The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-05
ARROGANCE OF PLUToCRACY.

There are two theories of govern
ment. One is what has come to be
known as the plutocratic; the other
is the democratic. History and rea-
son alike teach that the latter is the
only safe policy for a people who are
jealous of their liberties and who de-
sire to see their country great and
prosperous. Nation after nation. after
having been made powerful through
its careful protection of the rights of
the common people, has gone down TO
decay and death under selfish pluto
cratic rule. Jefferson clearly under
stood the lessons of history, and he
democracy to safeguard the state that
he assisted in founding, and whose
destinies he so long directed.
But the lessons of history are al
ways lost upon wealth. 1t comes to
believe that its rights are paramount
and that its power is unlimited. Hence
the contest that has been fought out
SO often is continually renewed. If
the. people are wide awake to their in
terests, they rise in their might and
direct the current of affairs; if they
are supine they drift on with the cur
rent, and the demoralizing influence of
riches finally involves all in a com
mon ruin.
The old question is revived in this
campaign. Wealth, arrogant, confident
and determined, insists upon it's right
to rule, and those who are contending
for the maintenance of pure democ-
racy are denounced in unmeasured
terms as disturbers and anarchists.
Some protest their allegiance to the
rights of the people while aiding the
cause Of the money power, but others
openly proclaim their detestation of the
principle under which the masses are
admitted to a full share in the control
of matters of government.
The character of the campaign is
perhaps best illustrated by the record
and character of the man who is man
aging the canvass for the money
power. That man typifies the AFRO
gance Of plutocracy. He does not be-
lieve the common people are entitled
to any consideration where their wishes
and interests come in conflict with the
interests of wealth, and his record is
one long story of oppression of those
coming under his power.
Recently at Fort Wayne, Ind, seven
ty-five leaders of organized labor met
and organized an "Anti-Government by
injunction club They issued an ad-
dress in which they recited the rec
ord of Mark Hanna, saying in part;
Back of and towering above McKin-
ley is the dominating and evil infid-
ence of Mark Hanna, long known as
the bitter and uncompromising foe of
organized labor. Rich, crafty, aVari-
cIous Tor wealth and power; we'll rec
ognizing the benefits of organ
lied cooperation, and avaiiing
himself of the benefits there
of, he denies to the toiler his right TO
organize for the protection of him
self and his fellows. His entire bust
ness career is marked by a trail of
blood, misery and poverty; his vast
fortune of many millions was Wrung
/ from the defenseless withers of I'M
! protected labor. Would you trace his
path of misery and calamity to labor
/ ask the Seamen'S union of the great
lakes. whose organization he bounded
lying bleeding and disrupted. ASK the
mine workers of Pennsylvania and
Michigan, whose places are filled with
the degraded and ignorant Polacks,
/ SlavS and Hungarians from the SlunS
of Europe Seek your answer from
the broken and battered union of
street railroad employees of the city
of Cleveland. Would you know fur
Their, ask the union printers, VINO
We're forced out of the office of the
Cleveland Herald, when it came under
the malign influence of this crusher
of honest labor. Seek honest old John
Ellsler, builder of the beautiful opera
house in Cleveland. whom he turned
out, old and penniless. to die upon
the streets after robbing him of $780,
600, his all.
The first question asked of an ap-
plicant for labor in any of his enter
prises is: Are you a member of a
labor union? If SO, you can't work
here
He has built houses and refused
work to every carpenter, bricklaye~,
plasterer and artisan of any kind who
belonged to a labor union. He has
fought labor unionism off his boats,
out of his coal holes. He has drowned
it in the lakes, bayoneted it about his
works, starved it along his railroads,