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Show OLD GLORY. ciation are well known to every newspaper man in Utah, with the possible exception of JAMES G. CLARK, IN THE ARENA. President James. Strange if he does not Thou art Freedoms shield, Old Glory, know them, that, in giving the list of newsBorn of Freedoms high desire; Nursed amid the battles ire, paper men present, at the last annual meetTried by thunderbolt and fire, ing of the association, that he omits the On the field and on the tide names of every one of them, and gives only Where our heroes, side by side, the names of real newspaper men. He asks Followed thee and fought and died, if we regard such men as Judge Goodwin, Gazing on th stars, Old Glory. John Q. Cannon and others as not being We will stand by thee, Old Glory, real live newspaper men? In this President On the lands and on the waves, is working a childish play. He knows James For our babes and for our graves, when better he asks the question. He also Though we stand or fall as slaves; For thy stars are not to blame knows that our criticism did not apply to For the treason, fraud and shame any such; and moreover he knows exactly That pollutes thy holy name to whom they do apply, and is only trying In our halls of state, Old Glory. to get out of it by appearing stupid . There Knaves have stolen thee, Old Glory, ought to be some repudiating done. The For their Babylonian bowers; association should either repudiate these From their festal walls and towers barnacles or else the editors ought to repudiDroops the flag that once was ours, ate the association. We do not care which. Oer their chimes thy beauty trails, e In conclusion however we desire to say that answer fails, And the When from chain-gangcourts and jails, nothing said in our criticism was intended to Men appeal to thee, Old Glory. apply personally to President James. While Be our shield once more, Old Glory, he is not an editor of any paper, he is directLo! the world in travail pain ly connected with the Deseret News, and Turns and pleads to thee in vain puts tn six days of hard work every week. While through plundered vale and plain Our relations, as next-doo- r neighbor for sevStriped and bruised by licensed thieves, eral was for months, her decidedly pleasant. Moresheaves, Starving, begging Outcast labor tramps and grieves it was the Editor of Living Issues over, With no help from thee, Old Glory. who nominated him for president of the association, and have never had one moment We will rescue thee, Old Glory, Bloodless may the process be, of regret for the act. We only hope that Anchored to the windless lee he, as president will learn the business callBut if peace cannot avail, ings of the members; and when he does he Welcome tidal wave and gale, .will agree with us that it has hitherto been Welcome lightning, flame and hail too largely composed of a lot of men who Till the very stars are pale, the In are in no way connected with newspaper grander light, Old Glory. work. If it must be so, Old Glory If blind error unite with force, THERE IS A DIFFENENCE. Truth and justice at their source, There are two republican parties that is to Suns and planets in their course Let the earthquake lift the deep, ay two parties sailing under that name; the Let the wild floods wake from sleep, gold gug republicans and the free silver re Let the crouching terrors leap, publicans. There are two democratic partAnd where Gods own toilers reap, ies; the golp bug democrats and the free silWe will carry thee, Old Glory. ver democrats. There are also two popuPRESIDENT JAMES PROTESTS. list parties; the middle of the road populists Balt Laka City, Utah, August 2, 1898, and the fusion populists. The difference to Editor Liring Issues: which we refer is this; Take a platform I cannot help but think that your criticism of the Utah Press Association in your issue adopted by a gold bug republican convenof July 29, was unj'ust, uncalled-fo- r, and, tion and one by a free silver republican conwhats more, untrue. vention and compare them and you w'll find In the first place, the occasion referred to a great difference in what they demand. was not the annual meeting, but the The same is true of the platforms adopted by press boys annual excursion, at which fully the diflereat wings of the democratic party. eight hundred persons were present. There is nothing peculiar in the fact that the Salt But take two platforms adopted by two Lake dailies did not make more of it; that is branches of the populist party and you cantheir business and not ours. Had you taken not tell the one from the other. Their dethe trouble to look over a few of your exmands are exactly the same at all times and changes, you would have seen all the wav from one column to one column and a half places. They disagree only in the methods accounts of the days festivities, and the to be used to reach certain ends. That is to names ol toose present I challenge you to say the old parties disagree in principles point to a single member in attendance at while populists disagee only in methods. Castilla Saturday, July 23, 1898, who is not a bonafide newspaper man, HHNNA SPEAKS. I deny that the Utah Press Association The following letter speaks for itself. membership is largely composed of a lot of men who are in no way connected with "Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1898. newspaper work. Hon. Glen Miller, U. S. Marshall, Salt As to the intimation that the meetings Lake Utah. City, held have been called for the purpose of My Dear Sir: I have been informed downing some railroad company, I shall let that it has been suggested that the Repulic-athat pass. Nearly every one ought to of Utah, at the next state convenparty is dead such a proposition know that easy. tion, endorse in its platform, the free coinage The last annual meeting of the Utah Press of silver. As chairman of the national com Association was held in this city on the 19. with the duties of the posimittee, charged of February last. The day following both I the tion, against protest republicans of any the morning dailies devoted nearly a page state vetion. such It would be cleartaking write-up of the proceedto an illustrated in the to of the party ly opposition principles read and speeches were as declared in the ings. Papers were the national at platform made on matters of interest to the fraternity convention at I St. and trust Louis, you throughout the state, Wou'd you say that will use influence and eflorts to the the members, comprising such men as Judge end ihat your that declaration may be sustained. Goodwin, John Q. Cannon, Major E A. M. A. Hanna, yours, Truly Littlefield, John Meteer. Fred Nelson, Wm. Glassman, John E. Hansen, John Hughes, A CHANGE. N. B. Dresser, C. B. Diehl, M. L. Snow, C. C. F. Mr. M. V. Wagner, formerly of The Mesa Taylor, Higgins, Jesse Earl, Julius Walter S. Webb, S. A. Kenner, E. A. Mc- County Mail, Fruita, Colo., is here and has Daniel and many others who were present, taken charge of the mechanical department are not real live newspaper men? About the of this Iswas paper. The new office is located at Living only paper not represented No. Richards Street, room 19, directly 62 sues. whole and the As to repudiating thing over the office of the Western Newspaper organizing a new association, that, I .take it, Union. We will be pleased to have all our is an insult to the men who are endeavoring, friends and many new ones call on us at our by legitimate means only, to place the assonew Unin the ciation on a footing equal to any quarters. For the benefit of those who is of true, your are not acquainted with the city we will state ion. If what you complain to inside remedy the that Richards Street is a cross street conworking place is on the me let In conclusion, evil. say that the necting South Temple with West First South me of a sayreminded article of your reading which Some men Street. We are a half block west and a is, of Spurgeons, ing are born crying, live complaining and die half block north of the McCornick Block. disappointed. Mr. Wayland, of the Appeal to Reason, John James, Very respectfully, Association. Press Utah has President raised th price of his paper from twenty-fiv- e to fifty cents per annum. The paper is We take it that President James knows the membership of the association of which very, very cheap at that. No thinker can he is president. If so he knows full well that afford to be without it. Mr. Wayland has at the meeting or excursion as he chooses done a great work. While the extreme cheapto call it that there were those present, ness of his paper has worked a hardship on who took an active part, who are not engaged evary reform paper in America, no one has in active newspaper work. Now, it is not ever opened his mouth to complain. Every our purpose to parade the names of these editor has felt that the Appeal was fighting a for two reasons. great fight, and so it was, and he welcomed parties before the public, One is that it is not our purpose to do them it into his field, notwithstanding that he could an injury; and secondly it is not a matter of not compete in point of price. Long live Way-lan- d and his paper! public interest. These leaches on the asso old-tim- s n FROM THE REFORM PRESS. All politicians "look alike to us. Cincinnati, O. Self-Relianc- e, Proportional representation means representation for all the people, not merely for some of the people. San Francisco Star. When a city, county, state or nation is bonded every child that is born in it is a chattel to the bondholder. Pittsburg Kan- HOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. Let me repeat that compromisers, traders and neutral men never correct abuses, never found or save free institutions, and never fight for human rights. They always beceme instruments for the enemy. Wherever they are in control the party is unworthy of the respect of mankind. Only men of conviction and courage can save this land. Only the men who stand erect ever get recognition san. from the great Speaker who presides over The steady advance of plutocracy and the the deliberation of the universe. John P. repeated triumphs of monopolies everywhere Altgeld. is awakening the people to see that there is Tacitus informs us that the treasury but one remedy, and that is direct govern- which is drained by extravagance, must be ment. filled by crime. High taxes lead to corrupChicago Express. and corruption leads to crime and crime Labor has to support idleness, and if tion leads to degradation and decay. Nations so there are any crumbs left, after idleness has taxed can only be born again . in fierce revodined, labor can, if he has any money, buy lution. And if this is not to go the way of back a small portion of what he had originformer nations, it must strike now a deadly ally produced. Canadian Searchlight. blow at imperialism and high taxes and jobThe reeling sot who, after a night of bery which will surely follow the adoption of the policy which means death to republican heavy drinking, insists on one more drink in the morning to sober up is imitated by institutions on this continent. -- Southern the national policy of trying to restore pros- Mercury. perity by the same means and Lave ruined You may think that people cannot be it. Columbus Post. made rich by law. There are some people At Pittsburg all the principal illuminating whom you are pleased to call shrewd and gas companies of Allegheny County consol wise that dont share your opinions. They idated and will henceforth divide dividends are always present, with men and money, to on a capital siock of $11,000,000, most of it have certain laws passed, and are ever willwatered, but prices will be fixed to make it ing to pay for them to get them. Do you think these fellows make no money by the yield. Coming Nation. law? are so far too ignorant to Direct legislation is no longer merely see theLaborers of laws that would benefit character desirable; it has become essential to the them. Capitalists study the situation, find safety, if not the continued existance, of the how a law will operate in their favor, and republic. A few years ago the representa- then after it with the votes of the fools go tive system was m decay now it is dead who will be skinned by the law. Wayland. and stinketh. New York Journal. Perhaps you think that the bankers and men are working in the glass loaners would like to see the country money works of Steubenville, Ohio, for 65 cents a and everybody out of debt and prosperous day hard and exhausting labor at that. happy? But what would these fellows do for And some girls there only get 85 cents a a living? inPeople out of debt do not week. How glad they must be that prosper- terest, and such a condition would pay forever ity has been restored! Broadaxe, St. Paul. stop their income. It is to their interests to have system and they thereThe sixteen Democracy have been fore a n But it. fellows, you uphold of Like the that rabbit dubbed cottontails. for? what It is to get the do it you support name they are always running and dodging and all the time have up a white flag indicat- benefits ofihe system that the bankers fill the and congress with lobbies to ing a willingness to surrender to any faction so legislatures that the debts will increase, Of legislate that can assure them a place at the pie countime in course they will starve the geese ter. Review, Coleman, Tex. that lay their golden eggs, but each thinks Every time you send a message over the it will not come in their time and so the wire you have to pay a cent additional in game proceeds. Appeal to Reason. the form of a government revenue stamp. The banks continue to break and specuYou see from this how the government lators go into bankruptcy, but that associtaxes the big corporations. The corpora- ated combination of the tion puts on the stamps, that is the clerk continues to tell the falsifiers,that daily press, people prosperity is licks it and sticks it, but you do the paythere is a lot ol simpletons who and here, ing. The Silver Review. dont know any better than to believe them The first struggle for liberty was the lib- till the calamity strikes at home. More erty to think; then came the struggle for than a thousand depositors in Michigan religious liberty; then for the liberty to talk banks had an object lesson last week which and print, which has not yet been wholly ought to put them to toinking. No person granted; then the struggle for political lib- wno believes in social reform should ever let erty; last is the struggle now on for industrial up on the demand for government banks. liberty, which will make the human family The system which robs depositors of millions . free, wholly free. Appeal to Reason. every year is a disgrace to civilization. It would be no worse to license piracy on the The saying that civilization has brought high seas, thah to permit the present system about mans being taxed from the cradle to of with its continual round of robbanking the grave has been given an additional veribing depositors. Chicago Express. fication, now that the war revenue bill has The issue which confronts the people is resulted in birth and death. Oakland (Cal.) now an Shall we ennex Hawaii? not: Tribune. The San Francisco Star adds: The we fact Shall all or, that by taking accomplished acquire the Single Tax will change a and civilization of out real first towards the republican iminaugurate Phillipines step These are trifling affairs alongveneereid barbarism. perialism? side the main issue, which reads: How shall Two millinion one hundred and twentyfive we free the nation from the weight of finantoousand is quite a number of votes. Yet cial is bearing the great which that is the number of ballots cast by socialists massoppression of mankind down, down to the utterat the last election in Germany. The gain most depths of poverty and slavery, which ol 18 per cent was made in the face of a un more galling and irksome with the ion of all other parties in an attempt to de- grows of each year? This is the issue which passage feat the socialists. The advocates of humanconfronts the American people today, and ity elected 57 candidates to the reichstag. which a new fangled statesmanship is seekThe emperor is preparing restrictive meas ing to hide behind a policy of imperialism. ures, but these will prove as abortive as those Will the great heart of the American people he has endeavored to use before. The light the false call of imperialism? is dawning on a commonwealth respond to God forbid that it should, for in it lies the on European soil. Bellville Trades Review. evil of national destruction. Southern MerThe Nonconformist tells why the bonds cury. Every man and woman feels, yes knows, were issued in the following followiaf forceful that when they get old they are considered a manner: burden. Even children do not return the The United States Government is being loving care they received. Business care, used as a fiscal agency to supply a safe in- worry, misfortune all these tend to spoil vestment for the millions of dollars extorted the springs of filial love. Yet with all this, from toil by usury and unbridled greed. men and women seem to have no care for The possessors of this wealth have so over- the future, make no preparation for it. No reached themselves in their grasping for gain magnificent structures supplied with every that ordinary investments are no longer safe for making old people pleasant are appliance and it is now determined that the United built. While the majority of old people are States turn rent collector, interest earner, cast on the world like an old horse, unwantdividend-makeand under the form of ed and uncared for, they make make no gOAernment and by means of the taxing preparation while they are directing the afpower, furnish its wealthier citizens an in- fairs of life to provide for such an emergencome from the sweat and toil of her poorer cy. I would like to see the most beautiful bnt productive classes palaces built for the care of the aged men and women who choose to avail themselves free of it. It is better to leave your children amake Individually I cannot make safe proin can which honestly they vision for myself sickness, fire, panics, becountry their own living than it is to leave them the trayed trusts, all these are between me and fortune you have earned. Tom Watsons my care in my old age. I would rather have Paper. the insurance of such public provision against Well said. We would rather die and leave want or perhaps unwelcome burden on my the Single Tax law in operation than to be children than all the wealth I ever possessed. But now nothing but a peorhousc or a pauable to bequeath a hundred thousand acres hovel and the potters field waits on pers of land to each child we have. In the latter the masses if they grow old and helpless. case some of them might make a foolish They will build great courthouses, State-housand other useless structures but trade and lose their right to live on the for themselves when they shall need nothing him earth. In the former case, let happen to it. In New Zealand they are wiser. They what might he would always have a home. are erecting magnificent homes to care for themselves when no longer can carry on A free silver republican is a man whose the battle of life.they Funny that life should courage has not kept pace with his convic be a battle, isnt it? Life should be a joy, tions. At best he is a moral coward. 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