The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-31

of rich men, and an infinitely larger
number of poor men. This produces
that due degree of sub0rdination In the
ranks OF mankind 30 ably advocated
by Edmund Burke.
Now, to apply these principles which
will rot be denied except by dema-
gog,,es and Anarchists) to the question
of tariff protection. IL not a system,
which enriehes few enterprisiDg cit-
izsns, greatly to be preferred,
to one which leaves everybody
on dead level of equality
aud medioerity? The demagogues
say that 1t is not right to im-
poverish the many in order to enrich
the few. But the masses Of the people,
II they will look st this matter in It's
right light. will see that it is greatly to
their advantage to have this Inequality,
though, perhaps, at Grst blush they
may NOT be able TO see it. Let them
consider that the contribution of each
consumer is comparatively sman-al-
though In the aggregate it makes q few
men immensely rioh-but. these rich
men furnish employment. 20 many
thousands of people. And while it Is
true that these employees remain poor
all their lives, yet this is this
order OF nature, and every man ought
20 "be contsnted in that condition
wherein 1t has pleased God to place
him." By means of this sort OF distri-
button of wealth, there has been vast
accumulation in this country IL the
last quarter of q century-and it is
much better TO have the accumulation
in q few hands, than to have no &C
.mulstion at all This vas the
happy condition of affairs in the
halcyon days in the Southern States
before the war. A few men were very
rich, while the mssses Of this peOple
we're poor. These last were niggers
and "white trash" But "a rule they
were happy and contentsd "in that
condition wherein 1t had pleased God
to place them" TIE niggers were
persuaded that 1t was a good thing for
them to work for the enrichment of
their masters-who In turn taught
them Christianity and gave them
abundance of employment-and the
poor white trash were persuaded that
the institution was good thing tor
them, too; as it put them into the
ranks of the white chiYalry, and
honorably distinguished them from
the servile class. The laws
down there took care Of the
r'ch, and the rich took care of the poor.
Theirs Is another view wish to present
that IL tho aesthetic view of the CASE.
As we cannot all be rich, is it not .
good thing for Us all to throw in" 80
that if We can't all be owners We can
enjoy the felicity of looking at the fine
houses, fine conservatories of flowers,
fine sQuipssss. fine silks. satins and
broc8des and blazing diamonds; of the
bene6cisries of high protection2 Burke
lamented that the age of chivalry had
gona by, and come of the most enlight-
ened travellers and titteratsurs OF
Europe have contended that We have
no poetry, and can have pone in
America because we have no aris-
tocracy. But the material prosperity
of the country In the last twenty-five
years supplies this iong-felt want. This
furnishes that subordination in the
ranks of mankind which makes our 80
ciety so much more picturesque than
one of those Arcsdian communities
imagined by optimistic writer's where
all have equal rights and all have the
comforts without the Injuries OF life,
and where there is no castled lord nor
cabined slave. Therefore let the gov
eminent take care of the rich--and the
Lord will take care OF the poor. -