The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-18

hincoln's lofty motive to the lust and
greed or the present administration. In
letter 10 the senate in 1861 Lincoln
Any trick by which the nation is
TO acquire territory. and to allow some
local authority TO spread slavery over
1t, IS as obnoxious as any other. I take
it to affect some such result as this,
and put US again on the high road of a
slave empire, is the object of all the
proposed compromises 1 am against
WEALTH'S MENACE.
When we think one-fourth of 1000
goo people own three-fourths OF the ma
tons wealth, when siXty-four and
three-fourths millions own only one
fourth-when % per cent of the people
own not even a home-we become
alarmed. This showing alone is
enough to alarm the great mass of
American voters All who seek TO
have the nation kept in The line of a
republic must see it can only be done
by not Surrendering the control of the
country entirely into the hands of one
fourth of 100000; but that the execu-
tive and lawmakers must be represen-
tatives of the sixty-four and three
fOurthS millions.
The plea of trade must never cover
and hide the plea of human rights; for
when we disregard the rights of 9TH
erS, we are but schooling them and
Franklin said. Trade when desired
should be sought and gained by peace
full methods. 1t is too dear when pur-
chased with the price of mans blood
Thus deprecating the recent advanced
idea of war for the sake of war
LINCOLN VS.. M'KINLEY.
1--WE desire to stand by the principles
of war only when waged for mans
liberty. and we declare that we have
millions for defense; and millions more
for development, but not a dollar for
conquest. In a speech delivered at
Chicago in 1858 Lincoln said: Those
arguments that are made, that the in
ferior race are to be treated with as
much allowance as they are capable of
enjoying, that as much is to be done
for them as their condition will allow
what are these arguments? They are
| the arguments that kings have made
for enslaving the people in all ages of
| the world. You viii find that all the
arguments in favor of kingcraft were
of this class; they always bestrode the
neckS of the people, not that they
wanted to do it, but because the people
We're better off for being ridden. Turn
IN whatever way you wlll-whether 1t
comes from the mouth of a king as an
excuse for enslaving the people of his
country, or from the mouths of men
of any race as reason for enslaving
| the men of another race it is the same
old serpent
ana again, give the victory TO
the right, no bloody bullets, but peace
full ballots only, are necessary. Thanks
to our good old constitution, and
organization under it, these alone are
necessary 1t only needs that every
right thinking man shall go to the polls
and without fear or prejudice, vote as
he thinks
GREAT CONTRAST.
I'm a speech at his home city,
Springfield III n 1929 Mr. Lincoln
said: Many free countries have lost
| their liberties and ours may lose hers;
but If she shall, may it be my proudest
plume, not that 1 was the last to
her
''Hov ferent this from the want of
PATRIOTS shown by the, late Repub
! lican convention that never even made
reference to the Declaration of indie
/ pendence, but bOasted of the triuTnphs
/ in war, wherein a people are made
subjects for the sake of the profits
accruing to army and navy contractors,
paid for by our own people with taxes
( kept up for the purpose, OVerturning
the former doctrine of the Republican
! party when Lincoln declared it favored
| the man rather than the dollar.
Now, with the attempted gold stand
! ard, the seeking to destroy the green
| back-the peoples money, the concen-
! tration of wealth in the hands of the
! few, the want of reverence for equal
] rights as set forth in the Declaration
| of Independence, coupled with the at
| tempt to destroy such rights, the recOg-
/ milton of human slavery under the
| Declaration of independence. the sub
1 jugation of a struggling, liberty-seekiag
! people-denying them the rights OF cit
| iZenship and compelling the relation
/ of subjects, thus crushing out and de-
| strOying the equality OF the people of
republic, the attempt to establish the
/ rule of the few and the submission of
! the many, raises and forces upon US
for our consideration the question of
/ imperialism, and makes it the question
/ for US now to decide. a subject must
/ belong to an empire. a republic has
/ only citizens. In an empire the few
/ rule, the many submit. In a republic
/ equal rights to all, and special privi-
] leges to none is ever applicable.
FORMALLY NOTIFIED.
! With this explanation, which if too
/ long and prOlix, kindly pardon, we
! hereby notify you that at the gathering
/ OF Lincoln Republicans in the silver
! Republican convention, held on last IN
! dependence day in Kansas City, where
! 800 truly conscientious delegates were
] assembled, as is shown by the prayer
/ spoken by it's chaplain-of patriotic del
! egates, as is shown by the fact that the
/ Declaration of independence was there
read and the voice of old Liberty bell
/ was there heard in a poem The Bell
/
tiouS, earnest and patriotic delegates,
| as is shown by the resolutions adopted;
! which prayer, declaration, poem and
! resolutions we enclose herewith, and
! make a part Of this letter, you were
! made their nominee.
/ THAT prayer, the declaration, the
! poem and the resolutions constitute cur
platform. Upon that platform you, sir
were unanimously nominated as our
| candidate for president of this republic,
/ and we were delegated to inform you of
| that nomination. May we ask, as we
/ believe in the rights of free govern
/ ment, that you, when elected and be-
| come president, as we fully believe you
/ Will be, that you remember with solicit
! tude the cause of the great common
people, the 81, 25O, 900 toilers. The people
/ for whom jefferson lived and labored,
and for whom Lincoln lived and la
| bored as well. The people whose arra
never tires, the people whose labor pro-
| duceS the wealth of the nation, and
! whose prosperity is the prosperity of
| all; whose devotion never ceases;
| whose patriotism never falters; who
| are ever ready to defend and protect;
! they who are the rock upon which our
| country may safely rest; they whose
/ strength builds, whose loyalty guards
J whose patriotism defends the trocha
! G,IoI with their blood if need no Ox-ay