Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-17

tics, will choose to follow some other
banner than that OF the personal rulers
OF mighty syndicates who make the
government a mere instrumentallty Of
their own will and their own selashness.
In the nation are we not controlled by
trusts? What man so powerful within
the last four years; what man so mag
nlncent within the Republican party,
which Is the dominant element In our
political life, but he has yielded his
will and his conscience into the keeping
of the masters Of capital?
HONORED DEAD.
The man who is lost we all lament
for 1t is a sad thing that any good
man should be struck down In the
midst Of his career. The man recog-
nized as the ideal Of Christian states
manshlp. that Christian gentleman.
President Mckinley, wa sobliged In the
full flower of his career, and In the
United States, while holding an au-
thorty vaster than that OF the car
Of Russia, to bow to the rule of the
trusts In the Porto Rican case. as you
well know. We have boosted In the
years gone by that our rule was that
OF peace throughout the world; that
never would we take from one human
creature the rights we had demanded
for ourselves; and yet at the instance
of the trusts and the exploitation OF
capital, we have witnessed, until the
conscience Of the country demanded lts
rebuke an officer Of the United States.
wearing the uniform of the army, but
appointed by the trusts give voice TO
this awfui edict, Lay waste the land
of the Philippines; Stay all creatures
over 10 years OF age" What rights or
the people of the United States have
been thus subsewed?
TRUST CRIMINALITY.
VIII some one tell me how you have
been made better or more contented, or
more happy or prosperous in your HE
and home because Of the slaughter OF
the innocents in the Philippines? Who
demanded it2 In whose interest was
the awful crime perpetrated, and az
whose behest was the governmental
voice sienced until 80 loud became the
cyy Of Democracy against the iniqul-
ties In the Philippines that the presl-
dent Of the United States performed
tardy justice by the punishment or one
man whose crime had become notori-
Gus. while all the rest are permitted
10 90 on waging this awful and in
defCnsibIe warfare? Are we not the
creatures OF the trusts in a govern
mental sense? Platform after plat
form OF the dominant party hes de-
clared opposition TO the trusts, but WIN
SUPREME authority In its hands Tor SIX
years not one trust has been punished
An amendment to the Constitution Is
asked for TO nunish the trusts, ana
vet we administer the water cure TO
the Filiplnos without any constitutional
warrant. Under this administration
the trusts have the Constitution as
brocrustean bed where IL Is too snort
for their purposes they lengthen II OUT,
and where It Is too long they chop IL
off.
THE UTAH COMPACT"
They say Utah is not controlled by
syndlcates. Two years ago gentleman
OF mighty prominence In the united
states visited Utah with a demand
from the party leaders that II 60 ne
publican, with reward for obedience
and punishment for failure to comply,
who was consulted? Were your Did
Won know the nature Of the compact!
WAS II printed or was II published from
nulpit9 The trust in Utah-the poitl-
cal trust formed in i90O-admitted none
of the people as its partners, NO mat
Tor how much stock was Issued my
good former friend Senator Kearns and
bIs conferees took all the stock what
possible great service OF the peopts ~
Utah is being suhserved uhder lnest
circumstances? What voice, uhuer re.
publican rule. have the people OF thls
great state In the selection OF me inen
who shall represent them at Washlns.
TON or who shall govern them mere
We are bound hand and loot ana a.
liyered over 10 semi-business' semi
political semi journalistic ana entire
liz righteous syndicate
DEMocRAcY's DUTY.
II "a time for the Democracy OF this
country 10 resume its old authority as
guardian Of The Ark Of the Covenant
n is IN your hands. VIII we he sell
abneeating and viii We be true? No
man and no woman In this state has q
rIgbt 10 n personal prejudice In politics
or TO a selfish ambition, where tht
rights OF all who are to come after Us
are in danger.
"cRIEs FOR RESCUE"
Utah has been a good mother 10 us
and she cries aloud now from the mldsl
of her need, that We shall come AND
rescue her.
There win be some defectioni OF
course there are defections. Some men
II think no woman--hut some men VIII
aincerely leave the Democracy In THIS
its day OF need. ] think no woman VII
ieave because woman Is so ohival'
rous that she viii wait until her par.
tv Is in the ascendancy before she VII
desert II. (Anulanse and cheers.) Anc
some men will leave in obedience tt
mai great law OF physics, that iht
mIghtIer the bulk and weight OF an OBJ
iect the greater It's power OF attraction
And some will leave because they are
lola IN. loud applause). After all tn,
defections. and after we have waited
for all the DELAY, the cause OF the peo'
ple In our hands. II we but Keep then
pure. VIII be triumnhant, for the people
never yet lost battle.
NEEDED DECLARATION
You are going 20 nominate a ticket
and YOU are going TO declare plat
form There are only two things ina
/ want 10 see In the platform and u
the nominations, and ] don't care IL
what language you express them,
want 10 see the absolute cons grafton
OF all the Democracy 10 the need OF
the people. and want to see IN me
platform declaration that the rights
which our forefathers gave US are stu
ours, and by the name OF the Grea'
Eternal. we viii keep and hold them
Rawlins Called.
When the applause that burst out AT
the close of Mr.. Cannon's speech had
subsidized there were calls for Senator
Rawlins. but iuasmuch as Mr.. Rawlins
was 10 speak In the evening Hon.
Dayid Evans "of Kane" suggested
that the convention proceed with us
business
MUSIC AND DAVID EVANS.
Agreeable to the wish Of Mr.. Evans,