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Show papers, which seek to beguile Ins reason and mergo It in his prejudices. This campaign is no exception to the rule, but the bait which is used to lure him is so very flimsy and transparent that we have no fear that sensible workingmeu will vote any ticket but tbe Liberal on next Mouday. We do not believe that there is a man in this city, who carries his dinner pail in the morning to a day's productive work, that will so far forget himself as to vote a Mormon ticket simply because it hasthenameof work-ingman work-ingman at its flagstaff. How long is it since the People's party took up this bright tin can as its emblem and discarded the beehive which did such valiant service for years, and near which a Gentile workman dare not go for fear of the fatal Mormon sting? How long is it silica this institution in-stitution whose past record ever since it was born on American soil, has been one of absolute tyranny and domination of labor, experienced its wonderful change of heart? Look at every one of the great co-operative concerns throughout this territory which are controlled practically by u few men, standing high in saintly counsels, and which have fro.en out all competitors, and which pay their labor the lowest possible sum it will consent to live on, and then ask yourselves, workingmen, if the whole platform and position of friendliness towards you is not one of pretense and fraud? Don't you remember the street car serv ice in this city of a year or two ago, the Mormon drivers of which only received re-ceived fifty dollars a mouth compensation compensa-tion for their services, and were compelled com-pelled to pay into the tithing house one-tcnlh one-tcnlh of that? This alleged workingmen's ticket is such a shallow fraud that it ought not to bo necessary to call a workingman's attention at-tention to it at all, and we don't believe the men who labor in this city will bo so blinded to their true interests as to be moved from duties they owe to themsolves, their flag and their God, by men who point them to fantasmas, and call them grievances, which have no existence, exis-tence, in fact. Do not, you men who reap and spin and earn your bread in the heat of the day, be led away by false prophets. Do not take to your bosoms the greatest enemy of labor there is on American soil today. If you do, theseraet tat ill stiug you to the death. BEAUTIFUL SOPHISTRIES. Oh labor! what crimes aro committed in thy name! There is no class of people on earth whose confidences are so shamefully abused as the men who labor and earn the daily bread for themsolves and little lit-tle ones by the toil of their hands. As the election approaches in the spring and fill the laboring man is tugged at by both parties, and cajoled by argument argu-ment until his head is a confused mass of ideas which havo neither shape nor size. But the greatest snare that he has to face is the sophistries of campaign orators ora-tors snd the hypocritical appeal of some libels on journalism, misnamed news- |