The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-21
THE NATIONALISTS.
They are Dreaming Dreams and
Seeing Visions.
AND EDWARD BELLAMY
Speak on the Naturalization Scheme-A BIG
Railway Enterprise = The Latest
Union Pacific Consolidation.

Especial to THE HERALD-ExaminerD Dispatch
Boston, Dec. 20.-In fremont temple
last night one hundred men and
women who want to see this
government run by stock com
pany of all the people, with an industrial
army to do the work, in which every man
and woman shall serve their allotted time
under guarantee of the government that
they shall be sure Of living even if they
are too sick or too weak to work. met to
celebrate the first anniversary of the move
ment having this result as its main pur
pose. They had read Edward Bellamv,s
world famous novel, Looking Backward
and had become converts to the scheme of
the naturalization of all industry which is
laid out therein.
Inc organization, now numbering over
two hundred, led to the Bounding of others
IN all parts of the country, so that TODAY
there are over fifty Nationalist clubs with
a total enrolled membership of over six
Thousand. A good many of these clubs
west being represented Edward Everett
Hale, chairman, said in opening the meet
ing that the Nationalist were the natural
enemies OF corporations and that they
would guarantee pure government in the
cltles, and would make it impossible for
Boston's mayor to get rich by trading with
electric light companies. The reference
wa was meant especially for ex-Mayor O'Brien.
They would also make it impossible
for railroad corporations to elect United
States Senators to influence legislation.
Then government would for once at least
be of, by and for the people.
Bellamy was greeted with three cheers
when he rose to speak. He said the Ma
tionalists proposed to have the republic
keep faith with the people and to win it
back from the money power which now
possesses it. He declared that the concen-
tration of wealth in the hands of few
had destroyed equality of citizenship
which was the purpose of the found
ers of the nation. He showed how
less than two hundred thousand men DOS
sess as much of the assets of the nation as
the remaining 5000, 900; or, expressed in
another form, how one three hundredths
of the people had succeeded in freezing
out the Is, 100000 partners, and in another
thirty years they would have possession of
the rest of the assets. Ten thousand men
in New York city, he said, own more than
the rest of the million or more inhabitants:
seventy-one people own the entire bonded
debt of the country. while 60 per cent. of
the debt is owned by less than three thou
sand.
After moralizing on this plutocratic ten
dency of the times, and dwelling upon the
consequent political degeneracy, CONNER
cial dishonesty, social rottenness and in
dustrial oppression, he said the only hope
Of the wage earners and small capitalists
was to join social and radical reform like
Nationalism. ''If you want to know how
republics go to the bad, study up your
musty Roman and Greek histories u said
he, land look about you" In closing he
demanded first the naturalization of rail
roads as being the greatest source of ma
tional danger, then telegraphs and tele-
phones. Next he wanted the express bust
ness added to the postofice, then the coal
mines run by the government with coal at
cost and miners humanely treated. Finally,
he wanted the municipalization of street
railways and lighting companies. Put
0ne of these reforms in practice he said,
and it will insist on the rest"