The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-03

weak points And he gave us doctrines
and principles and examples and illustra-
tons that are just as applicable today
as they were a century ago. One is
amazed when he reads what Jefferson
has said and. written to find out how his
words reach down to the fundamentals
of society and how the principles that he
PROMULGATED apply TO all conditions and
all times
Now take the most important question
We have today. that is the question of mo-
nopoly- / will not attempt to say that
issue will be paramount in the next cam
paign, for | know how conditions make
issues. j know how a few months may
change the whole aspect of politics /
know how the action OF congress NAV di-
vert attention from one thing to an
other. Yet l feel IL is safe 20 say that
at the present time the most important
question under consideration as a princi-
pal question. as a matter for legislation
Is the monopoly question.
jefferson VS.. Monopoly.
And Thomas jefferson. away back a
hundred years ago. expressed his indy
ing opposition to monopoly He was so
much opposed TO monopoly that he could
scarcely be persuaded to the patent And
when he consented to patent it was only
on condition ii should be limited in time
| mention that to show that Thomas JEFF
ferson understood what monopoly meant
away back there before we had any of
our gigantic corpora lions such as we have
came known to every man. woman and
child as II is known today Thomas
jefferson saw the principle involved and
he raised his voice in protest against the
whole theory OF private monopoly. SO
that today when we go to consider these
questions we find that the ideas of JEFF
ferson are the ideas that are being applied
in our time.
'In travelling around the globe l found
that in every country these ideas of JEFF
ferson were being discussed NV friends l
M M lei will fan
remembered when the names of all the
warriors will have been forgotten. And
that is saying a great deal, for the war
rfOrs have re-arranged the map of the
world with their sword. We have raised
monuments to them and yet / venture TO
say that when the names Of the warriors
cannot be explained by the children the
name of jefferson will be upon the tongue
of the child because he has moulded the
thought Of the world. Because he has
coined phrases that will live, because his
life and his teachings are inspiration. He
spoke works that put hope in the sons
of men. He carved upon the mountains
eternally the large and great pillars upon
which every government must stand. All
around this globe today the people are
paying their tribute to jefferson. Some
consciously and some unconsciously, by
the adoption of his ideas.
Efforts of PIutocraey.
IF there are any here in the newspaper
! business they know that newspaper men
| resent having eO1IOrlalS taken from tnelr
papers and used by another paper without
| proper credit being given. But, my
| friends. L never complain when a man
| takes editorial l have written and Of
| fers it as his own without giving me cred
/ il for II. because / regard IL higher
/ compliment TO me when he will print il
| as his own than if he put the burden
upon me- The fact that he makes il his
own is the higher compliment. And the
people who make Jeffersons language
| their own language, and express them
| selves as he expressed himself, they pay
Jefferson the higher compliment. AS
| the years go by / believe that an increas-
ing number will use his ideas, make his
arguments, and use the inspiration he has
/ given them.
! Now this question of monopoly has
! brought out great social question. And
/ / don't lose an opportunity to thank the
| president for what he has done in turn
| ing attention to this subject. Today, my
| friends, you will find people considering
the question from another standpoint. In
stead of looking entirely to the effect that
plutocracy has had upon the poor, we are
| now examining the effect that plutocracy
! has had upon those who get the money.
And we find that these men who have
robbed the public haven't only wronged
the millions, but that they themselves
have been demoralized by the money and
by the practices by which they made the
/ money.
The Inheritance Tax.
"And the president has done a public
1 service when he has called attention to
/ the swollen fortunes of this country and
4 has asked for legislation which will pre-
vent those swollen fortunes from descend
ing to the next generation. All honor to
/ the president for standing for that and
/ for giving this word Of warming While
/ indorse what he says about the inherit
ance tax, / cannot help but feed that the
| remedy that he proposes is a temporary
one and that there is a remedy which is
| a nprmanPnt Instead of all NO
men to gather unjuStly and then slipping
| into the graveyard, and take away what
they accumulated when they come to die
| / believe it is better to say in the very
| beginning, Thou shalt not steal and pre-
vent the accumulation of the money by
! dishonest unjust methods. But until we
can secure legislation. that will go to
the root of the evil and confine each man
/ to that which he earns. 1 see no better
| way than the one proposed by the presi-
dent An accumulation inheritance tax
that will prevent this wealth going down
| from generation to generation.
My friends, the president has brought
US to the consideration Of the very cues
ton that jefferson considered. Jefferson
wasn't an enemy Of wealth. Jefferson
wanted every man TO have A chance &c
earn all that he could. Jefferson wasn't
a leveler. he was an individual
Not Socialist.
II am going 20 take occasion to say
at this time that that accusation has
time and again been made against me
and it has been entirely unjust / have
| been no socialist | have been no anar.
chist 1t is false. 1 never made a speech
in my life the purpose OF which was Il
! array class against class. From nv bov.
hood up | have tried to bring them to-
| gether. | have been wise enough to know
/ that the only basis upon which people
can live together is the basis of Justice
! as between man and man. I have beer
| pelading for it, but have not been 2
socialist / haven't been an anarchist
! believe in government And believe, my
! friends that the man who makes an.
! archists is the man who advocates IA
voritism in government Those who give
the mighty power of government to the
| favored few, those depriving the Others
of their chances in life
| And my friends. If there are Others
who want to be claSsed with the makers
of anarchy. they are those who will pun.
\ ish the small criminal and allow the
i large criminal to go unwhipped, and es.
cape Justice (Applause).
| III have been called q socialist. [ an
not l am an individualist. But. my
friends. the very men who called me so.
cialist are the very ones who have done
more in this country to make socialism
grow than any other class. Upon what
does socialism grow? 1t is upon the
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