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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

lin this country which approaches a
crisis. they are publishing columns of
Iopinions which possess little or no
value on account of the ignorance of
English writers concerning American
affairs, and these opinions are inter
spersed with solemn advice to the
American people how to get out of the
dilemma.
The United States have always been
able to settle troubles arising within
these borders. We shall continue to
do So and foreign advice, to be appre
ciated. must come from disinterested
quarters.
Do we not give our opinions, and
give them very freely and unasked,
when anything happens in England?
And sometimes when it does not?
Wherein has the blessing of a free
press been so patent as in the dogma
tism of it's opinions? Like those
patriots who feel more than they
think, and who express that feeling in
the phrase "our country, right or
wrong" so the free press says Our
opinions, right or wrong
Certainly the opinions of ignorant
English writers on American matters
possess little or no value. We know
that the rain falls on the just and I'M
Just alike. And may we not believe
that ignorance, like the rain, falls on
the just and the unjust, the free and
the bond. alike? The proper philo-
sophical reflection to make is that
1--WE might see ourselves as others see
u.s." Perhaps it is time wasted to
make such a wish, for the others will
take particular pains to tell us how
they see US, and the newspaper will
usually accompany it with a cut
Really. the great thing to be wished
is that others may see us as we see
ourselves.
Our metropolitan provincial Journal
says that the United States have al
ways been able to settle troubles aris-
ing within these borders" Then why
feel piqued because half a dozen men
in half a dozen newspapers think the
United States are in dire straits? This
is the very perfection of provincialism.
Not only are the United States able
to settle any troubles that may arise
within our borders, but many jingoes,
and we have them in America as well
as they have them in England, who
think the United States able to, and
should, settle all troubles beyond these
American borders. This also is provin-
cialism.
No, the government of the United
States is laid too deep and broad in
the hearts of her sons and daughters
for a riot of even transcontinental di-
mansions to imperil it, and our faith
in our institutions can best be shown
by not only loving but living up to our
laws. We desire the goodwill of all
nations. but adverse opinions cannot
hurt US. Americans alone possess the
power Of their destruction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
COLONEL ISAAC TRu,IBo.

Two years ago the Democratic ma
jority of the House Committee on Ter
ritories reported back the Home Rule
bill recommending its passage and in
cidentally expressing the opinion that
Utah was in ali respects qualified for
statehood. The Republican minority of
the committee opposed the majority re-
port, and took occasion to refer to the
people Of Utah in very uncompliment-
airy terms as wholly unfit either for
home rule or statehood. as a. stumbling
block in the way of western progress.
Colonel Isaac Trumbo at once hurried
to Washington, where, almost without
interruption, he has since remained.
Under circumstances that would have
discouraged a less ardent or confident
man, he set about the apparently hope
less task of removing from the minds
of the Republicans in Congress the
deep-seated prejudices of thirty years;
and, more, of convincing them that
justice and good politics demanded that
the inevitable should not be opposed;
that the Democratic determination to
make Utah a state should not be re-
sisted.
That the Republican minority has
not theoretically opposed the emanci-
patton of Utah, that it has been re
duced to a state of quiescence, if not
acquiescence. may be attributed chiefly
to the patient and energetic labors of
the gallant colonel. If the event of our
state election should develop a degree
of ingratitude so base and a lack of
discrimination so unexpected on the
part of the voters of Utah as would be
apparent in a Republican victory, there
is no man so plainly entitled to Repub-
lican recognition as Colonel Trumbo
now a resident of Utah territory. Re
publican success, if it comes, will come
because the statehood bill received Re-
publican support; the statehood bill re-
| ceived Republican support because of
Colonel Trumbo's efforts A grateful
party should do no less than ask the
Colonel to name his Office
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

1t is common remark that there is
something radically wrong when the
two factors of progress and prosperity
capital and labor-are in a constant
quarrel. This is true; but it must also
be remembered that capital and labor
are not in a constant quarrel If they
were we should have a constant up-
heaval such as is now troubling the
country Not all capital is successful
any more than is all labor. And cap
ital has it's competition as we'll as la
bor
There is a widespread idea that cap
ital is boarded when actually it is not.
The Vanderbilts are worth millions and
millions. But where are these millions?
They are chiefly in railroad properties
and giving employment to thousands
and thousands of men. All the rail-
roads of the country represent capital
Likewise the mills and the furnaces
and the mines. Let capital be with
drawn from them and hundreds of
thousands of laboring men would be
instantly thrown out of employment.
Then what is the cause of the CON
slant quarrel between the two inter-
dependent factors of progress and pros
perity? The cause is very largely, if
not mainly, in false ideas. Never since
creations dawn have the material con-
ditions of men been the same, and they
never will. AS Lamennais says, There
have always been some poor" There
ALWAYS will be There nowhere exists
great body of money, possession of
which is to be obtained by some meth
cd of legislation yet untried, and for
the accomplishment of which all that
is needed is the placing in power those
who have failed in life's race If there
were redistribution of the worlds
wealth tomorrow after the saturnalia
conditions would be much the same as
now.
After all wealth is relative. There is
disparity among wage-earners the
same as there is between capital and
labor. If it is unjust for the capitalist
to enjoy a large income, it must also
be unjust for one laborer to receive
more compensation for his work than
another. 1t is only differences of de-
gree. 1T is a trite remark that no two
men use their opportunities the same.
| Herein lies key to the problem A
man who can see his chance in life in
| some opportunity cannot be held to the
same level as the man who can see an
opportunity.
Another thing. Some of the worst
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
SALT LAKES STABILITY.

During the past three years of trouble
present labor disturbances our city has
maintained her very high reputation
for financial stability and her love of
peace and order Not a single one of
our many banks has failed, and fail
ures among the merchants have been
few. Capital has been far more timid
than usual, but our school and city
bonds have been sought by bond buy
ers and usually have commanded a
premium. This would never have been
had not capitalists known that the citi-
zens of Salt Lake are a capable, con-
sentative and Industrious people Let
us cherish and guard this reputation.
During the period of the industrial
army movement we experienced no
trouble, and fed CALIFORNIA; hungry
hordes without feeling it,
The city has felt the effects of the
present strike entirely as the result of
the tie-up of the railroads. and not as
the result of any local rioting. Our
streets have been free from any demon
strations calculated to incite to viol-
ence or lawlessness. The striking rail-
road men have conducted themselves as
becomes self-reliant, self-respecting
men, men who are American citizens
and love their government. They have
held meetings daily, but these meet
ings have all been of the most conser-
vative character, and when a self-styl-
ed and loud-mouthed Tabor leader be-
gan his incendiary harangue, he was
promptly frowned down.
These facts must draw the renewed
attention Of both capitalists and home
seekers to our city as safe and desir-
able place for investments and homes.
How proud we should be of our
capital city as we are about to don the
robes and responsibilities of statehood!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
DEBS' TRIAL.

Debs, the head of the American Rail-
way union has been indicted by spe-
cial grand jury, under a federal stat
ute. The whole country has been put
lin a turmoil through what the public
deem his hasty and Incorporate acton.
AS a consequence of the strike ordered
by Debs many lives have been lost and
some millions of property destroyed
Great expense has been incurred in the
necessity for the employment of vast
numbers of deputy marshals in addltlon
to the regular number Then 1t mas
been necessary to call out the militia
and finally the Federal troops to pro-
tect United States mails and to open up
inter state commerce. And all these ex-
traordinary expenses have been incur
red because Mr.. Debs ordered a sympa-
thetic strike.
A natural consequence of all this is
to arouse prejudice in the public mind
against the man Debs. Already it is
being told of him, and it may be truth
fully, that he is a victim of dipsomania,
and that he has graduated from the
Keeley institute at Dwight, ILL.,, This
also will work against him.
The tendency of all this will be to
declare Debs guilty before his trial, and
to make of his trial merely the instru-
ment to register a verdict already pro-
|nounced. Great as has been the harm
done by the strike, to convict Debs of
the crimes with which he is charged
without the completest evidence and a
thoroughly impartial trial would be to
work a greater evil to American in
situations. In times of excitement like
the present, when the whole nation is
more or less aroused, that first safe
guard of constitutional liberty-trial by
jury-should be jealousy guarded. Debs
is fully entitled to the benefit of the
legal maxim that man is to be con-
sidered innocent until proven guilty;
and the duty of the hour for all Amer
lean citizens is to see that he has the
benefit of this maxim.
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SOME SENSIBLE VIEWS ON THE
STRIKE.

The ex-president of the Michigan
Federation of Labor, Mr.. w. A. Tay-
lor, of Detroit, has been giving his
views on the strike, and they are both
conservative and sensible. They will
commend themselves not only to the
public generally but to the thinking
workingmen:
But what can make it necessary to
paralyze trade? Why, an attempt on
the other side to paralyze labor. But
the railroad companies have made no
such attempt-at least, none is alleged
as the cause of the tie-up. If it is said
that Mr. Pullman has, the answer is
that he, and he only, should feel the
force of whatever resentment his in
justice naturally provokes. But Mr..
Pullman is escaping unscathed, while
the innocent are doing the eXpiatory
suffering. The strike was aimed at Mr..
Pullman, but it has hit another party.
Mr. Pullman was long since lost sight
of, and the small question whether or
rot he should open his shops on the
terms demanded by the strikers has
been swallowed up in the far greater
one whether the law shall be supreme
or the rioting strikers. This has been
strikers themselves must have known
had they given any thought to the
matter.
AS Mr.. Taylor says, "the strike was
aimed at Mr.. Pullman, but it has hit
another party" He at whom it was
originally aimed is resting quietly by
the Seashore, listening to the song Of
the siren and taking no note Of the
flight of time. At least this is what he
is reported to be doing. Why should
he do anythoing else? His business is
not running at a loss and the fury of
the mob has been diverted from him TO
railroads in general.
The failure of the strikers to keep in
view the original object of the strike
may serve to show their lack of power
to keep any object in sight for any
length of time and their consequent
lack of success in life.
A conservative and sympathetic set
of resolutions in favor of the Pullman
strikers would have drawn attention to
the merits of their case, and perhaps
forced an equitable adjustment Of it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
STATEHOOD AND DELAYS.


The manifesto forbidding polygamy
was adopted by the Mormon conference
in October, 1890 At that time and un-
til March 4, 1891, the Republicans were
in control in the House and Senate and
Harrison was president. Judge Zane,
one of the most energetic foes Of the
Mormon institution of marriage, had
accepted the manifesto in good faith.
President Harrison recommended a
period of probation and the Republic
can Congress had no word of hope for
Utah. The succeeding Congress, the
Democrats controlled the House and
the House favored the home rule bill,
and was in a mood to grant statehood
but were deferred by Republican oTpo-
sition. The Republicans were not even
willing to entrust the people Of Utah
with the half loaf of home rule. In the
succeeding year, 1898, the Democrats
came into power, the House passed the
statehood bill within the first few weeks
of the regular session and sent it to the
Senate where it was sidetracked by Re
publican tactics on the tariff bill, and
was passed promptly after the disposal
of the latter, and within sixteen
months of Cleveland's Inauguration.
The bill as amended in the Senate pro-
vides for admission at a date subse-
quent to the date fixed by the House.
In view Of these incontestable facts,
the Republican contention that the
Democrats in Congress were smoked
out of their hiding places by the Re
publicans would be very funny if it
were not so disgustingly dishonest.
The Republican criticism that the
Democrats have dishonored the terri
tory by putting off the date of admis-
sion is also absurdly disgusting in view
of the fact that no Republican voice
was raised in either House of Congress
favoring an earlier admission.
1t would be impossible, or at least I'M
wise to hasten statehood through so
that Utah's senators and representa-
tives could reach the capital before
March 8, next the day of the expiration
of the present Congress. The succeed
ing Congress meets in December, 1895,
and the Utah men will be there within
a month after the opening of the ses-
sion
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
PROVINCIAL JOURNALISM.

Some of the English press have seen
in the present strike in the United
States forebodings Of the downfall of
democratic government in America.
This is a case of great foresight, but
the error of prediction viii have to be
corrected by hindsight. No objection
can be taken to these comments, for
times are dull in England as well as
here and newspapers there are casting
around for something of interest on
which to comment as well as news
papers here. How many times has
Germany crushed France, Russia over
run India. Austria Hungary been two
nations. monarchy dethroned in Eng
land and Albert Edward simple
English citizen without the means of
earning an honest livelihood-all in
American newspapers?
But there is very pronounced note
of provincialism in the way in which
some of the American papers resent
the remarks of John Bulls press.
There is the New York Morning Jour
nal. which should be above such
things, which says:
AS is usual when anything happens
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
BICYLIsTs AND PEDESTRIANS.

There are in the town now some
eight or nine hundred bicycles. In on
ly a small part of the town are bicv-
lists restricted to the street and forbid
den to ride on the sidewalks. We do
not say it is a matter of daily occur
renee that some one is knocked down
by bicycle, but it is a something of
frequent occurrence. This usually hap
pens on a sidewalk; we have never
heard of any one being struck in the
street. This is an absolute danger to
life and limb. But there is scarcely
anything more shocking to the nerves
than the sudden rush of a bicycle from
behind. If any one wishes to see to
what annoyance and inconvenience
pedestrians are put by the riding of
bicycles on the sidewalks, all that is
necessary is to go along South Temple
street from the Eagle Gate east. There
is a continual tingling of bells and
swishing of wheels that make a stroll
a source of continual anxiety. 1t is
absolutely dangerous to allow small
children to leave the immediate side of
their parents.
This should not be- No one will have
any wish to mar the pleasure of the
bicyclists, but they have become so
numerous that their presence on the
sidewalks is a danger to pedestrians
The city council should pass an ordin-
ance forbidding bicyclists to ride on the
sidewalks at all. 1t would be no hard
ship on them for they make runs every
day in the canyons and along the
country lanes where the roads are far
from being as good as in the city. Let
the city council consider this matter
at the regular meeting Tuesday night
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strained his authority in ordering |
troops to suppress lawiessness and ri
citing on our railway lines. He is not
only fully empowered to protect the
mails, the interstate commerce and the
public peace, but both the constitution
and the laws of Congress- imperatively
command him to do so. The constitu-
ton provides as follows.
The president shall be commander
in-chief of the army and navy of the
United States and the militia of the sew
eral states when called into the actual
service of the United States.-Philadel-
phia Times Oem).
The necessity for the presidents ac-
ton arose from the inaction of the
state authorities. The danger to our
state governments is as great from the
liability of state officials to inactioR
as the liability of United States Off
Gals to precipitate action.
AS a fundamental proposition it may
be laid down that labor cannot be CO.
creed. Men have the right to strike, to
demand the best terms they can get,
to improve their condition in every
lawful way possible. That is the law
of human advancement and progress
But, as labor cannot be coerced, nei-
Their can it coerce without making in
fraction on the rights of others, which
are equally sacred and which must be
preserved. The solution of the ques-
ton has not yet been found, but we
are getting nearer and nearer to it
with every revolving year. The torch
of the incendiary, the bomb of the an
archist, the fantastic theories of the
socialist, are not the lights by which
we shall find the pathway to it.-New
Y DIRK Recorder Rep).
The right of men to strike cannot be
denied, but generally the strikers have
denied brother workingmen the right
to employment during a, strike. Strik-
ers have no fine sense of the distinction
between meum and teum.
These mayors, reformers, philosoph-
ers and schemers who are bowling
about Pullman will do better to shut
up and give their attention to the live
evil represented by Mr.. Debs and let
the dead Pullman issue alone. In fact
the Pullman issue is only used by the
Debs people to divert attention from
| the other live evil, which is a threat
upon the institutions of the country.
If it becomes settled that Mr. Debs,
! through the A. r. u, or. for that mat
ter, through all the labor organizations
of the country, can compel the rail-
ways to refrain from carrying such
cars as he or they may boycott, prin-
ciple is established that will unsettle
all laws as to property rights and mark
a forward step toward anarchy that its
advocates had not expected to see for
| a generation to come.-Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, was more
to be commended for his heart than his
head in this matter. The theory of Mr.
Debs and his followers appears to be
that the right to control property
should rest in those in whom the title
is not vested.
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enemies the laboring men have ever
had have been men selected from their
own ranks to direct and control their
interests, surrendering the very indi-
viduality that must accompany all sue
cess.
An active cause of the strife between
capital and labor is the idea, too much
encouraged, that they are necessarily
antagonistic. There can be no prosper
ity without harmony. We have merely
suggested causes, and not solutions for
the problem.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

Days of grace on all notes, drafts,
checks, acceptances, bills of exchange,
bonds, or other evidences of indebted
ness, are abolished in the state of New
York, on and after January i, 1895, by
an act passed by the last Legislature
and approved by the governor on May
IN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

AS to the Republican financial doc
trine, and speaking Of Senator Cam
eron's free silver letter to the Denver
convention, the Troy Times Rep9
says: Senator Cameron will find a
few friends of his idea among Repub-
licans in the far west but the great
body of the party viii remain true to
sound ideas of sound finance" Sound
finance in the Republican mind does
not include free silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

With every season our lake becomes
r-ore popular, both for bathing and
for boating. A series of boat excur-
sions to the various islands has been
inaugurated and these bid fair 10 be-
come quite popular They deserve to
be. But there is one matter of great
Importance, and while it is to be pre-
s6med that it has been carefully at
tended 10, it may be well to call notice
TO it. We refer to tht matter of an
abundant supply Of life preservers on
the boat or boats that may make long
runs on the lake The water of the
lake is very heavy owing to the large
amount of salt in solution, and it is
frequently dashed into waves of no in
considerable height. Then in this wa
ter boats do not have much draught.
The boilers Of ali steamers should be
inspected the same as in ocean and
coast and river steamers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

In letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rep) Ex-Governor William r. Mer-
riam. Of Minnesota. says: "The entire
record of the Republican party,
throughout a period of nearly one-thhd
of a century, has been for a sound cur
rency; for the utilization of gold and
silver as money upon a basis that
would maintain a parity of values as
well as the fulfilment in good faith of
public obligations. To depart at this
time from this well-established course
would be not only detrimental and
rpinous to the party itself, but to the
future commercial and industrial
growth of the country" That is straight
Republican financial doctrine and it
doesn't mean free silver.
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Silver, OF. Lead, S3.To,
HERALD Calendar for July.

If "the wind bloweth where it list
eth what shall be said of the cyclone
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The Herald viii present a handsome
and unique medal to that citizen who
does not aspire to be a United States
Senator when Utah is admitted as a
state
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The service which we regularly offer
for the young people is classical in its
tone and quality. 1t viii commend
itself to all who will read
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

The question is being asked, When
VIII the Democratic convention to
nominate delegate to Congress be
called?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16

Tracing things back to their first
causes. the seeds of the present strike
We're in The apple that Adam ate.
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If the sweat of the brow entities a
man to his bread, what should he have
when he prespires all over?