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

1 the men are compelled to stand 70
their rights or escape from their en-
vironments by the back door of sui
eide. 1t is no part of my purpose t
O appeal to passion. We are all Ameri
can citizens, imbued with a common
love of country. Let us get so clos
together that we can feel each other
heart throbs and reason out these mat
tiers with reason and intelligence. JEFF
, ferson said We want no extremel.
, rlch or extremely poor We have both
mere Few men grow extremely ricl
and the masses extremely poor TIL,
man who works the hardest and tn,
longest receives the least. The meI
who build the largest houses live GU
doors The woman who fashions the
richest garment is clothed in rags, and
the man who notes this condition and
says something is wrong with oul
: system is classed as a demagogue.
accept this compliment. They say
am an agitator and 1 am.
But no man ever arraigned wrong
who was not put in the pillory. The
agftators of the ages gone by were
; burnt at the stake and broken on the
wheel. However, none of them lived
before their time. But for these ]
have alluded to the world would have
never emerged from barbarism and the
chronology of civilization would have
never been written. Washington was
rated as a demagogue. He didn't be-
leVe in law and order Qaughter), he
was a rebel, striker and a revolu-
zionist Caughter), and, with jefferson,
Hancock and Paine, was denounced
as disturber of the peace. None were
entirely opposed to violence, and it
must be admitted they sometimes de-
stroyed property. Witness the throw
ing overheard of the tea into Boston
harbor, making a great teapot of il
(laughter), and our revolutionary
mothers were in favor of the boycott
for they foreswore the tea and said
they'd have none of it. Naughter.)
1t was Franklin who said of the sign
ers of the Declaration, that they must
all hang together or hang separately
and had they not succeeded they would
have hung separately and we, in this
I day, would have looked upon them as
martyrs.
Il don't care for public opinion, for
! 1t is often moulded by vicious press.
Public opinion decreed the revolution
and the anti-slavery agitation. Every
man who attacked slavery was him
self attacked. William Lloyd Garri-
son and Wendell Phillips. the noblest
hearts that ever beat between earth
I and the mercy seat, were insulted and
! outraged in cultured Boston, bat today
a nation adores their memories John
Brown was hanged without a trial for
crime. Two years after he was
classed as a fanatic; ten years later
as an enthusiast and today the great
state of New York is erecting a monu-
ment to his memory. 1t has been ever
thus, from Socrates to CoXey Qaugh-
teri; the man who waits to be appre-
ciated, dies disappointed. l have long
ago given no that hope, but l have
made uD my mind to be on speaking
terms with death and do what l be-
lieve to be right
"All the organic forces of govern
menu are asa.Est the poor iH& OnIy
the poor go to Jail. 1 speak from ex-
perience. Oaughter) In many of the
states you may commit any crime you
choose if you have money. The money
power has invaded the supreme court
of the United States and even the pull
pit has been touched and the professed
follower of Christ, the friend of the
poor, leaves the altar with the pur-
chase price of treachery in the pocket
of his clerical garment. l am making
no allusion now to the little church
round the corner but to the taber- /
nacles of the great. These parsons solve |
the labor question by saying Servants, |
be obedient to your masters. for this is
right They prescribe actions for US /
to follow, but I believe that poor men /
are more interested in getting bread for /
ures in heaven.
4 h9ve said that the supreme court /
has been tainted, and I speak advised
ly. 1t has been usurped by the money
power. l say without bitterness, had
the income tax been levied on the
poor it would never have been declared !
invalid. (Here the speaker read the
opinion of Justices White
Harlan and BROWN These are not the
words of a wild-eyed anarchist. They
are the calm, deliberate, judicial ex-
pressions of members of the highest
tribunal in the land. 1t is time for
men Of all classes TO get together The
money power embraces a small class
Of men who have amassed tremendous
fortunes. Their apparent purpose is
to become monarchs in
fact as well as in, name. To do this
they propose to subvert the constitu-
ton and eXtinguish the last spark of
freedom. They are Shyloclls. and Shy
locks are citizens of no country: they
have no flag, they are the abnormal
product of a diseased civilization They ,
nave one popularity, a petrified heart.
We have deified the dollar and de-
graded the man. You can scarcely find ;
/ newspaper which will credit a man I
With an honest motive, but plenty are
hey who are ready to charge Interior.
purposes l don't hate the richl l pity !
'OilS VI lneiH SOIIe men nave too |
much and are as bad off as those who
lave too little. Both ought to be abol-
shed. Jay Gould died 20 years too !
soon, because too much money had
lin. We measure mems success by
iollars, and honesty counts for nothing.
\ reasonable amount of money is all ,
light, but manhood and womanhood .
re better than gold. We should make f
he world fit to live in. The indica- I
ion of a superior mind is the doing of =
for the man who cannot '
elp himself. The man who uses his I
wealth TO Cypress others is a barbarian. ?
L believe everything will yet come i
nut right. Something tells me the h
7orld is getting better every day
nd men who are not wage workers II
mo say they owe a duty to society
nd are seeking light 7
Our political freedom was achieved :
Ong ago. What we now want is q
freedom. The man who works c
)r corporation on terms and ccndi-
ons prescribed by that CORPORATION n
bsolutely. is nothing less than a slave c.
n election day he is herded like cattle b
nd bid to vote, not in his own interest Il
Ut in the interest of the corporation Il
him. il
All men were born with the inherent il
ght to work. If man has the right to &c
re, he has the right to the means to 81
lstain life procured by labor
we find fault with the tramp. that N
spectacle created by on tc
ression. / pity him. Put yourself in W
lie pathway of the causes which made a.
IN what he is and unless you are far II
Dove the average of humanity you I