The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-10

Another crying evil is municipal mis-
government. The majority of the pop
plation is to be found in cities. Sixty
per cent. of the population of the state
OF New Y ork is to be found in her |
cities. The population of this country !!
IS rapidly increasing. 1t was not so |
long ago that the population was five /
million. Daniel Webster lived to see /
the population increase from three mil |
lion to twenty-five million. The speak
er could remember when it was butt
seventeen million. In 1910 the popula- |
ton might be one hundred million. In |
1000 he was not afraid to assume it |
would be four hundred million, per-
haps not in this country, but in coun-
tries which would be contiguous and |
would be influenced by our virtues or
vices. This is not so high figure as
Gladstone's, who says that by that
time eight hundred million people will
1--we on this continent and but two
hundred million on the other Cities
grow faster than countries. They are
quilt at the cross roads of railroads
and telegraph lines, and are the nerve
centers of national life The web of
the great warp of railways has been
stretched from one seaboard to the
other. The lines from north to south
VIII soon form a. wool for this fabric
OF steel. Values are increasing. He
assumed that the grandfathers of the
dudlence had bought land in this ter
rltory for little; but the grandchildren
would pay much higher prices. Bea-
cohsneld used to stretch out jeweled
foref1nger toward this country and saw
THE cities of America have never
Ilourlshed, and never will, under I'M
limited suffrage" CarlySle said: 'Your
great cities are fast descending into
tne jaws OF political perdition Your
poIltlclans are descending to the class
! OF scoundrelS. 1t is notorious that
cities are the breeding ground of vices
Ihere are no landed aristocrats in this
country, but there is getting to be a
| llquld arlStocracy. Boston has one
sixth the population of Massachusetts
and one-half her criminals The speak
er Is an American of seven genera
t eloLa aecent, and he was proud of the
ldct; nevertheless he could look upon
ruin, II his eyeballs were scared
Whlle he was often fired to euIogize
New York, he knew that she is the
empire state in iniquity as well as
commerce, and the statement is true
because OF the existence of that great
CITY on Manhattan island. If the hoIv
politics of New York were mixed with
the spotless politics of Chicago or of
OF. Louis, what a stencil as from tba
Wltches broth in Macbeth there would
De. Wendell Phillips had once pointed
OUT thirteen shops to be seen from
ellls window and said: The time will
: f tbn Mnen the liquor traffic will strain
me country more than slavery has. II
, mas more money behind it and is ms
uluch or unit" His prediction will
! pc fulfilled unless municipaI govern.
ments be purified. -
lie held UP his left hand and said
lnat might represent 10000 900 voters
winch is fair estimate. for this no.
ton of 7O,00O,OOO souls is controIIad nv
not more than 150OO,OOO voters. HI
| spoke at length upon the danger +C
, PoitlcS OF abSenteeism from the DoIIs
ana considered Dudley Fields stand fol
compulsory fighting a wise one, H
w ood a. Jet MS little finger represent The
+iOoo,V 0Oo Dotes OF the illiterate, the mex
the Z,uOO,U0O votes of the mercenarv fO1
there are men who expect to MAX,
something on election day. the next tyv,
: myers might represent respectively in,
republican and Democratic parties anc
ms thumb the satanic power of tht
liquor traffic. incidentally in his discus
9ioH oI the temperance issue he saiC
the hquor traffic would be crushed /
, women had the right of unlimited suf
ifaSe. some one in the rear grew res
tive and asked, What about Coxav'
army! but the lecturer would not h
Y turned from his course and continue,
n ms discussion of temperance Whe1
q ~ maui lllc statement That all the hes
text books in use in schools are nov
. keyed up to the standard of total alb
stInence the FESTIVE individual said
a That's lie,'' and the door slamme
= after his retreating figure.
: In q graphic pantomime he Shove,
a how the satanic thumb held down tn
h mercenary and illiterate elements an
Il how it influenced the two great partie:
then how the whole hand clutched tn
throat of our government He woul
use the right of civilization to remov
- that clutch and by educative influence
- lessen or remove the power of tn
e great thumb
= Referring to the commonweaI arm,
y he said the help for such a class
- four-fold, self help, school help, churc
- help and state help, and the road the
y should ride is one made of the golde
u rail Cor rule): do unto others etc
and the iron rail: "He who does mr.
,e work shall not eat" He was sorry f.
" the men who were sojourning at Ogdel
- though he thought many of them eyre.
It ious idiots. Coxey's army is not a lin
- OF the government, but an ulcer thu
y, ), needs to be pricked after d while.