The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-04
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER PAGES

The fact that the most industrious can scarcely
maintain themselves and families, the motto,
Stand Up for kansas is unnatural, inhu-
man, and Choulish, and sounds like the hollow
mockery OF winds blowing over graves
You say you want speakers capable of ex-
pounding party doctrine and especially the
magnificent services which the present sd-
ministration has rendered the farmers and Ia
boring men of the country"
As you know four years ago. as one OF tie
presidential electors OF Kansas, cast my vote
for BENJAMIN HARRISON. In the campaign OF
that year advised the barefooted men whom
met at political meetings in western Kansas
to vote for Republican supremacy. l shall
never forget the pathos of some OF those gath
erings, when stood in the presence of toll
brown men and women whose faces indicated
thai they needed bread
With these things in mind and deeply i'm
pressed as am with the frightful condition of
The people, am in no mood to expound the
magnificent services" which you say this adj
ministration has rendered the people. If the
services have been as you claim the people
need not DO told OF them. as results would
speak for themselves. The fact is the admins
tration has rendered magnificent services
not to the farmers and laborers, but to the
LEODs. with their coal trusts; the ARMOURs,
with their beef combines, and the GOULDs,
with their railroad systems, and in fact all the
many agencies formed for the purpose of con-
trolling the output of the mines. the shops, the
fields and the farms.
The truths here told are what are doing
the business for ublicanism in Kansas
and in other states once conuted as republi-
can strongholds. The people are familiar
with the facts. A farmer is dense of under
standing who does not know that, with
magnificent crops and while practicing the
most rigid economy, wearing cheap and rag
ged clothing and denying himself and family
OF rything that does not come under the
head of necessaries, something is wrong
when under such conditions and circum
stances he is obliged to mortgage his farm
and thus further burden himself. MIR.
MADDEN proceeds with his terrible but
truthful and unanswersble srraignment,
telling the chairman that spoilsmen
dominate Republican councils and lobbyists
corrupt their law makers; that it is money
which controls the party and not laudable
desire to benefit the people. and says:
industrial and political organizations Of the
country protesting against conditions that now
confront them; demanding that the bread win
ners and wealth producers receive an equal
distribution in the democracy OF life. admonish
US that something is wrong with the machinery
of government and that 1t should be adjusted.
Great social problems are living down among
the people and are continually presenting
themselves for.soluton Senator PALMER, in
the United States Senate, in speaking of the
Homestead trouble, sprung some of these
problems and he was denounced by the Repub-
hcan press as a socialist because he said labor
had d property interest in that which it Gre
ated. If this belief is socialism as understood
by the old and existing order, then am proud
OF the honor Of being enrolled in the new school
of political thought, and There enter my piotes.
against system which enslaves and degrades
labor by denying it equal protection with
capital-a property interest in that which it
creates and an equal distribution in the pro-
ceeds of it's earnings.
He assails the protective tariff theories,
declares the silver plank was framed in
the interest of the money power, and
concludes thus:
Your force bill was intended to be the SAFE
guard OF the same dominant power and compel
enslaved labor to vote under the touch Of
federal bayonets. Your idea of government is
force, which is monarchial, and is per Sc
destructive of the liberty of the citizen in a
free republic. Your idea of money belongs to
the paganism OF the past-imperialism, CRzar
ism, absolutism. Your idea OF wealth distribu-
ton is conferred In corporations, trusts, combin-
atoms and transportation lines. Your idea Of
land is not use. which is the primary test. but
ownership in large bodies by landlord class.
Your idea Of transportation is private
ownership, when the very results demonstrate
the danger of such system. Finally, your
ideas of individual liberty IRA SO strongly re-
pressive that men tremble when they face the
future, knowing that long course of repres-
sive legislation. creating unequal conditions
must wipe oat the now powerful middle class
which is the balance wheel of our civilization.
and drives the two extremes OF society-the
millionaires and anarchists-into hostile camps
heralds proclaim peace. To prevent such a
condition OF things 1t is the duty of every citi-
zen to labor increasingly and untiringly to bring
about equality of conditions and wise and
humane administration of law. law which
extends equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none"
There are so many intelligent men in
Kansas who see things as Mr.. MADDEN
sees them, and who think as he thinks,
that it will not be doing violence to judg-
ment to take the state out of the Repub-
lican column and count it for the Peoples
candidate.