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Show THE CITIZEN GOVERNMENT AND PROSPERITY CAN PROSPERITY stand a waste- ful and (V extravagant government ? Ogden L. Mills, Under Secretary of the Treasury, thinks not. Would the Federal Government under Democratic rule be wasteful and extravagant? Mr. Mills thinks it would. He gave his reasons at length in a recent speech before the Republican State ton than in New York. Mr. Mills believes that it would be disastrous to national progress to break down the policies that have heretofore characterized federal finance. DWINDLING PROHIBITION ISSUE. WE HAVE a suspicion that the Convention of Massachusetts. prohibition issue, which is about the His points of attack were the tariff, only one the campaign has developed, the McNary-Hauge- n bill, taxes and will dwindle in importance as the the public debt, and government operelection approaches, and that it will ation of public utilities. determine fewer votes than seemed He pointed out the fact that a tarprobable when Governor Smith took iff bill is written in the first instance his extreme wet stand in his acceptby the Ways and Means committee of ance speech. the House of Representatives. The Prohibition cuts straight across the Democratic members of that committwo parties. There are wets and drys low he one all are but tariff in both camps. In particular the tee, said, not in a men, believing protective but Southern states, traditionally Demoa competitive tariff. Gov. Smiths cratic, and essential to Smiths success assurances about the tariff, Mr. Mills if he is to succeed in November, are maintained, are not as important as politically dry. Smiths disapproval the views of these men. of the Volstead act and the EighMr. Mills issued a warning against teenth Amendment and his promise to the Government going into business, use his influence to amend both, has particularly that of supplying the drawn many wet Republicans to him. public with power. He declared that But these Republicans are by this power resources were best developed time remarking that there has not by private enterprise. He made it been a corresponding shift of dry plain that power sites should be kept Democrats to Hoover. When dry Demin public ownership and never signed ocrats like Senator Glass, Josephus away to private interests, but he add- Daniels, Senator Walsh of Montana, ed: We are opposed to Government and, to name one other, Governor operations as inefficient, wasteful, Moody of Texas, remain regular and extravagant and pledge their support to Smith in What Mr. Mills laid chief emphasis spite of his wetness, wet Republicans on was Governor Smiths policy in are bound to ask themselves why they, New York state. He first compared should not, while continuing to be wet, the Coolidge policy in the nation with stick to their party and support Hoothe Smith policy in the state. From ver. An issue that has nothing what1921 to 1929, Mr. Mills said, the ever to do with the liquor question cost of government in Washington has will probably keep the dry Solid decreased 36 per eent; from 1919 to South safe for Smith. The situation 1929 the cost of government of the then is one in which wet Republicans state of New York has increased 197 who have decided to desert their per cent; from 1921 to 1929 Federal party, who have half a mind to do so, taxes decreased 31 per cent, and from cannot but notice that dry Democrats 1919 to 1929 New York state taxes in the South are unwilling to make a increased 181 per cent. During these corresponding sacrifice. The suggessame periods the national debt was tion in this, of Heads I win; tails cut by 27 per cent and the net debt you lose, is obvious; it will lead Reof New York grew by 48 per cent. publicans to get over their first fine If the comparison between the Fed- careless rapture inspired by the eral and State Governments is unfair, promise of the flowing bowl in then a comparison, Mr. Mills held, be- Smiths acceptance speech, and to ask tween sister states would show the themselves whether they want to desert their party and go back on a canextravagance of Governor Smiths administration. While New York has didate as admirable as Hoover, solely ;Meen increasing its expenditure and on account of the rum issue. Call it its debt, Massachusetts has been cur- loyalty, or habit or what you please, tailing both debt and expenditures. the motive that is keeping dry DemThe temptation to finance the con- ocrats in line for Smith will keep wet struction of public buildings and high- Republicans in line for Hoover. The ways and the control of floods and disaffection in November will not be the development of water ways by in- so widespread as it now appears to be. New Bedford Standard. curring debts is greater at Washing RAGS-RUBBERS-ME- & SCRAP IRON TAL LARGEST DEALERS IN SCRAP IRON IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY Uteribi Junk Co., Inc. Carload Lots Our Specialty We carry in Stock 840 South 4th 15 JOG ON, JEHSOPHAT RACE ISSUE IN THE SOUTH ROAD gets rougher every mile; (Cluck) Jog on, Jehosophat, an show IN RALEIGH, N. C., an old legend is being revived by the Democrats to help Smith in the South. It is proving more effective than hours of impas- some style. Mules gone lame, an the hens wont lay; Corns way down, an wheat dont pay; no better, steers too cheap, Hogs Cows quit milking, meat wont keep, Oats all heated, spuds all froze; Fruit crops busted, wind still blows; Sheep seem puny, and Ill be dumed, Rye fields flooded and the haystack burned. Looks some gloomy, Ill admit (Cluck) Jog on, Jehosophat, we aint down yit. Wheels all wobble; axles bent; Dashboards broken; top all rent; One shaft splintered; tother sags; Seats all busted; drags; biieve it will; May hang together Careful drivinll make it still; Roads some better, not so rough Trot! Gosh ding ye! Thats the stuff! Old traps movin right good speed (Cluck) Jog on, Jehosophat, youre end-ga- te sioned oratory. The speaker merely says he over- heard the following conversation by two darkies: Who you going to vote for? asks the first negro. Hoovers the only candidate running, isnt he? inquires the second negro. Oh, no, says the first, the white folks have a candidate, too. Joslin. SOME MAN-MAD- E SEAS. IF THE Boulder Dam of the Colorado river is ever completed as designed, it will have a capacity of acre feet of water. Some of the other great constructions of this character created storage as follows: 26,-000,0- Gatun dam, 4,410,000; Assonan dam, 1,865,000; Elephant Butte dam, and Alamanor dam, 00; some steed. Roads smoothed out til it dont seem true. (Cluck) Jog on, Jehosophat, you pulled us through. Griff Crawford. ELLEN TERRY was once rehearsing a Shaw play, and G.S.B. was standing in the wings. Some one said to him: Is Miss Terry speaking the lines as you wrote them? Shaw, greatly impressed, replied: No, she is speaking the lines as I ought to have written them. Kansas City Star. A BOOK canvasser tackled a negro elevator man. After listening imperturbably while the canvasser enlarged on the vast stores of knowledge to be derived from the work he was offering on the installment plan, the negro remarked quitetly: Taint no use to me, boss. I know heaps more now than I gets paid for. Commerce and Finance. THE WAR department has announced that new methods have been developed that enables rubber to last thirty-fiv- e years. This means that motorists may soon purcahse a set of auttires that will outlast thirty-fiv- e omobiles. Life. AS A PRICE, a penny for ones thoughts would often be rank SOME PERSONS complain that we have political confusion because Republicans persist in being Democrats. But we would probably have still greater confusion if parties were less binding. Party government can hardly be a success without party loyalty. Worcester Telegram. SENATOR ROBINSON is preaching prosperity for everyone. The millionaires had better watch out if he gets in, because he intends they shall not have so much. Jut how he is going to get it away from them, however, he has not made clear. I DO NOT want any one to believe that my little ones are brought up to be cowards in this house. If they are struck they are not taught to turn the other cheek. I havent any .use for weaklings. I commend gentleness and manliness. I want my boys to be strong and gentle. For all my children I pray that they may be healthy and natural. Theodore Roosevelt. JUDGING by the husky voices of some of the candidates, their favorite brand doesnt stop with cigarettes. Pathfinder. SOON THE time will be here when we have the right to go out in the woods and be mistaken for a deer. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. Buyers of MATTE, FURNACE PRODUCTS and FLOTATION LEAD ZINC ORE at all Times: Pipe, Angles, Channels, I Beams, Babbitt, Rails, Pulleys, etc. West Phone Wasatch 2069 00 NEWHOUSE BLDG. SALT LAKE, UTAH |