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Show THE PLATFORM. Hear Hon. H. W. Lawrence at the Theatre the We, of Monday evening. Salt Lake ; Peoples parly City, in convention assembled, reaffirm the docRead over the Populist platform again trine promulgated by the National pLtform adopted at St Louis, July 24, 1896, which and point out what is wrong in it. may be summarized as follows: Four-fifth- s of the people in Salt Lake MONEY. That all money be national in its character; City are Populists if they only knew it. that it shall be issued by the general government instead of by the banks, and shall If YOU think Populist principles arc right, be a full legal tender for alt debts, public and why not register that fact by voting the private; the free coinage of silver and gold at ticket? the ratio of 16 to 1; an increase in the issue Put an X up by the cottage and let it go to meet the demands of business; opposition at that, and you have voted the entire Poputo the sale of bonds; opposes demonetization list ticket. of any money by private contract; that the government shall use its own option as to the Dr. Ravlin will be one of the speakers kind of money in which it shall pay its obli- at the Sait Like Theatre Monday evening. gations; a graduated income tax, and postal Dont miss this. . savings banks. PUBLIC UTILITIES. Read the Populist platform over once That railroads should be owned and con more and see how you like it. What objectrolled by the government; and that the tel- tions, if any, have you to it? egraphs and telephones should be a part of the postal system. Suppose you try voting for what you want LAND. just for once and see how you will ftel. Our Opposes private monopoly of land; dis- word for it is that you will never regret it. claims against alien ownership of land; condemns the Union Pacific land steals, and Col. FitzGerald has accepted an invifavors the granting of public land to bona tation to speak at Eureka Monday evening. fide settlers only. The Pops in that enterpiising city have a ticket. DIRECT LEGISLATION. Favors the proposition of giving to the There will be public speaking at the Poppeople power to initiate new laws by petition, ulist headquarters (corner West First South and the submission of all laws passed to the and West Temple) this evening and tomorpeople for their approval, befortf such laws row evening take effect; also the election of president, and United States Senators by That Populist rally at the Salt Lake Thea direct vote of the people. atre next Monday evening promises to be the OTHER ISSUES biggest thing of the campaign. Come early A reduction of salaries; public work for and get a seat. the unemployed; opposes government by injunction, and demands a free ballot and a fair If you really believe that H. W. Lawrence count. would make the best mayor of any of the LOCAL ISSUES. men before and you certainly do, why In line with our National platform, we not vote for you. him? adopt the following: First. We are opposed to any and all furJudge Bowman will speak at Populist ther grants of public franchises to private headquarters this evening. There will be a individuals or corporations, and favor the rousing meeting at the same place tomorrow reclaiming of those already granted, by right evening. Come. 'of eminent domain, as speedily as possible, at actual value. We believe that if the street Ask your neighbors to take Living Issues. cars, electric lights, gas, water and telephones They need it, and. we. need the dollars. All were owned and operated by the public, as is we need to make this the in the case with many advanced cities in the the West is a little money. greatest paper East, that the entire revenues of the city would he provided for, while the people at the Remember the would get a much better service at a greatly Salt Lake Theatre.grand Populist rally The evening. Monday reduced cost. By this means the homes of speakers will be H. W. Lawrence, Dr. the people would be almost if not entirely Ravlin, Judge Bowman, and others. free from taxation. Second. We favor the exemption from Have you heard any of the leaders of taxation and execution a home for every either of the three old parties had anything family to the value of $1,500. to say against the granting of franchises? Third. We are opposed to the present When? Where? When did they say it? r system of taxing improvements, while ownfor held are which ers of vacant lots speculaDo you believe in popular government? If tive purposes only are made to pay only a do you will certainly vote the Populist nominal tax. We demand that taxes on these you ticket, for it is the only party that favors it. vacant lots be raised to the point that the Some deny this, but it is true none the owners will be compelled to occupy and less. may improve them. Fourth. We condemn in the most unqualThere was a time when newspapers would ified terms the police court of this city for abuse a mean man all his life and laud him to inflicting additional punishment when trial heaven as soon as he died. That day is past. If St. Peter is reading reform papers he will by jury is demanded. Fifth. We denounce the barbarous and not be very favorably impressed with Mr. inhuman treatment of American workmen in Pullmans record. being condemned under our vagrant laws to The Herald gets oft a corker on The prison and the chain gang for no other offense than being forced to tramp over the Tribune yesterday morning by reproducing country seeking honest labor, which has been one of The Tribunes cartoons of last June, denied them through unjust legislation' and in which John T. Caine is represented drawdemand that it is the duty of our government ing a picture of his own candidacy for to guarantee labor at remunerative wages to mayor. Poor old Tribune! How the mighty has fallen! every subject of which it claims allegiance. Sixth. We condemn the police department The men who now talk about government and the county prosecutor for their discrimwill by ination against the so called vagrants, while ownership of railroads as a delusion with be classed next men the the generation they wink at and allow to go free men of who wanted deold for burn to Copernicus high estate who are equally guilty. in a from sun circle the that swings is man nying by Seventh. We believe that every west around the earth. Augasta nature and justice entitled to an opportunity east to Tribune. to earn a living; therefore we favor a system (Ga.) Daily of public works by which the unemployed George M. Pullman some time ago dismav be provided with lucrative work. his two boys because of their profinherited immoral Eighth. We deplore the present which is another evidence that great drunkenligacy, condition of our city as relates to from the rich classes. All come not men do a and pledge ness. prostitution and gambling, all the good men, all men men. the thereto laws all of great relating rigid enforcement will live in the hearts ever have or Ninth. We are opposed to the letting of who ever have of the has been one people, sprung from the lower public works by contract, which life. of walks of the main supports to party corruption. Tenth. We are opposed to that class of The Citizens Reform (?) ticket has issued obtained at the expense of a circular headed Something to Think Eublic economy wages This is indeed almost startling. About!" We favor the maintenance of There are men on that ticket who never Eleventh works by general taxation and the thunk" a thought in their lives, except, the water of the water mains to all extension prompt mayhap, they may have thought out some citizens desiring same on payment of the plan for robbing the public by having its costs of such extension. franchises given over to some private corpo Twelfth. We favor the abolition of the ration. which conpoll tax; the merchants license, the We have no patience with patchwork, tax people in indirect upon stitutes an and the all the work that is being done at this and what consume; to they proportion a time to get anything good out of either of which many prevents license, peddlers man with small capital from earning an hon- the old parties is patchwork. It s putting new cloth into old garments, which makes est living. corwe these the of rent only worse. It is like putting new principles To the support with us. unite to citizens wine into old bottles. Nothing short of a all good dially invite revision of the entire system will do any HENRY GEORGE DEAD. good. with sorrow Just as we go to press we learn IT COSTS MONEY that Henry George, the great Single Taxer and candidate for mayor of New York City, to go to Klondike; but this week you can buy all kinds of furniture, stoves, carpets, died at 5 oclock this (Friday) morning. organs, pianos, chairs, tables, iron beds, FREE LANCE SOCIETY. sewing machines, cupboards, wardrobes, will steel ranges, 'etc., etc. ; two steel safes very Lance Free Society the of A meeting will he sold regardless of be held in the Commercial Block, Sunday cheap; everything before I All cost free clock. o go to Klondike. I. X. L. morning, October 31 at 11 P. Second Hand 48 East Second South Store, ErSKINE, JAMES thinkers invited. P. A. Sorensen. 448. Street Telephone Secretary. . vice-preside- ' - There is more or less of a fight against A PUBLIC ROCKPILE. nonsensical not to To our mind the most Parley L Williams for city attorney because he is attorney for the Rapid Transit and say inhuman verdict ever renderej by a leave to the is Oregon Short Line railroad companies. The that ordering court vagrant a town within a certain period. Such verdict fight against Mr. Williams is all right, but is weakness itself. Where is the man to go? let us look for a moment at the men who are . Might he not as now drawing salaries as United States SenSuppose he goes to Ogdr-nIf it is all right for a Senator to take well have staid in Se.lt Lake? Ogden justices ators. do the same thing and her hobos come to fees on both sides ol the case, why not let Salt Lake. Now, candidly, what has either Mr. Williams do the same thing? We are city gained by an exchange of hobos? These indebted to Equity, published at Santa Barmen must rat, and they will eat as long as bara, Calif , for the following list of Senators there is anything in the country to eat. II who are greatly interested in railroads: Senator Hanna of Ohio owns $900000 they do not work for it they will beg it, and worth if of railroad stock. He is opKsed to arrestif they cannot beg it they will steal; ed and put in jail the city must feed them. government ownership of railroads. Senator Foraker of Ohio owns $750 coo So, let happen what will, idle men will eat worth of railroad stock. Government ownerand the people who have it must either.feed them or they must starve. As there is no ship is a forbidden topic in his presence. possible way by which society can get out of Senator Fairbanks of Indiana owns $500,-00- 0 worth. He does not approve of governfeeding these men, why not provide some ment where a for them sort of public works ownership. place Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island owns a man can go without being arrested or chained to a ball, and work for something to $500,000 worth. His voice is also lilted eat, even if it be nothing more than a public against government ownership. Senator Platt of New York owns $400 000 rockpile? There would be nothing lost to worth. Government ownership receives no whatever rock the city or community by it; he would break in exchange for food would championship from this stalwart patriot. Senator Quay of Pennsylvania owns $200, be that much for the public, which, under the Resent system, it would not get anything at 000 worth. He is of the opinion that govall. Another advantage (and a great one, ernment ownership would be a bad thing for too) would be that the tramps could thus be the country. Senator Morrill of Vermont owns $200 000 segregated. No one has a right to say that worth. Government ownership in his mind is if he for a would not work living any man had a chance, until that chance is offered him associated with national bankruptcy. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts owns $200, and refused. . Police justices, as a rule (and our own is certainly no exception), know 000 worth. This grandmotherly personage nothing of physiognomy. They could not, believes that every advocate of government by looking at them, tell the difference be- ownership is sure to go to hell when be dies. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania owns tween a professional, lousy, thieving tramp and a Shakesperean specialist out of a job. $100,060 worth. His mind is made up, and Judge Wenger could not tell from the ap- no government ownership crank need seek pearances of a mans hands whether he had sympathy there. Senator Wolcott of Colorado receives just ever done a days work in his life or not. We have tested that matter already. So to make ten times the salary as attorney for railroad up for this deficiency upon the part of police corporations that he receives as Senator. justices, we think the rockpile test would be Naturally be looks wih contempt upon the a good one. There might also be another government ownetship proposition. Senator Thurston of Nebraska also receives rockpile for the convicted tramps to kill time He can at, but the two rockpiles ought to be some $50,000 a year as railroad attorney. talk faster and for his clients and distance apart and so marked that even longer strangers in the city would know at a glance against government ownership than any of that the laborers in the one were only honest the rest of the gang. Senator Nelson of Minnesota is in the pay men working for bread, while the others wetfe worthless tramps. What dc you think of it? of the Northern Pacific salary not known. The tramp question will never be settled He faithfully represents this tangible portion of his constituency and opposes government by driving them from one town to another. ownership. MRS. HAMILTON SET FREE. Senator Stewart of San Francisco, who Mrs Lou Hamilton, charged with the votes when the name of Nevada is called, is murder of her husband, has been found not in the of P. Huntingtons railroad at G pay ' guilty, and is now a free woman. While a large but not publicly known salary. This most people seem to believe that she killed old cuss has fits whenever the Populists (one her husband, the great majority of these of whom he pretends to be) urge governthink the jury did the proper thing. Of the ment ownership as a party measure. He latter class, Living Issues is one. The jury doesnt want impractical measures." did right. There was certainly room for These are a few samples of the men who doubt as to her guilt, but the truth is that wear out their brains and hearts and lights her guilt or innocence had and should have and livers trying to keep the people Irom had but little to do with the case. It was being destroyed in owning for themselves plain from the start that the prosecution had railroad properties which in private hrnds determined to convict her if possible; by fair have proved so profitable. means if it could be done,' but by other means if necessary; while he was equally deIf it be right to drive the tramps from termined in bis efforts to proteet the charac- Salt Lake City to Provo, and from Provo to ter and standing of the man who above all some other town, why not make short work men was responsible for the whole trouble of it and have Judge Wenger issue: an edict that led up to the killing. The verdict of for them to get off the earth altogether? the jury was a rebuke to that sort of work. hhhhmmhmmhsm Homeless men are not patriotic. They If the judicial net is not strong enough to hold big fish, let it go dht of the fishing bus- will not fight to defend a boarding house. iness. People are getting tired of statutes But when they get a few dollars in the postal that convict Hamiltons and turn loose savings bank they will have a strong incenPaveys; of ordinances that send sleepers in tive to defend the government and keep, its box cars to jail for eighty days, while New- bonds at par. Wonder if that is why so ells go scot free after their drunken brawls many goldbugs begin to favor postil savings banks? They would never offer the people Equality is what people want and what they will have. This country is not big enough anything good unless there was some trick for two classes of people, and every attempt about it Civic Review, Los Angeles, Calif. Nothing truer was ever uttered. Why made to make laws which apply to the poor should a man feel like fighting for his counthat are not made to apply to the rich, only who has no countrj? You may safely lessens the respect people have for laws and try wager your life, Brother Curran, on your last those who try to enforce them. Ever such act committed turns out a fresh batch of proposition, too Theres a hen on, you bet. Anarchists, and oueht to. The Free Republic of Louisville, Ky., If organized society cant furnish em- hits the bullseye when it asks What is a ployment for all, it had better go out of bus- Plutocrat?" and answers it in the following iness; for man in a wild state has an equal terse and pointed fashion: He is a man with to others make rich a who If or advocates or defends govopportunity living. poor, civilization means that some must starve while ernment by the rich. We have plutocrats others have an hundred fold more than they who dress in purple and fine linen and fare need and can use, then civilization is not of sumptuously every day, and we have plutoGod and is fit only for hell. If to give every crats who dress in rags and beg the crumbs one employment and an opportunity to earn that come from the rich mans tables. So a living is an intrenchment on vested rights," plutocracy embraces the rich and that servile, then vested rights" should be parasitic class who want the rich to rule, beand called stolen privileges." If our civil- cause they love crumbs so dearly." That is ization demands the virtue of woman, the to say, there are two kinds of plutocrats flesh and blood of children, and the inde- plutocrats for revenue, and plutocrats for pendence of mankind, the sooner it dies the want of sense. The meanest, most loathsome, better, even though it has to be shot to death stinking plutocrat on earth is the as was chattel slavery. 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