Show THE VOTERS DUTY so far as con concerts ceras the forthcoming elect election ioD the NEWS will bo be candid enough at this early stage of proceed ings inga to say that there are in the community men and methods that we iball hall nut not under any circumstance countenance and for whose defeat no legitimate effort that we may be able to make will be left unapplied this because we have the welfare of salt lake city directly and of utah generally at heart we can conceive of nothing more detrimental to healthful growth anu and proper progress than the systematic discouragement of ef those who labor for their tread bread this can be and has been accomplished here in various ways employing men without just compensation and sometimes with none at all and others for political or other ui justifiable reasons to come comb into our midst and obtain the work that of right should go to those who are already here whose homes are here and whose temporal destinies sit at least are bound up with those of us UK who expect to live and die ere this latter is a gross injustice ustice even to those who are induced to come since aluce it gives them but temporary employment but it is ia much worse to the dent cleam for they have a right to expect that thai they w will ill be preferred so long as they are able to ue do all that is required we would not eu courage a spirit of noes or in this matter but we do contend for the rightfulness of this conclusion that when we cannot afford to those whom we already have all that they need to make their families comfortable it is nothing more or less than a crime to bring in others to make still less and snore more uncertain the pittances received this thin states at once a proposition thai every patriot and every workingman curba to take earnestly to heart shall we be asked to lend land aid or encourage to any political losi party or to any candidate or ticket that would coun tou aloe the acts above outlined and opposed nay shall we give a support u to 10 a party that makes no secret of its determination to live by just such proceedings should there be any room in this or any community for such a party and any toleration for such prin principled ciplet these are questions for every voter to answer fur fr hi himic mIf if he be depends upon ills his daily labor for his daily bread be will be forced to wonder at the impudence of those who while asking for his suffrage boldly propose to perpetuate themselves in power by importing hobos bobos to take the labor that belongs to him he will no not be unmindful that such methods have been resorted to before and that the 2 flame me old program will probably be carried out again he will smile at the bewhiskered and delusive promise of lake workmen for salt lake work 21 2 1 when be recalls the more practical campaign plan of imported voters lor for salt lake elections because he will know that those imported voters must be given work to bring them here and be given work to keep thera them here if he uses usen the intelligence that god has given him and to Is enough of a freeman t act upon it his bis vote will caheely be given to a party that can only live jive by a policy so infamous or to candidates whose personal greed lor for or spoils polls so outrageously subdues the plain duty of men to their fellow men |