The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21


will never cease the fight until the
masses, who toll with brains and mus
Gle, shall be redeemed from the thrall-
dom of soulless and grasping monopo-
istic creations of Republican legisla-
ton. 1t was left for the last Demo
cratic Congress and a Democratic pres
ident to write upon the statute books
the national law, requiring all con-
tractors to give bonds to secure labor
ers and material men in all contracts
of the United States
The effect of the tariff on the farmer
was next portrayed, and the results of
the pernicious doctrine outlined and
the speaker showed that a vote for
Cannon was a. vote for reopening the
tariff agitation and for a restoration of
the Mckinley law.
With good-natured sarcasm, the judge
then depicted the charms of the Re
publican AdOniS in a way that called
forth roars of laughter; and referring
10 the incident at Provo when Mr. Cam
non was presented with a platter of
rosy female hearts by a lady who de
clared for him ON account of the color
OF his hair, the judge asked what in
the world the baid-headed candidates
would do when the "Jones-Atkins club
begins to vote?
MIR CANNON'S THEATRE SPEECH.
Judge Powers then took up the
speech made by Mr. Cannon at the
theatre on Friday night and punctured
its sophistries with the keen needle of
logic. That Utah company was re-
ferred to. and the speaker asked if it
was not the scheme to elect those
heavenly twins, Colonel. Isaac Trumbo
and Frank j. Cannon, to the United
States Senate as the friends and agents
of the Sugar Trust?
CONCLUSION.
In concluding his mastery address
Judge Powers said:
1--WE must not enter the Union other
than free. Our constitution must pro-
tect all the rights of the masses. You
should select your Democratic candi-
dates to the constitutional convention.
The Republican party is the party of
intolerance and it teaches and breeds
intolerance. Mr.. Joseph Henry Smith,
man who is a follower of him who
was all charity, declares that the Re-
publ1canS were right in refusing us
statehood, for the simple reason that
we are Democrats. If it was right to
refuse US statehood on political grounds
it would equally be right to refuse us
on religious grounds. Mr.. Smith says
that he is liberal in his views, but, his
declaration upon political affairs was
more illiberal than the most radical
Liberal, when that party had an ex-
istence here. Under the protecting
wing of RepuDlicanism are huddled
like chickens under a hen all the radi-
cal, and illiberal elements of our
politics. The Republican conventions
many a time this fall have been con-
trolled by a secret and oath bound
order that ostracises men for their
religion. The Democrats have de-
nounced this in their platforms.
Democrats do not believe that the
Cross of Christ should be dragged into
the mud and mire of politics. Demo-
Gratis believe in equal rights to all
whether one believes in the Virgin
Smith.
You who have read A. Conan
Doyle's great romance, 1.-The White
Company" remember how that glorious
company went out from England in the
oIden days to fight its country's bait
ties in the lands across the narrow
seas. You remember that last great
stand, when the leagued armies of two
nations were about to hurl themselves
upon that gallant band, Sir Nigel Lor-
| ing, who commanded the company
called to his heroes:
STAND where you are my men! Our
souls are Gods and our bodies are our
kings"
| And so says Democracy and it de-
clares that every man has the right to
| hold office without reference to his
creed or station or to his place of wor-
ship.
Let us strive to drive all intolerance
| from Utah. We who in the past so
bitterly contested here over matters of
religious belief should unite and de-
nrand the utmost freedom to all.
And we should vote down all that is
narrow and selfish in our politics. Let
our vote this fan be like the sign which
God paints on the skies in the morning
over our mountain tops, to herald the
coming of the king of day. Let it aid
| in changing the theory of legislation in
America. Let 1T be the forerunner OF
| the dawn of enlightenment, freedom
| and prosperity.
If I could picture in words the horror
and the misery that has been the result
| of Republican legislation the people
would arise as one man and scourge the
money changers from hberty's temple
Hungry children freezing from lack OF
| fuel Desperate mothers offering vir-
tue upon Moloch's altar in order that
| innocent babes may live. Famine, like
a silent ghost stalking into a million
! homes. Manhood reduced to misery
pulling the trigger of the murderer and
shocking the air with the man1acal
laugh of the suicide. The passions of
thousands by the alchemy Of want,
changing into beasts who quarrel and
fight in cutters over a. crust of bread.
And all the time. Shylock, rubbing his
hands with fiendish delight, gathering
more and more from the peoples sub
stance.
Go with me to yonder garnet,
If your heart is strong to bear it,
Mark the half bent shadow, where 1t
darks the black wall scarcely more;
There a famished woman sitting
Works with patience unrenitting,
With her weary ceaseless stitching,
Keeps the wolf just out the door;
Self with stealing from her store,
Robs her pittance lower, lower"
Shall this demon reign eternal
Ger this blessed land fraternal?
Shall enchantment so Internal hold us
ever meath it's spell?
No, by all the powers CT heaven
From this land he shall be driven,
Usury be hurled, unShriven,
To the lowest depths of hell;
Then a mighty shout be given,
Hear the hosts their voices swell,
Labor conQuerS-all is welll"
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Religious notices inserted free In THU
column If handed In bafore noon on Satur.
lay.
English Lutheran Church Of the Holy