The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-12
A WoRKMAN,s APPEA1.
Conditions Of SINISTER Hen Set Forth
By One Of Them.
Murray, Utah. April II.

Murray, Utah. April II.
To the Editor OF The Herald:
1 have noted in The Herald the fair
and impartial statements Of the causes
which led to the unorganized strike of
employees Of the Germania smelter. I
appeal 10 the readers Of The Herald,
and to all honest men, who are not
preJudiced or corrupted by this trust,
which is eating the very vital5 Of our
state, to come down and examine our
condition for themselves. know
many who have never felt the pinch of
poverty and sickness. WhOSs compass
sion IS not open TO the SuTeringS Of
their fellow men; who have a Stipu-
lated income; whose homes are COM
Portable; who have all the necessaries
and many of the lUXurieS OF life, can
not appreciate our condition. We are
tod there is prosperity in Utah. Where
Is il? Republican orators told US
few weeks ago that the whole nation
was prosperous. and, wrapping the
flag of our country around them. ut
tered a lot of stale platitudes containing
not one scintilla of truth
Mr. Editor, there may be prosperity
with the trusts. Mr.. Jones may be
prosperous. and those VINO, like him,
compel the mine owners 10 sell TO them
pei their employees to work for wages
that viii, if continued, make anarchists
Of every man in their employ.
These men who compel US TO work
for the wages We now do, scoff at our
miSfortuEeS Mr.. Tucker treats US as
though we were menials, serfs. and he
the deSpot, not Ike a citizen Of this
once free republic.
These men, who are piling ID mil
lions, made by the dripping sweat OF
their employees, laugh and mock at
our poverty and tell US that we "are
earning too much money now"
One dollar and forty cents per day for
man. wife and often six or seven
children; $40 per month for good hard
working, honest, upright Christians in
this land of liberty Think OF il. sir
Forty-two dollars per month thrown at
you as a bone is thrown at a dog; then
I be compelled to cash il at the store
owned by these same men, who compel
you TO purchase their goods at an ex-
orbita.nI reatei Think Of this sirl
Can any man with a family live on
this pittance and rear honest, virtuous
children? My neighbor gets $3.50 per
day. Last month he worked twenty
seven days and received $3.50. but of
this he paid 3 rent, leaving $3.50 TO
purchase coal coal oil. clothing, shoes
and food for himself, wife and five chill
dren; 10 cents a day each to clOthe.
shoe and feed his loved ones, And this
! is but a sample Of the conditions ex-
listing in Murray today.
You wonder. other people wonder. at
the great unrest among the employed
as with the army Of unemployed. Do
you wonder that these money monsters
are demanding a great standing army,
that our mouths may be silenced by
death IL we muTmur2 Do the honest
people not understand that men be-
come desperate under these continued
wrongs? Do you wonder cur loved
ones. in order that they may be decent
" clad, often go down to he'll. and our
boys become vasa.bonds? Our voices
| are silenced now, but, sir, the time
Will come when we must be heard.
The press may be corrupted and de-
! bauehed; great editors who were once
| with the people may PROSTATE them
selves bsfOre the gods Of gold. and seek
| to excuse themselves by stale plati-
/ tu6eS about new conditions: they NAV
I trample IN the nlire Of party politics
/ that divine instrument. the Declara-
/ ton Of Independence. and say the con-
I stitutiOn - obsolete; they may ever
excuse imperialism, and thus create {
/ plutocracy or aTistOcracy in this re
! public; they may secure continued
/ power by sending men through this
state who. debauched by Office. pros
/ titute their manhood and stihe their
/ consciences; they may, as in the last
/ campaign, wrap the flag around then
and blind the people to their own in
! terests. and thus attract their alter.
/ ton 70 things other than the present
they may preach patriotism, and prac
! tice imperialism. but the people ar,
flrarr ~ +rFrr
! fully aroused to the DANCER that cor.
fronts them and this republic. they vii
sweep from place and power thes.
commercial cornorants. who gorg,
themselves with wealth they do 70
/ create. and who Go not hesitate [,
trampie upon every inherent right O.