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Show O' Warren Fosters Paper. VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26. Successor to THE INTER-- ! FOUNTAIN ADVOCATE. 1897. WHY ADVOCATE FREE COINAGE OF they baptise the man because of the fact that SILVER? his sins have been forgiven; while the Camp-bellitsay "for means "in order to; hence usually es In looking over the arguments made by the free silver champions (such as The Salt Lake Tribune) we only wonder that the canse of free silver has not long since been abandoned by all thinking people. The position is not only untenable, but it is even ridiculous. It is no wonder that those of the East fail to grasp the arguments made. They are neither flesh, fish nor fowl, but an incoherent conglomeration of contradicting statements and conflicting theories. To show that 40 cents' worth of silver can be made worth a hundred cents by calling the law to its aid, thereby admitting that money is the creation of law, they find that their reasoning must stop at a certain point else it will land them on the shores of greenbackism. The reflective mind finds itself asking: Why not make the othe'r 40 cents bV law also? When this rebuff is met they must take the back track, for if persisted in it would destroy the free silver business entirely. So when they take the other horn of the dilemma and admit that money midst have intrinsic value, they find their logic leading them inevitably on the rocks of goldbugism. So they must stop again, for that, too, would free silver. From their own standpoint they dare not ' admit that money is the creation of law or that it is not. They must insist that it is a sort of a mongrel, part of which is law and The exact pro-- ; ; part intrinsic value metal. portions of wfcich these two elements enter into the makeup of money is uncertain, indefinite and unstable; varying one way or the other according to the commercial value which the metal contains from time to time.' In short, the average free silver man finds himself ;; suspended and oscillating back and X forth between two points, either of which should he reach would destroy his pet the-- ! ory. The way of the average free silverite they baptise in order to obtain the remission of sins. This diflerence holds them widely apart and causes the Campbellite to indulge very freely in the discussion of what he styles while the Baptist declares that his Campbellite brother "has a zeal for "non-essential- s, godliness but deny the power thereof," and so on. So it is with Populists and others we disagree on the definition of the word "for. When we say we favor the free coinage of silver and some one asks "What for? Populists would answer: "So that we may have more money in circulation; while the Democrat or Republican would say: "Because we have silver bullion to sell and we want a high price for it. Most people are like a person riding train they never see an backward on a object until after they have passed it This is true of the recent sale of the Upion Pacific railroads. As all know, there were several branches of the Pacific system. The principal branches were known as the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific The government held claims in common against both these branches, but the sale recently made included only what was known as the Union Pacific. The sale was so manipulated that on paper it was made to appear that the government was being fully reimbursed. It is claimed, however, that the government actu-rll- y lost $ 1 8,000,000 on that deal alone. But we will grant that in so far as the Union Pacific is concerned the government was paid in full; then, what about its claim against the Central Pacific? and why were they sold separately? The facts are that the value of the Central Pacific depends upon the treatment it receives from the Union Pacific as a connecting line. The thieving gang knew this all the while.'-- - They are now in a position to depredate the value of the Central Pacific, and when it is sold (which is I is truly a hard one. it does else either makes law to be shortly) they will perfect their steal by Now, money, not; and from that fact we draw the inevitable bidding in the Central Pacific at a low figure. conclusion that if the greenback idea is not right then the goldbug idea of intrinsic value Considerable, talk at this time is being of the asked'which be If must right. money indulged in against the holding of land by is the would aliens. That it is a bad thing, we admit; and two right we unhesitatingly say, is that it ought to be prohibited, we also admit; greenbacker right Then the question is, why do we favor free but the .question is, how can it be done? Easy silver if we believe that money is made sole-- 1 enough: The Single Tax put into operation ly by the fiat of the government? There are would break it up in just two seconds by the two reasons people advocate watch. That is to say, let the government and free coinage of silver, only one why take all the rental value instead of allowing Eastern, people favor it. First, that we may it to go into the pockets of alien landlords; get more money into circulation; second, and the alien landlords, finding no benefits that the better price silver bullion would arising out of their lands, would let go 01 bring would help that part of the country their own accord, and that mighty suddenly. Let them own all the land they want to under where silver is produced. To the first reason we may add that we that system, and they will do no harm. You believe this desirable increase of money could not run after an alien or any other sort of a landlord fast enough to give him a piece might be had much more cheaply and in its form much more convenient by issuing paper of land which he did not intend to put to use.' best paying money than by coining it out of silver; but, the of people upon owing to the ignorance The fact that Living Issues has nearly this subject, we have hoped that the end doubled its circulation during the last six might be partially reached through free coin- months is most gratifying, certainly, but age of silver sooner than through an issue of does not lessen the demand that it should be paper money, While the free silver Repub- doubled again, and again. It ought to have licans of the West and the free silver Demothousand readers, and will have if it crats of the West, and the Populists all over fifty up its present gait; but that is no exthe United States advocate the tree coinage keeps for its friends abating their efforts one cuse of silver alike and, to the casual observer, whit Please see to it that your neighbor might be considered a unit upon that ques- takes it Ask him to send us twenty-fiv- e tion. Yet the diflerence between them is as cents for three months, and we will take vast as the two extremes of the question will chances on keeping him on the list. A free admit Populists advocate the free coinage and fearless that owns its own editor of silver for the purpose of increasing the is such a journal rarity in these days of corruption amount of money in circulation, while free that it ought to be sustained for its novelty, silver Republicans and free silver Democrats if for no other reason. advocate an increase in the circulating medium for the purpose of obtaining the free coinWhere wages are highest there will be free cointhe With silver. of Populists the largest production and the most equitaage while ble distribution of wealth. There will invenan to means is a but end, silver of age with others the free coinage of silver is the tion be most active, and the brain guide best end sought. There is no common ground the hand. There will be the greatest comfort, the widest diffusion of knowledge, the purest upon which the two can unite or without doing a violence to the cause of of morals, and the truest of patriotism. truth. The difference is somewhat like the Henry George.' doctrinal point of baptism that separates the What diflerence does it make whether I Baptist church from that familiarly known as the Campbellite church. They both believe merely own the land on which another man in baptism by immersion and they both bap- must live or own the man himself? Am I not The differ- in the one case as much his master as in the tise "for the remission of sins. ence between them hinges upon the definition other? The essence of slavery is in empowThe Baptists ering one man to obtain the labor of another they give to the word "for. hence without recompense. Henry George. say that "for means "because of, 1 why-Wester- n te - A JOB WANTED. Th editor of this paper, while quite well satisfied with his flattering prospects, is, however, open for engagement. We would like to have a job that pays $5,000 per year, but we would take it only on the following conditions: It must be understood and agreed that the job must hold good for six years; that we are to be the sole judge as to what work (if any) that we perform; that we will not in any sense be bound to do as our employer desires! that we are to be permitted to work for whom we please; and that our continuance in the position shall not be jeopardized, and that it shall not hinder us from engaging in the service of other people at any time that our own interests can be served; that whether we work or play our salary of $5,000 a year is to continue; that the work we do is not to be subject to the inspection of our employer; that he is to pay for the same whether he likes it or not; that we will at no time be in any way bound, morally or otherwise, to consider any suggestions that he shall make. In short, we want a job at $5,000 per year for six years; a job that will in no way hamper us in our present or future business. In fact, we want the salary. Does any one know of such an opening? There are but two such jobs in the State. Joe Rawlins holds one of them and Frank Cannon the other. That is the job of being United States Senator. No man with any business sense would think of hiring men that way, and we have a very poor opinion of a State or a Nation that does. What do you think of it? . OUR PATENT LAWS. It may not be popular to assail our present patent laws, but that they lead up to fearful abuses, we think, can be proven to any unbiased mind. .The'bjcct of the patent laws is to encourage inventions. That they have stimulated the genius of man no one can dispute; and in so far has been of incalculable good to the public. We, however, believe that this encouragement could be given in other ways and the public reap much greater benefits than it does under the present system. This, we think, can be reached through a direct reward to inventors and allowing the use of new inventions to the people without being compelled to pay the enormous royalties that are now paid. The facts are that inventors seldom reap the benefits of their inventions. Inventors, as a rule, are poor men men who are unable to prosecute the business of manufacturing and getting their articles before the public, and the usual custom is for them to dispose of their patents to some rich firm or corporation, who get all the profits out ol the invention by selling the patented articles at an enormous price, the public paying the bills. Take as a sample the electric telephone. We are not acquainted with the history of that invention tc say whether the real inventor reaped the benefits of the invention or not; but be that as it may, it is none the less a fact that the Bell Telephone Company, under the protection given it by our patent laws, has been permitted to extort millions of dollars from the masses in the way of high prices for the use of their phones, and are doing so yet The laws are very elastic and can be stretched so as to cover almost anything. A slight improvement is added and the time extended on and on so that it is next to impossible to dislodge a patentee of a useful invention after the patent is once granted. Would it not have been much better for the public had the government rewarded the patentee with a large sum say one million dollars for his patent, and then have thrown their manufacture and use open to the public? The same is true of all the great inventions of the age. We believe that the public thould have the benefits and conveniencies of these inventions at once. Ihere is another point often overlooked: No man is the exclusive inventor of anything. Inventions are, for the most part, an evolution. Take as an example the selfbinding reapers. They are but improvements upon the system of cutting grain, dating back to the time when it was harvested with a sharp stone. This was followed by the iron sickle, the steel sickle, the scythe and . NO 46. If this number ia on tlia label eon tainimr four name, youd better re new mighty quick, that ia the number uf the next inane. No paper will be aeut fur a lunger time than paid for, nor on credit, except by apecial arrangement. u cradle; then by the oscillating sickle propelled by horse power; then came the hand-rak- e harvester, which was followed by the g machine, until at last some man g added the attachment Now, under our patent laws the man who added the last improvement is permitted to "hog the accumulated wisdom and experience of a hundred years past and compel the people to pay him for the use of inventions to which he added possibly only one feature. So it is with the telephone. That has evolved from a lot of discoveries and inventions dating back to the time when it was discovered that a piece of glass or amber being rubbed vigorously attracts small pieces of straw or paper, and to Benjamin Franklin's first experience with his paper kite. We believe in rewarding genius, and of rewarding it well sufficiently well that men will continue to explore the field of science to its uttermost bounds; but, as we have already stated, we believe it could be done in a much less intricate and far more economical way that our present patent laws afford. self-rakin- self-bindin- Gov. Hazen S Pikgree, promoter of the potato patch plan, whose head seems clear on all propositions except his own political color, a few days ago made a speech before the Twentieth Century Club in New York City in which he said: "My experience has brought me to the conclusion that the streets of a city belong to the people, and that no mayor or common council has a right to barter them away. The remedy against many of these is municipal ownership and entire abolition of monopolies; or, if monopolies must exist, which depend upon the public favor, their absolute control by and dependenqeupon the, people. My experience is that those who stand foremost in the synagogue of a Sunday and are engaged in bribing aldermen the rest of the week, or getting up schemes to defraud the widows and orphans, are the most dangerous members of society. It is the duty of the government to protect the weak against the strong, the poor against the selfishness of wealth. I say right here that unless the Republican party comes out as a champion of the average man and his welfare, and unless it ceases to cater to syndicates, trusts and monopolies, it will be buried in oblivion. We must begin by advocating a municipal ownership of natural monopolies and take away from them the item of to that profit and relieve the wage-earnextent. stock-jobbin- g . er AN APOLOGY. We ask you to excuse the paper this week. There is not as much original matter as usual. We had to do this to give the printer a little rest; and certainly no one will complain when remembering that all the good things you have been read.ng in Living Issues for the past two and a half years have been set up by one boy, and that it is due entirely to him that the paper exists at all. Read the few good things we say this week along with your Thanksgiving turkey, and prepare yourself for the usual amount of good things next week. IT COSTS MONEY to go to Klondike; but this week you can buy all kinds of furniture, stoves, carpets, organs, pianos, chairs, tables, iron beds, sewing machines, cupboards, wardrobes, steel ranges, etc., etc.; two steel safes very cheap; everything will be sold regardless of cost before I go to Klondike. I. X. L. Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South Street. Telephone 448. P. A. Sorensen. FOR SALE OR TRADE. , Weekly paper with well equipped office, , situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small tract of good land. Value of plant, $600 00. Reasons for selling given on application. H. S. Foster, 125 Eighth West, Hutchinson, Kan. RAILROADS AND MONEY. We have just received a supply of pamphlets entitled "Ten Men of Money Island and "Watson on Railroads. They sell for 10 cents each. They are both splendid works and no thinker should think of doing without them. Send in stamps at our risk. THE CHURCH OF HUMANITY. Dr. Ravlin will speak at the hall in the Gladstone Block Sunday evening, as usual. His subject will be "Gods. Hear him. |