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Show THE CITIZEN 4 SWEET INDUSTRY 900MI000M0I0M000M000M0000000000000MM0M00000000M0I THE CITIZEN "A Thinking Paper for Thinking People M00MM0M000M00M000MM00I I0MM0000M0 I0M00M000M0MMM0I Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including: postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, 92.50 per year; 91.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all forelgrn countries, within the Postal Union, 94.50 per year. PRANK E. SCHEFSKI ED. S. DIAMOND Manager and Editor Adrertlslng Manager FIGHT FOR RIGHTS CITY PROSECUTOR A. W. Watson, if he had his way, would pass a law making it compulsory for every owner or driver of an automobile to take out a drivers license. Such nonsense coming from any one other than a prosecutor we would not be surprised. How many times has Watson been lenient with a criminal driver? In the first place, a reckless driver can pass as good an examination as can the average careful driver, probably better, so nothing can be gained under such conditions. A license would only give the criminal added prestige. The public at this time is fully convinced that the automobile is greatly overtaxed and they are not in a mood to add further taxes, especially creating a new law which can have no material effect in lessening accidents. The way to eliminate accidents to a minimum is for our judges to prohibit careless drivers from the highways and not to issue license plates to drivers who openly flaunt the law at every turn. Recently a business man of London was arrest ed for driving while intoxicated and the judge immediately cancelled his right to ever drive another machine in England. Thats one reckless driver eliminated, and the other fellow will be more careful of his condition when taking hold of the wheel. Watson would penalize 95 per cent of the automobile drivers with red tape, that means nothing, in order to get at the 5 per cent of law defiers. Why not punish the guilty, and it will not be long before the highways are cleared of all reckless driving ? No, Mr. Watson, you cannot pass the buck to the people. The taxpayers are donating handsomely to the treasury for your support and the people expect you to punish criminals when they come before you. We will next be asked to take out a license to ride or drive a horse, a baby carriage, etc., just because one or two people laugh at the law and dont care. The Citizen believes that the people have some rights, and we are going to protect what few rights we have left to the best of our ability. Punish the hit and run drivers by barring them from our highways and reckless driving will soon become a thing of the past. SIR THOMAS LIPTON missed his calling in not coming to Utah to live. He would never have remained single, and had he been here in the early days he could have had his wish in marrying a whole flock of wives. SUGAR men and traffic officials will either sweeten or sour a meeting to be held at New Orleans, Thursday, December 13. The American Sugar Refining Company and the New Orleans Joint Traffic Bureau have filed a complaint with the interstate commerce commission that rates on sugar in some territory is out of alignment and names Utah in the list as one of the states which enjoys discriminatory rates and which ought to be corrected. Utah thinks differently and is preparing to have adequate representation at the meeting. What Utah really needs is higher tar- iff on sugar in order that the industry may live, but the recent vote showed that we did not care much about tariff and we may feel the blow sooner than we anticipate. INDIAN TROUBLES INDIAN AFFAIRS are being investigated in Utah. It has been charged that the white fathers have greatly abused and misconducted Indian affairs, thereby causing great suffering among the tribes because of negligence in caring for needy Indians. The Citizen has from time to time called attention to the many reports in circulation of mismanagement, and judging from the stories told us it would seem that the Indian was just natural wild game to be exploited. Uncle Sam should not stop at a bare investigation at this time, but should go through with the matter with the one thought in mind justice. The Indian has been shamefully abused in this country. He has been crowded out of his best lands in a majority of cases and he has been handled more like a slave without inherent rights than a human being. Our present Indian bureau should be completely reorganized. We now have many Indians in this country that are college graduates and Indians should be placed in charge of all Indian affairs, providing the government believes it is necessary to have such a bureau. To our way of thinking, we cannot see why we should have an Indian bureau any more than we should have a German, Swede, French, Irish, Scotch, etc. bureaus to look after the affairs of the natives from their respective countries. EXTRA SESSION WE ARE going to have some more Boulder dam hardtack, Muscle Shoals fertilizer and farm relief crop mulligan during the seventieth session of Congress which convenes next Monday. Coolidge will deliver his farewell address and Herbert Hoover will be sworn into office the fourth of March, next. The Congress that convenes next Monday will be materially changed when Hoover takes his seat, but it will be 'Stronger Republican than it is now. looks like the outgoing Congress is anxious to do something for the farmer before they adjourn, no doubt having been greatly impressed by It the late election returns. It is reported that many of the farmers are ofgoing to New York and Washington to open fices from where they will direct the work on their farms. The farmers are confident that Uncle Sam is going to turn over the entire treasbusiury to them and the boys have to appear nesslike in order to get all the jack that is coming to them. The farmers are going to make things so good that turkey will sell for a dollar a pound next Thanksgiving, notwithstanding the fact that we have some consumers who have never seen a live turkey and the taste they know nothing about. This Congress should not try to do the work of the next Congress and outside the general or der of business, important matters should be left to the new Congress. WILFUL MURDER A STEWARD of the Vestris testified that he was in a lifeboat in which about fifteen negroes were. When he suggested saving floating people the negroes wanted to hit him over the head with an oar. These negroes should be rounded up, taken back to where the Vestries was sunk and turned loose in the water and let them save themselves the best way they can. The boat was only about full and at least fifteen or twenty more people could have been saved. If that is not murder in the first degree then we quit. one-thi- rd TOO MUCH WEALTH SOME POLICE officers Were unable to satis- factorily explain their wealth in Philadelphia and were released for the good of the service. Philadelphia is not the only city blessed with wealthy officials. God appears to bless the average politician in office. Once in a great while there is an explosion, but even then few arrests are made and the boys go to some other town to start anew. UTAH WANTS more tariff on sugar. Had Bamberger been elected there would have been a solid vote for the tariff, but the Utah people lost sight of their industries and sent King back to Washington, and heaven knows that almost anything might now happen to sugar with such men in office. King may reform and vote against his party principles, but we hae our doots. SENATOR KING is going to put a handicap on the builders of the proposed Boulder dam which will net funds enough to build more dams, sort of endless chain proposition. Why not let everyone build their own dam? Oh, we forgot the big stake in a political dam. Some nice fat hams for somebody. TAX THE LOAFER THEORETICALLY, the perfect tax would be a tax on inaction. Th proper man to tax would be the loafer, not the worker; idle land, not used land; inactive capital, not active capital; lack of enterprise, not enterprise. Such a tax would not be practical, but it would be a just tax. Our present taxes are based on an opposite theory. We tax thrift, action, capital, enterprise. We levy taxes in proportion to ability to pay, which means that the harder a man works, the more we tax him; the more thrifty he becomes, the more we soak him; the more efficient he grows, the more we knock him down. If a man saves his money and buys a house, he is taxed; if he wastes his money in extravagant living, he is not taxed. None of our taxes encourage production by the simple process of discouraging idleness, shiftlessness, inefficiency. The devil himself could not do a neater job of hobbling the race. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, Journal. UNCLE SAM hopes to discourage the crooks from applying for jobs by taking finger prints of all the employes. Fifty years ago any person that would have suggested such a thing would have been dubbed a fanatic, but nowadays the crooks come so thick and fast that officers are b coming nervous wrecks in trying to play safety. THE AMERICAN Federation of Labor is for building the Boulder dam. And why not? Labor gets the profits. |