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Show TOO LATE. HOf SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. JOHN LU TAYLOR KICKS. it for Oar limited space makes impossible It is in the power of the people to make the plutocrats let go Coming Nation. us to publish in full a letter from Hon. John What silence we keep year after year, We have conquered Spain only to find With those who are moat near to us and dear? Lu Taylor in which he takes Mr. Hanna and ourselves We live beside each other day by day. Mr. McKinley very strongly to task for the conquered by the bondholders. Kansan. And speak of myriad things, but seldom say Pittsburg have made in Utah. He The full, sweet word that lies just in our reach appointments they The lime nears when voters will ask, not, cites the fact that Postmaster Thomas and Beyond the commonplace of common speech. is h's party "What but "What are his U. S. Marshall Glen Miller both opposed the Sui Francisco Srar. principle'?" Then out of sight and out of reach election of Mr. McKinley, while certain other they go These close familiar friends, who loved The shylocks are greater foes than the us so; true and tried Republicans, who did support in NO! A PERRY. the shadow they have left, And, sitting Alone with loneiness, and sore bereft. We think with vain regret of some fond word That once we might have said and they have heard. For weak and poor the love that we expressed Now seems beside the vast sweet unexpressed And slight the deeds we did, to those undone, And small the service spent, to treasure won. And undeserved the praise for word and deed That should have overflowed the simple need. This is the cruel cross of life to be only when the ministry Of death has been fulfilled, and in the place Of some dear presence is but empty space. What recollected services can then Give consolation for the "might have been?" Full-visione- d ABJECT SLAVERY. The New York Journal draws the follow ing startling picture of the condition of things in the coal mining regions of Pennsylvania: In the coal regions of Pennsylvania women and children are starving becuse sturdy, industrious men, inured to the hardships of mining and ready to brave its perils can find no work. Gaunt misery is afoot in every town- - The wolf is at every door. There life at its best offers to little children nothing but stunting toil in debasing associatiots, to women nothing but squalid poverty and that aching fear of the future which makes motherhood a burden instead of a joy, and to such a denial of opportunity of advancement that every high aspiration is stilled, and such a daily round of worry that the pleasure which brutalize and stupefy are the ones which appeal to natures which may justly envy the brute. Such is the situation ia the anthricite region. Such it long has been, and newspapers of every varying shade of political belief and social honesty have exposed and it. In the midst of a nation which went to war to relieve the suffering of the reconcentradoes exists and long has existed a condition of destitution and wholesale starvation hardly outdone under Weyler. This is matter of common noteriety. The nation cannot plead ignorance in its own defense, for within two years the whole unutterable misery of the anthricite coal miners was giventhe widest publicity when some thirty miners who thought to protest under the protectienof the American flag, were shot down by rifles in the hands of the coal companies servants. This execrable and un American situation is the outcome of corporate greed, and corporate greed is about to make it harder still. Day before yesterday the presidents ol the anthricite coal lines net in a New York coal office and agreed to raise the prices of coal to the con uner and reduce the amount to be mined by the men. The miners hitherto hsve had the fruits of two days work a week on which to support their families. Now they are to have but one day's work on which to starve. Who profits by this remorseless economy at the pits mouth? Not the consumer of coai. for the very men who cut down the miners pay put up the price of the product. How shall the inhuman conditions which surround coal mining in Pennsylvania be permitted? How long shall a trust, fortified by its control of railroads, be allowed to rob the consumers of hard coal and slwwly murder its producers and those dependent upsn them. recognized at all; which of action the president Mr. Taylor thinks was "most wanton, cruel and treacherous." He endorses President McKinleys administration throughout, with the bare exception He accuses of his Utah appointments. Thomas and Miller of sailing under false colors and declares them to be "weak, double dealing characters." Mr Taylor doubtless has some ground for complaint and we hope he will fight it out on that line if it takes all summer, but our interest in the fight is nat of such importance as would merit the using up of our space. But Mr. Taylor will find that "it was ever thus from childhoods earliest hour" Mr. Hanna and Mr. McKinley are, no doubt, following the Scriptural way of doing things: "choosing the weak things of the earth to confound the mighty." him have not been vas-cilatin- two-face- d, MRS. FORBUSH SPEAKS. Mrs. Kitty Forbush, of Union, Utah, who is one of Populisms pioneers, in a personal letter to the Editor, among other things says: I cant keep still any longer, after reading in The Herald that Butler was coming to Utah to turn the "Pops" over to Cannon Now, Frank Cannon is all right excepting "what ails him." I have admired him ever since reading his speech made at the Denver convention. But so long as he is under the delusion that he is a Republican I should resist turning the party over to him. I endorse your sentiments in regard to putting up a ticket of our own, if only to find where we are at. I take it, that Populism stands for honorable principles or nothing, and I can see nothing honorable in fusing with either of the old parties. I hope to see you make a strong and successful fight against fusion. I believe that is the surest, if not the only way of harmonizing all the reform forces for the great struggle that is coming. Spaniards, and will cost this nation more in this struggle Faith and Works. On a single day last week eight persons were found starving to death in New York, and they were not reconcentradoes. Omaha Bee. It is impossible to prevent corporate discriminations and overcharges but through public ownership. Palliatives are delusive. San Francisco Star. The people who long for reform, but give no support to the papers which advocate reform, are like the man who wants a crop but will not plant the seed. The Pittsburg Kansan. Until the people get a direct vote, the lobby will run our legislatures, city councils and county commissioners. When we have direct legislation the work of the lobby will cease. Chicago Express. Somehow or other, the "wave of pros perity" has not stopped the formation of trusts, nor has it stopped strikes and labor troubles. We have both just the same as before thewave struck us. San Francisco POPULIST COUNTY CONVENTION. The Populists of Salt Lake County will hold a d elf gate convention at the G. A. R. j llall, No. 21 West Second South Street at 10th. 1898, for the 10 A. M. September of nominating candidates for the purpose following offices: Three County Commissioners, One Sheriff, One Clerk of the District Court, One Recorder, One Surveyor, One Treasurer, One Assessor, One Auditor, Thee Senators, Ten members of the Lower House of the legislature, And also to select 70 delegates to the State Convention to be held Sept, is.h. The basis of representation will be 25 delegates from each Municipal Ward in the city and 25 delegates from each voting precinct in the county outside of the City of Salt Lake. It is recommended that the ward and precinct meetings for the selecting of delegates be held at 8 P. M. Friday, Sept. 9th. James Thomson, Chairman. L. H. Gray, Secretary. MASS MEETING. After the appointment of committees by the temporary chairman, there will be a mass Star. When in any country there are unculti- meeting of citizens to which all reformers vated lands and unemployed poor, it is and free silver people are invited. There clear that the rights of property have been will be good speaking. so far extended as to violate the natural rights, of the earth which is given as a com- PEOPLES PARTY STATE CONVENmon stock for man to labor and live on. TION. Thomas Jefferson. At a meeting of the People's party held in The country editor is a reliable encycloSalt Lake City, August 18, 1898, it was pedia. A subscriber sent him this query that a convention of delegates repordered recently "What ails my hens? Every mornJ find of one or them keeled .nore over ing resenting the Peoples party of the State of to rise no more" The reply was: "The Utah be called to convene in Salt Lake City, fowls are dead. It is an old complaint, and Utah, on the 15th day of September, 1898, nothing can be done except to bury them."-Sile- nt at 11 oclock, a. m., for the purpose of nomHoosier. candidates for the following offices: Industrially, I divide mankind into two inating One Representative in Congress, great classes wealth makers and wealth takOne Judge of Supreme Court, ers A farmer, a mechanic, a laborer is a wealth maker. A millionaire, a usurer, r and such other business as may properly capitalist, is a wealth taker. A tramp is a come before it. wealth taker on a small scale. He begs for The apportionment of delegates among the We have been asked why the Populist what he gets; the other fellow simply takes several counties ol the state is on the basis of it without begging. J. A. Edgerton. party call their state convention upon the one tor each county and at same day the Democrats have called theirs. Every man and woman who has brain of one delegate for large each ten votes cast for Wardelegate We answer they did it to be strictly in line a superior quality is a visionary. It is with the recommendations of the national only the dull, senseless clod who has no ren Foster for Congress in 1896. committee. That recommendation was that visions of a higher fed humanity; of an inThe State Committee recommends that Loyal Democrats, Silver Republicans and ternational brotherhood wherein there shall the County Conventions for the election of everywhere against the be no soldisrs and few policemen: of a holiPopulists common enemy. Had we called our con- er church, better judges and better laws. delegates be held not later than Sept. 10th. H. W. Lawrence, Chairman, vention on any other day the blame for not These were some of the visions of Jefier-sowould be laid upon the Popu14. M. Trumbull. L. H. Gray, Secretary. lists, now it cannot be. Another reason for The dangers and possibilities of evil renot holding the convention earlier was that SEND DELEGATES. from private ownership of all the the Silver Republicans at this time are with sulting lines in the United States are The State Convention of the Populist out a chairman, we do not expect they will telegraph when considered in connection with appalling Party will be held in Salt Lake City Sept. be long, had we held our conv ntion earlier times of financial, social, or political peril. 15th. Every county should be represented it would have been impossible for them to No private corporation should have the if have rallied, elected a chairman and have and such is possible if the local power to pollute, pervert, or destroy the possible; called a convention to men with us, as their streams will but do their duty. The railof information on which the people Populists committee has agreed to do. These reasons must depend and our government act. The roads have kindly offered to make a reducare all sufficient X Rays. postal telegraph is necessary to our national tion in fare for the Populists the same as for Friend Smiths reasons sound plausible, welfare. Congressman Gibson. other parties, so it will not cost much to but it seems to us that our duties in that Other classes, especially the official class, attend. The party will have a rare chance line had been fully discharged. The Demo- have come to regard the farmer as a fool. this fall to show its strength and all should crats had positively refused to have anything Why? The farmer is to blame. He raises take some interest in the matter. It is safe whatever to do with the Populists; they had the stuff to keep up the railroads and pays the freight whenever he sells it. The farmer to say that no fusion deal will be consumated already placed themselves out of harmony never gets to ride a mile on a free pass, but in the convention; which fact ought to enwith the national committee and the Popu- officials who never raised or shipped a bale all reformers to take up the true courage lists knew it. Then why should we subject of cottoa, travel all over the State and the laid down in was work that practically again ourselves to the further humiliation of giving United States and even to Europe on free the counties are of not organ96. Many them a chance to kick us out again, which passes. He delivers the mudsillers to the corporations. The fool farmer knows this ized at all but that fact need not stand in HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS. they did when they changed the date of and swallows it. Southern Mercury. the way of sending delegates. Let some Col. S. F. Norton, Editor of Nortons their convention. Havent we had enough? in order to leading Populist in each county call together Now that the war is over it is auThe Democrats of Utah are "Democrats ask who is benefited by it. Wages have those known to be in Monthly, and sympathy with the thor of Ten Men of Money Island, publishes for revenue only' in the strictest sense of gone down, farm produce has gone down, work and select some one to come and, if the following as his platform: the term. They care nothing for silver, they but taxes have gone up. The public debt unable to pay his own way, let others chip millTill every man, woman and child has a care nothing tor the national organization; has been increased and three hundred in and help pay it. ion dollars taken out of circulation and home across the threshold of which no they care nothing for anything but office and other millions said frightened out. It was creditor, landlord or master can or if it be necessary for them to cast overboard for LABOR DAY AT SALTAIR. to be a war foundhumanity, but it looks the of ultimate dare pass the purpose to of the demand Amerof like as a Chicago platform masters, already change The Federation of Labor will celebrate ers of the republic will not have been at- every tained. As a practical means of accomplish- get office they are ready to do that. And ican land grabbers and franchise looters Labor Day at Saltair. An elaborate program sinwith these facts staring us boldly in the face, are after everything in sight and we hear ing this end the following principles are no more about lreedom and independence is being prepared. we find ourselves cringing and crawling at cerely and earnestly advocated: else. Argus, All legal tender paper money issued by their feet; followihg them into the last ditch of the Cubans or anybody Ind. Our war with Spain only lasted x 14 days, Ginton, the government; no bank currency. like a lot of fawning nincompoops. We have long since learned that it is yet it has cost us $150,000,000, of which Demonetization of both gold and silver. and in many $98,000,000 has been actually paid out of a much easier, more profitable,float in any legal tender time once the Some bonds at published the papers ago Pay along with the treasury. Patriot, Clay Centre, Neb. respects more pleasant, to bonds more No to in the his soldier. in a as of Col . tent treasury. Bryan money picture the popular current, agreeing with popular You mean that is what it has cost to be issued under any circumstances. He looked very restful and quite at leisure, ideas and popular prejudices, applauding and pay the soldiers, but you should Government loans at low rates of interest and we could not help thinking what a rare when the crowd applauds, and condemning equip remember that that is but a bagatelle comon approved security direct to the people. he is having to read "Progress when the crowd condemns, whether the opportunity vith what the bond thief gang will crowd be right or wrong. It requires no pared Government aid to needy actual settlers and Tom and Henry George, by Poverty intelligence, and certainly no moral courage get out of it. That debt is not paid yet. upon the public domain. so to on little railroads, Watsons pamphlet do this. The veriest idiot and most ab- It is only made. The bonds are out and land tax. and A graduated income define his ject coward is in his native element when he in future the to when asked that must stay out. The interest must be paid. Limitation in the ownership of land; and land and railroad questions finds which way the popular current ruus The whole debt could have been no foreign or corporate ownership whatever. position on the paid witn and "gets in the swim." The world is not answer. an he intelligent of collection for give the might laws all of That would have Abolition indebted to this kind of wooden men for an issue of greenbacks. debts. whatever it enjoys of political or rcligous saved the interest to the people besides givNEW CIGAR STAND. Government control of all lines of transliberty, or for whatever of social, industrial ing them some money with which to do busia of establishment a and the postal has friend or scientific progress it has made. The men ness. Our opened James up Bogan portation, and women who have accomplished someWest No. at store tobacco telegraph system. 51 neat cigar and held While private employers of labor are by Second South Street. Mr. Bogan is an old thing for the betterment of humanity along Forfeiture of lands and charters floaters. mere lines not were any of these free to establish wages, the State will althe several Pacific railroads. miner who lost his right leg while working. and courageously the nobly for struggled and They of, people, find it impossible to establish justice. by A government All miners should remember him, when against the current, and blessed humanity ways based upon the principles laid down in the San Francisco Star. in spite of itself. Real Republic. making purchases in his line. Declaration of Independence. ed , tax-gather- er, co-oper- n. |