The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28
GRAND MASTER SOVEREIGN
TELLS WHAT ORGANIZATION is
FOR.
Progress of Inyention-The Three
Modern Crimes-True Province of
Government--Natur Rights and
Liberty-A Hope.


opinion.
That explains the prime object of tn
labor organization. Not alone do w
consider the rights and principles o
our own members, but of the who'll
people. We believe there is somethin;
wrong with the social and industrial
machinery of our country, for as PEG
pie we have been in letters for over {
quarter of a century. L go back anC
find the rule of the Indian and thu
range of the buffalo where today are
beautiful cities, showing the work o.
individual enterprise and industry. The
same advance is true throughout the
entire length and breadth of the ma
ton. Mechanics and laborers have
erected the school-houses, the churches
the hotels, the colleges, the factories
everything that would assist in supply.
ing the physical wants of the masses
Not only that, but the ingenuity of the
people has delighted and advanced the
civilization of the world.
We have gone into the unknown
realms and harnesSed the lightning tC
drive machinery, communicate thought
call the bellboy and execute the crimi-
nails. But stop moment. With all
our invented agencies our social COM
forts have not been increased and the
happiness of the people has not multi
piled in proportion to the increase OF
wealth and the Improvement in the
facilities for production. There has
been no equitable ratio in the distribu-
ton Of the wealth of the country to
prove that material wealth is an evil
dence of happiness. The cotton-pro-
ducing industry of the south was as
prosperous under human slavery as it
is now. and 1 do not know but the
colored people were as well off The
3 farmer had a rnIJoh n1pa and q
many leisure hours under the cradle
and the fail as he has under the har-
veSter and thrasher. The carpenter
had as much pleasure and leisure when
the jack-plane and moulder were on
his bench as he has today, when he
stands by and hears the rumbling of
the planning machine. The miner has as
many of the pleasures of this earth
when the gin and mule hauled the ore
to the surface as today, when he stands
beside the engine that hoists it with
marvellous rapidity. Therefore I say
that somewhere something is wrong.
We are asked to propouad our remedy.
What remedy have you to offer?
My brothers, the three great modern
crimes against humanity are the
monopolization of natural bounties, the
forced increase Of debts and the peri
odical shrinkage of values.
Think of robbing a man of his in
tlCiCnl I4Sul " d the SOIL.
think or forcing untold millions of in
terest-bearing debts on the productive
resources of the country, and then con-
tracing the currency and shrinking
values until twice as much of the pro-
ducts of labor is required to liuuidate
the debts as was purchased with the
money Immediately after the loans
were made.
Labor wants the land monopolists.
the money power and the corporations
10 stop stealing; and we demand that
our government cease legislating for
the benefit of the thieves, and return
the stolen goods by the revocation of
corporate charters. the operation by the
public of the great agencies of distribu-
tion, the issuing of money without the
intervention Of banks, and the re-
elimination of unused land for the
peneht of the people to whom it pro-
perly belongs.
Ny friends, there can be no such
thing as vested rights in ANYTHING that
prevents one of Gods children from
earning his bread in the sweat of his |
race. Anything that stands in the wav
OF the natural rights and natural liner
moved ie
All real rights are natural rights. all
true liberty is natural liberty. and ex-
listed prior TO political government.
The true province Of governments ,s
10 guarantee to every citizen his natu-
raj rights and his natural liberties
Labor is groaning on the rack of 1e.
gained violation Of natural rights and
natural liberties. So long as the in
oustrlal masses are robbed of the
fruits of their toll through the legal
lZed violation of natural rights. there
VIII exist slavery more abtect and
hopeless than that of bolts, bars and
chains, for corporate masters have
not the individual heart and conscience
OF men, but assume the form of i'm
perious, cruel, unrelenting fate.
nation need never hope for aught
out laWlessness, violence and discon-
tent that descends to class legislation
for the benefit of special individuals
and corporations, for such degradation
precludes every principle of liberty.
equality and fraternity, and is founded
on falsehood and disunion.
II our government ever returns TO
the principles of equity and brother
hood, it will do so through the wise.
independent action of labor at the bal.
lot box.
This is a debtor-nation. In addition
to the two thousand million paid by
labor every year for the support of
county, state and national
government, American labor is now
paying. according to the most conserv-
alive statistics obtainable, two thou
sand million per annum, or more than
i've million dollars per day, to meet
the interest charge now imposed on our
homes and industries, a large portion
of which goes to foreign countries and
never returns.
Furthermore, the industrial masses
If this country pay annually to the
four crowned heads of America
namely, George Gould. Cornelius Van
ierbilt, John ID. Rockefeller and Wal
iorf Astor--the enormous sum of $685.
100000, or ten times more than is paid
o the leading crowned heads of
europe, including the queen of Eng
and.
The sunshine of heaven may kiss the
,arth and fan with the sweet odor of
he rose, the land may abound in all
he richest gifts of nature, and man
through ingenuity and industry may
III the warehouses to overlooking with
I'll the necessaries and comforts of
life; but in the very shadows of burst
ng granaries will stand squalor and
poverty, and saturnine and unhappy
will be the nation if the profits of la
or are not sufficiently large to enable
he people to consume their products
4 the same ratio that they Great
hem.
} produce for itself. then it's oppor-
unity to consume will be exactly equal
} its ability to create. Economy in the
ense in which it is applied to labor,
not the road to wealth and happiness
hen put into general practice, for If
arried to extremes, it would DESTROY
TT, science, literature and all else ex-