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Show LIVING Warren Fosters VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1897 TOO MUCH POWER. All of our difficulties in matters of legislation come from the system that we have adopted of giving the lawmakers too much power. We elect them for a special period and delegate to them every power that we possess. We are compelled to pay them for their time and accept their work whether we like it or not The city council of this or any other city can do just as they please with things which belong to the city. They can dispose of valuable public franchises on such terms as may best suit their personal whims, or best serve their avarice. That they do sell out is a fact which no one will dispute, but no one should wonder at it. So long as that power is given them they will so exercise it, and no change from one political party to another vff 11 make it any better so long as the system exists. The business of most counties is run by three men called county commissioners. They are elected for a certain term of years. They are given the entire control of the countys Lyman J. Gage comes and makes known his real posisquarely out tion on the money question. We now know where to find the outfit. They admit where they are at and what they are trying to do. The fact that Grover Cleveland was not mobbed has given courage to the rest of thie gang of treasury looters, so that they openly, for the first time, avow their real designs. Grover wanted the bonds he issued payable in gold coin. Gage goes Grover one better by proposing to refund the whole lot and make them all payable in gold. Ever decent man in the Nation stands in awe ani We know what ought asks: "What next? to be next, and we know what would be next if these "uncrowned kings of America had an ounce of brains and a thimblefull of courage. About six feet of rope, properly adust ed, would do more toward clarifying the inancial atmosphere at this time than would anything of the same cast than we can think of. Think as little of it as you may, the time will come and that before long when will cease to be a virtue. . The mask is off. for-)earan-ce affairs. They become the sole custodians of the county's funds and undisputed disbursers of those funds. They can collect in taxes as much as they see fit, and spend if for what they may, and no one can do anything but ltick, with the blest assurance that their kicking will and can do no good. We need not go outside of Salt Lake county to find that it is too , much power to be entrusted solely in the hands of three men. Possibly no county in the Union has a better lot of men on the board than has Salt Lake county at the present. No tinge of even a suspicion attaches to them ; but it should be borne in mind that they are a very rare exception to the general rule, and we believe even they, will admit that they possess more power than they ought to, Successor to THE ,c jtr INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N FIVE GOOD POINTS. To make this country free and prosperous we must have an electoral system that will make one vote just as good as any other vote and make every vote count; that will kill the gerrymander, render bribery and corruption unprofitable, and secure a fair, free and untrammeled expression of the people at the polls. All this may be secured by the adoption of the proportional representation system, which is the only equitable system ever devised. The people should have the power to initiate on their own behalf public measures for the public good; they should be in a position to demand the passage of any legislation which the majority required, and to reject any dead measure passed by their representatives against the general will. Such might 'quickly be effected by the adoption of the Initiative and Referendum. The present ridiculous system of taxation that lays a fine on industry opens the door to all sorts of trickery, evasion, doubledealing and deception, should be replaced by a system that would bear equally on all, and that would be simple, fair, easily determined and impossible of evasion. This is easily attained by means of the Single Tax on land values. All the great monopolies and the great sources of natural wealth should be controlled directly by the whole people, and instead of being operated for the aggrandizement of private corporations should be run and utilized for the general good. And finally, the producing masses should endeavor, by a system of voluntary cooperation, to become their own employers, so as to enjoy the full fruits of their own labor, and replace the present senseless competitive wage system by the substitution of commonwealth. Industrial the Banner; London. Canada. NO. 49. If this number U on the label your name, you'd hotter renew mighty quick, aa that ia the number of the neat bene. No paper will be aaot few a longer time than paid for, nor on credit, accept hy upeciil arrangement. Of eoa-taiui- all the ungodly, illogical mishaps that ever confronted a people, the present financial condition of this Nation is the worst. The thieves are in full control, and poor, spineless McKinley stands in awe of the gang. He dare not disobey. He cannot disobey. It was they who put him where he is. He has no mind of his own and dare not use it if he had. If his exposition of the money question as set out by his message really portrays the condition of his mind his ignorance is to be pitied. Ifj on the other hand, he knows better and promulgates measures which he knows will be ruinous to the country, his cussedness ought to curse him to his grave. The President may take which horn of the dilemma he chooses. He has recommended measures which, if carried out, would put this country hopelessly into the hands of the Shylocks, the money lords and the banks. He certainly knows it by this time. An issue of bonds of proportions that would startle the nations would follow his recommendations as surely as night follows day. Ruin, desolation and absolute slavery of the debtor classes is the inevitable result. Nothing else can come; nothing else will come. Poor America! How the mighty has fallen Do you believe that you have or should have a right to say what a person shall or shall not do who is not yet born? Do you believe that you or any other person ought to be empowered to make contracts which will affect the calling, happiness or comfort ; of persons who are to live fifty or even twenty-fiv- e We have not sufficient confidence in the years hence? You say you dont? Then intelligence of the American people to enterwhy dont you kick and kick hard against tain even the faintest hope that they will ' franchises to corpothe granting of fifty-yeawaken to their own interest in time to avert rations? Are you not placing restrictions ard think the terrible calamities that await them. The Do unborn? the you obligations upon die is cast. Nothing but absolute starvation and it it right to borrow money and spend will bring them to their senses, and it now give the notes of those yet unborn for the looks that they, by the time they do awake, amount? You dont, eh? Then why in the will be too weak to help themselves. The devil don't you open your mouth once in a chains that bind them and their children and while to curse such infamous curs as Clevetheir childrens children are being riveted onland and his gang, who have borrowed monOur State legislature is just the same. There to them in the broad glare of daylight They the unborn? You know these is no way to call a legislator to account for his ey by bonding of has this Nation sense both common The greatness "gone cannot help seeing it; they do see it; at least, things are outrages upon cussedness, except to jffqse.to vote for him and among the things that were. many of them do. Congress, even ' if wise justice, 'and still you submit to it wifhbtft when he bobs up for office again. ' opening your chops against it once a year, if It is not only gone, but it is gone beyond enough to see what is coming, should it at- ' ' the hope or power of redemption. It is too tempt to check the storm it would be as powThe higher up you go, the worse it gets. you ever do. The only hope lies in a revolution. So erless as a babe in the jaws of a Bengal tiger. Are you in debt? If so, go at once and late. Congressmen are elected for two years, and Let Congress attempt a move against this you may as well prepare for if. delegated to act for the people and thus bind make the best terms possible with your cred- - j monster moloch, and crash I would go its the people by their acts, and the people have itors. Get out, if possible, by saving what Ideas favoring municipal ownership of jaws. McKinley is only a no voice in the matter at all. They can be- little you can. If not in debt, stay out. For public utilities are gaining ground very fast. edition of Cleveland. He has Clevelands heart come attorneys for corporations at large sal- when you agree to pay one dollar now, you It usually shows itself first by opposition to his neck; he has all of Cleveland's but lacks A few days ago aries, and assist said corporations in robbing are virtually agreeing to pay two, and possi- the granting of franchises. but lacks Clevelands courage. He the very people whom they profess to repre- bly five. You have never seen hard times in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, the people meanness, is but a poor, spineless, vascillating, undecidsent, and there is no help for the people. This yet. The Cleveland panic was only a sort of became so enraged at the city council beed, pliant tool of the gang. God help the counis too much power to delegate an angel; cer- foretaste of what is in store for you. Trim cause it favored the granting of a try ! Is that calamity? If it be, you may make franchise to a street car company that your sails so as to ride the storm, if possitainly too much for a Congressman. the most of it, for it is the truth, as time will ble, for we are telling you that it is coming. two members of the council were mobbed The Senator settles down to his salary for And, moreover, it will not be long getting and two others barely escaped. Thus it goes, tell later on. six long years, and there is no power left in here. Congress will not consent to the and thus it will continue to go until the thing It is useless for McKinleys admirers if his actions control to he has any to get angry at what we say of the people the hands McKinley Gage proposition. Then the gang is stopped altogether. about him, for it is not as bad or to reject what he does. He may represent proposes to force it, and force it they will. is the a after once that he he wish There we interest as We think. Clevelands of had we one We are to have another possibility goldbug pleases, only ability anybodys secures the certificate of his election. It is too "object lessons, and that right away. The bond thieues, headed by Lyman Gage, may to think in about seven difierent languages, much power. , demands of the thieves have been made, and bite off more than they will want to chaw. and to speak in all of them. We despise a must be satisfied by pleasant persua- He proposes now that all the bonds of the traitor, and detest a liar; and when we find The President of the United States can ap- they sion if possible, but by force if they must. United States be refunded into gold bonds. one in high places using the powers given point his own cabinet; and he, with them, can So, stand from under. It is not safe to risk Robbery, of course, is the only object he him to rob the very people who entrusted do just as he pleases with what belongs to has in view. But in the same paper comes that power to him, language fails us and now. the public. He may inaugurate and carry out anything the announcement that Prof. Dobrannich of words only mock us. There is no danger measures that bring ruin and desolation to of Louisville, Free The Ky., this city has discovered a process of making of overdrawing the picture. It cant be done. Republic, the masses, while he enriches the classes, in- in speaking of McKinley's message, says: gold. Some such report comes nearly every Facts in this case overlap the bounds of cluding himself That they can do this we al "It is evident that McKinley is as servile in diy from somewhere. Nothing to our mind fiction. know; that it has been done, no one doubts; the hands of the gold power as Cleveland is surer than that some such thing will be It seems just a little funny that Living that it is being done today no one dare deny. was, and the indications are that he will be done many years before these bonds come Issues and its editor are somewhat under It is too much power. as cordially hated by the rank and file of the due. We hope so. We would like to see the ban of the local Socialists, while The Republican party by 1900 as was the fat gold as plenty and cheap as scrap iron and New from comes giving Time, that Socialist magazine of ChiThen, if this difficulty B ly by his Democratic then of Buzz-ird'take their hellions to these prophet compel pay in the cago, which clips regularly from our coltoo much power, the remedy must lay brethren. Nothing truer was ever uttered. in "gold dollars of the present weight and The that only of umns, always places our writings under the power. direction curtailing It is in line with what we have many times fineness. done? It would heading of "Scientific Socialism. question is: How can it be said. The Republican party will be so dead the Kansas starves be of should marshal franchise we more No seem are of The a that Socialist than City Easy enough. by 1900 that it will not even put up a Presiwill attend until unless other or we council had and that Mr. Flower has religious body they supposed, granted by a city dential ticket. This is a strong prediction, prisoners in those olden times for In voted and services! local discovered what submitted to our Socialist brothers been power has it after but you just wait. Paste this up where you the but wicked at such burned overlooked. hitherto have stake, people by the whole people. can refer to it when the time comes The time of forcing people into religion has the No board of county commissioners should entire goldbug vote will be transferred to the Currency reform is all you will hear from be allowed to make vast expenditures of pub- Grover Cleveland wing of the Democratic passed away! We live in a country where now on, and unless it is "reformed along tolerance is practised ! Where men lic moneys until the people from whom the laid down by the bond thieves at the next campaign. By then, times religious the party "Gage their votes that have the power they will always oppress, money is collected say by will be so hard that we will look back and look out for the panic. We have said this never be given into any should and done. it power wish thay refer to the years of 1893 to 1897 as the before a few times, but we dont want you to man's hands, for it will be abused. The marNo law passed by any legislature should halcyon of the it. Nor do we want you to neglect Republic. days shal has no religion, Ill wager a doughnut. forget, become operative until it has been submitted the fact that Living Issues is "onto the But his zeal to make people think, ne has POPULISTS TAKE NOTICE. to all the people and approved by them. So hellions. There will be a meeting of Populists held should bring out a public condemnation . He with Congress. The only hope for the country seems to Take from these men their powers and at the office of H W. Lawrence on Tues- should be removed from office. He is worse consider to December lie in President McKinleys weakness and for the simple day evening, ai, 1897, than the men who burned heretics at stake, they would quit selling out, the in with connection of matters importance for he lives in a different century. Appeal want of push. He is too cowardly and weak but sufficient reason that they would have Peoples party. to push his infamous measures to the front. be no buyers. to Reason, Girard, Kan. H. W. Lawrence, Chairman. nothing to sell There would What Kansas City most needs at this time If he had Cleveland's bull neck the country L. H. Gray, Secretary. This is what we Populists call the Referenmost certainly. December it? is two or three copies of James T. Monk. Salt Lake City, 15, 1897. dum. What do you think of ar 1 ve - I re-entl- vest-pock- twenty-five-ye- ar one-hal- s f |