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Show MAKE A TEST CASE. People have been trampled upon by cor porations so long that they have concluded they have no rights which these greedy cor- morants need respect. One of the most flagrant outrages along that line is found in the streetcar srrvice of this city. It is no uncommon sight to see cars loaded with passengers as long as it is possible for a person to hang on. So commonly has this custom been indulged in that there is an adage that there is always room for one more." This crowded condition of the cars is particularly true of the line that runs on Sixth Street. The writer lives at the end of that line and uses the car every evening between 5 and 7 oclock; and for the past two months, we can truthfully say that on no single occasion has there been a seat obtainable. The question is, should the company be allowed to collect a full fare for that kind of service? We do not believe it should. We further believe that if some one would refuse to pay fare and the conductor should expel him from the car, that he could take the matter into court and get a ruling which would compel the company to put on cars enough to serve the needs of the people in a decent manner. We do not believe that fares could be collected as they are if the people would refuse to pay them. There are times, of course, during large gatherings when it would be next to impossible for the companies to provide seats for all. But when that is the case, the people should (and usually do) bear the inconvenience in silence, feeling that the company is doing the best it can under the circumstances. But that does not apply to the case in question. Along the track of the Sixth Street line there are a certain number of persons who use the cars daily. The company knows just about.how many there are of them. The number of fares gives the company that information in a most unquestionable manner. The company also knows that it is impossible for the cars to serve these people in a comfortable manner. Yet it takes their fares every day. The collection is taken up every trip with a regularity that would bring a blush of envy to the cheek of a Methodist preacher. We can name several men who pay their fares as other people and stand all the way home every evening. There are not even straps enough to hold on to. It is an outrage which ought to be stopped, an can be just so soon as the pepple will 'assert their right. The only reason why the company does this is to increase its profits. The company cares nothing whatever for the comforts or convenience of those whose money it takes. service because it They give a half-homakes more money for the company than would a fifteen minute service. As soon as it can be shown that an hour service would yield a better net income than does a thirty-minuservice, it will be reduced accordingly. "The public be damned" is the companys motto, and it lives up to it strictly. Now, what is wanted, and all that is needed, is for some one to refuse to pay his fare. Let the conductor put him off the car, and then the fun will begin. The rights of the patrons of the Sixth Street line demand a service, and they can get it if it. Let us have a test case after will go they at once. ur te fifteen-minut- e SHEET. This office is in receipt of a letter from a man in this city requesting a discontinuance of the paper on the grounds that it is an sheet." It has caused us to look the ground over a little to see, if possiAN N and truth or falsity of definition given the his charge hinges upon the word American. Of what does Americanism consist? If for one to love his country and do what he can for the maintenance of the same is Americanism, then this sheet is American. If to believe in and demand equal rights to all and special privileges to none be American, then we are American. If to believe and teach that it is the province of government to protect the weak against the robberies of the strong be Americanism, then are we purely American. If to believe that it is the duty of the people to aspire to the highest and noblest things obtainable for their own good constitutes Americanism, then we are American, and this paper a champion of that idea. If to believe that when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to' throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security" is Americanism, then do we claim to be of that class of Americans who signed the Dec ble, in what way we are we have decided that the laration of Independence; while on the other hand, if to ignore right and uphold wrong is American, then we are If to declare that the poor have no rights which the rich need respect be Americanism, then we are If the laws that have been passed for the last thirty years in the interest of the rich and against the poor be American, then we are If to uphold and extol the acts of such traitors and thieves as Grover Qeveland, Johnny Carlisle, John Sherman, J. Pierpoqt Morgan and the rest of the gang be American, then we are If it be American to advocate the giving away of public property to private corporations for them to rob the with people at will, then we are a great vengeance. So you see that whether we be American or depends solely upon what American means. WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT. The Populist city committee met last Friday evening to close up the business of the city campaign. The first tiling the committee did was to pay off all the debts it bad contracted, one hundred cents on the dollar in full legal teader coin of the realm a most unusual occurrence, certainly. It was then decided to continue the committee as it was, for the purpose of prosecuting the work of enlightening the masses on the lines of Populism, humanity and justice. It is proposed to organize the fifty voting precincts of the city by procuring a chair-movice chairman, secretary and twenty assistants. The preliminary work for this is to be begun at once. The committee then organized a Populist Literary BuiVau, with H. W. Lawrence as chairman, Alexander and August Stein secRogers retary and treasurer. Any person can become a member of the organization who is willing to pay 5 cents or more per month. Those present subscribed 25 cents. The funds so obtained are to be expended in reform literature for gratuitous distribution. There are many indications that the Pcpulist cause in Salt Lake City will make great growth within the next twelve months. Several prominent men have already expressed a willingness to affiliate who have never done so in the past. n, vice-chairma- n, MR. ANDREW NELSON WRITES. Editor LiTiag Issue : In my last letter (published in your paper of June 25, 1897) I asked a few simple questions and, as yet, have not heard from any of my good Christian friends. Now, as then, I am seeking earnestly for light. I was born and reared in Utah; and if my observations have been worth anything, it seems to me the people were nearer a common brotherhood thirty years ago than they are now. If this proves anything, it proves that we are on the wrong road to a millenium While advocating social reform, I am often told that it is the principles of the United Order, claimed to be original with the Mormon people. Let me ask, how is it these Latter Day Saints stand on Democratic and Republican platforms, which are the upholders of private ownership? Why dont the leaders advocate public ownership? Why don't they try to educate the people on the lines of a common brotherhood equality? How is it that not one city in all Utah owns all its public utilities? True, they practice some but these are private ownership; stock can be bought and sold, and money can buy votes. They rob the people as much as any other private institutions. A majority of the Mormon people and their leaders practice and uphold interest, profit and rent. Some of them stack up big fortunes of wealth they have not produced. This is a Christian country acknowledged to be so by everybody and the conscience foundry has been run by the church syndicate ever since the Puritan fathers came over the plains to force everybody to enjoy their religious freedom. Conscience is only a creature of education our individual conception of what is right and wrong. Conscience, in youth, is the sensitive mental plate upon which early impressions are so indelibly made; but as that conscience plate grows older, and the ghosts of legal plunder and outrage and inhumanity dance upon it to the music of pious psalm singing, that sensitive plate becomes a tough gristle; so elastic that truth will bounce from it like a rubber ball from a stone pavement. I tell you, men of active minds, these calloused consciences that bloom best while plundering the people, and always shrink up and pretend ' to be shocked at the name of industrial and fraternal Socialism, are the stumbling blocks to progress and mental liberty. The contented slave always has a conscience with the tail end in the ministers hands or in the politicians beer schooner; but no difference where the extreme tail end is located, a gentle pull or a vigorous twist will fetch the poor slave to his knees in supplication, and he will only show courage enough to fight when friends would force his tyrannical master to set him free Yes. and even the good shepherds whom Christ told to feed and care for his flock out sheep, have turned the on the winter range to eat salt sage and greasewood, and only get around occasionally to shear them for the glory and honor of God. A religious conscience has a code of beliefs and d faith. No good works are required, unless it is to work that right which good people claim, by which process the poor are skinned to a queens taste by tithes, interest, rents and profits used to build church steeples and raise ministers salaries a little higher. O conscience, how can you harmonize the extravagant luxury of the idle rich with the rags and hunger and distress of the toiling poor? Conscience, calloused conscience, are you stone blind? I do nnt deny that I hate the men who uphold the robber system that allows the greedy few to rob the needy many. They have disgraced the flag they would have us worship, and insulted the God whom they would compel us to fear. I do hate the bankers and Shvlocks and usurers for bringing about the present social and industrial condition. If this generation of parents is so ignorant as to lock all the doors ol opportunity and sell the keys for a mess of pottage, then it will be the duty of the next generation to build ladders and climb over the wall, or else demand the public ownerAmerican ship of the keys. Every babe has as much right to collect $23 000 a day in rent from New York as Astor has. To issue thirty year bonds is as unjust as for a father to commit murder and then point to his babe in the cradle and say to the judge: Wait till he grows up and hang him instead No Senator or Congressman who of me. voted for them should ever dare to look a child in the face. The child is greater than the man, for it represents the future. It is a symbol of the grander civilization which we shall never see. It is a prophecy of that happier time when all poverty shill be forgotten ; when there shall be no business but friendship, and no religion but love. We are asked to believe in an immortal monster called Jehovah, who has a right to command and the power to punish and reward. To command implies ruler and slaves, tyranny and oppression the opposite of equality. Mutual consent must take its place, Punishment and reward are the fruits of labor. If I commit an unkindly act, its fruit is my punishment. If I do a good thing, its fruit is my reward. Then. I appeal to all humanity, place more of your thoughts on man instead of God, on earth instead of the beyond the grave. The best religion I know of is, to do all the good you can. Andrew Nelson. hall-starve- d kiln-drie- God-give- n ! new-bor- n lioroni, Utah. HOW LONG, OH LORD, HOW LONG? It is1 very common for people to object to voting for what they do want because it will take a long time to get it. This causes Mr. Z. Williams of Brinton postoffice to ask: How long do you think you will have to vote for what you dont want to get what you do want?" Have you read McKinley's Thanksgiving proclamation? If you haven't, you should do so at once. It is a marvellous thing, fearfully and wonderfully made." Its most striking feature is that it contains more lies than can be found in any literary production of an equal number of words since Adam was a yearling. There are only two qualifications that money needs to make it staple and beyond depreciation: First, that it be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private; second, that it be redeemable by the genera! government at its face value for all obligations due it. The material out of whieh it is made has nothing whatever to do with the case. -- If Lyman Gage is really as ignorant as he pretends to be on the essential qualities of money, the insane asylum nr a school for the feeble minded would be a much more suitable place for him than is the cffice of Secretary of the Treasury. We do not believe that he is as big a fool as he thinks he is. It seems a strange and unaccountable e move upon the part of Providence that He should take Henry George, whom the people needed so badly, and leave Grover Cleveland whom we could spare so well. Truly, He moves in a mysterious His wonders to perform." way All-wis- If you want to strike an unfathomable of abyss ignorance, just ask one of those fellows who would like to be a Populist were it not for certain impracticable things in their platform" to tell you what those impracticable things are. He will fall down and go into a heap at once. Your library is not complete until you supply it with a full set of Henry Georges works. The entire outfit costs only $1.85 through this office. Send us an order. We will give the entire set and this paper one year for $2.50. Send it in stamps if nt you prefer. THAT CHURCH OF HUMANITY. If it be true, as claimed by some, that the The Church of Humanity project (of which we spoke in our last issue) seems now street car companies cannot afford to give a to be an assured fact. Notwithstanding the good service,' and that the lines are not bad weather, a large crowd greeted Dr. paying, let them surrender their franchises to Ravlin, who spoke for over an hour. His the city from whence they got them, fro subject was an answer to a question pro- one wants to see them playing at a losing pounded him one week before, asking his views on how the laboring men may redeem game. themselves from their present depressed condition. The Doctor made a good reply. After the address he pissed out cards to the crowd, on which were printed questions relative to their views on the Church of Humanity proposition. The answers were quite favorable. IT COSTS MONEY to go to Klondike; but this week you can buy all kinds of furniture, stoves, carpets, organs, pianos, chairs, tables, iron beds, sewing machines, cupboards, wardrobes, steel ranges, etc. , etc. ; two steel safes very cheap; everything will be sold regardless of cost before I go to Klondike. I. X. L. Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South Street. Telephone 44S. P. A. Sorensen. If Congress once had "power to coin and to money regulate the value thereof and of foreign coins," when did it lose that power? How is it that now foreigners have power to regulate the value of our coins? Do not these things strike you as rather peculiar? When McKinley's message to Congress comes out, it will contain every recommendation that the bond thieves will ask for. Now put this away where you can see and for the purpose of comparing what he does say with what we say that he will say. Mark Hanna will be the next Senator from Ohio, just as we said he would be. Marks money is a monstrous thing in WHO ARE THE INFIDELS? Dr. Ravlins sulject for next Sunday Ohio. It would be in any stale that would evening will be Who Are the Infidels?" He keep John Sherman in the Senate for thirty-si- x speaks at A. O. U. W. Hall in the Gladstone years. Poor old Ohio! Building at 8 p. m. Every proposition the goldbugs make to NEW SHOP. settle the money question is worse than the Our friend J. H. Kidd has opened ud a one before. They seem hell-beon doing new shop at No. 137 East the one thing of all things else that the First South. Call on him when you want nt horse-shoein- g first class work. people do not need. J. P. Morgan now owns and controls notes are better than greenbacks, he puts 50,000 miles of railroads in the United himself in the awkward position of declaring States. At the present rate, how long will it that a part of a thing is more than the whole be before this same cormorant will own the of it earth? ARE YOU GOING EAST? Miss Florence M. Smith was the only If you are going East you want to see to it lady candidate on any ticket who received that your ticket reads via the Denver & Rio the full vote of her party. The others all run Grande Railway, the grandest scenic route Miss Smith ran ahead. behind. in the world. Have you ever seen the Canon of the Grand? If you have, you The government's own notes are not good want to see it again. If you have never seen oh no. But the same government can go it,' you can have no idea what you have missed until you have actually seen. No security for the bankers notes and make photograph or word picture can give you them good. Strange, isnt it? the least idea of its greatness or grandeur. The equipage of the road is first class A One would think from the number of No. 1," There is nothing lacking in it. For roosters that appear in the Kansas Populist a trip that will make a pleasant and lasting since the election that they are all impression upon your mind, take the Den- papers ver & Rio Grande. In one respect it is like poultry journals. the undertakers advertisement of his new No country has ever suffered from havhearse, when he declared that anyone using it would never use any other," ing too many good schools. When Lyman Gage insists that bank |