The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-12

Judge Powers was asked yesterday
whether he favored the socalled citi-
zeas or non-partisan movement, and re
piled:
No I am not in favor of the non
partisan movement. I believe in men
having strong political views. ard be
iieve that bshind public officials che Of
the great parties should stand. Then
someone can be held responsible, While
with an emascalated administration,
each political party washes its hands
of ali responsibility and invariably the
people are disappointed. If the Demo
cratic party is fit TO manage this great
nation it is competent to administer the
affairs Of this city. no Democrat is
made any better by calling him a nan-
partisan. It IS a question after all Of
men and methods and. believing as I
do most sincerely. that the hope and
the future of this country and Of the
common people, depends upon Demo-
cratic success, 1t certainly is unwise for
Democrats to unite in a movement the
object All the result Of which VIII be
10 disintegrate and 20 disorganize the
-y1tAADA-~LtN u SIT Like MS Civ IS
now Democratic. We have had q Re
publican city administration which IS
enllnsatly unsatisfactory. We have the
votes, if We stand together, Which VIII
enable rs TO elect as good men as there
arc ii the city and TO practically de-
nonstrate that the interest OF the
masses lies with the Democracy"
HIS PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS.
What are your PRINCIPAL objections
to the movement" was asked.
This IS a country where the people
rule, was the reply, and it is not
necessary for Us 10 call uDon a few
Select ard brainy thinkers to Do the
work which should deVOlve upon all
the paople. Besides, we should not i'm
pose such heavy burden upon those
brain workers. It may tend 10 rapidly
destroy their gray matter and then
what would we do? The eminent citi-
zens propose to pick out some men who
are satisfactory to them, and then we
are required TO unanimously sustain
them. If we don't, then we shall be
called slang whangers. heelers and tax
eaters. And right here the thought
strikes me that ii IS no worse to be g.
tax eater than tax dodger. One takes
more than he ought and the other re-
tainS more than ne ought, and yet, no
one would think OF calling the citizens
llChC- Il lcA GNt-lEC4E L4NhGl II IlclS UCEl
argued that the men who have con-
secrated themselves to the task OF
destroying the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties are deeply interested in
low taxes. From the standpoint of
immense wealth perhaps this is true.
Let US consider the personnel of our.
selfccnsecrated leaders TO some extent
Here are q few:
", s. Mccormick. ...............S25 SOC. 600
John Z. DcOly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1000, 900
p. Is. Lannan Observation-Disclosures. 100000
w. w Ritter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10000
P. L. Williams --.--.---..--.--.. 10000
F. 5. Richards Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
O. j. Salisbury NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1000, 600
john Q. Cannon (t-ustee) 49,. 1000, 600
AS TO TAXES.
This is only a part of the leaders in
this new dispensation. and yet their
holdings aggregate $4,000, 000 But be-
cause of this. is there any proof that
their wealth bears its due proportion Of
the taxes? On the contrary, our laborers
pay more taxes, in proportion to their
property. than our capitalists. The
house and the cow Of The labOrer. and
the library Of the professional man can
be readily seen by the taXgatherer,
while the bonds and stocks of wealth
secrete Themselves in strong boxes and
in dark vaults The men of moderate
means nave more lnAElGSl III e,OO4 8ON-
eminent and low taxation than the
man Of wealth, and yet this class was
totally ignored when the sympathetic
cohesion OF vast wealth inspired the
citizens movement. The crying evil OF,
the prestnt day is that this is becoming
a government of the plutocrats, by the
plutocrats and for the plutocrats.
IT Is A COMMISSION.
in congress il is proposed that legis-
lation upon the tariff and upon finance
shall be delegated to commissions.
Such commissions would be named by
rhe Hannas. Rockafellers and Wander
bits. In a small way, a commission,
Is selfconstituted in Salt Lake to pro
1ect the dear people from themselves.
We tried a citizens movement a few
wears ago. The same men engineered
that who are incubating the present
one. It was successful. Was it d prudent
and economical administrations Did il
vote bonds to the copper Dlant2 Did
il deal out 10 favorites valuable fran
cnises? Was il popular? Were the
people glad when it went out of power?
who made il possible for the city TO
frTtter away cur valuable property in
terests in the gas plant and sowed the
seed which has blossomed into the i'm
mense gas and electric light trust2 Was
IT the slang whanger, the tax eater, or
the tax dodger and business man in pol
iticS who usually IS IN DollucS lot
revenue only?"
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
DO you recognize any need for the
movement" was asked.
From the Republican standpoint,
YES. A few Republicans have a chance
TO get Office and eat at the public crib
# the citizens win, and upon straight
I,artv lines. they would have TO go TO
work l have not thought that the Re-
publican party should be entrusted
with power, and l am daily having
proof furnished me by the Tribune that
am right. The Tribune says that
oartisan administration is an admins
ration of 'heelers. boodieTs and tax
eaters. And we have now a partisan
Republican administration which was
elected through the efforts of the Trib-
ane. I presume that Christopherson,