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Show THE CITIZEN 4 even if some of our state rights are placed in jeopardy. How- is alleged, and killed an aged man on the sidewalk. Case against ever, the people of Utah need not fear that the federal govern- driver dismissed. When it storms the drivers excuse for killment intends or would even think of interfering with our state ing people is, Could not see him. However they drive just as rights, and in the final count settlement must be made upon jus- fast in a storm as on a clear day. A mere life here and there , tice. The present agitation is more or less for the possession of does not amount to anything. Poison a dog and the town goes crazy! a political pork barrel with the usual taxpayers holding the Kill a pedestrian, and it serves him right ! sack. Here is government ownership, horns and all, with many Dont walk, get an auto and kill the other fellow! big political jobs in sight. It is nothing more or less than an effort to depart from our national policy, and the principles of Every day reckless drivers defy the law and right-of-waRepublicanism, to put the hand of the Federal Government into cut around corners, cut in on machines, run over safety zones, in business and its nose into state's rights. In our opinion, it is the fact they hog the entire road and defy all opposition, and when greatest basic fallacy that could be committed in our govern- they get in a smashup are absolved from all blame. When will a halt be called upon this murderous and cold ment. Of course each state wants the best of it, regardless of how blooded driving? much the people of the other state may have to suffer. Mexico VICIOUS TAX LAW wishes to bore a tunnel to take care of claimed irrigation Governor George H. Dem will not call an extra session o water; California wants culinary water and the power, Los Angeles even being willing to take a plunge in. an effort to pump the Utah legislature for the purpose of ironing out the corpora- -' water over a 1,500-fohill, while in the end Utah would cripple tion license tax law. The matter will thus be left for the next her coal industry, and all to be sacrificed over a big pork barrel. legislature to handle. It should have been handled by the last Secretary Work has already stated that it would be folly legislature. Because of this law hundreds of foreign corporations have to go ahead with this project with the present information at y, 70-mi- le ot hand. that many of the most prominent engineers are blinking at the project and say it is not feasible. No one wants to be the goat for this project, yet $300,000,000 in construction work is not to be sneezed at and it's a pie fit for the kings. The only further study made of the Colorado development problem since the submission of the Reclamation Services report to the Congress was made by the Geological Survey, which in 1925 published as Water Supply Paper 556, a full and careful No wonder study of the lower Colorado river and submitted a plan of de- velopment which did not include the high dam at Boulder Canyon. The chief author of that report, Mr. E. C. La Rue, engineer of the Geological Survey, who has spent fifteen years studying the river and possible damsites thereon, and who admittedly knows the river better than any other living man, conn demns the plan for the dam proposed in the bill, and does not recommend the building of any dam in Boulder Swing-Johnso- Canyon. It looks very much to The Citizen that California would get all the bacon. We might also add, why does not the federal government suggest that the states directly concerned in this proposed project build it themselves. Why ask the people of Florida and Maine to pay special taxes to furnish Los Angeles with water. Will the government ask Utah to pay for the bloomer boom in Florida! After Los Angeles gets its water, will the government also help Salt Lake City to bring part of the Weber river into this city for our water supply? withdrawn from this state during the past four years, and they are still withdrawing. Every state has the right to tax all property within its boundary lines, but why should any business man pay taxes on corporation property located in Chicago, New York or elsewhere outside the legal tax boundary line! Efforts have been made to secure relief from such unjust tax, and with no relief in sight, the corporations are quietly withdrawing from the state. Boost Utah becomes a misnomer under the circumstances, and the outside advertising we are getting is detrimental. Capital gofs where it has an opportunity. No man will meekly consent to pay all Ills earnings into the tax pot; the producer must also live. This tax law should be the first order of business for the next legislature. POLITICAL LEAKS CONTINUE. Another political shortage has made its appearance and the end is not in sight, if present rumors can be given any credence. John Kirkland, trusted auditor of the Salt Lake board of education allowed the alleged amount of $9899 to stick to his fingers. For a time the matter was kept quiet, a good way to encourage crime, but the leak could not be entirely hushed up and the real story has finally been published by the daily press. big The Citizen has been informed of several alleged deals pulled off in the City and County building, which, if true, will shake the building from its very foundations. We only hope that it is rumor and not actual facts. If the latter, the people GRANT HAS BIRTHDAY may lose faith in many of our trusted public officials. The entire coutnry is being severely shaken by political President Heber J. Grant of the L. D. S. church was seventy-one years of age last Tuesday. It was a busy day for the graft, and it may be our turn next. Several prominent officials are already on trial for alleged president answering telegrams coming from all parts of the country and phone calls, congratulating him on his anniversary. embezzling of taxpayers funds. Let us have a showdown in all departments of the governDuring the afternoon and evening he was honor guest at rement and those who have been gorging themselves with the ceptions and he spent the day with his immediate relatives. President Grant was born in this city, November 22, 1856, peoples money, let them suffer the consequences. We have much confidence in Mayor-eleJohn F. Bowman, and was the first native Utahn to become a member of the council of the twelve or to become president of the church. He was an and no doubt when he takes office, there will be a general cleanofficer in the first Y. M. M. I. A. ever established. Through his ing on the city side of the building. hard work in church work he has reached the most coveted posiPROGRESSIVE RAILROAD. tion, and under his able leadership the church is rapidly inThe Western Pacific railroad contemplates spending ovciq creasing in membership and influence in all parts of the world. $3,000,000 next year for improvements along its line, and that should help general business conditions in this state. LIFE HELD LIGHTLY President Harry W. Adams predicts heavy tourist travel Pedestrians appear to have lost all rights on the sidewalks, next year, and the road is preparing to take proper care of its as well as in the streets. A driver lost control of his car, so it patrons. ct |