And the reason that it was not made the issue is easy to find. The tariff is no longer a partisan matter and no longer a popular issue from the free trade standpoint. Prominent Americans who formerly were committed to the free trade idea have in recent years been veering around to the point where they are at least negatively supporters of the protective tariff idea. And the American people are no onger sectional on the tariff. It used to be that it wras only New England and the great manufacturing centers of the Middle Atlantic states which favored the protective tariff. But now all this is changed. The West wants protection for its manufactories, and for its agricultural products and the same is true in the South. Nowhere has the protective tariff sentiment grown so rapidly in the past ten years as in the solid South. The free traders base their expectation of a tariff fight next year on the plight of the farmers. They believe that the western farmer will still be dissatisfied and that he can be induced to take it out on the indus-tiiEast. But the farmers of the country are not such boobs as the free traders would have us believe. They realize that many agricultural products are now benefiting from ers steadily employed at high wages. On this point Secretary of Agriculture Jardine recently said: It would be in the highest degree unwise for farmers at this time to launch an attack on the tariff without carefully considering the possibility that in the near future they may need it more than any other economic group in the country. I am obliged to dissent strongly from the doctrine that the tariff is of no benefit to the farmer at the present time; and I am still more strongly convnic-e- d that the relative advantage of tariff protection will swing definitely to the side of agriculture, as the dependence of our farmers on foreign markets grows less and that of our industrialists becomes greater. What we should seek in dealing with the tariff on agricultural products is to insure the home market, so far as possible, to the American farmer. He should have effective protection against foreign competition. Among the chief reasons why the United States is better off than foreign countries are that labor is here paid well and that there is little employment. This is of direct benefit to agriculture. Even a very little reduction in food consumption per capita, which would come from lowered wages or unemployment, would speedily pile up bigger surpluses of farm products than have oppressed agriculture in re- cent years. ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. The Utah Chapter of the Associated Contractors of America, in its weekly report, shows the following improvements and projects contem-pate- d and under way: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the city recorder of Salt Lake City until 10 a. m. July 19, 1927, for constructing pipe sewers in sewer extension number 142, Marion street, Third to Fourth North street, Laird avenue between 14th and 15th East street, circles running north from Laird avenue between 14th and 15th East streets. State street, west side 17th to 21st South Street; Main street, east side from Coats ville to Hollywood avenue; Eighth South street, north side, from 7th to 9th West street; and D streeet from 11th to 12th avenue. Plans and specifications on file in the oiffce of the city engineer. The Bureau of Public Roads, Denver, Colorado, will receive bids until July 26th for the construction of 5.8 miles of the Park Johnson-Yellowsto- ne project, consisting of an earth graded and drained road near Jacksons Hole in Wyoming. Bids will also be received by this department at Denver for the construction of four miles of grading and resurfacing of the Teton highway near the Idaho state line. Sealed bids marked upon outside of envelope, State Highway contract, Federal Aid project No. 87 A, will be received by the State Highway department of the State of Arizona until 2 p. m., July 18th, 1927, for the construction of the highbe of obtained way. Copies plans may from W. C. LeFebre, State Engineer, Phoenix, Arizona, upon payment of Globe-Staffo- rd $5.00. The citizens of Richfield have presented another petition to the city council asking that another election be called for the purpose of bonding the city for the construction of an addition to the water supply system of that city. The friends of the measure expect it to carry if the proposition is again voted upon. the construction of 4.5 miles of bituminous macadam paving in Weber county. The estimated quantity in this project is 47,800 square yards. J. D. Wood, commissioner of public works of the state of Idaho, will bids at the office of the district re-cei- ve 30001 lOnOE Cash or Credit inducements during July and August if you will let us install the Genuine and NaSpecial tionally advertised ROUND FURNACE. Over 1500 in use in Salt Lake alone. See the Jenkins Furnace on display in our show room which has been in continuous use for thirty-eigyears. We are anxi- OAK ht ous to get as many furnaces in- during the summer when our expert workmen can do the work personally and not in the fall rush months when stalled everybody is in a hurry and we have to have so many extra men that are not so particular in doing first class work. Modern Furniture Co. 234-23- 6 South State Street' Trade With Your Friends Free Estimates as to Cost of Installations. 30D0E 30E30E Sealed bids will be received by the State Road Commission of the State of Utah at their office in the State Capitol until 2 p. m. July 18th, for BsaBBsaeaBnBB WESTERN FURNITURE COMPANY ioo Paraffin Base Oil KJsOuKetn, has proved its ability to lubricate safely under all conditions. yico so-call- ed al protection and that the tariff framers have done all that they can to help the farmer, not only by putting a tariff on his products, but by exempting from the tariff practically everything used exclusively by the farmer. 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