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Show THE Cl T I ZEN 4 CHEAP LIQUOR probably more tax exempt property than any other city its size in the Union. This fact may be the chief reason why taxes are In a special, to the Salt Lake Tribune from Washington, si high on the workingmans home. t D. C., we have it that Utah is the driest spot in the United Let there be no favorites when it comes to taxation. No one C& States, according to prohibition statistics. What must the should complain because of a fair tax. wet states look like! This news provoked a laugh from every quarter of the city, INSECT TRAP IS SUCCESS and it was common talk that if government information was no more reliable and authentic than this, that there certainly was Will insects ultimately destroy civilization and destroy the something wrong at Washington. people of the earth? L. 0; Howard, chief of the etymology depart- It has been only a few days ago when George A.. Goates, ment of the United States says that the insect pest has a fair newly appointed federal prohibition administrator, said the start to conquer the earth and will finally eat up every living liquor was openly sold in every hotel, and that many of the thing unless brought under control. soft drink parlors are so in name only, and that all the Our government has brought in nearly every known bug, larger cities are wide open towns where attempts to stem and the United States is now swamped. The department has the tide of liquor are only luke warm, so far as local officials vainly endeavored to fight insects with insects, until today our are concerned. country can sorrowfully boast of nearly every known pest on the 3 No doubt Goates spent several weeks investigating before face of the earth. The bugs are gradually eating up the farmhis outburst, and people who circulate know that Goates hit the ers crops and millions of dollars are being spent annually for extermination by spraying with poison, but so far we have gotten nail square on the head. If Utah is the driest state, in the average wet state the nowhere. JNow comes Mr: W. H. Pool, farmer, who claims that our liquor must be flowing down the gutters. Liquor, was never - t?fi present system is all wrong. He says that to secure effective any cheaper than it is today in Utah. work in destroying insects, we must catch the adults so they cannot lay their, eggs. This sounds reasonable. He has perfected and WESTERN SENATORS ARE PAIR patented an insect trap with which he has caught as many as Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Senator Borah of Idaho three quarts of insects in one night in an orchard. All flying voted to seat Frank L. Smith of Illinois in order that the elected insects are attracted to this trap, and those insects caught will senator might properly defend himself on the floor of the Sen- lay no more eggs. The fruit is not uoisoned bv spraving and it ate against election fraud charges filed by some of his enemies. immediately regains its former rich flavor. Poison kills everyThe main charge is that Smith threw unlimited sums of money thing in nature and he appears to have a very good argument for his side. into the election which put him over. Millions of insects were turned loose the past summer in William S. Vare of Pennsylvania is similarly charged and his case is yet to come before the senate. Michigan as an experiment to kill off the destroying corn borer, Senator Borah argued that the state sending a senator to but the results were anything but satisfactory. A large sum of Washington has an inherent right to present its side of the elec- money was spent in the experiment. What is the answer? tion, and that it is not solely up to the senate to pass snap judgment. During a visit east last summer, Pool called upon Henry Ford who has thousands of acres of timber land, as well as much, JUDD IS GUILTY acreage in orchards. Traps were set in his orchard and they worked so well that Ford will give the trap a thorough test the George T. Judd, former county, treasurer, has been found coming summer. This ought to interest every farmer in the world, because guilty of stealing the taxpayers money and today he will face the judge to he sentenced to the state penitentiary. Judd has if the insects can be successfully trapped, the pest can soon be can spent the better part of his life holding political offices and has destroyed, or at least brought under control, and the people be given, pure and wholesome fruit and vegetables. always been a trusted official, but finally the clink of gold . Every year Congress sets aside or appropriates several warped his heart and his fingers could not resist the temptation. No one has any sympathy for Judd. He was placed in ' trust million dollars to fight insects. So far all the money has in experimenting with poison to kill the insects, and much of the peoples money and he betrayed that trust. However, evaccount of tod much arsenic. eryone feels sorry for his family. They are the ones that must of 'our fruit is condemned on Should not some of this money be spent in trying or. t Ahe new suffer for the wrongs committed by the father. How much money was taken is not positively known, aV idea of the insect trap, which has already proven a success? though a partial check on the accounts shows something like PEACE ON EARTH $16,000, part of which is alleged to have been taken by Wm. Groesbeck, whose trial is yet to come up. It is easier to quarrel with people than to endeavor to underSurely, the way of the transgressor is hard. stand them. Hurling opprobrious epithets, wicked gossip, damnTAX THE HOSPITALS ing with faint praise, making insinuations, are all so easy and so very delightful. But. they are vicious and harmful and make There is no religion or charity connected with Salt Lake for discontent and wrangling. There is a certain amount of trouble and pain Jn this wprld hospitals, therefore these heretofore tax exempt institutions should pay their full quota of tax to help keep up our municipal that we cannot avoid. Sickness, accidents, death, financial losses these things are things to worry about. But why create unexpenses. How did these institutions ever escape the tax conecessary trouble for ourselves and others? Why fill our hearts llector! The hospital is a cold blooded proposition into which none with hatred and our mouths with abuse? Life is'too short. : Meanwhile, misunderstanding goes on between individuals, may enter without purse or script, and if one is not known, the collection is made in advance or some one must stand good for; between nations, races, creeds. The trouble is we are suspicious, we come the fee. And the fees are so high that it takes a poor man sever--, envious, going about with a chip on our shoulders. When to know people personally and intimately, we come to .see that al years to get even if he is unfortunate in a long illness. Every business institution should pay a tax. This city has they are not so bad. ' i 1 so-call- ed : been-spen- t . . . . . . i -- . . |
