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Show THE CITIZEN 14 DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Editor of The Citien: Dear Sir: I read a letter in your paper by John Henry Evans, giving his reasons as a life long Democrat for switching to the Republican party, and I ask the courtesy of publishing my views, and I trust you are liberal enough to publish a letter fr6m a life long Democrat, giving my views for not switching. d I am not so but Roosethat I voted for President velt the only time he was elected, and also for President Harding, and' occasionally for Senator Smoot. I should have voted for Roosevelt as a Bullmooser, but I saw the rare opportunity of slipping a Democratic president in through the Republican breach as President Lincoln was slipped in through the Democratic breach. As between Taft and Roosevelt the latter was right in his contention that the tariff should be reduced in favor of the poor mans large consuming family versus the rich mans small consuming family. Roosevelt espoused this Democratic principle. Both Roosevelt and Lincoln were Jefferson Republicans. I voted for Harding as against Cox because evidently the Republican Senate could not be made Democratic by that election, and a Democratic president and a Republican senate would do nothing but blame each other and no one responsible but the people for voting such a condition. But I can see no such excuse for voting for a Republican president this year. I am voting for A1 Smith as against Hoover because he proposes to favor modification of prohibition not against it as Republicans would make us believe. Nearly all must agree that the disgraceful condition of the liquor problem loudly calls for some modification or amendments. To oppose any change is to be satisfied with things as they are. We need a leader, but not a driver. He must be subject to the vote of the people. Change means progress, the opposite hide-boun- stagnation. The Constitution is said to be inspired, but we have advantageously amended it nineteen times and still it needs more. The electoral college is a useless appendage and our new congress does not function for thirteen months after The repudiated congress election. us on the rocks of anwreck might archy in that time. I am strong for temperance and strong for prohibition by a majority vote of those intrusted. Thirty years ago I introduced the first local option bill in the Utah legislature. I am also a strong believer in states rights; not, however, in the right to succeed nor the right to enslave men without their consent. Nor do I believe in the right to get drunk and abuse wife and children or kill neighbors. I believe the majority have the right to regulate this evil. But when it comes to hibiting any one from touching, ing or handling liquor under any cir- cumstances it may be questionable responsibility. It is not comparable with human slavery except in a reverse manner it certainly is a debatable question and might be covered by states rights. Secession and slavery are wrong anywhere and everywhere under all circumstances and all conditions and have no right in nation, state or county by either majority or minority vote. Never was right and never will be. But how about liquor ? Paul writes Timothy to take a little wine for his stomachs sake, and Jesus Christs first miracle was to turn water into wine, and about his last message was that he would not drink wine again until I drink it with you in my Fath- ers kingdom. In the face of these evidences Smiths position is not unreasonable that congress might legislate maximum and minimum limits, giving elasticity to state laws to fit their varying conditions. Many of the good laws of Utah are not suitable for New York, nor New York laws for Utah. Prohibition has worked fine in Maine for generations without federal aid, but dont seem to work in New York. A1 The federal and state executives clashed, so the state modestly withdrew to avoid conflict or division of responsibility. We admit the difficulty of enforcing dry laws with wret border states; but it is still more difficult to enforce dry laws with the majority of the states against such laws and so breeds lawlessness. Democrats are accused of dodging the tariff. Republicans like to make an issue of it, because they can so easily fool so many people with their sophistry and catchy phrases as, The Foreigner Pays the Tax, America for Americans, The Rill Dinner Pail, A Cheap Coat Makes a Cheap Man, etc. They have so far succeeded in dividing the farmers about 50-5confusing the farmers so they cancel each others votes, rendering the farm vote null and void. So long as they can keep them divided why be concerned over farm relief? They reflect on the intelligence of the farmer by putting a protection ( ?) tariff on their surplus crops, sensibly a bounty on exports would relieve them. Cool-idg- e insulted the intelligence of farmers by raising the tariff on wheat, of course wheat went down instead of up. Coolidge was opposed to government price fixing and yet that is just what tariff is for and does on imports. The legislator raves if you vote for me I wdll make a law that will boost your product to an artificial price and thus take money out of your neighbors pocket and put it into yours. This is indirect bribery and tends to corruption. But the tariff on wool and sugar is about the only crumb of relief the farmer has and the Democrats would American Smelting & Refining Company Lake Salt City, Utah, Purchasers of gold, silver, lead and copper ores and smelter products. Ore Purchasing Department, Seventh Floor McCornick Building. Mining and Geological Department, Sixth Floor McCornick Building. Consign all ore shipments to American Smelting & Refining Company t pro- Ship lead ores to Murray Plant, Murray, Utah. Ship copper and siliceous ores to Garfield Plant, Garfield, Utah. Address correspondence as follows: Regarding shipments and hand samples, to 700 McCornick Bldg. Prospecting and Development, to Sixth Floor McCornick Bldg. 0, be inconsistent if they snatched that crumb from the farmer while proclaiming to help them. If they take the tariff off wool and sugar, then they would take the tariff off everything they have to live on and that would be nearly everything. Every intelligent Republican must realize that every pound of lift on one industry is a pound weight on those who have to buy the goods so lifted. The high wages made so much of is offset by the high cost of living in so much that it would require an expert economist and mathematician to discover the advantage, if any. We maintain that the superior condition of our people is owing chiefly to our superior country climate, soil and elbow room, the natural advantages of a new country, coupled with our Yankee ingenuity. HEBER BENNION. AVIATION CONGESTION. COMING OVER the radio was a voice that said: Congestion of air traffic already is a fact and must have consideration. The location and maintenance of training fields for young aviators near major airports has been barred in some communities for the reason that student aviators interfere with the regular air traffic. This situation must be taken into consideration in connection with the location of the airports in the future and more particularly in connection with the es- happen in the air. The time does not seem to be far distant when preferential air lines will command the same consideration as the stop streets and boulevards News. do today. Indianapolis INDIA AND THE COW. SINCE TIME immemorial the cow has been a sacred animal to the people of India. This fact causes much misery and suffering among her inhabitants. Cows wander the streets, lie on the sidewalks, causing much filth which spreads disease. It is estimated that there are at least a million cattle in Bombay Dec-ca- n land. These animals must be fed but are too sacred to be used for food. The people subsist mainly on vegetables. Even in times of famine the salred cow is too sacred to be used 316,-000,0- for food. tablishment of aviation schools. Such schools must be located a considerable distance from the major airports in order to avoid congestion and the accidents that such congestion likely would cause. The voice that came over the air was that of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who has flown enough to know something about the subject of aviation. One can figure a student aviator, somewhat nervous, making a left turn in the air just in time to crash into a through plane plying between Los Angeles and New York, or going near enough to the airplane from Chicago to Indianapolis to give somebody a narrow escape. or thirty years ago the Twenty-fiv- e public stood round and discussed the automobile. When one was parked at the curb it drew the crowd. There were predictions that such a thing never would prove practicable. Before we realized what had happened there was an automobile traffic problem and it becomes harder to solve every day. If we recall how rapidly the automobile increased and what confusion came from lack of regulations we can visualize what Lindbergh says must GOITRE OF 25 YEARS DISAPPEARS IN 14 DAYS CURED BY USE OF BRADFORD FOOD OILS DISTRIBUTED BY wgwmm ITjfliMftTi (UteCDrdBOgJB) STATE OF UTAH, May 28, 1928. COUNTY OF SALT LAKE. ss. Thurber Thorvaldson, being first duly sworn, on oath, says: That he resides at 235 West 4th So., Salt Lake City, Utah. I wish to make a statement of ray wifes case. She was bothered with a goitre for twenty-fiv- e years, which stood out about inches on her neck. She one and one-ha- lf started to take Mr. Bradfords oils on May 14 th and on May 28th the goitre had entirely disappeared. It was removed in fourteen days (Signed) THURBER THORVALDSON. Witnessed by C. L. Bradford. BRADFORD LABORATORIES, Ltd. 621 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah 00 |