The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
Edward Bellamv Looks Forward

! Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
New YORK, Dec. S.-Edward Bethany,
author of "Look Backward" is looking
very much forward just at present, and is
building great hopes on the future of the
Nationalist mavement. He was inter
We'd by a World correspondent and ex-
pressed himself in these words 1.-The
coming party will be satisfied with nothing
but fractional BASIS of industry and an
equality of rights and advantages. This
is not class movement; it appeals to all
/ business men and no one is so much inter
ested as the small tradesmen themselves.
| We are not at all rabid I'VE are simply obey
ing the natural way of economics. We do
not want to hang monopolists and capital
lists, but we simply desire to put an end to
a system which permist them to exist"
'Do you think such a millennium as you
have outlined will ever come!n Mr.. Bel
lamy was asked.
| 81 do, and shortly" was the reply.
| "Clubs are forming everywhere and already
there are two or three hundred in the
feld.''
"How will you bring about this great
changeE"
by election and legislation was the
reply. Ont in California they promised
to send an entire delegation of Nationalist
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a similar way in other states. There is no
chance but for a strong public movement
and we believe it is coming. We do not
blame any class for the existing state of
things, neither do we represent any. The
plutocratic tendency is in itself a revolu-
ton and their constant drainage of bust
ness out of the hands of small dealers is
threatening to the public"
| When questioned as to the objects of the
movement, Mr.. Bellamy said: live
want naturalization of all railroads. We
propose that the government shall take
charge of the properties and shall pay over
to the present security holders such divi-
dends on a just valuation of the property
as may be earned.
''2- INSTRUMENTATION of the telegraph and
telephone systems in the same or some
other practicable manner. The English
government purchased the telegraph
system outright. Congress could easily
decide the matter.
Standardization of the coal mining
business of the country to the end that all
mines may be worked continuously to their
full capacity, the coal to be furnished to
| consumers at cost and miners to be steadily
and permanently employed. No class of
men is so damnably dealt with as coal
miners and there is no class of employers
who treat the public so rapaciously as the
coal barons.
| linen we propose That the poStofnce de-
partment of the government shall control
the express business of the country on the
same principles. The cities and towns of
the country should take charge as to the
municipal functions of lighting and run
ming of cars and all methods of rapid
transit. These conditions, if carried out,
would affect the condition of 10000
workingmen throughout the country. No
body wants harsh measures but the general
1io inta donoop6c n nhonCa
Our object in urging these changes is three
fold.
''1-They are in line with and are step
ping stones to ultimate naturalization.
''2-They will benefit the general con-
Stunning public by greater cheapness and
efficiency in these branches of the service.
''3-They afford means by which the
condition of the vast body of workingmen
can be placed on a human and secure
basis The first of these objects is logical
and the two later are merely principle of
application"