The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-31

an eight-hour day is an international
struggle and it is sure to be settled in
favor of the working men. The ben
etitS of the labOr-Saving machinery
have not been distributed with equity.
The producer has enormously multi
Piled his capacity, but so far the owner
of the machine has received too much
of the increase and the laborer too lit
tie. Those who oppose the eight-hour
day do it, / am convinced, more be-
cause of ignorance of condition than
because of lack of sympathy with those
who toll The removal of work from
the house to the factory has separated
the husband from his wife and the
father from his children, while the
growth of our cities has put an increas-
ing distance between the home and the
workshop. Then, too, more is demand
ed of the laboring man now than for
merly. He is a citizen as we'll as a la
bOrer and must have time for the study
Of public questions if he is to be an in
telligent sovereign. To drive him from
his bed to his task and from his task
back TO his bed is to deprive the fam
lily Of his company, society of his ser
vice and politics of his influence.
Democratic Principles Proved True.
Thus far have dwelt upon subjects
which may not be regarded as strictly
partisan, but 1 am sure that you will
pardon me if in this presence 1 be-
tray my interest in those policies for
which the Democratic party stands.
have not had an opportunity TO make a
Democratic speech for almost a year
and no one-not even a political enemy
could be so cruel as to forbid me
speak Of those policies on this occa-
sion. Our opponents have derived not
only partisan pleasure. but also par
tisan advantage from the division
caused in our party by the money ques-
ton. They ought not, therefore, be-
grudge us the satisfaction that we find
i'm the fact that unexpected conditions
have removed the cause of our differ
ences and permitted us TO present a
united front on present issues. The un-
looked for and unprecedented increase
in the production of gold has brought
a victory to both the advocates of gold
and the advocates of bimetallism-the
former keeping the gold standard
which they wanted and the latter Sc
curing the larger volume of money for
which they contended. We who favor
bimetallism are satisfied with our vic
tory if the friends Of monometallism
are satisfied with theirs. And we can
invite them to a contest OF zeal and
endurance in the effort to restore to the
people the rights which have been grad
ually taken from them by the trusts.
Corporation Campaign Funds.
The Investigations which have been
in progress during the past year have
disclosed the business methods of those
who few years ago resented any in
spectiOn of their schemes and hid their
rascality under Understanding phrases.
These Investigations have also disclosed
the source Of enormous campaign funds
tons and corrupt the ballot.
1.-The people see now what they
should have seen before, namely, thai
no party can eXterminate the trusts SO
long as it~owes its present success 10
campaign contributions secured from
the trusts. The great corporations dc
not contribute their money to any party
except for immunity expressly prom
Used or clearly implied. The president
has recommended legislation on this
subject, but so far his party has failed
to respond. No important advance car
be made until this baneful influence is
eliminated and / hope that the Demo
/ cratic party will not only challenge the
| Republican party to bring forward eff
! feCtive legislation OH this subject, but
/ viii set an example by refusing TO re-
! ceive campaign contributions from the
/ corporations and by opening the books
] .OL
/ siderable sum may be known to the
public before the election. The grea
majority Of corporations are engaged II
! legitimate business and have nothins
/ TO fear from hostile legislation, and th'
officers should not be permitted 10 u.s.
the money of the stakeholder to ad
vance their political opinions.
Contributions should be individual
not corporate, and no party can afTorC
1
] dividualS when the acceptance Of thes,
contributions secretly pledges the part!
TO a course which it cannot openl!
/ aVoW. In other words. politics Shoulc
4! be honest. and / mistake present con
ditions in America if they do not re
| ceive Improvement in the conduct o
| campaigns.
Trust Issue Paramount.
while men may differ as to the rel
alive Importance of issues. and while
the next congress will largely shape tn
lines upon which the coming presiden
tial campaign will be fought, l thinl
it is safe to say that at present tn,
paramount issue in the minds of ;
large majority of the people is the trus
issue. / congratulate President RoOse
welt upon the steps which he has takel
TO enforce the antitrust laws, and IN.
qualification is not lessened by the fac
! that he has followed the Democrats
rather than the Republican platform Il
every advance he has made. 1t ha
been a great embarrassment to hin
that the platform upon which he wa
elected was filed with praise of the Re
publican party's record rather thai
with promises of reform. Even the en-
thusiastic support given him by tn
Democrats has enabled the champion
of the trusts to taunt him with follow
ing Democratic Leadership. He ha
probably gone as far as he could with
out mourning the hostility. of the lead
ers of his own party. The trouble
that the Republican party is not in
position to apply effective and thoroug
going reforms because IL has built u
through special legislation the yer
abuses which needed 10 be eradicateC
What Is Trust?
Before any intelligent action can b
, taken against the trusts we must hav