Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-04-30
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Display Space to be Used Within One Year
FRIDAY, APRIL 80. 1920
EXERCISE YOUR FRANCHISE

n ECENTLY an audience in the city OF New York
n was told it would be fifty to one hundred
years before the American people. are able
integenty to exercise the right OF franchise. Inns
severe arraignment came something OF shock
to sef-satis6ed residents of the big town. but there
was more than measure Of truth disclosed IN the
statement Perhaps 100 per cent of truth would have
been disclosed had it been said that 30 years are
likely to pass before the American people WILL ex-
ercise the right of franchise intellgently. tor we
must not forget our besettng sin OF apathy. =,
The average citizen believes he has done ful
duty when he has cast his VOTE and feels sense
of satisfaction when victory crowns his own good
judgement However, too often our victory is but
the mante to defeat for usually the voter has good
no voice whatever in the selection OF the candidates
for whom he has cast his ballot. The average busl-
ness man pays more attention the selection OF an
Office boy for his business than he does to the selec-
ton of man to represent him at the national cap
itol Also after selection he watches the boy more
closely than he watches the activities of his legs
lative servant.
Representatives are sent to Congress to work
for the convictions of the people who sent them
there not to express their views. Ut course the
average representative forgets this fact as soon as
he takes his oath and follows his own bent largely
perhaps because Of custom. his constituents falling
to give him other bent to follow. Public interest
in the work of representative usually is confined
10 ENDORSEMENT al III 'O'i'S '~~"'
Improvement The Pork Barrel results. every com
munity making scramble to get its nose into the
public trough Votes are traded to obtain results,
making the peoples will .purchasable commodity
and bringing down upon the nation millions upon
millions of dollars of expense. condition that
seems to mean little or nothing to the individual.
This is not condition peculiar to any one party:
1t is part of the accepted form of governmental
activity, the result of apathy on the one hand and
the desire to score an advantage on the other. Is
it any wonder we are weighted down by taxation9
There is not business man of note in the country
who does not know that when the first Liberty Loan
was voted it could have been sold to the people at
per cent instead of at 312 per cent had the gov,
eminent approached the people as any great bond
house would have approached the people, by adj
vertising in the newspapers When you write to your
congressman or your senators about the benefit OF
the government getting in closer touch with the peo-
pie through advertising, and they try to squirm out
under the plea of economy, ask them how much
money would be represented in saving. of the half
of one percent on the interest of the first Liberty
Loan ssue-the millions of dollars that must be
paid by the people into the national treasury for
years and years to come.
The people never will get efficient or economical
government until the people force the government
TO use advertising in government funchonlng. Let
US have light