The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
Pass Resolutions and Decide to
Present Petitions
TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE
AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
Speeches by Warren Foster and
Henry W. Lawrence-John Stubs
Gives His Views and Tells His
Troubles.

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Lawrence and Hon. Warren Foster as
to the best methods of filling their va
cant gamers with wheat and swelling
the supply of coal in their fuel reposi-
tories. Resolutions to the legislature
and council, anent the matter OF fur
nishing employment were passed, and
also the assembly was treated to some
ardent and rhetorical phillipics from
Mr.. John Stubs.
Hon. Moses Thatcher and Hon. Q.
w. Powers, who it was understood
were to have occupied high seats IN
the council, were absent, but the CROWD
was none the less large and enthu-
siaStic.
All the seats in the hall were occu-
pied, and in the habiliments and facial
expression of the company there were
few of the marks of distress which
are usually so distinguished in gather
ings of the unemployed in large east
ern cities. Mr.. Smell performed the
duties of the chair and Mr.. L. Z.
Bailey was secretary of the meeting.
HON. WARREN FOSTER.
Warren Foster was introduced as the
first speaker, and applause greeted him
as he mounted the platform. Man was
the only animal. he said, who was
foolish enough to starye in the midst
of plenty. Even Brer Rabbit had a
more brilliant allotment of brains than
to peregrinate through the world with
an empty interior When he was
young, he had occasionally killed a
rabbit and when he discovered that the
long-eared hunter of grain fields was
of a portly and self-satiSfied mien he
had been convinced therefrom that all
the other rabbits were enjoying the
delectable roots of some vegetable field
and waxing stout on the diet, which
proved that the rabbit knew enough
to help himself whenhe was an hum
gered. and therein he was wiser than
many homos of greater intellectual pre-
tention.
MIR. Foster paid a few graceful COM
pliments to millfonaires, and said he
would as soon have his son grow up
a horsethief as a grand larceny coal
oil thief like Rockefeller. Legislation
of a one-barrelled brand, aiming to in
crease the wealth of the classes and
keep the masses subjugated, must be
stopped or the social system would go
to pieces New machinery was
source Of the peoples woes; monopo-
lists and subsidized legislators were
another.
Mr. Foster was frequently applluded-
In fact, the audience grew too demon
strative, and sergeant -at-arms had
to be appointed to prevent the hearers
from interfering aphorisms into Mr..
Fosters speech.
HON. H. w. LAWRENCE.
Hon. H w. Lawrence was the next
speaker. He referred to the hardships
worked upon the laboring men by the
introduction of improved methods of
machinery. Unless some change oc-
CURED the outlook would become more
and more gloomy for the iaoorer- MI
Lawrence recommended, as cure for
the improved machinery, the owner
ship OF the machinery by the govern
ment or the people, instead of by the
monopolists.
Every man, he said, was entitled to
a home. That home, if it were the
domicile of a poor man, ought not to
be taxed The remedy for the present
evils was with the people; they were
the supreme power in the state; II they
chose to exercise their full rights of
citizenship.
Mr.. Lawrence then spoke in favor OF
the government ownership of railroads,
and stated that street railroads ought
also to be the property of the people.
There would be no remedy, he con-
tinued, until the people acted for them
selves No legislation of economic or
financial value to the masses had been
passed for 20 years. The cure did not
lie in the restoration of silver-that
would only be a palliation; it rested
in the exercise by the people of the
power which the government gave
them.
RESOLUTIONS DISCUSSED.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Lawrence's
speech, three resolutions, which had
been previously introduced, were
discussed.
The first was a petition to the legis- |
lature, asking for the exemption from
taxation Of all household furniture of
the value of $500 or less, and also of
all implements and tools used by
manual laborers in their craft.
The remaining two were to the |
commissioners and city coun- |
ell. The first asked that work be Civ |
en- to 1000 unemployed men in Salt |
Lake. The second asked that the Civ
ing of contracts for labor be discon- |
tinued.
STUBBS TELLS HIS TROUBLES.
Two OF the prayers to the local law
makers were from the stylographic !
pen of Mr.. John Stubs. Mr.. Stubs |
took upon himself to explain the pro-
priety of his handiwork, and incident |
ally gave a Kaleidoscope description |
IF the rebuffS he had met in soliciting |
So to pay for the rent of the hail.
Hon. P. H. Lannan, whom he loosely |
referred to with the appellative Pat" /
had been his first victim, but the news |
paper magnate had dismissed him with |
the pungent and trite observation that /
le (Stubbs) got himself mixed alto
sether too much in politics. Stubbs'
volatile mind then went on a new ex-
and he told of his troubles
with ex-Councilman LIE Grand Young, !
and other prominent men. who had
won the devotion of Johns unsophisti-
lated and trusting heart.
Someone suggested that John was
wandering from the subject of his pc
itions, which made John angry
Someone else objected to the elegant
ohraseology of his petition, which
stirred UP Johns soul to still more
5ulDhrOus wrath. John was just get
ing re-launched on his explanation
when some irate listener moved the
previous question.
Johns ewes famed; so did his face
Ind whiskers.
You go to HE'LL said he, and there
pom with Chesterfeldian dignity he re-
ired to his seat.
The resolutions, with some slight
amendments, were all passed.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS