Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-16

the government of the country, and that
! he has power of expression denied to
most men. The following from him in
reply to question by Plain Dealer re-
porter in Cleveland recently, when asked
if he was in favor of labor and its inter-
ests, hits the nail squarely and elo-
quently:
II am in sympathy with laboring men of
all kinds, whether they labor with hand or
brain. If the objects of laboring men are to
improve their condition, without injuring
others, to have homes and fresides and
wives and children, plenty to eat, good
clothes to wear, to develop their minds, to
educate their children-in short, to become
prosperous and civilized, 1 sympathize with
them and hope they will succeed. have
not the slightest sympathy with those who
wish to accomplish all these objects through
brute force. A Nihilist may be forgiven in
Russia-may even be praised in Russia; a
Socialist may be forgiven in Germany, and
certainly Home Ruler can be pardoned in
Ireland, but in the United States there is no
place for Anarchists, Socialist or dynamiter.
Now the laboring people are largely in the
majority in this country. If there are any
laws depressing them they should have them
repealed. want them to convince both the
other great parties that they cannot be pur-
chased. This will be an immense step in
the right direction"
Ingersoll, like thousands of other men,
does not believe that man must neces-
sarily be clothed in a dungaree jumper
and overalls, and have his hands cal
loused, in order to be working man, but
includes every man in that category who
produces something the world must have,
whether it is by manual or mental labor.
There are no harder-worked men in the
world than the men of the various pro-
fessions of law, letters, medicine, and the
arts and sciences, and until the rank and
file of the laboring men of the country
feel this to be a truth, and that the inter-
ests of these men are identical with their
own, they can never succeed in con-
trolling the popular voice in any measure
they may undertake. Henry Georges
idea OF ease and happiness for all, with |
no manual labor only such as each man
puts forth for himself, looks very we'll in |
print, but is altogether impossible in
practice. Education and enlightenment |
will forever exist in certain degrees |
lmong the people of the earth, and those |
% whom falls the highest learning and
attainments will naturally lead those
Who are not so fortunate, and the curse of |
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such that there will always be great
majority who will be those who are not
ldvanced in education and enlighten-
nent. The Constitution and the coun-
ry guarantees every man an equal
how at the start of his life, and if
le is outstripped by his neighbor, it
8 his own fault. There must be hewers
# wood and drawers of water, and those
rho fall behind in the race OF life must
70 this work. Prosperity and civiliza-
ion in the highest degree attainable will
ever remove the necessity for toll in
nis cold world, and there will always be
horny-handed class of men to do it, but
ley should not assume that they are the
My workers, and should permit some
DICE in affairs from the other large class,
no, though better paid, are equally
ard worked, and desire to have a voice
the labor questions of the day. A
coat to the average working ;;
AN is like a red rag to bull. This I
lould not be so.