The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-19

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about preaching the gospel of hate. The
fouieSt wrong that can be done to our
citizenship is done by the man who
breaches that gospel. whether he
breaches to the employer to see to it
that protection of his own interests
are against the interests of the en-
ployer or whether he seeks to combine
politics and set them against their
employers, it matters not which, it is
wrong.
Eight years ago, in the election of
1872, L wish TO recall some experiences
which you remember. At that election
an effort was made. not to try to set
the west against the east, or the north
against the south: an effort was made
to set the working men against the
capitalists, the waga-worker against
the man who paid the wages We were
told that the capitalists had grown
rich; that the capitalist had prosDered
and that we should down him. We got
him down. The country voted that
way We got the capitalist down.
There is no question about that. He
was down all right, but the trouble
after that was that the rest of us were
down underneath him, too There did
not anybody enjoy the next three
years. The capitalists were ruined
and the wage-worker came to the
verge of starvation. 1t was hard upon
the men, but ii was a thousand fold
harder upon the women and children.
Fundamentally the law to be
preached is the law of brotherhood.
Fundamentally, the doctrine that we
need here in this land is that while
prosperity comes to us unequally and
adversely comes to US uneQually, yet
when good times come all share some
thing, somewhat in them; but when
bad times come, some suffer more than
others, but all suffer some; all suf-
fer TO some extent. Our interests are
bound 70 be with one another.
On Threshold of Century.
I'VE stand at the threshold of a new
century. The generation in the CEN
fury that has just closed has done a
great work and laid the foundation of
by the success of the civil war. We
have conquered this continent. We
have established a government under
which there has been such prosperity,
liberty and power as the world has
never before seen. Now l appeal to
you, the men who made the west, and
to you who glory in your strength, in
your courage and your power, TO see to
1t that the nation does not act as you
would be ashamed to- see any indi-
vidual act; that the nation does not
shirk from the task that has been laid
out for it to perform: see to it that the
nation now realizes that when it takes
a position in the foremost rank of ma
lions, IL must De prepared to meet and
to overcome all the difficulties that all
great powers are sure to meet
Il would ask you to support us in
this contest in the first place, because
in so doing you can preserve the condi-
tions of material prosperity and avert
a panic of disaster that would be more
widespread and more far-reaching
than any which this country has ever
known; and furthermore because it
has been given to US to be furnished
a standard bearer who has embodied in
his policy the principles which have
led us forward to this position among
the nations of the earth; who embodied
the broad doctrine which has taught all
the nations of the world that the flag
Of our republic had been hoisted with
honor and shall never be pulled down
in dishonor''