The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-18

affairs and to devote ourselves entirely TO
our private interests There are great
wrongs to be righted. There are great
questions TO be settled and rightly set
tied. Humanity is suffering as humanity
ought never to be called Upon to suffer
in = land so free and so full of re-
sources. More than 10000 men and wo-
men are out of employment in the great
metropolis of the nation. The conditions
there are duplicated in every city and
hamlet in the land In the great centers,
though great wealth and great luxury is
enjoyed by those who control the money
of the land. men are starving; women are
starving; innocent babes are starving
Hundreds of people who want work are
reported to be out of employment in this
city, and death from starvation has been
recorded in this land of fertile valleys
and mountains filled with fabulous
wealth. This misery comes from wrong
economic conditions. and TO see that
these conditions are changed and that
men be given the right and opportunity
TO work and earn the bread which their
families need, devolves upon the great
party 10 which l belong and which you
sustain. the party of the common people.
the Democratic party.
WHY MUST WE LOOK TO DE-
MOCRACY?
Why do I say that the duty to succor
suffering humanity devolves upon the
Democratic party? l say it because
those who have placed upon our statute
books the wicked and criminal laws
and death, have securely entrenched
themselves within the rampartS of the
Republican party. They have siezed the
machinery and organization OF that
party. They draft its platforms and
nominate its candidates. and they die
tate the action of its lawmakers. l do
not say this because there are not good
ard true men and women in the Re
publican party. who are honest and sin
cere in supporting it. l say II because
those in the Republican ranks whose
:, ha4 GiVelV to the great
heart of humanity are hoodwinked, mis-
led. and they know not that with every
effort to secure the success OF that great
organization now hopeiessiy within the
grasp of trusts and monopolies and of the
hordes Of greed and avarice, they weld
more closely the shackles which bind
them and their children in the chains or
Industrial slavery.
The Democratic party in its national
convention last summer shook itself free
from the malign influences which sought
10 control il. and entered upon crusade
which when it shall be finished and
rightly finished, will give TO the tolIing
millions of this land the financial freedom
which it is their divine right 10 enjoy
DEMOCRATS SHOULD CEASE STRIFE
AND GET TOGETHER.
Therefore it is all important, that ev-
cry where throughout the land De-
mocracy snail be triumphant and that it
retain control of every inch OF ground
which il has or shall wrench from the
control of the enemy The cause of the
Democratic party is the cause of the peo-
pie 1t is q cause greater tnan that of
any man no matter how distinguished
nor how brilliant he may be. l am here
to speak for that great cause, and | am
here TO express my thoughts plainly.
speak these thoughts because / am
Democrat, having worked for my party
IL the past and expecting to work for
r,y party in the future Things have
happened, words have been spoken. con-
tentions within our ranks have been
fcmented, until believe that we should
turn and taking anew our bearings in
ouire whittier are we drifung2 The time
has come when the spaces within our
ranks must be closed. The time has come
for US to consider whether we do not owe