The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-08

lOnS, ana stood idly by While THESE
modern Hessians of American liberty
robbed US Of II per cent of all ouI
wealth, and Is per cent of our homes.
Here are some statistics from the
Boston Arend for July, taken from
notes by the editor:
1T will be seen that the poor, con-
shutting 50 per cent Of our families.
own but per cent of the wealth of
the nation, while the middle class, con-
shutting 80 per cent of our families,
own 26 per cent of the wealth of the
nation, and the rich who constitute but
9 per cent of our families, own Il per
cent of all our wealth. Finally 4,047
families possess about seven-tenthS as
much as do 11,59S,SS7 families
My friends, it is time for the common
people to recover this wealth which
has been legislated TO syndicates and
foreign bond holders by designing poll
ticians in our state and national legis-
latures-those who inplore workingmen
to keep out OF politics.
This is a representative government,
and on these lines it must exist, and
the party that tries to make it other
is an enemy to this republic, and our
conditions are what we make them. [
do not want to hear workingmen COM
plain about losing their homes, and
on election day return the party to
power that has legislated over half the
public domain TO syndicates, trusts and
railroad corporations and ruthlessly
struck down half the constitutional
money Of the nation, in the interest Of
The money brokers of London and New
York
Neither do I want to hear them adj
vocating a strike for one dollar day
and go TO The polls on election day
Il dow md
is what we have been doing for the
past fifty years, voting the Democrat
and Republican tickets.
l do not intend TO condemn any
party. if anyone deserves condemna-
ton it is the working men. But l Want
to call your attention to a brief his
tory Of our country and ask you to
bear the question in mind, Were we
ever a prosperous people? Charles
Dickens writing from Boston to a
friend in London. said every man in
this country has blazing fire and
meat for every meal. Nor would a
flaming sword in the air attract as
much attention as a beggar in the
streets of Boston"
And our iilusgrious writer Washing
ton Irving wrote that ON no country on
earth has the charms of nature been
so abundantly iaviShed. Yes, my ma
tive land is full of youthful promise.
Are we now prosperous? No. my
friends, l do not believe. there ever was
such universal suffering among the
people, our mines and factories are 81
lent, our land unculhivated, all kinds of
property depreciating, and four mil
lions of our people unemployed, and
general stagnation in trade from ocean
to ocean.
does o111> oo111,f7.1r roocSoc- +Ia mo +,,,.oI
resources TO make our people prosper
Gus? Yet, there is no nation under
the sun filled with such natural wealth,
her manufactures coal and iron in
dustries in the east, the greatest in
the world. From 1880 to 1890 the an
nual wealth production was nineteen
billion. Where has the wealth gone?
Have the common people got it? No.
they belong to the MoTgans and Roths-
childs.
Her cotton, rice, and tobacco in the
south is unequalled, her vast plains
and agricultural area in the middle
states unknown TO any other nation.
The north and west with their endless
supplies Of mineral and lumber. yet in
spite Of all this the people are becoming
pCerer every year.
Let me illustrate it in the words of
the poet.
1.-THE soil tells the same fruitful story,
The seasons their bounty display
The flowers lift their faces in glory,
To catch the warm kisses of day.
While our fellows are treated like cat
tie,
They are muzzled while trodding the
corn
And millions sink down in life's battle,
With a sigh for the day they were
born
But we are told we must have con-
fidence. We never lost confidence, we
always had confidence in a government
by and for the people, and we have
the same confidence in the greenback
and silver dollar that our forefathers
had, but we have no confidence in es-
tablishing a foreign policy of govern
ment on American soil, a policy that
has gone down to a dishonored grave
in Ireland.
Let us ask ourselves what is the
cause of this general sltagnation. The
cause is due to unjust legislation by
the political parties in power Who
were the political parties in power?
The first division in American politics
in WaShing'tons cabinet
between Thomas Jefferson, secretary of
state, and Alexander Hamilton, secre-
tary of the treasury, Hamilton was the
recognized leader of aristocracy and
wealth, and jefferson a leader of men.
Hamilton was the recognized leader
Of the federalist or monarchical party
and jefferson was the leader of the
great common people and founder of
the Democratic party. Since that time
only two political parties have held
he reins of government, the Democrats
and Republicans, for the federaliSts
and wings were not formidable competi-
-ors of Democracy. The Democrats
ell us that they are the party Of JEFF /
'erson, and the Republicans the party .
# Lincoln. When I hear those corpo-
alton orators on the rostrum making
ruch comparisons between Senator Pal (
ner and Thomas Jefferson and Major I
and Abraham Lincoln, [ can
imagine | hear the groans from Month
sello and Oak Ridge cemeteries.
Thomas Jefferson said this must be +
| government by the people and none
out the American people shall rule
his nation. And Lincoln in his mes
;age to congress in 1861 warned his Z
OF the approach of danger (
Is follows:
Monarchy itself is sometimes limited /
1t as a possible refuge from the power
# the people
Shades of our immortal Jefferson and !
lincoln look down upon your suffering
people. who have so foolishly ignored
our warnings till our country is on
he verge of a revolution; labor has no |
ooting in the structure of this gov