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Show LIVING ISSUES WARREN FOSTERS PAPER. SncMMor to THE . ADVOCATE. INTEtt-MOUNTAI- d WHO are taxpayers? above the answer to The question would the That hose who pay taxes. causes us to ask, who are they that pay taxes? We answer, everybody who pays his way in this lile is a taxpayer. The generally accepted definition that taxpayers are those who own property and who pay a certain sum in cash as taxes each year are the only taxpayers, is manifestly not correct. Undei our indirect system of taxation, every man who pays a grocery bill or purchases a suit of clothing, pays taxes; and if paying taxes makes one a taxpayer, then all men 'barring beggars and tramps are taxpayers. Of this kind of taxes it often happens that very poor men with large families are often the most heavily taxed. Again: Who is it that pays the taxes on the house the poor man rents? It is true that it is paid to the taxgatherer by the landlord ; but is it not a fact that the amount is added to the rent, which is after all paid by the renter and not by the landlord at all? Ii taxes be cheaper? 01 were lower, would not course, this applies to normal conditions. It may be true and is true that there are men in this and all cities who own property upon which they pay taxes, but from which they realize no rent whatever; but this is due to the stagnated conditions and furnishes no exception to the principle here laid down. The construction of a stn et car line to a remote part of the city, or an improvement in the service on a line already established, causes taxes to go up, but everybody knows that rents go up in the same proportion, so that the renter re all pays it. So no one is more intensely inteiested in low taxes than are the very men of whom it is claimed pay no taxes at all There is another phase to the question that many have probably never thought of. What a man pays in taxes is considered so much contributed to society for the good of society, which is true. Now then- are two things that : One is, money are necessary to good s with which to defray ih expenses incurred in government; the otbi r i good people Society might exist without money, but it could not exist without people. To have people it is absolutely necessary that children be born and reared; and to make good citizens of them it is necessary that they be educated and otherwise properly brought up. Now to do this entails a great deal of care and anxiety as well as expense. Some time ago our attention was called to the supposed-to-b- e fact that on an average it takes $600 to bring up a child to the age of twenty years, and we think that estimate to be quite low enough. Now, it so happens that the poorest men usually raise the most children. Whether the children be the cause or the effect of pov- crty, we do not care to discuss; but suffice it to say that such are the facts. Now take the g renter who of a poor but bills and all other pays his rents, his groo-iof a family bills incident to the bringing-u- p of the twenty-on- e of eight children to age years; to say nothing of the annoyance and care incurred by measles, whooping cough, mumps, croup, etc., which eight children be turns over to society full grown, vigorous young men and women; who shall say that he has not made a valuable contribution to .society? Who will say that he has done less than the childless old bachelor millionaire or the whole family of the rich nabob who is too proud or too mean to raise any children, but who makes his donations to society by giving a few dollars in cash? We say that the man who has furnished society with eight healthy people has done his full share and is entitled to first rank as a taxpayer, even though he may never have paid into the county treasury one dollar directly. So we are all taxpayers. of course be, 'I -- n-nt- s - hrd-workin- y NON-PARTI- S good coming from changing from one to the other, nor do we see any good coming from 1 mix-u- p of half and half of each, as is the case with the ticket; the two halves are just alike. But how very different it would be were there a partisan issue in which the people's interests are at stake! Suppose there were a real partisan difference between the two parties on this issue. Suppose there were great public franchises to be disposed of, and (if you can stretch your imagination sufficiently to do so) let us suppose the Republican party is a party of the people, and in its platform it should demand that these franchises remain in the hands and name of the people for their own use and profit; and that the Republican ticket be made up of men who are outspoken advocates of public ownership of these utilities. On the other hand, suppose (and this is quite easy to do) that the Democratic party is in favor of giving these great franchises away to soulless corporations for the purpose of robbing the people blind, and their nominees are all men who openly favor such measures, then there would be an issue; there would be something to choose between; then there would be something at stake in the campaign aside from the emoluments of office. - As no such difference in policy or men exists between these two parties, it follows that The Tribune is exactly right, and no one is able "to point out even one distinctive partisan principle that can in any way be put into effect by a city administration. But it should be borne in mind that there are partisan principles that may be pointed out in which the people are intensely interested; principles that involve the peoples interest in the city administration as directly and as intently as they would even a national administration. And those principles have champions in this city, and will also have a platform advocating them, and there will be a ticket composed of men whose sacrifices in that direction leave no doubts in the minds of the people where they stand on these questions When that ticket is put up there will be a question before the people which will enable the voters "to point out several distinctive partisan principles that can, and may be, put into effect by a city administration. It is a business proposition, as The Tribune says; but it is a business proposition in which partisan politics and principles play a great part. POPULISTS IN THE CITY CAMPAIGN. The Populists are beginning to show signs of life, and activity in this city, such as they have never shown before. All their meetings am being well attended and the speakers highly applauded at every meeting. The work of organizing the city goes merrily on and in a week we will see the city fully organized and ready for business, which event will mark an epoch in the history of Salt Lake City Populism. No systematic attempt has ever before been made to organize the city. The first meeting was held at the Lyceum Theatre last Saturday evenirg. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd in attendance, notwithstanding the fact that there was a botch made in Ihe advertising. But few people knew anything of the meeting until after six oclock Saturday evening. Monday night, Hon. James Thompson addressed a large crowd at the Second Ward meeting house and effected an organization. On Wednesday evening Warien Foster spoke to a good crowd at Poplar Grove. Arrangements are perfected for a big meeting at North Salt Lake this evening, while tomorrow evening Col. Nat. Ward Fitz Gerald will speak in the Sixth Ward meeting house. Everybody will want to hear the Colonel, so there will be a large crowd. The work of organizing the city will be taken up early next week and pushed to a successful termination speedily. The date of the convention has not been decided upon yet. iN POLITICS. The heeleis and josses are perfectly sure that partisan- - :ip i hest in city elections, though utterly unable to point out even one distinctive partisan principle that can in any rff-- ct by a city administra way be pot into fit to carry politic-intas be would It just lion o a meeting of business men who mighi want a committee or directors for any busi ness enterprise. The fact is. politics are a? badlv out of plac in a municipal election a an imp of Satan would be for a vestryman.-Tribu- ne. non-partisa- n of editors in Utah has become so common as to hardly merit mention. The last name, so far as heard, to be added to the list is N. B. Dresser, of The Mercur Miner Owing to his agile manner of widening the distance between himself and his aggressor, Brother Dresser came out without a scratch The difficulty arose from he publication in his paper of an article gainst company boarding houses, of which nention was made in these columns two weeks ago. The whipping one of the best oers published in all Utah. The editrrs are Pop ilists, or, more properly speaking, they are am Democrats SocUli: although they have not so to relates this as far So themselves. They are making a good .nweJ Republic ans. The Tribune is exactly tty": paper just the same. them The Payson header is imolving is no issue between in either municipal, any interest of the people for tbre WILL SPEAK AT EUREKA. We have Warren Foster has accepted an inv tation State or even national elections. said several times already that we can see no to speak at Eureka on Thursday, Sept. 30. ? The outrage perpetrated upon the defenders of the flag, who were paid off in money worth only about forty cents on the dollar, might be looked upon with some complacency were it not for the fact that the government has taken spectal pains to g many times over every purchaser of those days of strife. No attempt has ever been made to make up the difference to the soldiers, but no case has been overlooked where the interests of the bondholder were in any way in jeopardy. The bonds were bought dollar for dolhr in these same forty-cegreenbacks. They were made to draw interest on their face value. The interest was paid in gold. The bonds were then made payable in coin. Silver was then demonetized, so the bonds were practically made payable in gold. The bondholders were then permitted to organize national banks a system by which they deposited their bonds for safekeeping and without taxes, but went right on drawing their gold interest. In addition to that, ninety-nin- e per cent, of the face value of the bonds were returned to the bankers in the way of national bank notes, which they were permitted to loan out at any interest that the circumstances of the people would warrant; thus drawing two interests on one investment. All of this has been done for the bondholders, but no heed has ever been taken of the crying injustice done the soldier. There is no such proposition before the people now and never will be; but the work .of the bondholders goes steadily on and on. As an evidence cf this outrage, read the following from the Associated Press under date of Falls City, Neb., September se bond-durin- nt POSTOFFICE MONEY ORDERS. W. hav many tiaa eallad attcwtkia to tha fast that tha only afa war to d pewit monajr i to buy a I ratofiica moiiay orrirr payabla to row tail Wa alao callnd attoa-tH- ia aoma lima ana to a lady la Colorado who had tha dauoMtad, wa baliara it wa. SI.IMV payabla at Salt Laka Wt for afty. Along thia aaaa iina v!lv'..?!sra t hicago Expiaia a, a : Three years ago when we first announced that the only safe deposit offered the people for their money was through the postoffice money order system, it led to a great amount of inquiry as to how it could be accomplished, the general understanding being that the money order system was merely a system to facilitate the sending of small sums from place to place and could not be used otherwise. We gave full and complete instructions showing how, for a small outlay, the system could be utilized by persons who wanted to deposit a sum of money where it would be perfectly safe and could be called for at any time. Our efforts in that line have doubtless saved thousands of dollars that would have been swallowed up in bank failures; and recent reports from Washington indicate that the plan has been carried to an extent that is attracting much attention at the postoffice Tha . department. The number of money orders that have been allowed to remain unpaid for more than one year has created an immense fund and it is well known that nearly all of it is money that by this unique method is placed on 'deposit with Unde Sam. We published two years ago a report of one very striking illustration. A Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, whose treasurer was a reader of The Express, invested their surplus in postoffice money orders and avoided the loss of their funds through a broken 15. 897: "Three days ago action was begun to bank, and now comes through the postoffice foreclose a mortgage on the farm of John department report of a Leadville miner who Street, an aged veteran of the war. Today bought money orders to the total amount of he drove his wife from the premises, set fire to all the buildings and then blew off his $2,200, payable to himself, but for which he refuses to call, knowing that it' will be good head with a shotgun." whenever he needs it aud is perfectly safe as This may give you some idea of how it now stands. truly does the Republican party love the old He paid a small fee for the orders and resoldier about election time. fused alluring promises of interest by savings The Associated Press would have us be- lieve that war with Spain is now imminent. We will wager that all there is to it is a few more millions for Carnegie in the way of armor-plat- e steals, and possibly an issue of bonds. Trusts flourish because they corner the land that competitors could use against them. They corner land now because we dont assess and tax it high enough. Single Tax will do both. J. T. Barnard in The Hamilton Templar. It is the plain duty of all Populist to do wha and all they can to make the coming meetings a success You should go if pos sible. You may not feel like it, but you owe a debt to your country and the rising generation. Go. banks; but today he realizes that he is $2,200 oetter c ft than if he had deposited the money with any one of the several hundred institutions that have failed in the last two years. The number of people who are taking this plan of making themselves safe is one of the prime reasons for the active intcest being taken in postal savings banks. The people have determined to not risk the rotten banking institutions under any conditions, so the bankers conclude they might just as well allow them to have the postal savings, but the bankers are now very anxious that these savings shall go into circulation again through the same thieving methods, making the government merely an agent to accumulate the funds to loan to the banks. Its a great scheme for the same gang of thieves who live by legalized robbery. To kill off all the blind, unthinking fools Every vote cast for the old parties is a in America would be one means of effectually vote to continue the present system. No nabreaking up the land monopoly. Land monin settled exist a Fparsely tion ever was more barbarous, more cruel or opoly cannot more foolish than this. That present condiMcKinley said it would be better to opn tions are tolerated is a disgrace to the human the mills than to open the mints. The peepli family. Every upholder of it is a knave or a seemed to think so too, and voted that way; fool a knave if he knows better and refuses but somehow it happens that neither have to act, or a fool if he believes no better sysopened. Why is this thus? tem is possible. Herald, Liberty, Mo. com-munit- y. Had a coal miner killed a sheriff he would The bond thieves are bent on getting the have been promptlv arrested, tried, sentenced and hung. A sheriff killing twenty miners and Cuban matter in shape for another issue of wounding forty others is given the full pro- bonds to make a place for their stolen miltection of the State government Quite a dif- lions. After this is done they will need some ference, isnt there? Courier, Pueblo, Colo. more warships, which will give Carnegie a chance to steal the proceeds of the bonds, A machine is now in operation in San and so the thing goes. Francisco that, with the assistance of a boy, will turn out 4 000 cans per hour, such as are GOING TO KLONDIKE. used in canning fruits, etc. An expert tinner could make but 500 in a day. Now the expert P. A. Sorenson, proprietor of the I. X. L. tinner, whom the boy and machine have dis Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South placed, can "maintain their individuality on Street, Salt Lake City, will go soon, and he die protective (?) tariff bill and charity soup is now selling out over $30 000 worth of the finest furniture, carpets, stoves and houseRights of Man, Minneapolis, Minn. hold goods. A rare opportunity for confervisitors to furnish up their home at ence bewho in Salt Lake City If every man their own prices. All mail orders given lieves that the city should own an control its street cars, electric lights, gas works, etc., prompt attention. should vote as they believe, the Populist WILL REPRODUCE IT. ticket would be elected this fall by a majority of the vGting populaequal to three-fourtThe Broad Axe last week contained a tion. Will they do it? No, we guess not review of the pamphlet entitled "The They would rather vote for what tney dont Gospel Concerning Church and State, of want and get it than take chances of "throw- which mention was made some weeks ago in ing a vote away. these columns. Mr. Taylor has been fairly deluged with letters asking for information over-fed- , Say, you over-pairegarding the document, and wanting to free and independent Amer- know where copies are to be had. As he has and ican citizen who cant get a job to save your but one copy, he has decided to reproduce it neck, I suppose you think the collective own- in his paper. To do so he will be compelled s, to divide it up into about five or six issues, ership of the railroads, telephones, etc., etc., would destroy your indi- but has folly decided that he will, which will viduality and reduce vou to a condition of give the matter a publicity that probably was slavery, dont you? Did you ever observe to never intended by the writer of it So a you what a condition of slavery Unde Samuel had want to see the contents of that extraordireduced his letter carriers? They work eight nary pamphlet, you had better subscribe for hours a day and get from $75 to $100 a month The Broad Axe for a short time at least It is too lengthy for our limited space. for it. Rights of Man, Minneapolis, Minn. hs well-writt- d, well-cloth- en well-hous- ed ed 1 coal-mine- oil-wel- ls, " |