The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-09

who inherlts nothing but a small per
centage OF what he works for. some
thing Ike one-eighth OF what he pro
duces to make heirs. And he can
| make any law that Is right and just
! IL he will educate himself on what
and who 10 vote for He Is in the very
large majority. about So men In this
country arc trying 10 put the world
in their pockets and not let anybody
else get any of II except what they
| may be pleased to dole out. The last
tariff legislation is sample. 1he
half has never been told about II. It
now takes $1G5 to buy what formerly
was purchased for Sl00, and yet We
grow and prosper BY a little horse
| sense we can reverse things and pur
that 500 in our own pockets and give
the other fellow the SG5 for his trOu-
BILE and then he will get more than
what is coming to him. To lmdcr-
stand things Is where the cure viii
come. Every good man acts on his
understanding of things But II has
become an historical fact that the
good men arc good graftcrs through
bad conditions made possible by bad
eyesight and bad understanding and
| lack of knowledge of how these bad
laws enable such good rake-od. If
We could mail parcels OF 25 pounds
in our postal system we could avoid
being held up byieour local grOcers
and other hold-up furniShers oil our
daily needs BY the present postal
laws on an International agreement,
German tradeSman can send mail
ed parcel from Hamburg 10 Seattle
cheaper than we may send an express
package TO Pocatello Do VIC under
stand these things? II a gold stand
ard money system is good for the
rich man instead of paper money. frac-
tional silver and copper currency and
all must be based and redeemed in
I this selfsame gold why not have a
universal label based on unionsm
and displace the seventy-two freaks
we are attempting to teach an unwil!-
Ing public? Seventy-two letters In
the alphabet would put reading out of
the question for the average child eX-
cept for the Jap or Chinaman. Sim
plifcation. not mystificatlon, should be
the order OF our efforts.
To attain a degree of public health
should be another Of our first con-
tentions The poor man is the invar-
liable victim OF predatory disease, He
never has the living conditions which
equal his rich neighbor-sewaGe
bathing. light and ventilation. good
warm meals of the best the market af-
fords and in variety the poor man has
only a portion or none OF these bene-
fits which serve to ward off disease
TO himself and family. Well fed and
warmly clad bodies arc OF the great
est importance. DiSintectants ana
hygiene viii neither feed the hungry
nor clothe the naked. And state con-
troll OF open-air camps and tubercu-
losis Snnitariums. isolated and free OF
cost would cut tuberculosis down to
one-third and put half the fees paid
doctors out to work for an honest Nv
ing. The white plague Is the common
enemy Of the poor. If a rich man gets
IT. he gets II from one who at least
comes from poor conditions. and but
few OF them ever contract IL, Legis-
lation is either for evil OF for good,
and the proper kind of legislation
means everything that is best and
good. The State Federation offers
the strongest factor to secure good
legiSlation-to get all we are contend
ing for. 1t is generally the most in
huential OF am labor body in any
state. because it represents all And
if IL is decently organized and con
Quoted, ii represents more people
than any other organization In al
most any of the states We should
take immediate steps TO secure a rep
resentattvc of Nll the railway brother
hoods. of the State Federation OF min
ers together with one of our number
To constitute a joint legislative COM
mittee. 1t would save about seven
cighths the cost We viii be forced TO
pay by isolated methods Such a com.
mittec did more last year in Ohio and
Texas than In all the years pas; com,
bined together, With one delegate
representing the farmers union.
which is now larger in numbers than
! the total of the A F. Of l.. We should
also start the education for the cleo.
ton of u. S. district and circuit judges
by the people every two or four years,
instead of giving the llck.splttle
henchman and lackeys rich life posi-,
tions. Selected b. congress made
up of corporations controlled and lob.
bied members who select these vam-
pires for the special mission of dis