Show iu f he lit ile 1 I 1 IC editors column on ow molt 2 t 1 the blessings of bossism 1 T f price utah april 20 1014 1914 editor carbon county new news my dear sir it a strange thing that tho the ordinary human being feels fools constrained to grumble at the blessings which providence has showered upon him how different in this respect is man from the lower sl even the chicken chickens when taking a drink will raise their beaks in thankfulness to heaven come to think of it I 1 dont remember over ever seeing a chicken laiso alao ulao its head after taking a drink of price water but that is immaterial and bt besides sides the chickens sense of gratitude has probably become impaired by association with price kickers with the hope of stopping io iia some degree tho the characteristic knocking of this city permit me to point out a few things which the people of aiice pi ice and carbon county generally should be profoundly thankful for wo all know that thinking is hard bard work some men I 1 know would rather drink than think and when it comes to politics politico with its many ramification its intricacies and above all its importance there are very few men and women thoai wh oai li without prejudice digest the subject how thankful then should tho the ak people of carbon county be that a considerate and philanthropic th company has selected an agent to instruct them thew how to vote on all matters I 1 think of the wear and tear of brain saved by totera knowing they have to support the candidates selected by this company think of the tho time saved sayed which would otherwise be lost in argument by knowing in advance who has been chosen to run the affairs of this county think of the kindness of this company in furnishing fur brains for all the voters of carbon county and then stop for the loveon mike stop your ungrateful howling did I 1 hear you complain that this company derives considerable benefit from having its they talk about the editors and say that they are poor with very few good creditors and little earthly store but there is one thing certain you cannot keep them down for when they cant support themselves they still support the town it may bb b said for the irish who have been waxing warlike recently that a revolutionary movement there wont drag as it does in mexico should it start when irishmen fight the damage is 1 fierce and continuous until a sudden end is reached somebody claims to hava figured it out that maturing every ten day days and bringing new families into the world the descendants of a pair of alif alks a in a single season would bo be flies in a year so if you kill one fly now just think what you are doing do your fly swatting early judge marshall of the united states district court one day last week appointed J W edmunds of salt lake receiver for the bankrupt A A dark clark construction company this is the camj sarae J W edmunds that al tell own candidates in dofice well vf why by not it be batter ter that all the wealth of the county should be in tho the hands ono one company instead of being scattered broadcast how cn any monarch rulo rule his subjects unless he keeps them poor your complaint is childish and I 1 am surprised eJ at your making it there is nothing which more emphatically demonstrates tho the rholo generosity of 0 this high minded company thai thal the fact that if a county official oili cial chosen and elected by itself should prove to bo be a defaulter and embezzler it will spend heaps and heaps of cash to defend him could the taxpayers money be used to better advantage adran tage of course not again it is well known that tho tila law presents many points difficult to determine even those intellectual mim miracles cles the lawyers are occasionally at a loss to give a decision how much more then does the ordinary juror have trouble in nailing up his mind now it a glorious and soul inspiring thought that there is a company generous enough to place jurors in the tho box who are instructed ted beforehand what verdict to render perhaps you will uy say that if a company does this it doeing lose any money because the juror being an employ employs of the company and knowing what his verdict is to be need not baute timo time listening to the evidence but may during durine the progress of the trial be thinking of his employers employees interests this may inay be true but on the other hand tho the company permits the juror to retain bis his fees as juror while it still keeps him on the payroll and if t his generosity then I 1 dont know it and what I 1 dont know hurt anybody there are some other points I 1 want to call your attention to but I 1 have to see t tark first yours very pridefully price fully MARKS FRIEND the political boss of carbon county assisted by a local newspaper has been trying to ba belittle little up at salt lake whore mr edmunds is well known he stands high as a man and an accountant the horse home thief believes theste the sheriff riff 13 is a tyrant and meddler and that che bhe prosecuting attorney who does his duty is a knocker and there are a lot of people who do no useful work who will take oath that the news and every member of the Bett betterment ement league Is i a knocker they know that the th average citizen hated x knocker and try to prejudice the public publio against the news iu this ww see if you can remember reading in the news a knock against anything good bet you cant having heard that the political machine of carbon carton county was grooming A J lee as a candidate for county commissioner the editor of the news can understand what mr lee meant when he seated stated at a public meeting last week that it ws 9 time quit electing officials who spent most of their time fighting figh tiny each other mr lee wants all the officials to be of one kind so there will bo harmony but he imy what would become of the taxpayer taxpayers or their money in uch such an event when you hear a man complain because c it cost money to have the laws la enforced just keep your eye on him 1 I am for the licensed saloon as against prohibit on in this town said a business man to tho the news editor friday but I 1 want it understood I 1 am not blaming the church people and others who want a change that is in their privilege if price is voted dry the saloon men have only themselves to blame for they have acted like pigs in clover of course the city administration has also helped for it has lacked the backbone to deal with the situation as it should have been dealt with instead of the administration controlling the liquor traffic it looks as though the traffic had done the controlling I 1 believe however that to vote the town dry would be cutting off our noses to spite our faces stand up for utah is a slogan we often see in the public prints and on the billboards its a mighty good and patriotic slogan too but dont forget that standing up for utah means more than simply shooting off your mouth in telling what a grand state we are building up it means patronizing utah made products employing utah labor when possible and working for utah on election day by seeing that clean honest men are elected to office if carbon county people had always had bad the good of their county at heart in the past there would be a different tale to tell today the world would not be reading that an audit sudi t of th the 0 county books had dis closed two county officials short that an effort was being jadv to have two other county officials impeached for malfet malfeasance sance in office that the officials c Is of a school district were spending hundreds of dollars to prevent their accounts being audited and that many aspirants for office consider it more necessary to get the con beat of a nonresident non resident boss than to ask be voters for a nomination nomi Dation when the people of carbon county learn this lesson they will have found the way to build up the grandest and most prosperous county in the best besl state in the union by a unanimous vote the salt lake county democratic committee appointed a committee last friday to confer confor with the progressive lyp iv county committee to see if the two pities cannot unite on a county ticket at the coming lection it is probably a good thing for the people of price that the leasing of their light and power plant was illegal for the tle editor of the news has heard board of several parties who will pay more for it if given a chance thai the city was to receive from mr manson when mayor roe rose of los angele angeles was informed a man mau had asked his wife to eign sign a petition for the recall of the mayor the latter wept out on the street and slapped the circulator of the petition its it dangerous diL gerou erous to try to recall a mayor in california no matter low loyl much he be need needs recalling |