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Show PROPOSES A GREAT TAX Charging t ho Cubans with responsibility for thr- high priors in sugar, thr San Francisco Chronicle offers the following unique rem- I The Cuban sugar producers of whom no small number I are American citizens in good legal standing, living in and I about New York have got the American people vnerr they j ran wreak their wiil upon us, and are wreaking their will I Tiiry havr made a thoroughgoing combine more effective I than any combination ever made in this country, and are B doing us up. We cannol help ourselves and they may enjoj hearing up howl The rombine has been offerea 18 1-4 rents a pound for sugar in 'nba but is holding for lusher price. I Lei them hold We must endure for a time whatever the H Cubans may Choose to do to us, but unless we are oravens, fit only to be trod upon, we shall proceed with cool deliberation delibera-tion to wipe the Cuban sugar industry as an . .lportant factor in the sugar trade off the face of the earth li we do not do I it, we shall demonstrate that we are not a peo,ilr destined H tn survive. H There is not the slightest difficult jtl producing in this H country all the sugar we need, with a surplus for export This method of prredure is perfectly simple It is to ranrel the rcciprority feature in our treaty relations with Cuba, and fC-enttc1 thr MiMr selirdule of ;he Republican lariff of 1009, or the .still arlirr tariff in force up to that time, and to gnarantrc to our citizens who may engage in I sugar production that there shall be no tariff nansre to their detriment for ten J ears. At the end of that period we shall be exporter-- of sugar and can then determine whal legislative steps are necessary H to assure that we shall remain exporters As to the Cubans, wc no lonirer i are what becomes of them The Cubans are made of the same day as Americans When a very rich Cuban finds a system by which he ean gouge his fellow Cubans and other-., he pr ledfl to the pleasant nl.. Tint it is a I strange philosophy which would advocate that, because under pei u liar conditions foreigners are demanding for a necessity all the profits possible, this country inflicts on its own consumers an extraordinary tax over a long period of years. To rebuke tin Cubans a spite fence 1 is to be erected around the United states. That is .t ctever concep- tion, but tbQ palpably tin offering of our wrong .in a conviction of I another wrong to be accepted by other than the gullible The sugar !' men themselves would not desire a measure of ex Insion so prejudicial to the welfare of their industry. DRIVING OUT TYPHOID Resolved on stamping out typhoid in Utah, the state board of health ,j has made arrangements to distribute vaccines as a means of render- ing the inhabitants immune. H In a public circular. Dr. T B Beatty. state health commissioner, I "The typhoid season is approaching, and it is important that as I many persons as possible shall be inoculated without delay. "In view of the fact that inoculation will positively prevent ty- j phoid as proved by its pomplete eradication from the army and else- jl where, no community can afford to spare any effort necessary to protect its citizens from the disease. Ctah still has a high typhoid I death rate which may practically bo eliminated through immuniza- I tion conferred by modulation I Ogden has not bail a case of typhoid in months, which proves that the water and milk supply has not been contaminated. But there always is danger of certain f Is being 1he carriers of the germs of I typhoid. Milk is the greatest BOUrce of typhoid, bur vegetables and fruits exposed to flies may bring the deadl) disease into the house Safeguards against contamination of that kind jhould be employed j and. m addition, the vaccine, which virtually has eliminated typhoid from the V. S army, should be used. Ten years ago Ctah had a bad typhoid record Each year brought lonp list of deaths from this one cause, A campaign of precaution was begun which lavtd hundreds of lives Now the work is to be completed by inoculation I RAILWAY MAIL TERMINAL i I J Our railroad mail service should insist on a large building to I house the workers in the local terminal. At present there are em- ployed at the terminal oer forty persons, who distribute the paper jl and other heaV mails for much of the country north and west of During the war nearly all the parcel post was Taken from the HI Ogden terminal owing t.p the fact thnt the accommoda-wns here were HI not adequate, This deft-et should be overcome, either by f lie rail- a roads or the government building for the future a at mature suitable for the largest possible demands on this terminal. Ogden is the proper place for thi handling M the heav mails I and should not ! deprived of that advantage simply owing to failure jl to pro id,' facilities H Our government is spending millions annually for federal build ing", and no city i more entitled ' recognition in those expenditures j than Ogib u When Senator SmOOl is in Ogden next Saturday t he should be I '-uiisted on the side of Ogden in the procuring ti such aid as should B be given the local railway mail terminal. B Australian and Asiatic mails are now classified in the Ogden B terminal and, with the return of the parcel post. the. Ogden office i would be one of the most important in the United state |