The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-07
hen competition regulated wages are

When competition regulated wages are
PASSED.
BY reason OF the great concentration
employers and these arbitrarily TX wages,
because the men are at their mercy, and
II IS mockery to selI the men 70 look for
uther jobs il they are dissatisfied. They
atso recognize zhe fact over there that
corporations have no conscience and that
II the laDofer is left 10 their mercy his
Status as man and citizen must get
lower and lower. and that the only way
~ winch he can prevent himself and his
children from being ground into atoms is
10 combine with his fellow laborers, SO
as TO meet combination with combination,
ana by concert Of action in refusing TO
work than is, by 4 strike, can he secure
ANYTHING like fair treatment.
They also see that when organized la
borers strike for the purpose Of securing
q raise 30 wages or improving their con-
nct, wsu derive benefit from II. If sue
cesSsul. and that consequently when some
men IN The midst Of a strike are induced
TO so to work so as to defeat the pur-
pose of the strike, such men not only
harm all their fellows, but also the con-
dhlona of themselves and their children,
although they may get temporary bread
Recognizing All these things, the gov
ernang forces of England permit the 10
porer 20 use ali peacea'ble means TO in
oues other lab0rers TO Join in the strike.
he Is simply forbidden TO use violence or
10 break the peace.
The practice Of ''picketing," that is. Of
sending men to induce other ldD0rerS to
quit work through persuasion, or any
other Deace9ble means is recognized as
perfectly lawful.
Courts there disda4n TO use their ma
ch1nery as mere convenience for cor
porate greed.
The government OF England is monarch
Ia Here We boast OF republican govern
ns3lt and free institutions. Shall We al
low the individual of this country TO be
robbed of even such rights and Dretec-
tlon as monarchy would give him.
Shall the corporations of this land be
permitted not only to deVour our SUBJ
stance, but also TO destroy our liberteS2
My friends, let US save our institutions;
government by Injunction must be
crushed out,
II the government takes some of the
great corporations. then there viii not be
The bench. But the constitution has
pointed out way TO end these usurpa-
tons without having the government
take the corporations, and that way is by
impeachment Every one of the judges
Whether of high or low degree, who has
been tramping on the constitution and
uSurpinr power not given him, is subject
&c Impeachment.
'Ine American people can remove every
one Of them and consign them to that in
fanny WHICH is now embalming the mem
DRY of JeffrieS.
But this can not be done SO long as
congress is made up largely of men who
are mere corporation conVenSenoeS. 1t
WiA be necessary TO send men to congress
who viii be true to the people. This may
NOT happen at the next election, nor yet
at the next; but it must come. and must
come soon.
Providence has ordained that nothing
shall SO on forever. Our fathers said
that every lane had turn. We have
been travelling in a lane that has run in
the same direction for 80 years, and We
are approaching q turn Yea, my friends,
do not despair. A turn in the road is
already in sight and if the American
people are but true 20 their robler in
stLnets they viii soon be restored TO their
ihheritanee. while justice and liberty.
equal rights and equal privileges Will
cover our land with d halo of glory and
give our people a new century of prosper
sty and happiness.
But If they dc not rise in their man
hood and stand for the principles of eter-
mai justice then all is lost
This is Labor Day throughout the
United States and many beautiful things
ySiH be said about the dignity Of labor.
out I want TO say 10 you that If our COY
eminent is not rescued from corruption
and If the Sndhy form Of government bF
injunction Is not crushed. then it would
have been better for your children if
they had nerer been born