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Show POLITICS Well, folks, we are In the middle of the beginning- of unotVr cunipingn. The two dominant political panics are arranging to give each other the battle of the century as they try to do every two or four years whatever tho case might be. We are getting so used us-ed to the old custom of a popular man's friends forcing him into the race for the good of mankind and all of the rest of what goes with it that we are prone to accept the conditions as they are and "let em go." We all get our money's worth however. how-ever. Just think a national election costs a mere 40 million dollars. I.eob than John D. Rockefeller has given to charity by 9 tenths. But it's worth it. All of us get at least our 33c worth of fun from the elections and what Ij more it is about the biggest value re. celved we ever get. This year Lieuiocnita are pictur. Ing the Republicans a party of "Addition, "Addi-tion, Division and Silence," a way of saying "Damn Thief" with an oi-i'or. ictl flourish, in order to work the crowd into red-hot frenzy. Calvin Coolldge "sit3 silently In the walch-tower, walch-tower, so the thieves may not be caught in the act of udding to and dividing their loot."' Democracy, of course Is "righteousness Itself." The picture Is dry. Not self-interest, but humor excuses, exaggeration S.'lf. righteousness is ever base. Four years ago the Republican tie-pliant tie-pliant was painted marching down street with a fife, playing the rtirnin. "I ain't going t- steal, I ain't going to steal no more," while t! e Democratl'1 donkey at his side rejoined. "How in hell can the people know you ahi't gwlii to steal no nio'?" It had tlw ring of a laugh in it. Toot it left a little comeback. Might not the elephant ele-phant who had digged a pit ond knew it be now a safer rl:,k than the donkey who implied he had not even the propensity to dig? Ueware of the man who says be can't dig a pit. He is either a statu", or Deep spiritual wind-Jill is the only guaranty n&insl digging a pit. T! e clever donkey has lens of it than the clumsy elephant. And hasn't the donkey also dug J pit? Here in Salt Lake county there will be a lively fight for honors. It has always bem tin function of the "on" to find fault with and check up on the "ins" and we can't remember nnv time that plenty Iia3 b??n brought. In an effort to qualify as scandal. These last two years however iinv -seemed to have been both locally and nationally terms of ever present graft .md corruption. With the advent of prohibition into th national Iife ther? has been countless new avenues opened open-ed up for graft and countless methods used In turning the law into a profit making one for a few. Whether t' e prohibition lssne will be a paramount one in tin coming campaign for either party is a question ques-tion as yet. Both parties wool J be more than glad to side step the Issue as far as possible and refuse to either say yes or no on the question. At any rate the chance of the nation ever "going wet" again Is far remote, j In fact we don't ever expect to see liquor sold in saloons again. There is howeYer a possibility and a mere one of having- some form- of regulated dispensation or alcohol. Time a ton-? will tell. |
