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Show V- '. I rr VIN Warren SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE- - VOL. 4. William Morris once, said FROM THE COMING NATION. The or receive $30,000,000, of the total postoffice receipts, for carrying the mail. The railroads get 8 cents a pound for carrying mail matter, cent for and the express companies pay introduced in the their stuff. A bill was Senate reducing the pay for mail transportation 20 per cent., but when it reached a vote it didnt linger long. Forty Senators voted that the poor, downtrodden railroads were getting no more than they deserved. Eight thought otherwise. What wise voters you people are! What hot representatives you send! How you do love to get skinned. Give it to 'em, Mr. Senator they like to give to railroads $30,000,000 for $3,600,000 worth "of service. V . . , ' how No matter wealth. all creates Labor much money one man may have ibdr'must keep that money good by creating products to bacic it up. Now look-a- t die amount of goods labor must annually produce to pay ipterest on the circulating medium. Every time a dollar leaves a' bank it goes out on Interest. The map who borrows it pays it to some one else who puts jt' back in. the bank again, .from whence it' is loaned out at interest.. Money neither stays in or out of a bank-verlong. It comes And it draws little orno init comes When goes. terest Thus the same dollar, ' from' .being is drawing-mandeposited and time. all the interests Just 'think of the immense amount of labor required to pay several interests on every dollar of circulating medium in the country, and consider that labor receives absolutely nothing in return ' for itl It is, indeeq, a privilege to live in these days these closing days of the nineteenth century when the civilization of .weary vaoilUtaa in the bajr between progression and retrogression. The same old nut is here to crack that every other advanced peoples have failed to crack, and have perished because they couldnt or wouldnt. That hickory nut, mine friend, is the prevention of the accumulation of wealth. Thats got to be done, or weve got to turn up our toes to the daisies. Socialism will do it with Justice with a big J to all. It will give each the full value of what he produces. And if he wants more he won't get it. That will solve the concentration-of-wealiproblem which has killed every civilization that has ever lived on this earth. It will leave human brains all intellect and intelligence-f- ree to go cavorting on and on into the great unknown future, and tear the veil from knowledge of which we do not now even dream has an existence. railroads more than one-thir- d J , . again-promptl- - y -- h Successor to THE ,18518. Of English politics that the whole. thing reminded him of nothing so much as game of foot, ball. The opposing teams took rides and went for one another with immense enthusiasm but there was really nothing in all their goings on that was not governed by rules previously agreed to by both ;ides.: Politics is the official form - assumed by the process of exploitation,';. 'The' masses are used and abused in this game and made to move like puppets. They have no more understanding of the process itself ihan they have of the mechanism than increases the cost of living at inconvenient times Participationby the masses in this kind of game is called capacity for self government. In England where public spirit and the controversial .spirit run high, it is easy to play this 'game, as it afiords an outlet for the expanding of pop-aular, energies, thus exhausting them without in any way injuring the exploiters. In some countries the masses lack the energy and eager animal instincts requisite in the game and they are said to lack capacity for' Twentieth Century. ' 1 nd The editor the Real Republic, Amar. illo, Texas, tells an awful story when he says that "during the past ten years we have been driving women to prostitution for bread until the outcast girls number 500,000 a vast of army.' By reason of poverty, financial losses, lack of employment and general distress as principal causes we have swelled the army of the insane to 180,000, suicides to 6,000 last year, murders to 18,600 in 1896, and drove 100,000 children out of school in New York City alone. During the past thirty years we have so managed the finances of t&e country that after having paid of the national debt we now owe more than when we commenced paying.,. two-thir- ds . Men never toiled in the cotton fields as now toil for a miserable pittance in they the vast coal fields, in absolute subjection to the will of their masters, and with no hope of relief save through the portals of a death more merciful than their brother man. A mountain mass of wealth has been produced, but the people have remained poor. A handful of heartless schemers gather in with one hand the wealth produced by labor; with the other they sow poverty, suffering and tears. Three-fourthof the wealth of the nation is in a few thousand pockets that is what has become of the riches of the people. The Commonwealth. s The cheapest sort of pride is national pride. For it betrays fn one infected with it a lack of individual qualities to be proud of, else he would not resort to that which he CLIPPED PARAGRAPHS. shares with many millions. Whoever is posBarber County lndox, Uodicino Ixxiga, Kan. sessed of important advantages will rather Let the corporations continue to rob the see the errors of his own nation the more people. Nothing will advance government distinctly, as he keeps them constantly in more rapidly. ownership No prominent public man desires to go to war as a private. They all want to be an elevated officer and one of the high-cocAnd if they cant puff themselves up with pride and a bid for honor, with a big salary on the side, they wont be patriotic. Its a hard matter to make some people believe that "all men are created equal. If party pride were removed there would not be one in a thousand who would oppose direct legislation. It is ths underlying principle of a democratic form of government and cannot be objectionable to any class of people except those who prefer to live under a monarchial form of government. Wei come the day when the American people are enjoying the privilege of making their own laws. No man is hated because he is rich. It all depends upon what he does with his riches and how he obtains them, whether he is entitled to the love or hatred of mankind. If he becomes possessed of his riches by robthen he is bing and cheating his brother, which laws allow justly to be hated. But the him to thus amass a fortune are to be despised the more. The best way and the safest is to keep the animal plan to prevent founder the best way to preAnd bin. away from the vent one man from talking undue advantage of another is to get rid of those laws that permit it. But every miserable simpleton who has nothing in the world to be proud of, grabs at the last means to be proud of the nation to which he chances to belong; here he recovers himself and is gratefully willing to defend with might and main all errors and follies belonging to it. Schopenhauer. view. Before you become profuse in your ded nunciations of the Southern middle-o- f Populists, stop and consider the treatment these reformers have received at the hands of the Southern Democracy. Southern Democracy and Northern Republicanism is about one and the same thing. The idea of a Populist fusing with the Republicans is Well, that enough to give one the is just the way the Southern Populist feels when asked to pool issues with Democrats. For one, our sympathies are all with the the-roa- jim-jam- s. middle- - of-- the-roader- s. No babe ever walks the first time it tries, but by falling it does not lose its right to try again. So it is with nearly all men starting in life they .fall down, and the difficult is that when they fall they lose their only opportunity to try again. The Single Tax will give them this opportunity forever. The beauty of the Single Tax is that no matter how improvident or stupid a man may be, the opportunity to work and live cannot be taken away from him. INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N T Every city bristles like a porcupine with , church spires, yet in the shadow of those spire men struggle and scheme and strive to capture msney from their fellow-Chri- s tians. Qur cities are not built to live in, but to fij ;ht in. Every street is a battle-fieleveryj office and store is a fort; every newspaper is a war bulletin. Every storekeeper d; NO. 24. If this number la on the label conhad better your name, you taining renew mighty as that is the number of the next issue.quick, As A specimen of the wholesale swindling in the conduct of the war, the New York World says that a year ago the Norwegian tramp steamshtp Solveig was bought for $40,000 and rebuilt, bringiug its total cost up to $193,060. In April last she was offered to this government, but rejected by the Board of Auxiliaty Cruisers. Then she was sent to Baltimore, and at the request of a politician sLe was bought by "special agents from Washington for $342,0008 clear steal of $150,000. San Francisco Star. sets his trap in his window and baits it with cheap and flashy goods; every banker lies in ambi&h behind his wire screen and pulls the tng$r f a mortgage. The people on our street! hurry and scramble along as if they were a defeated army, fleeing in terror from a pursing foe. And yet there is not now, and nevei has been, any need to rush, or worry, or sn, .tch, in this fertile country. There has Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the been 10 famine, no war, no earthquake, no heir of nature, is poor. Never in this happy plague, no drouth nothing but stupidity country or elsewhere except in the Land of H. N. Casson. fowardice. where Miracles, "they did all eat and were filled has there been enough of anything Wit at would bonds be worth if they did for the people. Never since time began have not ' lind anybody? How could there be the sons and daughters of men been all bondri without bondage somewhere? The law all filled, and all shod and roofed. and warm, and a bill of sale were the bonds that took Never yet have all the virgins, wise or foolfrom Jne chattel slave the'result of his labor ish, been able to fill their lamps with oil. apd gave it to his master who held the bond: D. Lloyd. The w and the parchment of the govern- Henry ment jare the bonds that take the results of The worst feature of the labor and hand it over to the element is the fact that this faction in bondholder. The holders of public bonds are 1896 in Kansas was led bv a gang of unas much opposed to doing away with condiprincipled boodlers who worked on Mark tions my which they profit as were the Hannas money for the purpose of defeating chattel slaves. There is no difference n fact puts Bryan in Kansas. This between the two, except in the method. a stigma upon the very name of middle- - e Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kan. road. This is unfortunate, but it has ever been that there are those who steal the livery The liberties of a poor man are few of heaven to worship the devil in. indeed. . He must not beg, he must not loiter! and he may not steal. His liberty Luxury would not be desired by any of gives, him the right to work if he can get us if we saw clearly the suffering which employment, and to starve if he cant. But It in the world. Luxury is accompanies let hia; be careful how. he conducts his dis-s- indeed in the future innocent and possible tfhonf Of Le shil5e"pilTiTshed He must exquisite; luxury for' alf and 'By'ltie'help' starve quietly and unobtrusively, and withall; but luxury at present can only be enjoyout fuss or hurry. Let him but try to acce- ed by the ignorant The cruelcst man living lerate the process by taking a dose of rat could not sit at his feast did he not sit blindpoison, or by a jump in the canal, and the fold. John Ruskin. consequences are severe. If his attempt is frustrated he will be punished in this world; Bondicitis is the newest word. The great if his attempt is successful he shall be national disease of which it is the name, howdamned in the next. London Clarion. ever, is not altogether new. We wish it Were The difference between a bond and a altogether old so old that it were dead and greenback is slight when it comes to ques- buried. No man seeks appendicitis, but many tion of engraving, printing and the security politicians think they think bondicitis better that stands behind each. But the difference than health National Single Taxer. is great when you come to compare the relaThe war has caused a great change in the tive power for good or evil that each possesses. The greenback circulates among the designs of the goldbug gang. It was their full intention to pin all their faith and hopes people, brings joy and happiness to those to the gold wing of the Democratic party for who need employment, stimulates industry, The thing has changed. Once more 1900. encourages the merchant and destroys the will they give the same old medicine without power of the banker. The bond circulates the label. only in the vaults of the Rothschilds, Be- changing lmont and Morgan, and they draw interest, Reader, have you ever stopped to conand interest is a curse upon humanity. The sider the fact that, while it is daily'becoraing New Road, Denver, Colo. easier to produce the necessaries of life, it is more and more difficult for the The ballot, however much it has been becoming workingman to secure them? New York eulogized, has been beaten to earth by Commonwealth, New York. corruption, and as a weapon cannot be relied upon to execute the will of the peoWe dislike to be everlastingly dinning ple while they are in industrial bondage. the same things in your ears, but we must Brains and books are the most potent weaonce more remind you that every dollar that pons for reform, and through books there is to be paid as interest on bonds is a steal, is a vast amount of work for brains to do, and simple. We may tell you this again pure a mighty revolution in mens ideas and next week. motives to be accomplished before the commonwealth of maa is attained. Eugene V. The war will not close until two things Debs. have transpired, namely, the issuing of one Corporations are to be protected at all billion dollars in bonds, and the hazards. A corporation that earns $2,000,-00- 0 of William McKinley or some other Repuba year must not be made to pay $5000 lican plutocrat. Mark what we say. taxes. Horrible I The supposition is not to The war against privilege is more imporbe entertained for a single moment. The tant than the war against Spain, of which the people must not only fight the battles of this county but they must pay the expenses privileged are taking advantage to increase their own emoluments and other peoples of war as well. Chicago Dispatch. burdens. San Francisco Star. If it be a good thing to send 100,000 The brave man is not he who feels no men to war, destroy a billion dollars worth of property and issue $500,000,000 in bonds, fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but why would it not be still better to seed all he whose noble soul its fear subdues, and the men to war, destroy all the property bravely dares the danger nature shrinks and issue $900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 from. Joanna Baillie. in bonds? Why not? Give a man the ownership and sure posOne way to reduce the price of land session of a rock and he will turn it into a would be to procure a who would garden; give him a nine years' lease of a do his duty. Land is always cheap in a garden and he will convert it into a desert. The American. sparsely settled community. middle-of-the-roa- the-peopl- d es mas-terra- T well-know- of-th- . . ol of" fool-kill- er |