The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-19
0FBS TALKS OF
LABOR PROBLEM
d. draws a Gloomy View of the
Future.
styFPY Of WORKING MEN
N HOPE IN EITHER OF THE BIG
POLITICAL PARTIES.
sl.yERY OF WORKING MEN

POLITICAL RhhI1EO.
.vvrRAL hundred people cheered Eu-
-ere y. Debs when ne arose to speak
= raI4er's park last evening. Mr..
.ss introduced by A b. Elder OF
DN who characterized him as the
.ls ,.16rr the workingman was look
~ ~ arsancipation from the serfdom
~ 80. 4r.a...ality. lie scored Gompers
80 Hanna has Gompers in his vest
y. D.1s proved himself a master in
,f r..lcuie and sarcasm, and these
W n. be- used 90 good account in bring
49,. tfa points of his story. He was
as ol-1fI,- rheared. and the women. VINO
H.t~rr1b.rad the men present, were
$50 fhe most Interested OF the au-
8ll-o a. BEGAN by saying that the
lggle Cor Industrial freedom Is as old
tbs human race. and Will end only
80 the working classes STAND IoIlh
s~ri1ated, the sovereign rulers OF the
H9N,rtjtb all the progress Of the ages the
nrohIpu still remains unsolved,
~ .5e -1.t xer. In all human history
most clu=UicuOus fact is the SLOW
l.sIr,snf of Ilpor from the dark and Tor
ll-.r~ 1fghf nj slavery TO the full ORB OF
-io7a Din this struggle for existence
st~orE prey upon the weak We are
- midst of the mightiest Industrial
y y. - me world has ever known, with
s---7roe wealth on the one side and aD-
~ novertv on the other, fighnng Tor
Er,4ry The unjust system in Whlcn
- i've today has almost fultilled It's MS
s15 IFS days are numbered
A.l, h a question of time when the cap
..r., -,--t,m under which we move to-
l.- les side by side with the feudalism
i--b4f vast cemetery we can the past "
UT Hrssgs sfyare md tin
l-sIras and degraded labor. Under this
l..-Tp the man who works the hardest
FL. Tie least 10 show for H. Inc work
i-gmqn has created the wealth that
r5ses il possible for the ricn TO reVel III
1z1ry.
Political Liberty a Myth.
Years ago the bloody revolution Gre
.-ad a new ma ton. and gave all men equal
-rbrs. II the declaration signed at that
r7r was true, IL gave man the lndl1en-
sbe right 90 work. If it did not do TINS
han the Declaration of independence
ras not true Political liberty as ii ex-
isf. I'M the present system Is myth. Inc
an who does not control his freedom IS
-of a tree man. Nothing is so pttiable
rs a slave who imagines that ne is a free
sSverv They enjoy the music of their
lh,ins Il is a melancholy spectacle TO
n0te how many are hugs1ng their chains,
FEARFUL evidently, that some one Will take
them away.
men are no longer known by their own
names They are tagged and numbered
each workingman having a number by
which he is known instead OF a name
v.5pnose the next thing VIII be TO round
fhem up and brand them just as they DO
tbe steers down in Texas. OF how much
Individuality can that man boast VINO
must look for a master and considers
himself favored If he finds one?
.The man who has a wife and Child 10
support has a sacred obligation resting
uuon him. Yet those he loves become the
instrument Of his own degradation pc
cause for their sake he must submit TO IN
sod and outrage and take what he can
est In the old days the slave was sOid
On the block TO the highest bidder. Inc
modern WOrkngmen is sold on the lnstah-
ment pl8H TO the lowest bidder. IN the
od DAYS the man bought his slave ana
Maid for him. He was housed and clothed
ana free from responsibility. he didn [
Mve 10 fear that every tootstep ne heaEu
belonged 90 the man with process iof
bis eviction.
Men Cheaper Than Mules.
when an explosion occurs in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, II is no longer
the custom to ask how many men were
killed. but how many mules were IN
juTed. They can get all the miners they
want. but they have TO pay Tor the muIes.
The average wages received by the miner
used 20 make 50 per day. The caDltailSt
thought he was making too much and ne
sent his agents to scour europe Tor cheap
labor. He got the most ignorant, most
brutal most depraved human beings he
could find until today every nationality
Ia the world Is represented at the mines,
except one This is the Chinaman. The
chnaman won't work there.
The capitalist today controls every
thing, even the government In fact. he
is the government. III Ghe strike lasts
long enough and the miner becomes
hungry and is driven to extremity what
VIII happen? The courts viii be APP
leaed TO and ii this is not enough the
soldier will be called 1t will be repe-
uuon OF the HaZletOn troubles on
much larger scale. The present govern
meHt is big policeman, and MS duty
E 20 keep the subjects OF his master IN
Subsection. You never heard of a soldier
shooting "a capitalist. Yet the man who
does the shooting and the man who Is
shot are in the same class.
The great tool with which steel Is
Produced Is controlled by Andrew Car
hssle. although he does not use II. II
cost N3.e"uVJ ana 1t takes 5000 men TO
operate IT, You can change and re-change
my monetary system how you Will but
as long as Andrew Carnegie owns TINS
llol these $1,000 men will be industrial
Slaves At every election issues are dis
tlssed, but when the candidate gets into
power the laborer stays where he is.
Difference in Politics.
Whether Democrat or a Republican
WINS. you lose. The only difference is
t-at the Republican party represents the
es capitalist ard the Democratic party
typTssents the small capitalist who would
4Ae 90 De a big capitalist. They are An
instant conflict and you are called upon
.- a spirit of SaVe-me-C assius-Or-I-sink
10 help float the small capitalist. Let
utm hight 10 out alone. The small cap
iaust is opposed 20 the trust because he
: not IN tue trust. The other fellows are
"1 better shufflers, dealers and players.
AF bths from this point went into. a
pN.sSsloH Of the law of prosperity and
tal't and said that one was bound to
e-o" The other under the present sys-
tsn OF periodical over-prOduction. Com
oAauons - wealth in all departments
forcing on the world two distinct
TaSSes-tle very rich and the very poor.
aItT me present system he said this
w continue and cannot be prevented.
ne believed that the solution of the
l-N'itm was socialism, with Capitalization
anu anu eo-'ptrution. Any country that pro-
&-,tS mlhouaires, he said. will also pro-
- ud[nps. Everybody IN this country
- chance 20 become president. but
LNIt are thousands of them who would
f. -iaH To- EiVe away that chance for a
s 80. sandwich He said he believed in a
-s''lh W1ere man works for himself.
nee. thought the greatest truth ever
"a t'N ul the Savior was when he said
mn, g'g slave. "Ye are the equal Of your