The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-16

con J1QueO.
1--WE have been treated to many dis
courses during the past year on the
subj ct of one-man power. The chic
trouble with our order is because Of ,
lack of
oNE-MAN POWER.
Our power has been divided in the past
and it has worked injury to US. Tit
will of this order. crystalized into Law
and imprinted upon the pages of oul
constltu ton by the representatives
to the letter. To do this duty is as
laws assigned to another. Where many
execute laws themselves they always
fail; where each man interpfets the
law for himself there is sure to babel
of sound and confusion Vest in
one man the power to execute the laws
which the many favor and pass upon.
Allow no interference with that man
in the performance of his duty, and
you may expect results. Allow every
self-seeker, every knave, every dis
turber and fault-finder to interpret the
laws, and
WE HAVE ANARCHY,
pure and simple, paudering to lgnor-
ance. Some have given rise to the i'm
preston that the. man who rallied
against the one man power was friend
to the masses. No greater mistake was
ever made. The man who tells the PEG.
pie that they can all act independent of
each other is demagogue. No matter
how intelligent people may be, they
must meet to determine what no one
man wants, but what is best for all =.
When they meet, many cherished thee =
ries must give way to practical ideas,
and when these are enacted into law
and entrusted to the hands of one man
for enforcement, every hand should be
stretched forth to aid that one man to
carry out the will of all men, rather
than to have. as l have had, so
many hands stretched forth to
say, DO the work that your
predecessors assigned to YOU.
Men have been placed in Office with me
with whom l would not for a moment
associate in private business enterprise
with any hope of success, yet for the
sake of the good that might follow al
lent forbearance under such circun-
stances has been observed by me.
Fancy the condition which tbs United
Colonies would have found themselves
in had the first ten years of the goVere-
ment of the United States been dele
gated to such men as | describe, and
the interests of the 3,000,U of that day
were greater than those which were
placed in the keeping of the general ex-
ecutive board of the Knights OF Labor. "
After remarking the influences on
the order of public opinion, he takes up
the pending questions, saying:
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
that can come up before this body for
consideration are those of finance, land
and transportation. These great ques-
tons are up before the people for dis
cussion and solution. They must be
settled by the people, for it is not to the
interest OF politicians to do so. Those
who control our public highways are
reaching out with the hand OF steel to
grasp and control the government it
self. 1t is indeed battle for suprem-
.acy. If the masses remain Idle and
Indifferent, the classes will rule through
the power which came to them through
banking, railway and land monopolies.
1t is, therefore, duty which we should
not neglect to select questions which
have pointed out and place them prom
inently before our members for discus
sion."
He recommends that special COM
mittee of three be appointed to take up
the matter. He advocates the concen
tration of the energies of the order on
fhnoo nt1no1Inna onA f1rthoY
mends the formation of junior assem-
blies for educating the younger work
ing people Matter of interest chiefly
to the order came in for good share of
attention. He favors a change of the
time of holding the general assembly,
believing it comes
To CLOSE TO ELECTIONS.
He says: ut might happen that in the
heat of particularly exciting cam
paign members might differ as to politi-
cal methods and ill-feeling be eDgen-
dered. Should our annual session be
held ia the midst of such contest or
soon after one, it could not be as pro-
ductive of good as one held at a time
when every trace of excitement and
feeling of the campaign had died
away"
He advocates equal pay for equal
work for women. The provisional
committee is referred to as
follows: Scarcely had the gavel
fallen on the last act of the Mime
apoiis session than traitors hands
were raised to destroy what it had
taken years of time and patient work
to construct. The majority of the last
convention were right. They legis-
lated as they saw necessary for it.
They refused to pass resolutions with
which they were not In sympathy, and
at the close of the general assembly a
meeting was held in Chicago,
which aYowed the purpose of dis
rupting the whole of the order.
At that meeting it was resolved to or
ganizs what was called a provisional
committee, r,,the purpose of purifying
the order. Decision No. 276. which is
herewith presented for the action of
tba general assembly, deals with tn g
question of the right of a member of
the provisional committee to visit or
otherwise meddle with an assembly of
this order. Th lis. o ition should te
approved and the law passed at this
meeting which sho lid promptly and
-oxoaI from rho 0rdar mnm hers