The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-06

Mississippi congress is busy man, and
his Office is daily thronged with visitors
and flooded with mail. Today he was in
close consultation with General Passen-
ger Agent Bennett, OF the Rio Grande
Western, VINO has been constituted the
railroad committee, the subject under
discussion being railroad rates tor dele
gates TO the congress Mr.. Bennett Will
make q visit to Denver, Omaha and Chi
cago, to confer with the officials of the
eastern roads, and as the local lines have
made half fare rate, he feels confident
OF securing the same schedule for the en-
tire trans Mississippi country.
GOVERNOR PENNoYER HEARD FROM.
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, has
written the following highly interesting
letter:
ssSALEM, Or, April !, 1893.
"W. II. Harvey, Chairman Executive
Committee Trans Mississippi Congress,
Ogden, Utah.
MY DEAR sIR:-Owing to a prolonged
absence from the capital, have been IN
able to reply until now to your letter OF
the 18th ult., inviting me TO be present at
the Trans Mississippi congress to be held
in Ogden on the 24th inst.
- do most heartily approve of the OBJ
Ject of your convocatlon. 1t would
clearly be craven if not criminal to at
that through congressional legislation,
the east has become the virtual master OF
the west. Rich and varied as are the re-
sources of the vast empire of the Trans
Mississippi, its yeomen are all
compelled to yield to the CAPT
tai of the east, aggrandlzed by
virtue of federal benefactions and boun-
ties, the lion s share of the profits of their
toll. They pay tribute to the east in the
interest on money loaned, in heavy rail-
road freights, so fixed as to render rich
returns to eastern bondholders, in tariff
charges for the benefit of eastern manu-
facturers, and by virtue of national
financial policy outlined and followed in
the interest of the creditor classes OF the
great money centers of the eastern states
ana of Europe. Those capitalists, who
like lilies, ''toil not, neither do they
spin,'' take the rewards of our labor and
and the profits of our industries in such
usurious toll that we have really become
their servile heTers of wood and drawers
OF water. Not content with their wealth,
so easily acquired ana productive of such
rich returns, they now seek TO en-
nance the value of their money,
by diminishing the worlds supply
through the disuse OF one OF the precious
metals, recognized by the constitution
and honored for more than eighty years
of our national existence. The whole
history of the civilized world furnishes
no parallel to the atrocity of the crime of
the decentralization of silver. With not
enough metal money in the world to do
the business Of the world, as evidenced
by the use among all nations of paper
money, the congress of the United States,
at the back of the money lords of Europe
and the creditor class OF our country, has
dishonored one OF the precious metals,
thereby enhancing the wealth OF the
creditor class at the expense of the debtor
class. Not only this, but the experience
OF the whole world from time immemorial
has shown the elimination of the volume
OF money legitimately results in rednc-
ton of wages, an insuf6ciency of indus
tries, and a universal decline in
values. Against this, one Of the most
atrocious governmental crimes of any
age, the Mississippi congress
should utter its most earnest and solemn
protest. Public sentiment should be
aroused, unified and enthused. Tie
precious metal. the characterization of
fraud, and which has been perpetuated
against the will OF the people through
the manipulation of the two great po
litical parties in the interest of the few,
must, In the interest of the many, be re-
stored to its former-time complete func-
ton and privileges as full legal tender
money. In fact the Inspiring slogan
which will summon forth the entire body
of American freemen to earnest, united
and successful effort is the most righteous
demand that all the money of the coun-
try-gold, silver and paper-shall be
sound money, a full legal tender in pay
ment Of all debts public and private, and
that it shall be issued as both Jefferson
and Jackson demanded, by the govern
ment alone. Very respectfully,
SYLVESTER PENNoYER.
FOX IS DEMENTED.
John Fox, the aged man who made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide
last night, a full account of which ap-
peared in THE HERALD, thinks this world
is very bad one and feels very sorry that
his success was SO poor last night. To-
day he wss taken before Probate Judge
Bishop and examined as to his sanity by
Drs. Powers and Carnahan. Several wit
nesses were examined, among them being
Jimmy Hay OF the fire department, upon
whose complaint the old man, who is his
uncle, was examined. While of the
opinion that Fox is slightly demented, the
physicians could not recommend that he
be sent to the asylum, and the court or
dered his discharge. Already the would
be suicide has made more threats to do
away with himself.
RAILWAY NOTES.
Twelve cars of srmor plate, 551, 600
pounds, for the battle ship Oregon, now
nearing completion in the Mare Island
navy yard. near San Francisco, arrived in
Ogden this morning over the Union
Pacific, and were transferred to the
Southern Pacific tonight.
Eighteen cars of California and Sand
wich Island sugar went over the Union
Pacific this morning, made up into a
special.
Sheepmen are beginning TO move their
herds back off the desert for the sum-
mer. Three herds passed through Ogden
today.
WAR AGAINST THE HAcKMEN.
War has again been declal d between
the Union Pacific Depot company and the
hackmen of the city. Today J. G. Slade
was arrested for trespass, he having run
his hack up to the platform at the front of
the depot and refused to pay the amount
of rental demanded by the company, for
the reason that discrimination was shown
the Quincy cab people, who are allowed
TO occupy the space north of the walk to
the exclusion of all other vehicles. When
the case was called in the police court this
afternoon it was found that the general
license ordinance passed at the last ses-
sion of the city council repealed the clause
in the old ordinance which provided that
no vehicles should be run upon any pas
sage or landing leading to the depot with
out the driver first obtaining permission
from the company. The hackman was
discharged, and the company now
threatens to take the case TO the higher
courts and fence the depot grounds up,
thus keeping out all hacks and other We
hicles.
THE CRAWFORD CASE.
Rvron Sessions will tomorrow file his