The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-09
Speech TO
Y VORKINGMEN.
Continued from Page u

of the govern ut shall be used for
no other purpost. than for raising the
bare necessities OF government, which
conditions demand. CApplaUse)
This Republican plan Of legislation
creates classes. - is contrary 10 the
great natural law in respect TO the
productions of labor. Democracy
avoids cutting down the productions
Of tse labor of the people, and thus
benefits not the few in a chosen num-
Der Ike are separate from the great
masseS but all the people. applause
Equal Justice.
Upon this subject of favoring special
lines of industry, and special individ-
uals. let me say further, that the Re
publican idea violates that great prin-
ciple that in the affairs of government
Their shall be equal and exact justice
to all men, and special favor to no
man. lApplause) If one was at al
sure thai he could be among the fav-
ored ones, that he and his posterity
after him would be the ones who would
receive the assistance of the govern
ment. tto fostering hand OF govern
mental partnership. one might be
tempted to seek the establishment of
such a system as that; but my friends,
do not you see in the uncertainty Of
human affairs that one might fail to
work his way into the favored class,
and then would his posterity enjoy the
name privileges that he did? Not
tuchi They would be among the I'M
AAyCred masses instead of the favored
X asses. (Applause) Therefore, there
Il no safety whenever we give our
consent TO swerve so much as one
hairs breadth from the line Of exact
justice to all. and special privileges to
none. Great applause)
4 Goldfish Aristocracy.
I want now to speak upon the Re
publican plan of tariff legislation, and
its relation to the toiling millions. AS
! said in the beginning our Republic
can friends lay special claim upon the
laboring masses of America, because
they pose as the friends of labor and
claim that their legislation is for the
express purpose of benefting the toll
ing masses. Upon what principle is
their tariff legislation? In the first
place. my friends, il runs counter to
the great force and truths Of nature.
1t begins by exercising the taxing
power of the government, not alone
fSr collecting revenues TO meet the
5uA expenses of the government, but
in addition it piles on high tariff taxes
sn order that special lines of industry
may be fOstered. When ever they Sc
leet a new industry upon which to be
stow their favor. they do an injustice
10 every other industry in the country
and all who are employed in them.
Thus The Republican tariff system
tends to the building up of classes in
a great republic. 1t creates a Goldfish
aristocracy. CApplause) BY this
mean an aristocracy based upon
wealth.
There are some kinds of aristocracy
that a man may have some patience
with-fJr instance an aristocracy
founded upon intelligence. One may
have still more patience with an aris-
socracy that is founded upon charac-
ter. But wnen. you undertake to found
anNaristocracy based on wealth, and
than too, upon the use of the great
taxing power of the government to
accomplish the end, it is not only cod
fish arr. tocracy, but 1t it is sinking
-S8dfish aristOcracy. (Great and con-
Adnued applaUsee Il strikes a direct
blow al true af'stocracy and the
friends thereOf
That great and importal Democrat,
Thomas jefferson Capplause. when
writing the great preface to the con-
,sAitution of the United States, the Dec
lirati0n Of American Independence,
fNaid: I'VE recognize these truths as
self-evident; that all men are created
equal: that they are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights
among which are life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness: that to secure
Inese blessings governments are insti-
tuted among men" Mark you this
here are laid down the principles for
which government is created. One de-
clares chat government is instituted
among men to protect them in their
natural rights and TO produce equal
fly, and when government does that it
accomplisnes the end for which it was
created 1t does not merely restrain
nSFn from injuIing one another. but
- leaves them free to follow their own
pursuits of industry in their own way,
to build a place for themselves among
men. When a government thus pro-
Vides protection to society and to the
individual. 7 repeat it answers the
end for which it was created.
Unjust A1rnubIican Tariff.
But you will see at once that the
Republican system Of tariff taxation
used to DGiid up favored industries
and Increase the production of GER
tain favored classes. violates this fun
damental principle of government and
runs counter 70 the great natural
forces. mean. by running counter
70 the great natural forces. that the
Il
cannot produce. with our climate. sur
Toundings or resources certain goods
with a great cheapness or qua lity as
can some other people with whom we
&fe connected 10y commercial rela ions.
Rhrt We Will raise this high tariff law.
Il win give yOG the business and q
mi sarllet, and If yOu have to produce at
greater cost than the fellows with
whom we are now doing business.
still you shall do it" But when YOU
do It. my friends. the result is that
YOU are engaging in lines of industry
which the natural resources and ia
cilities Of the country do not Justify.
and You are undertaking by dollhouse
methods to build UP industries which
cannot be self-sustaining and to sus-
tain them at the expense OF all the
other industries that other people en-
gage in. Therefore say that a pro-
I ctive system runs counter to the ma
tural forces, is wasteful protection.
and 5 an unjust tax upon the indus
trles Of the country not favored hv
II. This method Of taxation. and this
running counter TO the natural forces
of nature is supposed to be Justified
because of some results supposed IL
depend upon It.
First Of all. they say industries are
diversified. and that when You diver
sifY industries You take men ont of
competition with one another. and lead
them into fields where there is less
competition and consequently build
individual profits They argue that II