Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-07

which, despite the fact that labor is the
producer of all wealth, make the term
workingman synonymous with poor man.
"Slnce the question of ohattel slavery was
finally settled have acted with the Demo-
cratic party in the hope that, dead issues
being buried, the. living issue of industrial
slavery might come to the front. The time
has now arrived when the old party lines
! have lost their meaning and old party cries
their power, and when men are ready to
turn their quarrels of the past to grapple
with the questions of the present. The
party that shall do for the questions of in
dustrial slavery what the Republican party
did for the question of chattel slavery, must,
by whatever name it shall be known, be a
worklngman's party-a party that shall as
sert the principles of Thomas Jefferson in |
their application of the questions of the |
present day, and be Democratic in aim as |
well as in name.
1T seems to me, moreover that fitting
and hopeful place for such a movement to I
begin is in our municipalities, where emay
address ourselves to what lies nearest at
hand, and avoid dissensions that, until the
process of economic education has gone
further, might divide on national issues.
The foundation of our system is in our local
governments.
Nor Is there any part of our country In
which there is greater need of an earnest
effort to make politics mean more than
struggle for Office than in the city of New {
York, In this great city, the metropolis of
he western hemisphere, municipal govern
nent has reached pitch of corruption that, G
he world over, throws a slur and a doubt
Ipon free institutions. Politics has become 5
trade, and the management of elections a v
uslness. The organizations that call them 4;
elves political parties are little better than =
companies for assessing candi- Il
ates and dividing public plunder; and even n
ldlclal positions are virtually bought and
I'D. el
"A movement begun by the labor associa- 81
ons IN this spirit and with these aims
ould not be class movement. It would al
IN reality movement of the masses W
galnst the rule of the classes It would :.
aw strength from that great body of citi- eu
ms who, though not workingmen in the to
rroW sense of the term, feel the bitterness No
the struggle for existence as much as ~
es the manual Iaborer and are as deeply tic
nsclous of the corruption of our politics ba
d the wrongs of our social system. In its ="
BAD political sense the term 'workingman'
es not refer to particular occupations but
1des those who have. to work that others CIR
y enjoy, from those who can appropriate =.
produce of others work. There is and iii
ire can be an idle class only where there we
dlslnherited class. Where all men stood nm
a. az 04uanCy WIN regard TO the use OF the
TN and the enjoyment of the bounty of sue
lr Creator, all men would belong to the bIo
-klng class. He who will not work. "'0
ther shall he eat is not merely the in as
ctlon of the apostle, it is the mandate of mai
ure which yields wealth to labor, and to -
Or alone. ma
teellng on these matters as have said lists
sense of duty would not permit me to GOO
Use any part assigned me by the common soo
sent of earnest men really bent upon on
!, |! --'9 'n'0 poii'icS the principles hold sore