The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21

as any one has just complaint. Won
der why he does not also discuss pre-
Adamite man, the Missouri compromise
and the right of states to secede. But
he talks of the tariff on lead. the price
of which is fixed by the smeIter trusts
There is really but little 10 be said on
tariff this year. The argument that it
is the special patron Of the working
nan has been exploded and the people
are not so crazy for a high protective
tariff as they were before our infant in
dustries had combined into the mani
moth trusts of the land. And the Dem
Ocratic platform declares for our need
full protection and as much as any rea-
SOnable man can demand. 1t declares
that the tariff should be levied for the
purposes of revenue, such duties 10 be
so adjusted as 10 operate equally
throughout the country, and not dis
criminate between class or section.
This gives Utah an equal chance with
Massachusetts. and il gives our wool
producers and our lead miners what
ever benefits may occur from proteC-
ton and an equal chance With those
who manufacture and have been espe-
cialiy favored under the Republican
system.
A more vital question than the tariff
is the repeal of the war taxes and the
inspiring of the stamp tax from the
statute books. And then there is the
proposition TO amend the constitution
so that we may enact a law providing
for a graduated income tax. Why should
not the wealth pay its due proportion
of the expense of giving il the prOtec-
ton of the law? It is q notorious tax
dOdger. The assessor can see the poor
mans COW, his modest home. his few
things which he has gathered about
him; but the securities of wealth, in
the strong box at the bank, are out of
sight. A man with an income above
$1,000 per year can afford 10 pay a tax
upon that income. There is no injus-
ment against ii. Such a tax is levied
in England, and such tax should be
provided for in America.
VICTORY IN SIGHT.
All the signs point to a victory for
Bryan The abandonment of his cause
by the political pot-hunters of Utah
VIII not induce this state to cast her
vote against that great American. In
the east the masses are rallying to his
standard, and from their feast of Bel
shazzar the Republican leaders read
the handwriting on the wall The peO-
pie are again to come to their own.
This is the centennial year of the party
founded by Jefferson. Bursting from its
bonds, at the great Chicago convention
IN 1896, the new democracy, the old
democracy of its founder, is pressing on
to glorious triumph
Look to the easti Beholdi. The day
breaketh, The night picks I'D her sable
mantle and shrinks into her cavern of
gloom. Harken, It is the mellow voice
OF the Chanticleeri Labor has arisen
from sleep and stands forth erect in the
image OF God, sovereign of the land
and the sea and of all that there is
therein: even as man was sovereign in
morning
birds sang and the buds burst into
bloom; when all nature rejOiced and
God said Let there be light, and
there was light" and the sceptre of
power was handed to the man that toll
ed The night has been long but the
clouds are breaking and the sunlight of
true democracy will illunine the world
The Great God that created man will
not forget his children,
He is not the God OF gold.
But he is the Goo of the masses
who toll IN the heat and the cold.
And unto the heart of Labor,
DeSolate, sick and numb,
He speaks from the skies and he says,
For the day and the hour have come"
oh, slow, are Gods mills in grinding,
But they grind exceeding small.
And the greedy of heart shall be finding
That God is the God of all
They shall learn how this Mighty ToiIer,
This Maker of men and things,
OF earth and star and of worlds afar
Ranks Labor above crowned kings
Oh, heart of Labor, keep steady.
ana stand Tor the rights you need!
Forthe world was never so ready
To pray tor the fall of greed.
The waves of our prayers, like pillows,
Shall bear your hopes on their crest.
And carry you out of the narrows of
And :nto the harbor of rest.