The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-04
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enlightened foresight, but that they
result from the discriminating favor of
the government and are largely built
of our people. The gulf between en-
ployers and the employed is constantly
widening, and classes are rapidly
forming, one comprising the very rich
and powerful, while in another are
found the toiling poor.
AS we view the achievement OF ag-
gregated capital we discover the ex
iStence of trusts, combinations and
monopoiies while the citizen is strug
Cling far in the rear, or is trampled to
death beneath an iron heel, and cor
porationS, which should be the care
fully restrained creatures of the law
and the servants of the people, are
fast becoming the peoples masters.
Still, congratulating ourselves on the
WEALTH AND PROSPERITY
of our country and complacently con-
templating every incident of change
inseparable from those condl-
tions, 1t is our duty as patriotic
citizens to inquire at the present stage
of our progress how the bond of the
government made with the people has
been kept and performed. Instead of
limiting the tribute drawn from our
citizens to the necessities of it's eco
nomicA administration, the govern
ment persists in eXacting from the
substance of the peoplelmilliOnslwhich,
it's treasury. This fragrant injustice
and this breach of faith and obligation
add to extortlon the danger attending
q diversion of the currency of the
country from the legitimate channels
Of business.
Under the same laws by which these
laws are produced, the government
permits many millions more to be add
ed to the cost of living of our people
and to be taken from our consumers,
which unreasonably swells the profits
of small but
POWERFUL MINORITY.
The people must still be taxed for the
support of the government under the
operation of tariff laws, but to the eX-
tent that the mass of our citizens are
inordinately burdened beyond any USE
full public purpose for the benefit of
a favored few. The government,
under the preteXt of an exercise of its
taxing power, enters gratuitously into
partnership with these favorltes to
their advantage and to the injury of a
vast majority of our people. This is
not equality before the law. The eX-
listing situation is injurious to the
health of our entire body polite. 1t
stiles all patriotic love of country and
substitutes in its place selfish greed
and grasping avarice. Devotion
to American citizenship for it's own
sake and for what it should accom-
pl1sh as motive to our nations adj
vancement and the happiness of al our
people, is displaced by the assumption
the embodiment of equality, is but an
through which espe-
cial and individual advantages are to
be gained.
THE ARROGANCE
of this assumption is uncencealed; it
appears in the sordid disregard of all
but personal interest, in the refusal to
a5ate for the benefit of others one iota
of selfish advan age, and in combina-
tions to perpetuate such advantages,
through the efforts to control legisla-
ton and improperly control the SUI
frage of the people.
The grievance of these not included
within the circle of these beneficiaries,
when fully realized, will surely arouse
irritation and discomfort. Our farm
ers, long-suffering and patient, strug-
CLING in the race of life with the hard
est and most unremitting toll, will not
fail to see, in spite of misrepresenta-
lions and misleading fallacies, that
they are obliged to accept such
prices for their products as are
fixed in the foreign markets where they
compete with the farmers of the world;
that their lands are declining in value
while tAeir debts increase, and that
without compromising favor they are
forced by the action of the government
TO pay, for the benefit of others, such
prices for the things they
need that the
SCANTY RETURNS
If their labor fail to furnish their sup
port or leave no margin for accumula- |
ion.
Our Workingmen, enfranchised from |
Ill decisions, and no longer frightened |
)y the cry that their wages are en-
iangered by just revision of our tariff |
avs, will reasonably demand through |
Iuch revision steadier employment,
;heaper means of living in their homes,
reedom for themselves and their chill
iren from the doom of perpetual SER
1itude, and an open door to their adj
beyond the limits of Ia
boring class.
Others of our citizens, whose COM
orts and expenditures are measured
" moderate salaries and fixed in
comes, will insist upon the fairness
nd justice of cheapening the cost of
lecessaries for themselves and their
antilles.
When to the selfishness of the bene-
Iciaries of unjust discrimination I'M
Ter our laws there shall be added the
iscontent of those who suffer from
UGH discrimination, we will realize
be fact that the beneicent purposes
f our government depended upon the
atriotism and contentment of our
eople which are endangered.
COMMUNISM
J a hateful thing and menace to {
eace and organized government; but {
he communism of combined wealth ]
nd capital, the oHtgrewth of over |
7eaning cupidity andlselfishness which {
lsidiously undermines the justice and
ltegrity of free institutions, Is not ]
,ss dangerous than the communism
oppressed poverty and toll which,