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Show r WELL OWN THE EARTH. Right of Muii, Miiiau:i(,.i6. Mina. Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all around our pith. Get a trust on wheat and roses Give the poor the thorns and chaff. Let us find our chiefest pleasure Hoarding bounties of today, So the poor shall have scant measure And two prices have to pay. Yes, well reservoir the rivers And we'll levy on the lakes, And well lay a trifling poll tax On each poor man who partakes. Well brand our number on him That hell carry through hi3 life; We'll apprentice all his children, Get a mortgage on his wife. Well capture en the . wind god And confine him in a cave; And then, through our patent process, We the atmosphere will save. Thus well squeeze our little brother When his lungs he tries to fill Put a meter on his windpipe And present our little bill. We will syndicate the starlight And monopolize the moon; Gaim royalty on rest days, A proprietary noon. For through oceans spray Well charge just what its worth; Well drive our stakes around the lakes In fact, well own the earth. right-of-wa- y COLORADO POPULISTS. The editor had the pleasure of attending the Populist county convention of Mesa county, Colorado, at Grand Junction last Friday. They nominated r. good ticket and they feel sure of electing every man and woman on the ticket. There was one thing that struck us as very peculiar, but most favorably, and that was that not one word was said about fusion in any way. We had learned to suppose that Colorado Populists of all others were the most aflected with that idea. Such is not the case. We met a jolly crowd of good fellows and they are in dead earnest. GOING TO KLONDIKE. P. A. Sorenson, proprietor of the I. X. L Second Hand Store, 4S East Second South Street, Salt Lake City, will go soon, and he is now selling out over $30 000 worth of the finest furniture, carpets, stoves and household goods. A rare opportunity for conference visitors to furnish up their home at their own prices. All mail orders given prompt attention. FREE LANCERS NOTICE. A meeting of the Free Lance Society will be held in the Commercial Block Sunday morning October 3, at 1 1 o'clock. All free thinkers invited. James Erskine, Secretary. We are pained to learn that The Argus is practically suspended, it being unable to longer stem the tide of hird times. We will all miss The Argus, which has been an exceptionally bright paper under the pen of Noble Warrum. JOHN LU REPLIES. The following letter from Hon. John Lu Taylor fully explains itself: Salt Lake City, Utah. Sept. 24, 1897. Warren Foater, Etlitor Living Imopi: In your issue of this date 24th Sept. If the wealth you propound this question: to him not does labor belong produced by who produces it. to whom does it belong? Yiu also say, We have plenty of space to publish the answers that may be sent in to Yes, you no doubt the above question. have plenty of space in which to give the answers, for the reason that the answer is so simple and plain that it takes but little or no space. Answer: The wealth belongs to the man whose brains and money produces and bepays for it. of course; who else could it that answer can blockhead to? Any long wi'hout taking but a very small portion of your valuable space, brother Foster. In this friend Taylor is probably right for once. It is quite evident that at least one But listen at him blockhead has. Editor roar. . He continues: It is a In your next paragraph you say: even the of that note fact worthy mercenary plutocratic press has not had one word of commendation for the cowardly deputy sherSo iff that shot down defenseless miners. much to their credit. It shows that they believe in the laws being enforced, even though it should become necessary to shoot down a few imported anarchists who are so contemptibly cowardly as to put their women and children in their front as a defense to their own rotten cowardly carcasses. The sheriff of Luzerne county did his duty like a man; and let me whisper it in your ear, brother Foster: There will be a good deal more of that kind of blood letting before a certain class of peo- in this country will realize that we have Ele here that must be obeyed by all citizens alike. No class of people no matter from whence they come will be permitted to come into this country and take the law in their own hands. All honor to Sheriff James Martin, who did his plain, simple duty, and let us have more such sheriffs and marshals to enforce the laws of our country. Jno. Luzerne Taylor. Next! 1 TIIE MACHINERY AGE. PUBLIC VS PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. It an undeniable fact that labor is being displaced by machinery to such an extent that millions are now destitute of the means of suDport. For instance, Labor Commissioner Wright refers to a manufactory of agricultural implements in ore of the Western States where 600 men are doing the work that without machinery would require 2,145 a displacement of 1,545 meD- - This is only one establishment. I11 boots and shoes too men do the work of 500. One man with a Goodyear sewing machine sews 250 pairs of shoes, displacing eight men. One boy running a planing machine does the work of 25 men. The oil pipe lines displace 5 700 teams and 11.400 men. One printing press run by four skjlled workmen will cut, fold, paste and count 48,000 eight page papers per hour. On the old plan it would take a man and a boy too days to do the same work. It would require 21,000,000 men to do the work of the labor-savinmachinery of the United States that is now done by 4.000.000 persons. The cost of running the railroads of the United States is $500 000; but to do the same amount of work with men and horses would cost $11,308,500,000, and so throughout the whole catalogue labor is being displaced by machinery in the hands of private individuals and corporations. Years ago one man working alone did every part of a given work He owned his tools and received the full product of his labor. If he hired a man to work for him he paid wages equal to what the hitter could earn if working for himself. The work required strength and skill. Therefore women and children could not come into competition with men as it is today by the use of machinery. Then came the division of labor a number of men working together, each doing a part of the labor, thus producing more than could be accomplished by each working separately. One man would take a shop, hire a few men and make a profit of 25 per cent, off each man. This was the beginning of wage slavery the employer raking from the employe a part of his wages. Now, by the use of machinery, instead of one man employing a few men at a profit of 25 per cent., the capitalist employs them by the hundreds and thousands at a large profit Fathers are compelled to compete with their children, husbands with their wives. The only true remedy is collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. Socialist, Williamsport, Pa. While some might disagree with the writer regarding his remedy, no one can gainsay a single statement of facts made above. Nor is the end yet. There is no one who can peer into the future far enough to see where or when this thing will stop. Inventive ge nius is still at work with greater vigor than ever before; every day there are thousands more being thrown out of employment, and there is positively noihing in the near future that indicates a change. The difficulty lies in the awful fact that a man does not lose his appetite when he loses his job. He gets hungry just the same; his children and his wife get hungry as before; their shoes wear out just as though their father had a job, and rents must be paid or they must go to the streets. g That machinery should be a a curse, seems strange statement, but there is no getting away from the awful fact that it is true. But it ought not to be. The opposite ought to be true, and would be true under a proper condition of things. In fact, if these machines inured to the benefit of the masses instead of the classes, every honest, frugal worker could be not only out of reach of want, but would be able to revel in the luxuries of life. Water in this country is very necessary to the production of crops; but there might be an unlimited amount of sr.ow in the mountains and Utah Lake might be full of water to overflowing, and if there were no means by which this water could reach the lands, the crops would fimish and die right in sight of it. What we mean to say is that the fact that there is more water than ever before does not meet the needs of the growing crops. So, we say, it matters little how much wealth is produced, it cannot help the masses unless they can be put in possession of it. These millionaires cannot use it, because of the vast amount of it; the masses cannot use it, because they cannot get it. There must be a change. If collective ownership of the means of production and distribution will not do this, then something else must. Public Ownership Review, published at Pasadena, Cal , summarizes the benefits ol public ownership of public utilities as follows: 1. Private monopoly means the advantage of one at the cost of many. Public ownership means the advantage of all concerned. 2. Private monopoly means a few very rich and many very poor millionaires and paupers. Public ownership means the prevention of dangerous individual wealth and the securing of common wealth. 3. Private monopoly means undue profits to owners and extortionate prices to consumers. Public ownership means the abolition of personal profits and a guarantee of just prices is labor-savin- g g labor-savin- WHAT NEXT? The world do move. We have just received a catalogue of free silver literature that is being furnished from the headquarters of the Silver Republicans at Chicago, and we must The list of books say that we are surprised is the same as found in all the Populist and Socialistic publications. The list goes so far as to include Ten Men of Money Island, which is the most distinctively greenback document ever published. It also embraces Brice's Financial Catechism and Heath's Labor and Finance Revolution, and works on direct legislation and government ownership of railroads. We say again: The world do move! 11 to all. Private monopoly means production of 4 wealth for gain to the owners. Public ownership means production of wealth for the use of all, and not for private gain to any, 5. Private monopoly means the purchase ol labor at the lowest wage possible the most meager means of subsistence. Public ownership means just wages, the abundant satisfaction of all healthy and normal desires. k 6. Private monopoly hinders production of wealth, limiting the output of mines, factories, mills and farms, to what can be sold at unreasonable profits. Public ownership means a constantly expanding production until all needs are fully satisfied. 7. Private monopoly means the corruption of legislatures and courts and other public officers Public ownership means honorable conduct on the part of public servants as the only means of promotion and distinction. 8. Private monopoly means colleges and universities for the richer, and where the mammon spirit is more influential than the spirit of truth. Public ownership means equal freedom, facilities for all, and great schools whose officers are not biased by desire to please rich founders and donors. A COMPLAINT. We are not given to complaining, and we certainly do not desire to be set clown as a growler; but we have a lew facts to submit that may surprise many. For nearly three years now we have kept this paper on its feet. We have braved and overcome, in a measure, hardships that the world knows jitile of; yet we have succeeded alter a fashion. The struggle with us is still on with little abatement; and yet there are those who profess to be Populists and reformers whose names have never graced our subscription list and do not now. It may be a surprise to some to learn that even in this city not one Populist in three takes the paper at all. Our support comes almost wholly from those who are our bitterest political enemies. A notice of a meeting of Populists published in these columns would no more be seen by the Populists of this city than were it published in an evening paper in Yokohoma or Yubadam, for the reason that they never see it unless, mayhap, they borrow it from some Republican or Democratic neighbor. If the Populists are to be called together a notice must be put in 1 he Herald or Tribune else they will not see it at all. A glance at our mailing list would be a surprise. Among those who are too poor to pay one dollar a year for this paper or even twenty-fivcents for three months, can be found those who pay twelve dollars per year for The Tribune and ten dollars per year for The Herald, and these same fellows when a Populist meeting is called, are the very first to respond and have the most to say about sacrifices for the patty and the principles of Populism. We certainly do not intend to deal harshly with those who are really too poor to take it that number is certainly very few but it is to that other class who are too stingy or too mean to take it and pay for it All that we have to say of them is that a man who does not support the only paper that champions his cause may be a very good Populist, but he is a d d poor excuse of a man . e Send us $1.75 and get Living Issues The New Time both ore year. and It has been reported on the streets that the Republican ticket will not have any organ. This is a mistake, for where is The Plain Dealer? We had hoped to be able to oublish the entire list of committeemen this week, but there is yet some work to be done. We will do so next week without fail. Populism has never made much headway Does anyone fora moment believe that City, from want of proper nominee Dale is opposed to the granting of organization. No one has ever known who franchises to private corporations? It ihe Populists were. There was no head to public in Salt Lake We are glad, however, to be able to say that the party is now getting on its feet. It is in better shape than ever before. The meetings are all well attended and the amount of enthusiasm grows day by day. There are thousands in this city who are Populists and have been all the while, but had no idea that they were. The teachings of the party have been so basely misrepresented by the newspapers that the people have been prejudiced against it. The thing is different now. Whenever the people are given the privilege of hearing the principles discussed they invariably think well of them. There was a fine crowd out Tuesday evening at Plymouth Congregational Church. Many came out of idle curiosity, who went home thinking thoughts that they had never thought before. The people are awaking at last to their awful condition. the party. might be well to look councilman. up his record as The Appeal to Reason publishes a list giving the names, places and date of 127 bank failures since the 10th of last November. McKinley prosperity with a vengeance is what this is. Senator Stewart in a speech at Denver that men talk about intrinsic value, and a man who used the last Saturday declared phrase ought to be sent to the penitentiary. He certainly ment to say insane asylum. Ignorance is no crime, Senator. The Chicago Record is making a strong fight lor portal savings banks. It is sending out a well written circular on the subject, accompanied by a blank petition for signers. It seems strange how Populistic ideas are get- into the heads of the people! would establish a sys- ting tem of postal savings banks it would, in adThe Democrats passed resolutions, as we dition to giving the people a safe place to If the government deposit theit money, put money enough in the hands of the government to at once pay off the bonds and stop the intciest. Think of the government borrowing money when the people would be only too glad to deposit every spare dollar with it! The proposition is preposterous. If laboring man, unable to get work, asks an individual or the government to assist him, h is called a pauper, hobo or a tramp. When a gigantic corporation asks the government to assist it by placing a high tariff, it is called protection to labor. Such industry, it appears to us, is also in fact a pauper, hobo and tramp. It is more it is a bloodsucker and a parasite. Saturday Critic. A knew they would, against the giving away of franchises; and then turned round and nominated Councilman Dale for mayor a man who has cast his vote in favor of the corporations at every opportunity that has offered itself. The editor of the American Monthly Re- view of Reviews comments in his October cumber on the killing of the striking miners by deputy sheriffs at Lattimer, Pa.; on the prevalence of lynching; on the campaign for the mayoralty of the Greater New York, and orv various recent developments in foreign politics. Is there a single man either of the tickets nominated who is in favor of public ownership of the gas and electric light plants and street cars? Yes? Which one? And when, and where was he when he gave vent to such conviction? We do not believe that one can be named. Then why should Populists vote for them? going up. Merchants are going up. Bread is going up. Banks are going up. Rents are going up. Trusts are going up. The darn people are just beginniag to wake up. And some day the whole plutocratic system will go up; and then wont it be fun John D. Rockeeeller, the head of the to sit1 on the fence and watch the fireworks! Oil trust, has given $250,000 to the Standard Rights of Man, Minneapolis, Minn. Baptist Missionary Union. Does this explain the are and the The prison only why the Missionary Board the other day poorhouse sorts of paternalism the old parties believe in. promptly squelched a Missionary preacher They drive the people to want and crime and because he dared to criticise trusts, and the then build prisons and poorhouses where they Standard Oil trust in particular? The money Raleigh may be incarcerated. The Social Democrat, changers are again in the temple. (N. C.) Caucasian. Chicago. Wheat is |