The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-04

Sumption or transportation, and
J raw material for our looms and
mills, but he is practically shut out
from the markets of the world if h
cannot move those crops to where
they are in demand. Mechanics
and mills stand idle unless
materials wherewith to work
are to be procured. Our mines
are unprOductive unless capital
aids in their development. Monop
Ollsts III times past sought to pro-
hiblt the manufac ture, or the i'm
pOrtatlOn of certain articles and
products Of distant lands, that their
own profit might not be interfered
with, and they were upheld by Gus
tom, law, legislative and kingly
grants. The justice, or injustice, of
these measures were scarcely ever
thought of; the wants of the peo-
pie, their necessities, their suffer
ings, were not considered. Gem
mercial and international laws are
now far more liberal and enlight-
ened than ever before, yet the
wisest of their provisions are
eVaded or defied when self interest
backed by money power, seeks to
control the avenues Of trade, and
make capital, in lucre and political
power, of the necessities of the poor
The adding Of cent per cent, at all
times alluring, becomes yet more
pleasing and powerful as an incen-
tive to action, when it increases not
only the commercial importance of
individuals, but likewise dictates
the choice Of candidates for pOliti-
cal distinction. Democracy, in such
a case, is but name, the liberty of
individual preference and choice be-
ing but the Pigment of the brain of
the visionary Utopian, and money
becomes not only the "SinewS of
war" but the arbiter of the desti-
MES of a nation.
In the present phase Of modern
society, is SelfishneSS an attendant
alone on wealth, or does it descend
to the lower and more neceSsitOuS
ranks Of the labOring classes? We
find Dennis Kearney's ever on the
watch to subtract from, or totally
destroy, the productiveness of cap
ital. If they cannot rule they would
ruin, overthrow and Obliterate. En-
vious of the superior prosperity and
mOnetery increase of the Well-to-dO,
unjuStly gained at times, they would
appropriately or destroy, and in their
inexperienced mode they would
create power more tyrannical, de-
structive and far reaching than the
rule created by wealth. Only in the
light of one poison neutraliZing and
destroying the evil effects of the
other, could they do good; while in
accomplishing this good, thousands
of the innocent would be injured, if
not ruined.
Capital and labor should always
go hand in hand, each willing to de-
fer at times to the other. Neither
should seek to Cypress the other.
The manufacturer should not be
called on to pay wages ruinOus to
his business, nor should the poor
man be so put down as to have an
insufficient keeping. Both should
be willing to sacrifice something to
make less gain, that both might be
benefited in the END. Strikes sell
dom, if ever, do good, nor is either
master or servant strictly just in
judging in answer to claims he is
himself interested in. Both sides
should be heard and both sides
should have something to say in
the final decision of causes But
demagogues ever have and for ages
hence will make trouble and stir up
strife. Dupes are ever ready to the
hand-ready to believe almost any
absurdity and to follow almost any
hayward path.