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Show Page 2 April 21, 1972 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth "Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free." J. Reese Hunter miuj Let Pollution Ring ! Journal, the unpolluted According to Engineering-Minin- g air of America is the biggest untold story in America today. The people suppressing the facts are the bureaucrats of the Environmental Protection Agency. In 1930, the U.S. Public Health Service took extensive measurements in 1 4 of our largest cities and found an annual years later, air pollution factor of 519. In 1957, twenty-seve- n had annual the and studied were dropped average 55 cities from 519 to only 120! By 1969 it had dropped to only 92. Fearing that they would lose appropriations from Congress and the excuse to control American industry, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare stopped releasing figures on the dramatic decrease in air pollution in our cities. Although there were five times as much air pollution in 1930, there were 80 million less people, 50 million less cars and 80,000 less manufacturing plants. With all of these extra cars, people and factories we enjoy air five times cleaner. Even in New York City where the unwashed hippies and other pollution nuts wear respirators to demonstrate their rage against our industrial economy, the air pollution factor is near of what it was in the the national average which is one-fift- h good old days. From The Review of the News of August 25, 1971 we quote: . . .the ultimate goal of those behind the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the whole environmental fad is not control of pollution, but control of American industry and its environment. Letting the public know that the war against pollution is being won on many fronts would jeopardize this goal. And this, no doubt, is why news of the victories that are being won remains the biggest Let Freedom Ring! untold story in America today. so-call- ed - TRUST MUSKIE ? Sen. Edmund Muskies campaign slogan, Trust Muskie," took on a bit of tarnish in Milwaukee recently. In an effort to dramatize the rise in the price of groceries, the senator and a Mrs. Joseph Fabinsky were filmed campaign worker shopping in a food store. Mrs. Fabinsky made her selections, put them in a grocery cart, and she and the senator wheeled counter. Mrs. Fabinsky and the the cart up to the check-ou- t senator paid a bill for S38.35. Muskie assistants said that according to Agriculture Department estimates, the same items would have cost S3 1.40 in December 1968, and $35.10 in December 1971. The next day the owner of the food store disclosed that at the request of a Muskie aide, S5 had been added to the bill for the benefit of the cameras. The aide told the truth. fessed up, acknowledging that the store-owne- r Trust Muskie? The Richmond News Leader - - - of Brigham Youngs statement, It is against my policy to give anything to a person unless he works for it. I am in favor Ileher J. Grant UTtfE WotLt'S A trAfif, AH9 AU. TICS ... out mw W AM WMUl JttRELf pLAYEW: m i is nMff MARKS MESSAGE Independent DeAcowd To The Contftaex liberty Mcyatay and Irjh The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Friday at 1399 South 7th East, Suite 9, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105. Yearly subscription rate is $4.00 per year by surface mail in the United States. Send change of address forms and correspondence to 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- g Subscription Weekly Ashbrook The Forgotten or Congress? Man Mark E. Anderson 111 Today, you and I have our greatest opportunity in years to elect a conservative, responsible Congress. People across the country are getting fed up with what is happening to them higher and higher taxes, more and more controls, runaway inflation, debt piled upon debt, the alarming spectre of an economic collapse ahead, lawlessness, illegal forced busing in direct denial of the will of 85 per cent of the people. This year the voters - are restless: writes David M. Molthrop, chairman of a But, national organization raising funds for conservative congressional candidates, there is grave danger. This election year of 1972 reminds me of eight years ago (1964). Then, all my friends and associates were supporting Barry Goldwater for president. In our enthusiasm we gave our support to him almost exclusively. We virtually ignored Congress. And what happened? Dozens of good candidates running against incumbent liberals were starved for funds. They lost -some of them by tragically small margins. And what happened to incumbent conservatives was even worse. Twenty-tw- o of the best men in the house of representatives were defeated by a margin of 2.5 per cent or less. They were replaced by liberals. The back of the conservatives was broken and has never quite recovered. David Molthrop warns that we not repreat the mistake of 1964: We had better not ignore the many good men who are running for Congress. Many dozens of good men running against liberal incumbents can win if only they have adequate support. And many good conservatives now in Congress are threatened by agressive liberal challengers. We cannot neglect them without very serious consequences. May 10th is the last day for filing for office in Utah. Your mass meeting will be meaningless, your county and state conventions worthless, and your vote at the primary and general elections will be a mockery of representative government if you do not do your part to urge good, knowledgeable, dedicated men to file for office at every level before May 10th. Send us your suggestions for suitable candidates -perhaps we can influence them to file for office. Start now preparing for your mass meeting May 15th. Get your friends and neighbors to elect the right state and county delegates in your mass meeting. Let us know what you are doing in your area. Write to Citizens for Anderson, 1399 South 7th East No. 9, S.L.C., Utah - 84105. SMtnfUR Readers Outlook - The rwvy ours. pup WtKUm Dear Editor: As a supporter of some of your conservative principles, I was disappointed in Mark E. Andersons message of April 7, 1972, The Forgotten Man. I thought for a few minutes that I might be reading the wrong publication. Discrimination against the working class? The working class has never had it so good with its labor monopolies and present standards of living. Surely, there are some disadvantages for those poorly prepared and equipped to be productive employees, but when has there not been such a situation in a free enterprise society? If you are seeking nondiscrimination and oneness, you can find it in socialism or communism. Of course, there is discouragement in the graduated income tax, but it has much less of an impact on the wage earner than on the middle or upper class professional businessman. man or Here is discrimination really at work. The tax rates are ever higher and the rewards for hard work and risk of capital investment are ever lessening. In a capitalistic society, there must be an incentive for the risk of investment capital, and these rewards at the present exist mainly in capital gains taxation, the investment credit, depletion allowances, etc. The depletion allowance is overdone, to be sure, but without some incentives of this type, capital investment will become less attractive and decline, business will stagnate and we shall really be ripe for full government control, which it seems to me we are trying to avoid. 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