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Show ENDORSES TRE RECiRwsrri Kane Cwatplflfeftodcnt Makes Its PesittaKaown ki No Uncertain Uncer-tain Terms. f SOME P0JNTED TRUISMS Does Not Want People of Utah to Misunderstand Position of Kane County Citizens In its last issiie, The Kane County Independent, reproduces the editorial article which appeared ap-peared in The I:ecord"o the week previous, and adds some pointed comment on the attitude taken by its rival! county paper respecting the consideration that should be given candidates seeking seek-ing public office ijtt Utah. The comment bs the editor is well worth a careful perusal by all fair-minded people, as the facts stated are not capable of any successful contradiction. After reproducing The Record's Re-cord's article, Trie Independent Such sentiment jas is criticized by the abovjbJ artilclo would put Kane county in ill repute with the balancof the st7p" '1 also ,&, frpcyafj 4kT-i7uvu'' can party d;nn ?4"Bs-ide8, to m ke it dur policy to give no offices to any but Utah born citizen's, citi-zen's, we must first pull down the entire structure of the Mormon Mor-mon church. Wo must do away with commercial clubs, in which mormon, jew and gentile are investing in-vesting thousand of dollars to induce people to como to Utah, we must re-call all our missionaries. mission-aries. Why? If we are not go-ingto go-ingto allow people we induce to come to enjoy equal privileges with Utah born citizens, then we have no right to ask them to come. We must never allow the people peo-ple of the state to think that that is the sentiment of the people of 'Kane county, because it is not. We believe we could write the names of all the people holding the above policy on two postage stamps. We have men holding office in Kane county who were born on the other side of the Atlantic At-lantic ocean; what arc we going to do with these men? As far as Mr. Barnes is concerned con-cerned he has been one of our very best state officials. He has lived in Utah for 15 years and probably longer, he has collected nearly a million and a quarter dollars for the state from oucside sources, he has got the bull dog grip on the inheritance tax and we believe if he is left where he is ho will build the capitol building build-ing without expense to any but the wealthy. Most of the money he has collected from estates cutside of Utah. This 'system of calling men outsiders because they are not born in the state, and in come instances they are called outsiders although born in the state but not in the county in which they reside. This is a cowardly cow-ardly rotten way used by some to work up a prejudice against others. It is a few who stoop to these cowardly acts; it is not the |