The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-27
WOULD KILL INDUSTRY. -

! To the Editor OF The Herald:
] Recently a telegraphic dispatch sent
out BY the Associated Press, dated at
/ San Francisco. discussed at some
length the action of the sugar trust in
depreciating the price of sugar, the
charge being made that the sole OBJ
( 1ect of the trust was to force prices
/ down TO a non-paying level so as to
I bring the sugar beet growers into such
/ a position that the trust would be en-
/ abled to dictate how they should grow
/ and market their commodity. The clos
! ing paragraph of the article under con
/ sheraton reads.
In view OF this act on the part of
/ the sugar trust. the United States con-
gress can i'll afford TO inaugurate the
/ policy of reducing the present rate of
I duty by reciprocity or in any other
way which would have the certain ef-
/ feet Of enriching the trust on one hand
and on the other the killing of the
most promising industry in the agri-
| cultural business Of America"
Tones of paper have been used dur
/ ing the past few weeks in depicting the
! 0annable act OF an anarchist. and urg-
| ing upon state and nation the desirable
lty OF the enactment of laws having
| Tor their purpose the suppression of
| anarchists and the villainous creed.
| This legislation, shorn of prejudice and
| righteousness, is to be welcomed for
the American people cannot afford to
j nave SuCn experiences very often. EV-
cry such attack is like pick a work
! undermining an embankment, and il
IS only a question of time as to the in
I evitable result.
But there are more ways than one
| to be an anarchist. and one of them is
to be found in the language used in
| the closing lines of the paragraph
! above quoted viz: And on the other
/ the killing of the most promising in
dustry in the agricultural business of
| America"
If the opinion quoted is correct. and
| judged from the past, present and
i! prospective future of the trust system
| there is but little argument to refute
! the premises therein stated, then the
| pens Which have been urging the pro-
| lection of life, property and society
| from the followers of a certain branch
| Of the red flag. should dip little deep
er into their copying fluid and urge
/ that the same elements which are en-
! dangered by the unlicensed liberty"
/ of one branch of anarchists should also
| be protected from a more powerful or
/ ganization of the same kidney, but
moving in a higher plane.
If the taking of the life of a man
/ whom the nation hOnOred is repre-
! hensible (and who Will question ft?)
! now much more so are the acts of men
! who deliberately plan to '1kill' an in
/ dustry which would mean the ruin of
/ thousands and, besides, the serious cur
/ tailment of an article of domestic use
/ upon the tables of the poor? And what
! makes this action upon the part of
/ those interested the more to be con-
demned is the glaring fact that they
/ are the most vehement in their denun-
/ clatlon OF the act of one anarchist
| and the loUdest in their demands for
| laws to crush out such theories of gov
/ eminent.
What theory Of government does
| Emma Goldman preach which would
| be more pernicious to COR institutions.
| II in force. than this theory of the
/ trust to kill the most promising in
dustry of the agricultural business of
! America 2'' What would he the re-
suit TO the people of this nation in a
decade if such killing" had full swingY
! Would it be any better than murder
! to tolerate such a system No. a thou
sand times no, Death is preferable
! death.
A society of capitalists. who have
! Tor their object the despoiling of people
! OF their rights, are beneath the an
! archlst who believes in deliberate mur-
der TO propagate his theories for he at
! tacks an individual, in the full knowI-
edge of the penalty, and stands ready
| 10 bear il, while the CaDitaIistfc organ
ization kills Unfortunately. and with
a refined cruelty, fearing no chastise-
ment for the cowardly and dastardI-
work in hand because of the lack Of
! laws to reach it.
What is true of this particular sugar
trust is equally true of most of tie
trusts in operation today In their
combines, upon the various articles Of
domestic use this identical method is
used to obtain and maintain the distri-
| button of the same, and il little mat
ters to them how many people must
perforce go to the wall nor the pos
sible amount of misery and death
which will follow, so long as they can
| XIII an industry" which is inimicaI to
their interests
The most dangerous enemy an in
dtvidual can have is the man who mods.
and Winks, and whispers about him
/ Inc most dangerous enemy Of & gov
eminent is an INSCRIPTIONS man at
its head The most dangerous enemy
to the peope, whether under monarchy
| or a republic, is that class of men
who plot and scheme TO control the
] domestic necessities of life and the av-
| enues of honest toll and industry The
two former evils can be overcome. in
the nrSt instance generally by personal
/ attention, in the second through the
people. But in the last instance the
! task is not so simple, for when the peo-
pie undertake to free themselves from
the ropes that bind them. they are con-
fronted by laws and customs granted
by their own hands They find il is
quite easy to give a privilege but when
they discover the evil which went with
II, and desire to withdraw from the
plishment. It has been demonstrates
time and again in this country tina:
the special privileges enjoyed by many
men-the gift of the people-cannot be
taken back by ordinary methods, as a
rule.
A trust. as conducted in this couu
try, is but another name for anarchy
and of the worst kind. 1t breeds ali
the vicious elements that human nature
is heir TO, and those who disseminate
me seeds are as dangerous to society
fundamentally, morally. socially and
economically. as if they preached and
urged the most rabid doctrines of an
archistS nihilists or mafias that have
ever been printed or spoken. Men who
do not hesitate to "kill industries" api
thereby humanity, will not hesitate to
/ Kill governments If they believe their
interests will be enhanced. And il this
is not anarchy Though under the gu.se
of trusts, what is it?
T. JOSEPH HARDY.
Sixteenth Infantry.
To the Editor Of The Herald:
| Please inform me in X-O1r newt SIM