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Show THE CITIZEN W. H. WATTIS DISCUSSES STATE AND NATIONAL ISSUES Speech delivered by the Republican Candidate for Governor Tuesday Evenine ' October 7, From Radio Station KSL; Stresses Value of Protective Tariff to Utah; Makes Pledge To Help Bring Q About Equalization of Tax Burden. Friends and Fellow Citizens: I speak to you tonight as the Republican candidate for governor of the sovereign state of Utah. It is the state of my birth. It is the state in which all my interests are centered commercial, industrial and political. Through years of training and wide experience, I believe I can say to you without boasting that I know the problems and the urgent needs of this Wtate. There is no class of progres-T?iv- e citizens whose interests are concerned with whom I do not have common cause. Their welfare goes hand in hand with the welfare of the institutions with which I am associated. There are many major issues in this campaign of vital importance to the people of Utah, and the Republican candidates on the state ticket are following the fine example of that great national leader, Herbert Hoover. We are not going to be drawn into a senseless argument on personalities and. side issues that the opposition party may be able to lay a smoke screen to hide the real issues which they prefer not to discuss. Republican Party Constructive. The Republican party has never been and never will be a party of protest and apology. Its record for constructive and progressive legislation in the interests of the people as a whole is written in glowing letters in the history of this nation and this state. It has been and will continue to be the party of progress and accomplishment. Its prophesies and its policies have made the brightest pages in history since the days of Washington on down through the ages to Lincoln, Roosevelt and Coolidge. Never has it been on the defensive, for its ability to administer the affairs of the state and nation has stood the acid test of time and the close scrutiny of the American voters. Utah has much at stake in this campaign, both from a local and national standpoint. Our state platform, for which I stand as your candidate for governor, pledges support to the national program adopted at Kansas Qty. To fulfill that pledge we must Set a United States senator and two representatives in Congress who will work and vote in harmony with Senator Smoot on all legislation affecting the interests of Utah and Western states instead of the present Democratic United States Senator from Utah, who has made it a habit to vote against all legislation that comes from a Republican source, no matter how beneficial it might be to his state and the people he represents. Only by a sweeping Republican victory can we -- Qlll.lllllllllll"IM.'llllllllllllllllllIIlllllllll,llilP !' I Lawyer, Doctor, Merchant or tngaitd in some other purauit will find - yon Everything: for Your Office s KELLY COMPANY i at I Was Was 4180 "iiuiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiliiliiliiiiiiiiliiiuiiiiiiiiir 4181 get away from this form of destructive statesmanship. It is equally important that we elect the entire state ticket and take complete posession of that magnificent capitol building on the hill which was built by a Republican administration under the leadership of one of the greatest and wisest governors that ever came out of this western country, William Spry. Therefore, I say to you it is the duty of all citizens to study closely the platforms of the two contending parties and the major issues of this campaign which reflect your material and political welfare. Study the character and past performances of the various candidates and determine in your own mind who has the ability and the qualifications to serve best the interests of the people of Utah. Remember, it is the duty of your representatives at Washington to introduce and pass legislation in harmony with the platform adopted at Kansas City; but an equally important duty rests upon your governor and his associates. They must work in harmony with the congressional delegation by classifying and clarifying the interests of this state, and see that the pledges made in our state platform are kept in good faith. A house divided against itself can accomplish nothing, so it is doubly important that your governor and your representatives in Washington hold the same political views. The lifes blood of this state comes from agriculture and mining, and the lifes blood of agriculture and mining comes from a protective tariff. You know the traditional free trade history of the Democratic party, and the leopard is not going to change its spots, nor the tiger its stripes this year. You know also the protective tariff history of the Republican party that has built up these industries and made them prosperous while at the same time making the American workingman the best paid and the best cared for of any working man in any part of the world. Our national and state platforms pledge a continuance of this protection. I quote you here a paragraph from the Republican state platform: In particular we assert that Utah, more than any other state in the Union, is dependent upon a protective tariff. Without protection the low cost of foreign production, due to inferior standards of living, our farms could not be operated even to furnish a living to our farmers, thereby depriving the state of an annual income of 195 million dollars; without the tariff our mines must close down, thus losing us an annual payment from outside of over 74 million dollars; without the tariff our sugar and other manufacturing establishments must cease to operate, resulting in a loss to this state of over 325 million dollars 3 every year; without the tariff our sheep and cattle industries must perish, thereby cutting off 51 million yearly from our production; and without the tariff our labor- - . ing men must submit to lower wages and suffer unemployment. We submit to the people of Utah that our economic welfare requires a continued adherence to the beneficent principles of tariff protection. That is a sacred pledge to the people of Utah and will be kept if the Republican ticket is elected. When the Democrats came into power in 1912 one of their first acts was to place a tariff bill placing beets, cattle, sheep, hogs, milk and other agricultural products on the free list. When the Republicans came into power in 1920 one of their first acts was to restore these products to a protective tariff basis. Such has been the ' necesary to put our state upon a sound business basis. This necessarily includes a fair adjustment and distribution of the tax burden. Every thinking person recognizes that great inequalities exist. I realize fully that this is a difficult subject to handle, but the fact that it is difficult is no excuse for refusing to undertake it. My business experience has brought me in close contact with all the tax paying interests of the state; and I am confident that almost without excep- -. tion tax payers, large and small, will welcome an effort at improvement and will willingly join in such an undertaking as a service to the state. I am convinced that all they want is a fair and straightforward program, and this is precisely what I intend to offer. a : Encourage Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing. In my judgment there is no interest or industry which should be favored at the expense of any other. I stand for a policy which recognizes and which shall give the utmost encouragement to all the industries of our history of the two parties since they were organized. Taxation and the wise expenditure of pubjic lands is another issue in this campaign that strikes at the pocket book and well being of every citizen in the state. During the past eight years Republican state and county office holders have centered their efforts on tax reduction and cutting down the cost of Government. In this fight they were led for four years by a Republican governor, Charles R. state. Agriculture, mining, manufacturing and commerce should stand on an equal, footing in the eyes of the state administration and each should receive at the hands of the state every legitimate aid possible for their protection and continued development. Men engaged in these various whether as managers or Work- . enter-prise- s, Mabey. Taxation an Important Issue. When I promise the voters of this state a business administration, I have in mind a 'definite program for the improvement of our fiscal affairs. I need not call attention to the fact that every tax payer is laboring under a burden that has never heretofore been equalled in Utah. It has come to a point where almost every organized movement of our citizens adopts as one of its objectives a program of taxation reform. One of the chief causes of discontent is the existence of a heavy public indebtedness amounting now to approximately forty million dollars in the two hundred eleven taxing units of the state. Good business practice demands the reduction and payment of this indebtedness with as much speed as is consistent with safety. It is gratifying to know that the federal government, under the Republican program of economy, has paid off in the last seven years six and a half billion dollars, amounting of our public to more than debt. Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Mellon and Senator Reed Smoot have been the dominant figures in this great achievement. What has been done by the federal government can be done by our state if a proper program of raising and disbursing our state revenues is adopted. It is to be regretted that in the past four years in Utah only about one million dollars of our indebtedness has been paid. At this rate it will require forty state administrations to pay off this debt. I can not content myself with any such program, and after careful deliberation adupon the subject of taxation and ministration of our public revenues, I desire to state without qualification that if elected governor I shall at oiice undertake such readjustments as, are one-four- th - . ers, should receive protection and encouragement which lies within the power of. the state to give, for the prosperity and glory of our commonwealth rests in the success of our great fundamental industries, which means the happiness and contentment of all men and women employed therein. We are in this campaign pledged to that same program of tax reduction and economy in government. If I am elected governor of the state of Utah, I say to you here and now that my full time will be devoted to the interests of the state, and those pledges will be kept. In doing this, I am conserving my own interests as well as yours, as I am a heavy tax payer. However, in this and other matters I do not propose to take any arbitrary action, for I have found by experience that in the counsel of many there is wisdom. It is my plan and purpose to bring these things about by full conferences with all parties interested, and to recommend only such legislation as the varied interests of the state will endorse. This in brief is my policy and my program if I am elected governor; and the best interests of Utah rests with a Republican administration, state and tional. ODONNELL & CO. MORTICIANS Wasatch 6461 Salt Lakes Finest Funeral Home South Fourth East CONTAINING UTAHS 32 ONLY MAUSOLEUM -- . |