The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-29

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should not be amended in that particular,
is another question, and has never been
an issue between the parties.
Inc last words of Joseph relating to poll
tics, published two months before his
martyrdom, confirm all his previous declar-
atoms on this subject. They may be found
ON page $40, Times and Seasons, Vol. 5 No. s,
whole No. 90:
AS the world is governed too much, and
as there is not nation or dynasty, now
occupying the earth, which acknowledges
Almighty Cod as its law giver, and as
crowns won by blood, by blood must be
sustained" | go emphatically, virtuously,
and hImanely for s. theo-democracy,
where God and the people hold the power
to conduct the affairs of men in righteous
ness. And where liberty, free trade, and
sailors rights, and the protection of life
and property shall be maintained invlolate
Tor the benefit of all. To ezalt mankind is
nobly acting the part of God, to degrade
them is meanly doing the drudgery of the
devil. Unitds, liberia, cdritds-esto perpetuG!
With the highest sentiments of regard
Tor all men, L am an advocate of unaGulter-
ated freedom" JOSEPH SMITH.
NAUvoo, H., April Is, 1914
Joseph's "Views on the Policy of the
United States Government" is Democratic
to the core, and is mainly a restatement of
VIC oOACL oOuldA QtCbIlu0 VI TGllRlOuS uO-
erty.
He was slain in 1914, during the presi-
dency of William Henry Harrison, the
Wing administration looking calmly on,
without even saying SO much as "your
cause is just"
One famous saying of Joseph's reminds
strongly of the remarks of Mr.. Thatcher.
1t is this: SIN the United States the people
are the government, and their united
voice Is the only sovereign that should rule,
the only power that should be obeyed."
THE LESSON OF HISTORY.
MIR. Thatcher traced with fine power, the
triumphant march of the English people in
Wrestling from one man Civilian the Con-
queror) the land of the whole realm, which
at first was safely his own. The STANDARD
seems to think the time mas now come for
q movement in the opposite direction, and
That whoever suggests that the rich are
getting richer and the poor are getting
pooper is "a propaganda of the gospel of
Mr.. Thatcher ssid:
Think of nine persons in this land of equal
rights, amassing an aggregate of seven hundred
and fifty millions of dollars! sum equal to
one half OF all the gold and silver and paper
currency IN circulation throughout the entire
Union.
The STANDARD answers this with the fol-
lowing bold bluff, taking great care not to
name these Imaginary persons:
While you are thinking think also of nine
men In Utah amassinG an aggregate of seven
ana hal millions OF dollars! sum equal to
more than all the gold and silver and paper cur
rency N circulatian throughout the entire teri
ritory.
But even if this were true, It would only
be saying that . tab is as badly off as the
rest of the country.
In 1850, there were in the Uni ed States
q total of 1,024,70l tenant farmers. The
total number in England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales is 1869, III.
Ihose in Great Britain are a survival of
the feudal period when all were tenants
except the king and his vassals.
Those in the United States are the result
OF protection, which is destroying the
farmer. For twenty-five years Congress
has annually confscated one-third of the
pay for farm exports, at the custom houses.
Congress protects the rich mill-owners
from the competition of the farmers. The
farmer has q large surplus that must be
or rot in his bins. If exported it
must be paid for. The pay must be goods,
as no nation in the world could pay for it
in gold, even if it would, because there is
not enough gold and silver in the world for
that purpose. The imported goods are the
farmers pay, whether they be French silk
or English broadcloth. He thus makes the
silk and broadcloth on his farm in natures
laboratory, out of seed and sunlight, with
only his labor added. Congress lines the
farmer 30 per cent. on all the man ufactures
he produces in this way, 80 that these may
be made by wage-slaves in mills instead of
by free men on farms, Originally, 1000
bushels of wheat were exchanged for 1000
yards of cloth worth 81, 600; and $500 of that
went TO the farmer as his wages and only
500 of II went for raw material plant
Then Congress seized $500 of the farmers
pay at the custom house, and capital and
produced the silk and broad.
cloth instead OF labor and sunshine produc-
ing it on farms. For capital and machin-
cry TO produce it required the payment of
a few machine tenaers, who were accord
ing to census figures paid $500 The CAPT.
talist got all the rest, which he farmer
lost. The wages of the machine went into
the capitalists pocket. And as machines
don't eat, the farmer must have lost 500
by the protection of the capitalist even if
the machine tenders had spent all their
in farm products. The farm pro-
duct is practically all wages. The mill
product is only one-ffth wages. The rest
is plant and profit, and plant and profit do
not eat or furnish any home market"
d
ing, and bonanza farms range from 500 to
500, 900 acres. "As the wealth which could
purchase armor and build a castle once en-
shaved the half-naked and defenseless Door
Of Europe, so the wealth of today which
can buy machinery and dispense with hui
man labor is bound within the next cen.
fury to enslave the people of the United
States. From that there can be no escape
Tor our grandchildren. Plutocracy will
triumph again as it has always triumphed,
and history will repeat itself on this CONT
1ent as on every other"
OF FREE TRADE AND PRoTEC-
TIoN.
Mr.. Thatcher says that under free trade n
armer would have half his grain left as the
savings Of his honest toll. Yes; under our last
period OF comparative free trade, the farmer of
he east often had all his grain left-excent
What his own family could consume; and when
he next seasons harvest arrived he burned
lis old crop for fuel
Let government statistics answer the
above gigantic lying.
Our foreign trade more than doubled in
our last period of comparative free
.rade," even with wooden sailing ships.
before steam and iron had made cheap
reights. Take ten years Of free trade:
1884 600, 223
ooo-E4ports--- ---------------.. 3l6 "a, 4%3
Increase s171, 342, 200
Per cent of gain, 127,
Take nine years under protection:
1888, ops 947
Soo-t4ports---- S45, 293, 1923
Decrease 5 $685. 1l9
Percent OF loss, t.
If we take ten years of protection there
IS beggarly gain of 2 per cent. from 1880
10 1890.
The loss falls almost exclusively upon
farmers. In 1881, the exports of farm pro
incts from this country were, in value.
$3.50, 100000. In 1883 the agricultural ex,
ports had shrunk to $4,000 600. In 1880
agricultural products were SO per cent. of