The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-08

be swallowed by workingmen. nor his party TO
pose as the friend OF the laborer. II can pre-
vent it he shall not again delude my fellow
workers. land reduce them from their duty Of
regulating the party Of broken pledges.
The Tribune first claims that wages have been
advanced from 40 to 100 per cent, above what
they were ten years ago. This is false. While
wages have increased in some trades they have
decreased in others. The greatest advance has
been in that of the bricklayers, whose wages in
ten years have gone up IS per cent. while the
cos: Of house rent and maintaining family IS
% per cent. more than in 1881. What may seem
to be curious fact is that members of this
trade say they lay one-third more brick in day
now than they did ten years ago.
Where wages have advanced, II has been in
those trades that are best organized, such as
the plumbers, stone cutters and plasterers,
consequently the credit for any benefits belongs
TO the men themselves. in being organized for
their own protection and advancement.
The papers say there are three times as many
men at work as there were ten years ago, which
is dead wrong, for there are more idle men now
in proportion to the people than at any other
time in ten years. The Tribune then asks, il all
this increased labor and advance in wages is
not due TO something: would like TO ask the
Liberal party If il has been true 10 that promise
will also ask, have the bona fide working
men and taxpayers OF Salt Lake ever received
any direct benefit from the 81 O0)OO the Liberal
party has spent sirce 1t has been in power.
Has there ever been a contract let to q Salt
Laker. No; not even when his bid has been
the lowest. The Liberal oficials have always
leaned to the stranger, who has invariably i'm
ported cheap labor 70 do the work. For in
stance that conduit from Parley's canon is
being built by imported labor, and it takes over
81. 900 per month for inspectors to keep the con-
tractors honest. great party that.
As to the methods of some OF the Liberal
party to win over organized labor: AS q union
man do not believe in coralling lot of men
on Fourth of July. as was done at the park
and at Shoots gardens, and making Repubii
can speech at the former place and Liberal
speech by the POWERS at the latter.
For the life OF me cannot see how a union
man can be anything but Democrat, because
the principles OF Democracy are identical with
those OF his union. Democracy is on record as
opposed to combines and trusts which rob the
wage-worker Of the just proportion OF his own
labor. Show me a combine and will show you
a gang OF robbers who are employing men At
starvation wages. The unions are tgnting
these. II one OF these same men who are work
ing for starvation wages wishes TO buy any
article which he manufactures he must pay 100
per cent. more for it than the trust sells 1t for
in foreign market. This alone ought to win
over every union man, for il shows that IL an
article can be made here and sold in European
markets in competition with foreign goods
there is no need OF tariff. and We ought to buy
the article here at price less the tariff, which
is leo per cent. in many cases.
In short Democracy proposes to do by legis
lative power what the labor organizations are
trying to do by force. When Democracy says
it will do the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber it means that it is the poor mems party
because they are the greatest number, and they
10 not believe in legislation In the interest OF
the few to the disadvantage OF the many, the
wage-workers. These cardinal principles OF
Democracy ought to win over every working
man.
AS national party lines are being drawn and
the Liberal party is on its death bed and
should do some good deed before its breath is
gone, 1 suggest that as three out Of four scab
jobs in this city are being done by Liberals.
with cheap inferior labor, they discharge them
and take on union men. Let US start in with
Brother CLUTE. subscribe myself.
UNION MAN AND DEMOCRAT.