The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-16

erful plutocracy the world has ever
known. mind you not even a natural
plutocracy. but an international plu-
tocracy without faith or kim which
viii drag us to the most abject slaV-
cry Today the people are waking up
is the question.
"The issue will be in 1900, are we to
he controlled by the cosmopolitan
money power or are we to be free men
of this great republic? Nothing more
nothing less.
The Republicans have ranged them
selves on the side of mOnoDolieS and
the concentration of wealth. They have
ranged themselves on the side of con-
trolling the municipal, state and ma
tional legislation by wealth. They were
slow in avenging the insult and injuries
of the enemy and only did so when
pushed to it by the Democracy of the
country. They are guilty of carrying
on our late war in a partisan and cor
rupt manner and to the profit of cor
porations. To all this the Democracy,
/ hold, is opposed and is assembling its
mighty army to defeat its dangerous
John Clark Ridpath spoke on
Thomas jefferson" When Mr.. Ridpath
said that jefferson stood above Adams
and Otis and was the most intellectual
Democrat that ever lived, a hundred
voices shouted: No, no! Bryan.
Bryant" Mr.. Williams whispered some
thing to Mr.. Ridpath, and the latter
Il accept the suggestion" and bowed
! to Colonel Bryan.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Ridpath's
speech a horseshoe of flowers was pre-
scented to Colonel Bryan, who arose and
bowed.
erty."
POWER OF ORGANIZED WEALTH.
Judge James P. Tarvin of Kentucky,
president of the Ohio Valley Bimetal-
lie league, responded to the sentiment,
THE Power OF Organized Wealth He
said in part:
Il would define the Chicago platform
of 1886 to be a formulated protest
against the existence and abuses of or
ganized wealth. l think that is it's
whole meaning. l believe that the
Democratic national convention of 1900
will adopt a platform even more spec
| fficaliy and emphatically a protest
gainst the existence and abuses of
organized wealth. 1t will reaffirm the
declarations Of the Chicago platform
Of 1896. 1t viii declare the purpose of
the party to prevent the organization
| and operation Of trusts. It will de-
clare against imperialism. Further, it
ought to declare against any alliance
with England 1t ought to declare that
a monarchy and a republic cannot be
linked together; that human freedom
and human slavery cannot march to-
gether 1t should be remembered that
no English army has ever fought for
freedom, and that no English soldier
has ever died for its cause.
There should be a repeal of general
corporation laws. There should be alb
solute government control of railroads
and telegraphs. There should be pub
lie ownership of public franchises.
"Organized wealth is the enemy of
human freedom, and organized wealth
in this land has become a public en-
envy. 1t cannot exist under a free gov
ernment, because it cannot exist at all
unless it controls the government and
through the government dictates the
people 1t cannot exist if it is less
than the government, Or subordinate to
il is greater than the government, and
superior to the government.
But in the contest now impending
organized wealth is face to face with
an opposition such as it has never be-
fore seen. The world has never before
known such a people as those of the
United States. When they once become
awakened, their force Will be such that
nothing can Withstand it. With their
attention and thought once aroused,
they Will remedy their own evils. and
they will do it by process of law. and