The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-19

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fair land? And methinks 1 hear the
answer from heavens high throne. My
children be strong; your time has
come; monopoly has filled up the meas
ure of its iniquity, and must be de-
stroyed
Form, Americans, form! Let every
city in our land have its Labor trust,
and let every lover of his country rally
under its flag. Let all labor unions,
whatever their names may be, unite
with US, for the more rapid and per-
feet accomplishment of the purposes of
the Labor trust; realizing that the
time has now come when the rights
and just demands Of labor must take
precedence of all partisan politics or
party utilization.
When the election day comes round,
let the trust vote as one man for such
candidates only as are true to the liv-
ing principles of American liberty, and
the long and bitter struggle will be
ended.
1t is a fit and proper thing, that this
new and aggressive organization should
first see the light in the heart of Amer
lea, away up in the fertile valleys of
the Rocky mountains, on the majestic
sides of whose rugged and towering
peaks the bird of freedom makes its
fearless home; where the sinking sun
at close of day leaves a golden sky
over the mountain top, while the silver
waters from the Great Salt Lake re-
ceive a golden kiss from the retiring
source of life, a forecast of the return
to a bi-metallic currency, the only
hope on earth for suffering humanity.
Free silver coinage is the principal
plank in the platform of the Labor
trust; its restoration to its royal place
I'M
is required for an immediate return to
a greater prosperity than has ever
dawned upon this great republic. Hun
dreds of thousands of noble sons of toll,
now in enforced idleness, will find i'm
mediate employment; our silver and
lead mines, the treasure vaults of our
country, that have become as silent
and deserted as the ruins of lost race,
will once more be filed with willing,
working, happy miners, and as the
bi-metallic product is poured forth from
our shelters, commerce will spring up
as if by the touch of a magic wand.
and the dark clouds of sorrow, fraught
with disaster and death, will be lifted
from our country never to return again.
The address as above was unani-
mously adopted.
TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
A petition to the city council was
read by the secretary praying that
they reconsider their recent action re-
ducing the wages of laborers from 50
to $1.75 per day and particularly call
ing the attention of the council to the
fact that the gravity sewer contractors
had further reduced the wages to $3.50
per day for ten hours work, and that
the sewer contractors demanded So
per week for board from their en-
ployees, and compel them to purchase
their own rubber boots, all of which
was heartily condemned, especially the
PORTION referring to the boarding of
the men at So a week.
1t was unanimously resolved to pres
emit the same to the city council at it's
meeting tonight
Another set of resolutions referring
to the gravity sewer work was then
read. They called on the council to
reconsider its action ordering work on
the gravity sewer continued and Civ
ing the contractors 900 bonus to in
duce them to complete the work.
The opinion was expressed that there
was not sufficient money in the treas
ury to complete the work and that it
would never be finished, anyway the
laborers would get little advantage
from it as the bulk of the money was
going to be spent for material bought
the sewer should be abandoned and the
money spent in paving the streets and
building a new city Jail
A committee was appointed to pres
ent the resolutions to the council and
urge them to devise some means to
prevent the sewer contractors from ex-
acting ten hours labor for a days
work.
1t was proposed that the Labor trust
wait in,
ing petition and then some attention
might be paid to them, as the case
was desperate. 1t was irnpOssible
for workingma1 to pay 50 a week for
board out of a salary of 50. He would
have nothing left to support his family
on and it was rot possible for a man
to walk out and in every day; it sim
ply meant that Salt Lake workmen
could not do the work on the sewer and
that it would be left to tramps and no.
bos
JUDGE S. R. RHODES,
Of Ogden, then addressed the meeting
and said he was at a loss to account
for the present hard times. Crops were
bountiful all over the country, there was
no famine in the land and no pestilence.
The last three or four years times had
been bad, Cleveland or Governor West
didn't know when they would be better:
nobody seemed to know
In regard to the sewer work he
thought 1t was good idea not to have
any city work done by contract, a. con-
tractor and especially a sewer con-
tractor was on a par with the slave
driver of the ante-bellum days The
American people had at least common
school education and educated people
could never be made slaves of. the
Anglo Saxon race anyway could not.
they might and would stand a certain
amount of oppression, but after that
was reached the devil would be to
pay. Now about $4,000 people owned
Is per cent. of the wealth of the
country. The concentration of so much
wealth in so few hands was the great
evil. Everything has gone wrong since
the decentralization of silver in 1873.
Silver must be remonetized and tn.
Democratic party was going to do it.
The Democratic party was to be the
silver party of the future. The speak,
er was not Cleveland Democrat He
thought Mr.. Cleveland was detriment
to the country. He didn't approve or
the action of Governor West and Mayor
Basllin in stopping the industrial army
at Davis county. He didn't know that
the industrials would accomplish much
or anything by going to Washington
However the Democratic party was not
Judged by one man. Remember the
Republican party demonetized silver,
remember the that John Sherman was
the leader of the party that killed sill
yer, remember that ten Democrats in
Congress last year voted for silver to
one Republican who did os.
THE TRIFF RESPONSIBILITY
The tariff is the cause of the .accumu-
lation of the wealth. of the country in
few hands, and the impoYerishment
of the masses. Everything You men