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Show THE CITIZEN 4 POLITICAL GRAFT we wonder why men quit their business and take a political job at a poor wage. It is quite different with the man who has no business or who has retired and looks upon politics as a little recreation. But the live awake politician has many ways to make money, most of which is called legitimate graft, and it is probably for this reason that the fight for office becomes brisk and keen. Boston wants Sunday baseball and a Sunday Sports Bill was drawn up to be passed upon by the city dads. It appears according to alleged charges that there were thirteen votes to be taken care of at $5,000 per vote. The people want baseball on Sunday afternoons but the politicians want the money. It is said that Emil E. Fuchs, president of the Braves, contributed $30,000 as a healing balm. Unfortunately the number 13 proved unlucky for the politicians and the deal leaked out and now there is a big scaldal in old Boston town. SOMETIMES ill-feeli- DANGEROUS GROUND PATIENTLY WAITING ACCORDING to reports the farmers need not expect any legislation during the present session of congress. In order to arrive at farm relief, it will be up to Hoover to call a special session of congress to take up the matter. Every farmer experts Uncle Sam to make them rich.' In the future all the farm owners will be able to sit in an easy chair from which they, will direct all their work and in the fall if crops are not what they should be Uncle Sam will guarantee a nice fee. We are already broadcasting for a good farm. PEACE PACTS THE LITERARY DIGEST says that while champions of the Kellogg peace pact and the Cruiser Bill have been clashing in' the United States Senate, a state of mind regarded by many observers as ominous has been culminating in England and America. It represents something that hardly existed ten years ago, and involves what the New York World' describes as! a situation in which the two leading maritime powers are engaged in the unholy and disastrous business of measuring their relative cruiser tonnages ng, Anglo-Americ- i THERE is every indication at Washington that a movement is on foot to place this country in the League of Nations. The people have refused to join the league, as has been shown upon two occasions by their vote, yet politicians are working hard in every way to bring about a condition whereby this country will become a member of the league. When that day arrives, Europe will surely dictate our policy. All this peace talk and disarmament conferences appear as so much bunk. On one side of the fence representatives are kidding each other with peace terms and treaties while on the other side of the fence all nations are building stronger than ever in order that there may be a freedom of the seas. ' There is only one sane policy for each country to pursue, and that is to provide a good defense for the nation. All this peace propaganda is so much bosh. It is good fodder for the politicians, but poor fare for the people. The inside history of the world war, where nations promised everything in sight to add to their strength is sufficient proof of insincerity at a critical time. History also tells us that nations that remain at home and attend to their own business seldom get into war. The United tSates should settle upon an adequate program of defense and forget Europe. t' and gun calibers, and of trying to decide whether either has more power than the other. The Manchester Guardian, Englands leading liberal daily, speaks of suspicion, misunderstanding, and estrangement between the two nations, and affirms that not for many years have the Americans and the British been on terms as bad as they are now. Liteutenant Com. Joseph M. Kenworthy, Labor Member of the House of Commons, has gone so. far as to say, in a London speech, that relations are worse at present than at any time since 1812, when an actual war was impending. One evidence of existing tension may be found . in the recent exchange of views, outside of regular diplomatic channels, between Representative Fred A. Britten, chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, and Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, leading to a plan to gather legislators of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, at an Interparliamentary Union session, to be held in Geneva next summer, in connection with the League of Nations. As further evidence may be cited the utterances of many of Englands most prominent men. These are based, in part, in criticism of President Cool-idgalleged inconsistent support, at one and the same time, of the Kellogg pact and the Cruiser Bill. They are rooted, even more fundamentally, in Great Britains desire to retain her strength as a sea power. Sir Austin Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, has never disguised his belief in a navys suitable in size and character to guard the vital arteries of British supply on the Seven Seas; and Lord Birkenhead, in a pointed rejoinder to President Coolidges Armistice Day address, has been quoted as saying: We will never, in face of the advice of our admiralty, surrender the right to build the number of light cruisers which we are advised are absolutely necessary to protect the Empire. The speeches of David Lloyd George on foreign affairs are reported as becoming more violent, and as hinting at trouble with the United States. After declaring at Manchester, the other day, This government is leading us straight back into the hell of war, he remarked: Since we signed the Kellogg pact, armaments have been steadily growing. Mr. Kellogg says, Thou shalt not kill, but he also says, Fill your waist belt with knives and pistols so as to be ready to kill. Why should there be all this hush and whisper, this Dont say anythin in case it might make it worse? In 1922 we were able to discuss relations between the United States and this country. Now we cant do it. Why can not we have this interchange of relations, We must face reality. It was because it was not faced in 1914 that we had the greatest war on earth. As things are now the nations of the world are heading straight for war, not because any one wants it, but because no one has the courage to stop the runaway horses and the chariot of war. It appears to The Citizen upon the face of all this information that our best peace talk has not gotten us anywhere, except miring us deeper in the mud. We talk peace on. one hand while on the other we are building bigger navies and employ bigger standing armies. The daily press is full of war talk every day; movie pictures are filled with it. It looks upon the face of it that there is a hidden force which is seeing to it that the people are constantly reminded of an impend ing war unless Jones or Brown does so and so. The way to have peace is not to talk war! an es . ' A BRITISH sailor says that he was kept in a Texas jail for a year without a trial and he. was not allowed to communicate with .the. outside world. The matter is now being investigated by England, and if the sailors story is true we will be called upon to pay a nice little bill. ... , NEW POSTOFFICE UTAH SENATORS squabble in Washington over a new proposed site for the postoffice and out of this squabble may come a big O unless they are more careful. Senator Smoot suggested that the new postoffice building be erected on the present Walker store site, while Senator King is against' it. We suggest, that the building be erected somewhere at the head of Main street and it will go over with a big whoop. South Main has had a hard time for any improvements and yet that is the way the town has to grow, unless we shoot her up City Creek, where we okh continue a one street city similar to Bingham canyon. Th4 people of this city are invariably laboring under one big handicap they never pull together and as a result they get nowhere. Lets jjget the postoffice! YEGGS REAP HARVEST DAVE PUGH, trustee in trust ot the steel plant on Capitol Hill, has created no end of damage to the people in this county. He should have been satisfied when he took the $104,000 as alleged by the. audit, but he went a step further and told the police that he had lost all the money on the races, and .forthwith the officers were put on the tracks of every betting man in the city. Now it just happens that most of the people who bet their money are pretty good fellows and dont mean harm to nobody, but nevertheless they are being watched and if they dare bet a dollar on a race and are caught, its the calaboose for them Whole the officers were planted in each others way in the center of the business district, the yeggs have been busy on the outskirts and holdups and bank robberies are of daily or nightly occurrence. Any one that looks like a dime is held up and most of them are shot. New York City is fast driving out all her crooks, Chicago tries to locate the gangsters and then shoots them down. In Detroit the policeman who kills a crook is given a $10 reward. It looks like the whole dam bunch has landed in this town and they are beginning to make a cleanup. The worst of it is that they are making their getaway. The past two weeks have been thrillers in crime for a little burg like this. We have the reputation of being very kind hearted to the poor crooks. Life termers only serve an average of five years and it has been a disgrace the way rapists have put it over the past year. Wonder if the legislature cant help us out a little in. protecting property and life, and our women and children. WILL HOOVER SEE? A MINING engineer who knows the needs OftJ mining is to be the net president, says the ver Mining Record. The importance of the tarThe expanding manuiff has been stressed. facturing business is fabricating greater tonnage of the metals. Lessened production during the past few years has increased the ratio between supply and demand. All these factors are favorable to increased mining activity. The mining industry is now in a position where it can advantageously extend its activities. Business and scientific progress in the production, marketing of metals has given the industry a new standard of economic soundness. Already effects of this have been felt by greater prosperity in the metal producing states. Den- and AS. HORSE racing and betting is considered a crime in Utah, there is no incentive for our farm- . , ers to breed fine horses. , " |