The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21
Political Sense for be Daily ToIe With Brain or Hand

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MANAGERS You hear not one word
about the anthracite coal trust. for.
.'oLn flerponJ Morgan. the adrlfniStra-
ion unancler, is its lord and mas +er
l on near not one word about the salt
Il uStr although 1t operates right here
IN utah You hear not one word aoo11+
me sugar trust. although Il abritrar-
ny hXes by agreement that necessary
OF me, but the Haveneyers are ReDy1b-
means, and pay their tithina- to the
grand old party You hear not one
word about the failure of our cover
nor secretary of state and attorney
SeiieIal 10 take any action under the
i ie1M OA CLah upon the trust question
Duc every legislature hXer, every poll.
ticidn from bleeding Kansas every an D
/ Jomoblllan orator with a DerambIlst-
! ing residence who mas spoken in this
state, and who kindly writes out his
own pedigree and gives IT to the pa
DerS, so that we may have some idea
who the person is. who Is talking to rs
IS shocked, Mortified, paraIyzed and in
IehSei$ wrought up over the ice trust
! OF New York But il is only here in
the mountains that you hear of The ice
trust from Republicans, and here they
| omit 10 tel you that one of its mem
berS IS son of that boss of bosses
Tom Platt- They omit to tell YOU that
all of its officers are Republicans. thar
although that great Democratic paper
] the New York Journal. months ago fled
with the governor Of New York charges
against the mayor Of New York City.
and demanded that the governor ex-
ercISe the power given him by law and
remove that mayor from office because
( he was a stOckhOIdar in the concern,
no action has been taken by Governor
Roosevelt They rail 10 tell YOU that
/ Nj Roosevelt has been SO busy talk
/ ing about the the flag and denOuncinE
/ the ice trust in the west. where his.
words VIII do no harm. that he has only
I 4 Of p
+ Office since the LIST Of June, and has not
had time to act upon the charges fled
/ They omit to tell You that the fight
/ made by that great Democratic paper
/ compelled the trust to reduce the price
/ OF ice TO reasonable rates They are
/ shocked that there is an ice trust, and
1 they denOunCe Richard Croker. al
/ though he had nothing to do with the
! formation Of that concern, and pro-
I cured his interest by virtue of having
/ been a stakeholder in an independent
] ice company before it was swallowed
! by the American ice trust a party
/ that glOrifies Mark Hanna. who bribed
{ and bought his way into the senate.
and hopes to buy a victory this fan
/ and elevate him upon a pedestal OF
/ gold and halls him as our later Lin
! coin looks well crlticiSing Croker a
/ party which gIOrides Plat and hob
J nObS with corrupt army contractors
/ had better let Croker alone 4 party
/ which let its bosses poison the soldiers
/ on canned horse and embalmed beef
cannot wash itself pure by inYeighing
. about the ice trust and denOuncing
Richard Croker.
! THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM
The trusts are heartIess corporations;
Z they have no souls, they have no feel
B ing they are the concentration of self
lishness- They have originated and put
/ into practical operation the permit
/ system OF slavery One of the most
/ efficient means to SubJugate and de-
/ StrOv the power of labor unions IS the
| system Of blacklisUing or the permit
( system Among railroad men the plan
I is called a clearance II Is in force
among steam railroads and many other
] branches OF corporate industry, says
/ Mr. w J Strong, such as street rail-
/ roads which have formed national
organization The great packing esLab-,
lishmenus- clothing manufacturers tel
egraph companies. coal mines. iron and
I steel mills and other business enter
prises. These corporations deny a man
! employment unless he produces MS
clearance which gives the consent OF
his last employer that he may labor
As has been eI0oUentIy said when
my right 10 leave my employer and
get work elsewhere depends upon his
consent, he becomes my master and
become his slave"
The Democratic party in its national
convention declared against this SyS-
ten. as II also declared against gov
eminent by injunction and the deprI-
walton of WOrkingmen of their liberty
without that great privilege guaran-
teed by the constitution and by the
shirt of our institutions. a trial by
jury of ones peers Instead or a re
sort TO the courts and a bill in equity
to cOerCe labor, driven by desperation
70 unite for its rights, the great Demo-
[ cratic party. whose cause Is the c. use
: of the common people declares In Ia
vor Of arbitration and The peaceabie
, and Just settlement of the differences
between labor and capital Upon these
/ iDsDorraDI subjects, the Democratic
. platform declares:
I'VE are opposed to government by
Injunction. We deuounce the blacklist
and favor arbitration as a means OF
settling disputes between corpora
ton and the employees"
Why should not labor and capital ar
+; bftrate their differences Why should
. / capitaI claim the right To organize
/ money trusts and then decline 10 rec
. Ognize the Organ IMITATION OF IapoFs upon
. which after all IL Is DEPENDENT w max
4 is there that Is wrong about the afol-
, / tratfon of labor differences Livery
/ strike not only is expensive TO capital
= and places d burden upon the men, ctI
p . il affects the families OF the men, ana
, in their we'll being the public has an IN
q
. / vorI5ingman and his family, but they
: affect the whole community They
r raise the prices of commodities Ihey
, take trade from the StOrekee9erS ana
merchants and they discourage buSl-
ness. If capital viii not meet labor
; half way and submit the differences
= that arise to arbitration, then the law
should step in and push capital 70 lHe
, halfway point. In other words II Il
he necessary 50 TO do, let arbitration
be made compulsory.
THE BIG COAL STRIKE.
! The great strike in Pennsylvania mas
) recently brought our attention TO the
? fact that the condition Of the working
classes is not so lovely as claimed Dy
/, : the Republican orators, and II uhe"tSe
showed the necessity for compulsory
arbitration. Nearly 10000 men IN the
), stale that has received its full snare
, of the Wanted blessings OF the pro
, tective tariff and the highly pralsed
/, DingIey bill, which is said 20 trans
! mute all base things into gold WeLe
, couDeIled 10 go upon a strike 10 Sc
cure their rights and TO prevent tn6iE
families from starving Among an VINO
are familiar with the facts IL Is con
coded that their cause was emInehliy
a inst The men allege that they were