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Show LIVING Warren VOL. 3. 0 p c d. Successor to THE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1898 INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE N NO 52. MMMIBIHnjMMMMiMMUriHVMMIHRiMMjMkfMaMMMKnhHBnB If this number U at the label eoataiuini SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS. the van of civilization and abolish its law yoar name, yuu had better renew niiirlity quirk. n tliat ia tba number of the licit The following article from the pen of Mr. lean. No paper inflicting capital punishment. It has certainly wiA be sent for a lonxer time than paid had enough. And let fair Utah hasten to H. W. 'Lawrence contains some questions for. nor on erwlit, excel it by apodal arraufceiutuit. do the same before its bright escutcheon is that have not been answered: Editor Tribune: As we are entering the theories and high sounding phrases, such as stained with the blood of legalized murder. low tariff," overproducportals of a new year, is it not well for the high tariff, LABOR CREATES ALL CAPITAL silver sound inflation, tion, money," people to thoughtfully consider a few quesA labor saving machine, recently invented, tions on the ad nauseum, promising everything for present economic and political etc., is too well known to need any recapitulation makes 40,000 tin cans per day. It is operand the doing nothing, but ever legispeople conditions of our local and national governhere. We hope todays tragedy will end the ated by one man and a boy. This lets a lot ment? If it be true that all in the interest of organized wealth and just governments lating scene and that the curtain will fall to rise no more of the fellows out of a job, who have derive their powers from the consent of the private monopolies, which are now controlmasmore. their been the resources of the Nation to such an capitalistic always taught by why then should not the people, ling As all know who read this paper, we are ters that they would starve, but for the cap- governed, with their past experience with representative extent that now less than 1 per cent, of the and three-fourtalthough to are a that punishment; of the wealth of capital italist; necessary capitalists" opposed Remand that an amendment be made people own this is the one case of all others that those evil to furnish labor to keep the rest of man- agents, to the$tate Constitution, providing that all the country? For years it has been evident who favor capital punishment have used in kind from starving to death; and there are laws which are passed by State or. municipal to any school boy in finance that if but one defense of their belief, we think it, taken as thousands of fools who believe this; that financial law hjjj been pas-iii'ihe interest legislative bodies shall be subject to rejection the of one furnishes notwithargulabor is dependent upon capital, strongest a whole, . furnishjng an of the people, adequate supply by a direct vote of the people before they are ments against it The facts are that even standing all political economists teach, as enforced?-tIwith which , to meet of tender money legal the people are not qualified to the demands of business, labor would be emtoday no one knows that Durrant is guilty. well as common sense, experience and decide as to what laws shall govern them, Many think they know it, but they doj not. observation, that labor creates all capital are then of choosing as to. who ployed at remunerative wages, consumption It has been proven to the satisfaction of the (wealth). The capitalist appropriates to shallthey electedcapable as agents to make their laws? of commodities would increase and general be has it which the himself the wealth (capital) jury and the courts, but nevertheless prosperity be given to the Nation. not been proven and never will be. We laborer creates, through one or more of If a municipal government can own and If there is no demand for silver, as the believe that Durrant is guilty, but we do not the three legalized methods of robbery, control its streets, sewers, fire departments, goldbugs try to make us believe, why was know it. Should the whole world believe viz: Interest, rent and profit. When enough jails, parks, squares, schoolhouses and other the most of our product, 45,000,000 ounces, beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty, of the wealth producers catch on" to the public buildings from which it receives no shipped to Europe in 1809. to be coined into it would not make it so. There was a time trick there is going to be trouble for the revenue, but which involve expense, why money at the rate of $1.33 per ounce, for when everybody believed the world to be flat capitalists" and lots of it. The machine should it not own and control other public which we only received about 57 cents per but we now know that it is not flat, and do neither eats, sleeps, wears clothes, strikes, necessities ia the interests of the people from ounce? ' not believe that it ever was. nor does it think, get tired, sick or hungry which large profits are derived, such as gas, If money is the tool cf trade and the life- since the have three like the machines cf bone and muscle., electric light, telephones and street railways? blood of passed years Nearly business, and the people do not If public utilities under private franchises, crime was committed. Had the penalty been rhese iron and steel toilers are more docile to object using their own national money, or anything less than death, Durrant would long and profitable for the capitalists than the given away by the peoples agents to private to it being issued, why'should not an incorporations, will pay a profit on a capital- creased ago have been serving his time in the peni- human ones. supply be made, but for the corruptentiary, and the public would have been Suppose that the millions of workers the ization of double their outlay, whyannot tion of the old political parties, which are , spared all this only capital or wealth producers owned the public own and make a profit out of controlled by the money power? g stuff which has filled the both land and machine (the means of pro- them based on their actual cost? If history fails to record a single instance No one would have suffered duction), and the railroads (a means of disaily press. labor of is all true wealth where the members of any great political If the product from it. If guilty, life sentence is punishment tributing wealth), instead of a few hundred and money is a creation of law, a medium organization have succeeded in effecting any enough; if innocent, he will at some time be capitalists;" dont you think the workers with which to represent value and make ex- radical reforms within itself in correcting able to prove it, and be set free. After he is could furnish .their own employment and changes the people themselves being the the very evils that they themselves had crehanged, the matter is fixed forever. At this thus feed and clothe themselves, independ- source of all power why should they create ated how, then, can the people in this day writing, which is about the mosent he is ently of the capitalists?" When productive legislation cne kind ofi money with which of grace either expect or hope for any subGov. still that we wealth is of to labor the no robbed hope hang, expected longer redeem another kind, and further, why stantial or adequate relief from either of the Budd will do his duty by commuting his sen- which it produces, like bees are robbed tj should it be restricted to such an extent that Republican or Democratic parties? v , t of their honey, the workers who create Lie for tence to life imprisonment. Henry W. Lawrence. dollar used by the people a debt of eve' The dragging of this case, with its terrible capital will be the capitalists and there a like amount for interest musrbe contracted ' Men wfuk for other men for wes befeatures before the public for so long, has will be no others. The Real Republic, about every fifteen years? cause it Is the best thing they can doTAny--thin- g had an .influence on the rising generation Amarillo, Texas. If coin money depends upon its intrinsic that will improve their opportunities that is immeasurable and incomprehensible. SUPPOSE A CASE. value, instead of law, why is the legal tender for working for themselves will assist them Every influence it has exerted has been a Clark Irrina in San Franciaeo Star. silver dollar of 412 grains worth par when in obtaining better wages. No man will work bad one. The tender hearts of boys and Suppose a private individual were troubled the trade dollar of 420 grains of silver is for another for less than he can make workgirls have been seared by reading and think- with a deficit in bis revenues needed money worth only its bullion price, about 50 cents? ing for himself. If he has no opportunity ing nn the subject. Children who at first to pay out among his own tenants and emdollar 'will silver the at standard buy Why for working for himself he must of necessity shudJcre 1 to hear of it now read it with a ployees, all of whom confined their dealings the price of silver two and present accept whatever wages is offered him. It is relish. Dn't tell us that such influences are to each other and each of whom owed rents times the silver contained in the same true that all men would not work for themg of society, to said private individual. Suppose that per- dollar? And not detrimental to the further, why is the selves even though they had the opportune far better would it son, knowing that his own due bills would for we know better. Far, eagle of 270 grains standard gold, coined ity, but if all men had opportunity it would have been for society as a whole had the go like cash among all whom he owed, in- under the law of 1792, only worth as money serve as a safety valve, so that cs soon as murderer of Blanche Lamont never been in- stead of issuing his own bills, should go to the same as the gold eagle of 258 grains the supply of laborers overruns the demand some of his tenants and borrow their bills, coined under the law cf 1834? tercepted at all. the surplus would avail themselves of the There is another influence for bad that has giving his bonds for them at a big interest, If the government the people is. the opportunity of working for themselves, tLus exerted itself, the magnitude of which no and should keep on doing so until he involvthe tendency to lower wages. To one can ever know. We refer to the pre- ed himself in r Jnous debt What would be only power within its own domain that can relieving mind our issue should it nothing would so certainly settle legal tender money, why go natal influence. There are thousands of thought of such a fellow when his affairs got call in its the labor and wage question as would the children who have been born into the world exposed? What would all of us say of him? out of the banking business, own money, to be re- Single Tax. during the last two. and a half year, whose A fool on common counts, as old lawyers interest-bearinMr. H. L. Gaut, of Ogden, formerly currency of lives will be marked to the grave by shocks used to say. A fellow incapable of managing placed with the and creation whose editor of The Review of that city, in a private corporations, given the nerves of their mothers before the his own business, undoubtedly. and credit the on rest discussion with the editor of The Reno support solely backing child was born. The horrifying details of Fellow citizens, what is our own great big which are now of that Plaindealer makes the following hard they very authority (Nev.) the hanging that will appear in the dailies booby government doing today? What has hit on the money question: Socialists seeking to usurp? this evening and tomorrow morning will go it been doing for sixty years or more? of should the out the If in believe collective the go government ownership of the forth as poisoned arrows, dealing death and In 1843, Calhoun, a conservative statesalso it have would not meuns of production and distribution. Now, damnation to the born and the unborn. The man, a man of whom his enemies said, as to banking business, as of to out the business, government go money being a means of exchange, of disinfluence tor bad that will be set in motion his reasoning faculties, that he was logic on conis fact it the that conceded that a power tribution, it must belong to the people in today will continue to exert itself until time fire, the closest reasoner of his age, a pol- trols the in their collective capacity. What money is issuing and distribution of money shall be no more. Like a fatal spark in hap- ished classical scholar and historian, rated controls the made of cuts no figure, hence Socialists take people? less stubble, it will continue its work of de- his colleagues for this very thing. He said any country is of If it the sovereign right governments no stock in the free silver agitation, shed no struction as long as there is aught to destroy. that this tremendous resource, this greatest and our tears over the crime of 1873, and fool but coin own and issue their to money There is another feature to this capital pun- source of all public wealth, the power of taxand is in wealth resources mighty little time away on the financial ishment business that we would like for some ation or raising revenues, which Jefferson de- country greater should than of we nation why Europe any question. Socialists believe that the competone to explain. Everybody who knows any- clared was the onlv true basis for our circukind of we consult what them itive as to money system must be abolished, and co operthing of justice knows that it is not right to lation this immense resource was actually shall use, when they adopt and conduct their ation substituted; that a change in the finanpunish one person w.th the acts of another. neglected, abandoned to speculators as a own financial policies without asking our cial system alone woutd have about as much Yet in this Durrant case, who.have been and basis for them to circulate their bills, which effect as to the betterment of the condition are the real sufferers? Was it Durrant him- we borrow of them and tax the nation for consent or advice? If for many years peace has blessed our of the workers as changing the pilot of the self, or was it his hopeless parents? Every the interest. He declared that every time we Friend Gaut is much nearer right one who ever had a mother knows that the borrowed a dollar a fraud was committed on country, the land given up its unstinted airship. is he than wrong. mother of Durrant has suffered more than it the public. Every dollar of interest is so treasures and our natural resources and sufher unfortunate to son for nation are was possible much waste. productive forces as a greater Ignorance is a bad thing. Pretended And how ignorant of all this are the masses than ever known in any age for the suste- ignorance is much worse, but the worst fer. Besides, with the springing of the trap all, rich avd poor, educated and illiterate, nance and blessing of mankind why should of all is where a man uses his position to today ends all with him, while she will continue a worse than a living death throughout alike. It is a subject ever novel to them. labor be unemployed and the great mass give tone to his pretended ignorance. Take the rest of her days. Now, will some one The doctrines of public usury have actually of the American people be in financial dis- the case of William McKinley. No one betress. actually suffering for the necessaries lieves that lie is ignorant. Yet to read his tell us how, when, where and by what means become a religion. You are not orthodox will the ends and aims of equal and exact nay, you are a miserable heretic, a green-backe- r, of life? Is providence responsible for these ideas on money one would suppose that he forsooth a rascal, an unsound mon-eyis- t, conditions, or, rather, the class and vicious is. He does not believe what he says, yet justice ever be brought about in that case? a fool, an ignoramus. This question may be quite easy to some, legislation by the Republican and Demo- he uses the high position of President to forever cratic parties, which have alternated in the strengthen the ideas that he advances, which us. Truth it But been it so ever admit that has we but puzzles distant on the scaffold; Wrong forever on the administration of our government for the ideas he knows to be erroneous. In this he Let us hope that the day is not far when California will take its place alongside throne. past seventeen years, masking behind false is not only hypocritical but intensely unjust. THEODORE DURRANT. At this writing; all indications are to the effect that Theodore Durrant will today be hanged, which closes up one of the most noted murder cases on record. For nearly three years the daily papers have been filled with accounts of it. T.ie history of the case hs f t hair-raisin- g, blood-curdling- nerve-shockin- . -- . one-quart- er well-bein- ten-doll- ar g . |