The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-03

lGNOluDlOu WHICH gave US the COHSbAlu-
ton of the United States. The world
had never seen such men Of genius and
sterling manhood as were produced in
America during the period Of the revo-
luton. They handed down to pros
perity a treasure legacy of constitu-
tional liberty such as no people of the
world had ever enjoyed before. In
addition to this they gave us a nation
of illimitable resources within whose
boundaries the population of the earth
could be supported. Under such favor
able conditions one would expect to
find a happy, energetic people who
would be continually planting the
standard of human rights a league on
ward, until their brothers Of the world
would all be free from the tyranny of
kings, but unfortunately this is not the
case. We have the lines of caste
drawn as sharply in the United States
as in Europe. While our kings do not
wear crowns or bear the sceptre yet
their power is just as great as those
who do. We have palaces for our
kings, Vanderbilt has his summer cot
tage called the Breakers which cost
only 100000 Baron De La Pullman
has four castles, one at Chicago, one
at Thousand Isles in Quebec, one in
Italy and one on the Atlantic coast
known as Castle Rest" George Gould
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ward prince of Wales. We have our
Huntington, our Rockefeller, our
Armour, our Swift, our Field and their
consorts. Then we have our blessed
bankers who are given a monopoly of
the money of the nation, but who do
not like paternal government except
for bankers. These foot-pad kings own
the Associated Press and control all
the large dailies They have an in
+,riT of
nearly every editor The editor, gen
orally speaking, is the man Friday of
Plutocracy. He wraps himself up in
the Stars and Stripes and sings pa
triotic airs while the people are lurOi,
from their posts of duty until the 81 w.
Of state is foundered upon plutocratic
shores.
This is an age Of machinery and in
Vention, supposed to relieve the human
race of toll. Every day new machines
are being invented. A machine can do
more work, live on coarser food, wear
fewer clothes and complain less than
man; hence the pluto prefers the ma
chine and thus labor is being sup
planted by it in shop mill. mine and
on the farm. [ saw a machine in Ore
son last fall that cuts, threshes and
sacks sixty acres of wheat Der day.
The small farmer cannot compete with
closed and he becomes a tenant or
tramp. The linotype is supp1anting
the printer who is forced to join the
ranks of the unemployed of whom
mere are already an army of about s.
100000. These are the conditions of
today. and If you do not awaken and
take your rights the rising generation
VIII find still worse condition
The plutes do not want to hear
fhncn
~ satisfied to take nine-tenths of all
you produce and say nothing more
about it. They say: IF you are
hungry why starve but don't annoy
US. We are having a good time On
with the dancer' That is why we
were sent to jail. We interfered with
their dance. That is why Debs is
peering through prison bars at Wood
stock today.
With Rothschild and the American
bankers in full control of our money.
large tracts of our land in the hands
Of foreign syndicates, the trust and
man necessity, men displaced by ma
chimes and the machines owned by the
plutocrats, women in rags and pow
erty within the sight of plenty.
children of ten with faces of fortv
10000 suicides in the year 1894. is
condition of affairs Of which Cold
smith must have been thinking when
he wrote:
I'll fares the land to Fastening Ills a
prey
Where wealth accurnulates and mon do
cay"
In connection with the great strike
last summer the administration and
the courts have trampled under foot
several provisions Of the constitution
of the United States in order to put.
what they believe to be a quietus
upon organized labor; and every
Democrat and Republican in both
House and Senate voted to sustain the
act. The Populists voted solidly
against it
The present situation is gloomy.
You ask: What are we going to
do?'' We are going to organize and
agitate. We are going to persevere.
mink of Columbus amid the dangers
and gloom which surrounded him dur
ing his voyage upon unknown seas
when this great asylum for the OPP
pressed of Europe was discovered.
Starvation and mutiny threatened his
very life but he did not turn back. The
poem dedicated by Joaquin Miller
gives US hope. and encouragement in
this great struggle for the right.
A Good Time Coming.
We are going to do as Columbus
did. We are going to repudiate the
two old Phillipine-twin parties, and
embrace with all hail the young.
promising and thrifty party that
comes fresh from the people whose
name it bears. A party that believes
in the Declaration of Independence.
A party that believes that the United
States can live and prosper without
the consent Of any or all of Europe.
A party that believes that the people
should own and operate the railroads
and telegraphs for their own benefit
instead of that of plutocracy and
European Shylocks. A party that be-
heYes in government banks and
money issued without the intervention
OF bankers. A party that will launch
IT'S craft upon this desolate sea of
competition and sail on and on until
the inviting shores of 1.-THE Co-opera-
tive Commonwealth are reached
There everybody will get the full re-
ward OF his toll. The machines shall
be used for the benefit of all The
hours OF labor shall be reduced All
will have plenty. There will he n1entv
Oh time for recreation and amuse-
ment. Plenty of time to study nature
and her laws. Human rights sb.11
take the place of our present cannihaI-
lstlc, wealth-adoring system. Pinto
crat and pauper alike shall disannear
Love and peace and human hapniness
snail permeate the very atmosnhere
Doctor Hasbrouck followed Mr. H.
gan with few remarks or. the ol,iacte