The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-15

an official way, expressed myseH upon |
these subjects, but feeling the interest, dig |
nifty and Importance of the asSemolage IN
whose behalf you speak, l have ventured |
without bigotry of opinion, without any as |
sumption Of impartiality, but as an Amerl- |
can citizen, having the most earnest desire
that every individual and every public act
of my life shall conduce to the glory OF our
country and the prosperity of all our people,
to submit these views for your consldera-
tion.n
A letter was also read from ]. M. Rusk,
secretary of agriculture. He suggested
that prominence be given to the discussion
of those questions affecting the agricul-
turaI interests of the country, for the rea-
son that prosperous agricultural condition
will insure prosperity in all other branches
of industry. He suggests the subjects,
Transportation Markets and ''F'ed-
eral and State Statistics" as pivotical Ques
tons affecting the farmers.
NJ. H. DeYoung, of San Francisco, sent
paper on irrigation.
Senator PETER, of Kansas, wrote ex-
pressing the hope that the congress would
result in bringing the people of the west
and south into closer social and commercial
relations.
Charles Francis Adams, of Boston, wrote
| that while he recognized the hardshlpS OF
the present situation in the west. he did
| ton was necessary for remedy. With the
very general popular idea that the govern
ment is grand paternal guardian to do all
! to protect everyone and everything
and provide remedies for every Ill
that the body polite is subject to,
| Mr.. Adams does not sympathize. ION the
contrary says he, 81 am so antlquated IN
opinion as to think that the world IS gov
erned altogether too much, and that IT
rarely has been governed so much or so
badly as it has been in this country within
| the last twenty five years. II the people
are left alone they will work out their sal
walton great deal quicker and moro salts
! factorily than while the government 1nces-
sanity lncumbers them with its well-meant,
! but i'll advised assistance"
Mr. Adams did not believe there was any
general business and agricultural depres-
sion, except that due 10 natural and tenn
porary causes, and he did not believe any
| legislation required. He thinks improved
| TRANSPORTATION by land and water would
provide for itself under the laws OF supply
and demand, if the government did not con-
tinually NEEDLE with it. Western products
would ind market soon enough if the gov
eminent would leave the matter severely
alone. The great trouble with the cur
rency is excessive tinkering, and If the
government would leave it alone, the inter
nal currency of the country would regulate
itself Just as perfectly as lnterna
tional currency does. The manufacturing
interests of the country always have been
successfully promoted by individuals when
the government had left them alone, and
every interference from the government
from the beginning to the Mckinley bill
had been detrimental to the public interest
The irrigation of arid lands is settling
| itself in Idaho and Colorado and other
states, where the government leaves i
alone The fewer commercial laws wt
have the better, and if there were no com
mercial laws, the community would be fal
more prosperous than it is. The interior
ence of the government with immigration
has been uniformly mischievous. Business
combinations and trusts were dangerous t
those inside them, and if left alone by Sh
government, would work nothing but good
unless perverted to some purpos
t opposed to the laws of trade, in which
case they would inevitably, sooner o
3 later, bring about the ruin of those con
t cerned in them The Indian question, an
5 the opening of Indian lands. have bee
/. brought into its present unfortunate con
: dition by government interference, and q
4 knew of no way of getting it out of tn
snsrl.
l H. K. Thurber, of New York, writing O
9 business combinations and trusts, said the
d were caused by sharp competition; thei
g effects were beneficial to the producer an
1 consumer. The aggregation of capita
: skill and experience in almost every branc
: of business is for the best in terests of uh
: masses.
q A paper was read from John V. Farwel
s of Chicago, and others on the same subjec
S Governor Frances was chosen presiden
: and Temporary Secretary Springer mad
permanent secretary. Adjourned.