The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-31
PEOPLES PARTY IDEAS.
Osborn, the California Lecturer,
Makes Street Talk.
The Monopol.sts Are Holding the People
in bondage, and the Peoples Party
viii Rescue Them.

j. B. Osborn the California labor
orator and state lecturer OF the Peoples
party. held forth IN Salt Lake last night
He did not engage hall in which to give
his talk, but addressed the people IN the
open air under the canopy OF heaven, be-
cause, according to his way Of thinking,
the open air and the sunshine were the
only gifts of nature which were women
safed 20 the people free and that was oniF
because the monoplsts and trusts hao
hitherto found it impossible TO bottle up
the air and the sunshine aud dole IL out
ut as high price as possible per cuolc
foot.
In ancient times, and not SO very long
ago, he said, even in our own country
millions If the human race were held IN
slavery bought and sold as chattels,
and although the system of buying ana
selling human beings had been ostensloiy
abolished. in reality the system SUN op-
tanned, as one class of men still held IN
absolute bondage millions OF their fellow
men The capitalists, who were the en-
ployers, held in servile chains the wage
earning classes of the nations. Although
they couldi not order the decapltaton
or other physical punishment 81
their victims, they could ao
what amounted to practically the
of Subsistence by refusing employment TO
those ahom they would, and thus, de-
prived of the means Of livelihood, the
masses were in fact held in state OF
slavery as absolute as any when ever
existed in the dark ages. The wealth OF
the world. and of this country III partlcu-
lar, was being concentrated IN few
hands and a piutocracy ruled with absolute
sway. There were national trusts ana
local trusts, which conspired for the en-
Shaving OF mankind.
He advocated, so far IS land was con-
ceraed, the paternal form of government.
All men were born free and equal, and
with equal rights for the pursuit OF
happiness and all had Just claim to the
soil. Separate man from the soil and he
is deprived OF his mother, the earth,
to which he had an inalienable right.
The lands which belonged to the people
were even in this country being acquired
and held by trusts and capitalists and
doled out to the people fora consideration
paid in gold or labor, and many men who
had worked hard for years owned not
place to lay their heads, whilst their
masters lived in luxury and ldleness. 1t
was common cry that the people VINO
paid the taxes should have voice in the
government, aHd it was just that 1T
should be SO. But the question
is who pays the taxes? The
landlord when he relts house
or a farm, figures, when he fixes
the rent, the amount it has cost him TO
make the improvements on the farm or
to build the house, the sum the land cost
him in the first instance, then the amount
of the taxes, ana these are computed in
the rent, which the poor man pays for,
the land which rightly belongs TO him,
and he it is who is the real tax payer.
Trades unions were formed on the
principle that in union there is strength,
and in the fight which is going on be-
tween capital and labor the latter needs to
unite its forces, as the foe is powerful and
concentrated.
Much good in the direction OF securing
the independence and freedom of the
workingnan had already been accom-
plished, but there remained yet much TO
be done. The great struggle OF the fu-
ture was to be between labor and capital /.
and the former needed all its vigilance TO
win or hold its own.
Both the old parties were denounced as
panderiRg to the rich and the party of the
people was held forth as the panacea for
the evils of the times.
Mr.. Osborne will lecture tonight at
the same place. He had large audience
last night, is pleasant and fascinating
speaker, and has a voice with which he
can make himself heard for blocks.