The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-04

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Reasons On Free Silver.
Mr.. Gompers. the chief executive Of
CiIe federation of Labor, has, in his
| correspondence with the secretary OF
IL Ili RE iireasury' so ably presented the
IdDorlnS mans reasons for opposing n
SoIu standard and a national bank cur.
Iehcy Jhat II IS not necessary to discuss
those questions at this time.
Inc Iaoorlng man has abundant rea-
sons TO fear the trusts Mr. Charles
X Flint, in a speech delivered IN PoS
Ton more than year ago in defense of
the trusts, frankly asserts tina. one of
the advantages of these combinations
Z IS that in case of local strikes or irac
, lhe work goes on elsewhere. thus pre-
: venting serious loss Is IL possible thar
{ any wage Garner can fail to see how
4 completely the trusts place the emDIoIza
| at the mercy Of the employer
Menace In Big Army.
! The resolutions adopted by various
/ LaDor organizations in conference.-the, 81
+ II! and Imperialism justify me
/ IN making brief reference 10 fb0Sa
/ questions. No class contributes moro
/ than the laboring class, in proportion
/ 70 It's numbers, to the rank and file of
I the army; no class contributes more in
/ proportion to its numbers TO the e,-
| pehse OF the army, and no class is
! more menaced by the existence of a
/ large army.
/ Most of the countries in Europe
/ Wnlch maintain large military estab-
/ nShmentS collect an income tax Wybic,
I adjusts the burden of the government
{ 70 the income Of the citizen Here o1yr
/ FEDERAL taxes are largely collected upon
/ consumption, and While they are in
/ come taxes in the sense that thew ynusr
/ be paid out of the income of the na0Dla
yet tne eXactlons are not prOpOrtionata
! 10 the income. The taxes uDOn cOusuror
! ton bear heaviest upon the poor ana
! hghteSt upon the rich and are. in fact.
| graded income taxes. The per cent col
| lected decreases as the income in
| creaSes.
If this nation adheres to the doc
tTIne that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
/ governed and the people have an easv
imperialism involves a departure
abuses, the government viii not need
/ 20 be supported by a large permanent
army, for every citizen viii be ready
/ TO defend such a government from at
tack The only democratic use for a
/ large standing army is 20 suppress bv
| force that discomfort which should be
cured by legislation
To support a permanent army Of 100
900 men requires APPROXIMATELY ono
I half as much money as is annually ex-
pended for education in the United
states How much cheaper il is TO IN
| lift the people by the gentle and Deace
tuI process of intellectual development
| than to blow them up with powder and
dynamite.
Departure From Old Principles.
Imperialism involves a departure
/ from principles which We're universally
accepted in this country within two
years ago To know that all men are
created equal one needs not the wis
dom of a sage nor the learning of the
schools It was declared to be a self
evident truth, il was evident 10 those
who pledged their lives TO the mainte-
nance of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, and it Is evident still to those who
are not blinded by the glamOr of wealth
and the Slittering promises Of a col
OnlaI system If all men are created
equal and endowed with inaHenabIe
rIgI}ts, il follows as logical and nee
eS>ary sequence that governments were
instituted for the welfare of all and
derive their just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed. On the preserva-
ton Of this doctrine our hopes depend.
If it is abandoned there Is no fOunda-
ton upon which government like
ours can be constructed. Do not allow
yourselves to be deceived by those who
question the capacity of this people or
that people for self-government-
Quotes Lincoln on Monarchy.
when I say that those who distrust
the capacity of the people for seIf-gOv-
eminent tend directly toward mon
coin deliberately declared in his first
annual message He said
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as a possible refuge from the
power Of the people IN my present
position l could scarcely be justified
were 10 omit realizing a warning
verse against the approach of despOt-
ism. It is not needed nor fitting here
that an argument should be made in
favor of popular institutions. but there
Wit nj
hackneyed as most others. TO which I
ask brief attention II Is the effort 70
place capital on an equal footing with.
if not above, labor in the structure of
government No men living are more
worthy to be trusted than those who
toll up from poverty; none less inclined
to take or touch aught which they have
not honestly earned Let them beware
they already pose I which. if sur
rendered, will sun used to close
the door of advance At against such
as they, and to fix new disabilities and
burdens uDOn them ill all OF liberty
shall be lost
THE warning is even more needed
now than it was forty years ago. The
Army and Navy Journal is already
iustifying the colonial idea, and de
claring that fate has decreed for US
destiny in which an imperial eXecu-
tive, free from the restraints OF a
written constitution viii govern sub
jects according TO his own pleasure
Is Declaration a Dead letter.
The United States Investors Review,
published at Boston, in its issue OF
July %, says:
..'OnIy a blind person can fail TO see
that transformations Of one KIND or an
other are in store for our race nence
the folly of asserting that the policy OF
this country, which is destined 70 play
such a leading part in human aIIalrs
of the future, shall be governed Tor
the most part by political maNlrnS Ut
ta,.e5 ,oore than a hundred years ago.
The greatest evil which now confronts
this republic is the clamor raised oy
certain faction for a settlement or our
problems of state by Just such metn-
cd as we have been deprecatinS- Con-
siderablv more than a century ago a
certain notable declaration was made
in this country to the effect that all