The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-14
Democracy win Conquer.

Go to the fields where from natures
\ breast the farmer draws the sustenance
| the woodman's steel wins the shelter OF
! our homes; TO the caverns of the tOilerS
! who warm our hearthstones and fire our
| furnaces with their metallic riches Climb
/ the blazing locomotive dragging through
/ the midnight the chariots Of civilization
l Turn We where the loom and spindle hum,
where the hammer smites the iron fag-
I got. where swift wheels evolve the thou
/ sand forms Of comfort. yea 10 every
| scene which labor dignifies with loyal
help to human needs. There, every
/ where there, not less than I'm the cloisteT
| or the students chamber, the sanetum
1 professional office or counting rooms OF
/ business, you need not fear 20 find
| stralght-thinking men. clear of insight,
i capable TO hear and comprehend the IN
| flexible though tender laws of human
| rights and freedom. Go to all with sin
/ gleness of purpose. with upright argu-
1 ment for the welfare of our country and
/ our countrymen; go with the Courage OF
our principles and the cOnstancy of a good
! heart. and Democratic faith will rise in
might 70 conquer. sure as the sword OF
! ST Michael The peoples hearts will fol-
low when the magnet is true.
| The call OF patriotism now rings
shfllly TO our souls, never more urgently
unless in war. 1t has pleased heaven 10
! ehastise this people by their subsection
to the Administered ton now in the abuse of
power. II should awaken to loyal duty.
COO moves in mysterious way his won
ders TO perform. If knowledge OF law. of
liberty, reverence for the constitution,
| the instincts Of human brotherhood sur
4 vlVe in the American heart. this chaSten-
| ing will quicken to beneficent activity.
! lr IS heavy and afflcting visitation.
| Little is wanting to its cOntemptuOuS vio-
/ laIiOn OF the traditions and principles OF
the republic, the dictates of law inter-
national and domestic. or the rights Of
/ the common people; nothing whatever Of
mouthing profession and eanting .pretense.
Through its words CLEANS the leer Of POI
/ lltical device, in its deeds popular deceit
and injury.
! To the plots of protection. that arch
! demon of governmental iniquity, its very
name cheat. has been surrendered con-
] trol OF legislation in barter for service of
! ambition Bethink you Of the change OF
thirty years Democrats so long ago
( foretold its bitter fruit by concentration
IN Jew hands of the wealth produced by
/ the fmasses. to make the rich richer the
! poor poorer. Has the prediction failed?
! , twenty wears ago we pointed to its
hateful children of sin-then coming to
iSht-trusts and combinations to fleece
the public by extortion. and warned
false?
Protectionist Graft.
Yet then we bore only the tariff of
wars necessity. Now we are tortured by
/ the perfection Of long practice and ac-
/ cumulated ingenuity in devilish devices
/ 10 which all that had gone before was but
! the play of children. Protectors gratis
I are planted and grow apacs in the depart
iAAeAttS aS Wei as IN congress- It's GeDaS-
ing example has intruded upon municipal
aIrairS, until towns. cities, counties, are
l often driven TO seek publication from
grand Juries and the criminal courts; Til
despair OF lethargy has admitted the toxic
virus OF corruption to the social blood,
: even to menace the integrity of popular
J judgment. Now and then, instances OF
! rapacity has overreached ITSELF and a
/ hitting hope arisen of saving power in
some natural law. But to no avail. These
: IalllIres are few and temporary. The
plotters profit by their errors and repair
the works Of monopoly TO higher ef-
/ ficiency. II
J They tell us this IS prosperity. FOr
whom? The people at large? 1t is their
/ insldious robbery. Look at Il. The cost
/ OF living has risen beyond the highest tide
! or twenty years and more; perhaps was
I net so great even in the civil war If
measured by the same standard of values.
, . nevery hand labor struggles in distress.
/ with strikes and lockouts multiplying IN
I number and intensity
1 And 70 further aid the crafty plots for
more taxation, governmental extrava-
Sance runs riot. The nations annual ex-
I penditure has become two or three huri-
! ore millions beyond reasonable needs. and
/ yet rises swiftly until the billion a wear
l looms IN prospect. Wheuce come these
Vaster secretly drained for the gain OF
! projections favorites? In great part, at
least. rom labor. the only agency by
which capital can increase
10 wnom belongs that produce? Surely
Ihelr fuil share TO the men who make H.
/ Ana what then is the demand of Demo-
cratic justice? That they shall have it,
A snort cateehism but ,liOne truer was
ever taught.