The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-20

have learned by careful inquiry that in
the little state of Maryland there are to-
day 10000 people who find employment in
connection with the great canning indus
tries. The corn of her corn6elds, the
peaches OF her eastern shores and other
fruits, and the Incompatible oysters and
hsh OF Chesapeake bay are canned and
sent all over this country and the world.
Wnen you put into that product an addi-
tlonal tax of 2 2-10c. per pound you are
narrowing the market both home and
abroad for the great canning industry of
Inc country, and you are laying the toun-
oatlon Tor great tin trust, that with its
capital of $4,000, 900 or S40,000,000 will
enter the political arena of this country
and make another great force for the peo-
pie.
GLANCE AT ENGLAND.
I'VE have tried this protective system
ana the scheme of the government OF taking
certain part of the people into partnership
with 1t to levy taxes upon the great masses
OF the people. I take it for granted that
am addressing people who work with their
nands, and In this audience there are many
VINO belong to the great labor organizations
OF the country. ask all Of you to look
over this United States, and if you are sat-
lshed with the result Of twenty five years
OF protection, you ought to rally to the
Tor the maintenance of this system of tax
atlon. But II your eyes see as think my
eyes see, wealth accommodating and massing
steadily from you to the hands of a small
mum GER OF people, while the great mass of
the people are engaged in q struggle for the
necessarles OF life, | say you ought to rally
to the opposition to this system that pro-
duces these inequalities.
line report OF the English chancellor Of
the exchequer-Mr. Goschen-shows that
the great incomes of England have not in
creased IN number or amount that there
| has been moderate increase Of moderate
| incomes, while down ut the bottom the In
comes that represent comfortable living
nave been increasing under the operation
OF the great forces of science and invention.
In other words, these great forces have
been put beneath society to lift it up.
am tempted to agree with Henry George
lapplause that in the United States this
great industrial revolution is not for the
purpose OF the general elevation of man
Kind, but is as wedge driven in near the
top OF society to raise the favored few and
beat down the great mass Of the American
people.
EVILS OF CLASS GOVERNMENT.
"When they come to talk to you in de-
tense OF this system of enriching the few
by taxing ourselves, they say: Look at
England with her pauper labor, and Ger
many, and France. II we do not maintain
this system Of tariff taxation we shall sink
to the level of pauper England, pauper
Germany and France What are these
countries with which they compare US! /
said ride across this continent was good
education. l do not know the size Of Utah,
but it is about as big as England.
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES.
with our democratic institutions no
child can be born so humble, so beset with
difficulties, but if it desired to go upwards
| the ladder of opportunity reached to him,
| and he could rise to be just what he de-
sired to be under free government An
drew Jackson one time worked at the sad
dler's bench. Ii he had done 80 in Eng
land, France or Germany, his children, if
he had any, and his grandchildren, and his
great grandchildren, might have worked at
the saddler's bench for all time to come.
Fillmore worked at the weayer's loom. An
drew johnson worked at the tailor's bench.
Garfield drove the mules on the canal boat,
and in one Of the humblest cabins of Ken
| lucky, with its battened windows, was born
Abraham Lincoln. Every one Of these men
IN other countries would have remained in
the condition of life in which they were
born. No talent, virtue. ambition or effort
would have lifted them to high position in
| otner countries OF the world; but With US,
under democratic institutions, the pathway
was open, and they were bid go forward
and be just what they deserved to be.
II fight against the system of tariff taxa
tion because it is massing the money OF this
country in the hands of small part of its
citizens; but fight against it with infinite
more enthusiasm, zest and determination
because it is massing the opportunities OIL
this great free country into the hands of 8
few and a favored class, because it is taking
from the boys that cluster around every
freside their opportunities in life that the
Democratic fathers kept for Jackson, John
son, Fillmore, Lincoln, and for me-"
The speaker closed his eloquent address
by appealing to the Democrats to stand fol
local self government and as he concluded
the applause was bewildering.
The Democratic club was cheered, thu
Democratic party came in for a rousing senC
off and the audience fingered at the hall fo
some time shaking hands and partaking il
a general love feast