The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-08

the reverse of the traditional policy OF /
the republican party and its treacher- |
GUS ancestors, IN that he believed in |
the diffusion of wealth and power. He |
made no atte npt to centraliZe every
thing in Utah within the boundary
lines of Salt Lake city as many of the
republicans are seeking to do today.
In addition to scattering the indus
tries, as We have shown, in different
parts of Utah, be established the ter
ritorial capital at Fillmore; he built
temple at st. George, another IN Manti
and another in Logan. Presi lent
Young also held the semi annual Col =
ferences in st. George, in Provo and
Logan and never pandered to central
izing tendencies such as we see today.
Would to Heayen that revered man
and prophet could be brought back
from oyer the ''shoreless sea-" such
skln.gain concerns as Saltair and
other like enterprises that
help to centralize the wealth
OF the people in Salt Lake city, would
be relegated TO the rear. President
Young was for all Of the people and not
a select few. In his nature. he came
about as near being republican as
pure democracy is like the despotism
of Russia.
The Enquirer then proceeds to
drivel oyer the bounty act and the es-
tablishment of the Lehi Sugar factory
as if democrats were opposed to that
industry, and as if no democratic
money went into the erection of the
plant. II there is any virtue what
ever in protection and bounties, the
latter has the former on the hip. be
cause pounties are generally given
from the proceeds of direct taxation
and not tax on articles consumed as
is tbs case with the tariff. But it is
harder for the poor family who, per-
haps, consumes a hundred pounds of
sugar annually, to pay their taxes than
it is for the rich corporations to pay
their taxes.
But we will return to the question
OF whose money it was that built the
sugar factory, and can do no better
than to quote from an address de-
livered by that peerless man and DEM
ocrat, Moses Thatcher, in Ogden, May
IA, 1892. before the territorial demo
cratic convention, and from which the
following is an excerpt.
A word in conclusion about the
Utah sugar bounty and the action of
the legislature respecting it. l am
democrat and do not believe in the doc
trine of protection, nor the govern
mental bestowal of bounties. [ regard
them as extremely pernicious and dan.
gerous to the peace and happiness and
liberty of the people. am in perfect
harmony with the action of the legisla-
ture On that matter. l am of the
opinion that have paid for as much
stock in the Utah Sugar factory as all
my republican friends in Cache county
together have purchased. Taking a
narrowly selfish view Of the matter uI
should desire all the bounty could get
both from the general government and
from the territory. But when / visit
the homes of the people, not those
where the fatted calf is killed to graf
lfy the epicurean taste, but the home
that has no fatted calf, and from whose
few chickens come the only revenue by
which the family secures life's neces-
saries or meets the demands of con-
science in contributing to sacred things;
. homes where, ii gaunt poverty does not
there hang his tattered msntel, the
children at least thrust their sockless
feet into well ventilated shoes; homes
where burlap or rags fill the place in
the sash where once the l0-cent pane
admitted light; homes where disease
gathers the sweat Of death and where
2 proper nOurisbment might bring back
: the bloom of health; homes from the
roofs of which broken shingles have
fallen and through which the chilling
storm beats; homes around which
there is neither shrub nor flower TO
cheer and comfort; homes for years in
nocent of paint. l say when l visit
such, and know where they are, |
could not consent that their owners
should pay a single nickel of extra
tax in order to put q bounty in my
pocket. No, gentlemen, rather than
endorse under these conditions a tax
on the people aggregating no more
than l per cent. on my personal in
vestment in the Utah sugar factory, |
would prefer to distribute among the
worthy poor the remaining SO per cent.
believe in encouraging home indus
try, and in that regard am not ashamed
of the record; but do not believe iu
bounties that take from the many to
give to the few, and from the poor to
give to the rich, and which are in nv
opinion as much opposed to business
sense as they are TO public morality. At
times it requires courage to float with
the current, To fly against the cur
rent requires fortitude that all men do
not possess.