The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-30

at present may seem rather in
practical, yet we believe the tim
will come when the workingmal
will find in it his only salvation.
We certainly do not believe tha
any legal measures can be taken tina
will prove effectual in oYerthrowin
the monopolist's power and a
the same time not destroy his righ
to his own property. All those fool
ish schemes which have as an Objec
the limiting to certain amount O.
the property that each man shall
hold, would, If they could be carried
out at all, result in the most disas
trous consequences to those fol
whose especial benefit they Were
created. Every man ought to have
an unlimited right to hold as much
property as he can get hold o
honestly, and to do. with it whatever
he pleases, provided thereby he does
not injure anyone else. Any legal
enactment which takes away from
the rightful owner of property
that control over it, to which
ownership entities him, is
to a certain extent q transfer of
his property into the hands of the
public without any consideration
therefor, and on the face of it must
be regarded as unjust. No doubt
laws may be made that will Prove
very beneficial, but we believe that
they can not be made to cover the
ground by any means. AS the rich
man looks out for himself, so the
poor man must expect to do also, as
he is surely the most interested
party, and hence best qualified for
the work.
The high price and small supply
of coal lately in Cache Valley illus.
trates what a monopoly can do in
the way Of depressing a people. The
rise of about 25 per cent. in the
price of building rock since the red
sandstone quarries have fallen into
the bands of company. shows
plainly what the public may expect
from any such organizations. How
eyer philanthropic men have be-
come, they have not gone so far as
to overlook their own interests in
order to benefit an ungrateful pub
lie, for although corporations are
stigmatized as soulless, yet we be-
lieve also that the public has shown
itsele to be as destitute of gratitude
towards its benefactors as any rail-
road or rock company; the only diff
ference is that it has not had the
chance, and is not likely to get it,
unless the people understand
thoroughly the benefits to be de-
rived from cooperation, and also
how to cooperate so as to secure to
all those concerned their full rights,
and make them reasonably safe
from losses. AS in the
time of the American reYolu-
tion the impending danger was
the only cause that kept the colon
les together, and enabled them
without even the form of confeder-
alton to carry the war with Great
Britain to successful conclusion,
so now in order to make the peoplel
unite their energies to one purpose
the burdens of high tariffs must
weigh heavily upon them first. and
then they are united but only so
long as they feel the weight, and
when that is over with, they soonl
forget the cause. If the people were
only unanimous enough in senti-
ment (Which they generally are in
a case of this kind and also deter t
mined enough in purpose, they
would have much less occasion to l
of the injustice of rail-
road and other companies. We
nave a good illustration in the
Cache Valley case, wherein the
people were determined not to SUBJ
nit and carried their point, but this
was made possible because it did
not involve any one in an extensive
of money or other
means; in fact there " as very little
sacrifice on the part of the railroads '
s
But we have another illustration, a
,ne in which the people of this a
county are especially interested, +
the Utah Eastern railway. i
This road was projected some time s
.go when coal was scarce here, and /
he price of it was high, a condi- C
ion of things brought about by the t