The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-09

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man govern nents, as do the laws of
nature in the domain of the purely
physical.
Brief reference has bsen made to
the social elements of the United
States. With the present uninlight-
ened condition Of the dsgos, 2 uns
and others, and of the evident lack OF
knowledge of political cause and effect
on the part of the masses, but little
progress can be made. This condition
makes the people an easy prey to de-
signing politicians who work in the
interst of the money power, be cause
the people see and feel only effects and
cannot discern the causes. Thirty
five years Of almost uninterrupted re-
publican domination with the Derni-
cious and deception cry of protection,
has produced certain results Those
results are found in the terrible cen
tralization of wealth in the hands of
% 900 to so 900 persons who now own
fully one-haIt of all the wealth in the
United States. The enrichment OF
that select class has correspondingly
| impoverished the people by protection
taxes until they are struggling in the
meshes they have woven about them
selves through their own ignorance of
the laws of political cause and conse-
quence. Farms are plastered with
mortgages as security for the very
money the farmers have voted to the
protected manufacturers.
Capital is timid, and at the fret
sign OF cloud in the financial sky,
each possessor of wealth wrung from
the people, begins to hunt cover, and
by so doing the capitalists preeipitate
the storm they are seeking to escape.
We're the wealth of the nation more
Justly and evenly distributed as would
have been the case under the equal
chances furnished by the democratic
policy of low tariff, it would be an
imposslbility to so easily pre:ipitate a
panic, and if precipitated, its effects
would be far less than under present
conditions.
1t was the force of centralized pro-
tecTion-wealth, that precipitated the
panic of last year and which had bean
brewing for many years previously.
The results of that panic have seri-
ously affected the laboring class who
were already carrying the burthen OF
republicanism. There is a mighty
struggle for bread occasioned by the
panic, armies of men were thrown
upon the labor market by the closiBp
down of factories which was caused
by the sudden withdrawal OF centralized
wealth-the financial life blood of In
dustry and commerce. Under such
conditions it is an easy matter for re-
publican atumpers to 90 among the
people end by telling them the illogi-
cal and silly lie that their condition is
owing to fear OF democratic free
trade, to-stampede them into voting
continuation Of chains that will eat
into their flesh, and corrode and tor
ment the people until like wild beasts
at bay they will arise and take by force
that which is theirs by right of every
law of nature and their equality before
God.
In such unfortunate "landslides'' as
the late republican victory" there is
no evidence of virtue in the principles
taught by the republican party. nor is
there any evidence ofauy endorsement
of republican policies, 1t is a woeful
spectacle of distressed people turn
ing first in one direction and then in
another for that relief and succor that
will never come until the blessed light
of greater knowledge shall come to
them. The picture is a gloomy one.
But the people are in the midst of
great social evolution that will never
stop until the human family are placed
on social plane where there will be
"equal and exact justice to all men"
In the mean time the God If nation
has decreed that men must suffer
the consequences of their own folly.
They are destined to reap the results of
their sowing.
In imagination we look into the fu-
ture and see the human family on q
higher social plane. The happiness OF
each man and woman is indissolubly
interviewer with the happiness and
welfare of all. The pr blems of social
life have been solved, the laws of na-
ture are better und srstood and are be
ing utilized for mans earthly progress
As we look, We see above them the
smiling angels of peace and plenty,
while the light of faith and hone
gleames in cloudless social SKY and !
urges the human family onward and
upward to the nights of Infinite
knowledge aad endless progress.
That condition can never come un-
Ter the central zing tendencies OF re.
and for that reason there
s more cause for sorrow than Of Joy in
he hearts of intelligent men and wo-
nen when they read of republican
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