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Show lAarren VOL 4 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY. JANUARY 21. 1898 DUNBARS CONSCIENCE AGAIN. I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood. Shakespeare. -- Dunbar's conscience still hurts him so that no paper but The Herald can give to the public any summons or other notices that pass through his office. Not only does that mammoth conscience of his make slaves and fawning syncophants of all the attorneys and their clients, but even the judges of the courts of which Mr. Dunbar is clerk (by Mr. proxy) are none the less victims of its blighting influence. Thatto ay. if the judge signs an order for a publication to be n.atie in a certain newspaper, Mr. Dunbar demurs, overrules and changes it. On, that conscience of his is the wonder of the age! Thus Dunbars conscience doth make cowards of us all. I'm rapt, and cannot cover The monster bulk of this ingratitude With any size of words Those who are acquainted with the history of Mr Dunbar's election to the office ol Lord High Secretary to the District Court of Salt Lake County know full well that he holds the position by the grace of the Free Silver Republicans and Populists of Sait Like county. He was elected by the votes of those who put a cross up by the rooster No one believes for a and let it go at that. moment, nor does Mr. Dunbar, that he could have been elected in any other way than by riding in on a popular wave impelled oy the merits of sbme one else. We are only stating facts when we say that Living Issues did its share toward elevating this monster mogul to his present pinnacle of fame. However much ashamed of it we may be, or however much we may deserve the treatment we are receiving at his Linds, it is noae the less trie that we helped him; helped him at least to the extent of not opposing him That we were played for a sucker; that we ought to have known better; that a Populist is in d d poor business when he helps elect Democrats to office, are all propositions that we will not deny or even discuss; but it does not lessen the enormity of the fact that David C. Dunbar is an ingrate of the most loathsome type; an ingrate, the like of which is not found evm in the lower orders; for we doubt that a cur, a dog, a yaller dog, could be found anywhere that, should you pat it oa the head, would not wag his tail the next time he inlets you. But this political misfit; this political accident; this pieee of debris cast up by the ebullition and washed ashore by the sea of political agitation, forgets his friends, casts oside those who helped him, assimulates the duties and arrogates to himself all the powers of the court from the judge down to the cus-p- i lore cleaner, and then excuses himself by declaring that he is following the dictates of tis conscience! Oh, ye gods, did you ever 'hear the like? Great? Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Now, in the name of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed That he has grown so great? I CLIP the following pointed paragraph from the Journal of Industry, a Democratic exchange: "Has there ever been, and can there ever be, a full legal tender silver dollar - worth less than other dollars in circulation? No, for the reason that a full legal tender silver dollar will pay the same taxes and discharge the same amount of debts as any other dollar in circulation. If not, why not? And this I would add: Has there ever been, and can there ever be, a full legal tender for paper dollar worth less than other dollars circulation? You are bound to answer No. from the reasons quoted above in connection with silver. Then if you are right and I am is right, what in the name of common sense of worth cents' the use of digging up sixty silver to make a dollar that could be made with paperi just as good and just as sound anc Deny the power to create money by law in and your silver cause falls defeat; admit it, the becomes money the Populist greenback of the people. The Free Republic (Jo. A. Parkers paper), Louisville, Ky. For a man to say that he really expects better times to come under the present administration ought to be sufficient evidence of failing mentality to send him to the insane asylum. Those institutions are full of men who never in their lives paid or did anything so indicative of imbecility. This may &eem rather strong language, but it is true. Let us see: Suppose a man should be found standing at the mouth of City Creek canyon protesting that in a month or two. or in a year, he expects to see the water change its course and run toward the mountains instead of away from them; would youjnot think him crazv? If he persisted in his statements would he not be taken by officers and sent to the asylum? Why? Because every-)od- y knows that water runs down hill and not up, and that so long as the mouth of the than the head, water will canyon is continue to run toward it. The cases are paralell. Every body knows that the present lard times are the natural, inevitable result of a train of causes. These causes are of long standing and of steady growth. They still exist, every one of them . There are no efforts being put forth to remove them or anyone of them. There is nothing in the platform on which the administration rests that would remove one of them even if honestly carried out; and everybody with a thimbleful of )rains knows it. Until the causes are removed the effects will continue, and a man who .thinks differently doesn't think at all, and we even doubt that he could think if he tried to think tie might possibly think that le was thinking, but that would be all. If there be any such let him be sent to Provo at once, and let the court appoint some competent man to look after his business for him the time 1900 is reached there will not of the Republican be a corporal's guard St . w.11 1 m hard b. par.y. that the poor fools will go trooping by the millions into tl e Democratic party, which by that time will be fully under control of the goldbugs. Dick Crokr of New York is looking after that now There is only one conso-atio- n in this matter, and that is that every lime a change is made in national politics, . which is every four years, there are a few thinkers who drop out and ally themselves wilh the ranks of the reformers. After awhile, after a long while mind you, the brains will all have dropped out of the two old hulks, and the reform ranks will outnumber the others; then look out for a change. The little unknown and unnamed nonentity that runs the scissors and paste- pet in The Herald sanctum, in ghoulish glee refers to the editor of this paper as a wild-eye- d That is all right; but speaking Populist. of eyes reminds us that we would rather be By byhjt - "wild-eye- d, red-eye- blear-eye- d, d, cross- than to have our eyed or even close so to a thin nose that eyes jammed up we could peek through an ordinary keyhole with both eyes at once, as is doubtless the case with the editor of the paper whose principal source of revenue is rooted in the conscience of David C Dunbar. one-eye- d, Warier Fuster vritx ably on tba abolition of capital pnniiihment. Ha ia entitled to the place of loader in tbe crusade against this furm of punishment, and Tlie Censor hopes to see a visorous campaign carried on against it. The Southern Censor. Richfield. While we have no desire to be looked upon as a leader in any move, we are in dead earnest in our fight against capital punishment and hope to see it an issue in the next legislative campaign. We certainly have no notion of letting up on the fight until the blight is removed from the fair State of Utah. If there is .any one thing more than another that makes one feel that common sense will never get into the heads of the people, it is to hear some dadgasted fool stand up and tell us that such men as Gould are benefactors, because they give employment to labor.. The right ta employ himself is a right that every man is bom with; nd if he hasnt it, somebody like Gould stolen it from him If Congress really wants to do someth ng to relieve the people it will issue about billions more ot greenbacks instead of rearing those now in circulation. No one kaowjs this better than Gage and McKinley. Successor to THE INTER-MOUNTAI- NO. 2. ADVOCATE, N THE LIMIT HAS BEEN REACHED. 1 John Clark Ridpath in the January number 59 e. - qairk No papei will bo issue. of The Arena contributes an article which goes to show in most unmistakeahle terms that the money power will in the future oppose any and all nations going to war; not that any of the gang love peace better than war, or that they have any scruples in building fortunes upon the blood or bleaching bones of the war victims, but rather for the reason tut the nations are as deeply in debt to it as it is safe for it to be; that to increase the debt, as wars would do, would simply involve the nations so that payment of even the interest on its bonds would be uncertain, if not impo-sib'.The writer shows that the present bonded indebtedness of the world-m- ost of which found its origin in wars- is no less than $20.000000000, which is about as muth as the world will stand. To the end, therefore, that the leaders ot the money power may better carry out .ts demands for peace instead of war, he shews that Baron Ro'hschild has actually joined the Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers); that the Morgan syndicate has enlisted under the banner of the P ace Society; that Lombard and Wall Streets have opened headquarters for the dissemination of the Gospel, and that the Slock Exchange has become the chief auxiliary of the Salvation Army! The article is a strong one and well worth perusing We regret that our space precludes publishing it in its entirety. If this number Is on the label containing sent fur n hunter time tbes paid fur, nor un credit, except ly sped si Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho thinks is the for there no room Republican party in the West and suggests that they all join the Silver Republicans. There is no such thing as a Silver Republican; never was, and never can be. A man who favors the free coinage of silver is not a Republican at all, for Republicans do not believe in it. We think Senator Dubois is about a cousin to the man who saw a white blackbird sitting on a wooden millstone eating a red blackberry. In the farmers owned of the wealth of this country; in 1890 they owned but a little over and one less now. than The probably eighth 1850 five-eight- hs one-eigh- th corporations, trusts and monopolies have gobbled up the production of labor until they have become corpulent and insolent But whenever a farmer gets his eyes open and protests against this injustice, he is denounced as a fonl and a calamity howlThe Free Republic, Louisville, Ky. er. We notice that the Ogden papers are much elated over the fact that the railroads are favorable to that city. This is all right for tbe cities that are favored, but how about those that are not favored? Do you not know that special favors to one city can be had only at the expense of other cities? Equity and justice makes either impossible. By the is either an Secretary Gage unprinci- way: Dd' you ever hear of the postoffice pled liar or a consummate ass; most likely department favoring one city above another? both. He was before the House committee Before Durrant was hung, according to on banking last Monday, and to give weight to his nonsensical claims stated that he had those who profess to know, he became a fit been a banker for forty years, and for ten subject for Heaven, where he will at once and play on a harp celestial. Yet year 3 had been president of the First Na-- grow wings he was not good enough to live longer on "Oim mk of Chicago wilh a capital stock this earth. If God could and did forgive ooo and loan, and. dUcouwk ol him freely and. fully, was it not the fluty of. $16000.000 to $20,000,000.. VVhtn asked if it were possible to use paper money and His followers on earth to do the same thing? We are asking, not answering, these quesceep it at an equality with coin in purchasing tions. xiwer, without the coin on hand he answered Did you ever notice with what daredevil that he thought not. Now Mr. Gage may not have known that he was lying, but every bravery Democrats and Republicans rush up man in America with an ounce of brains to the very windows of the postoffice and cnows it. Of course if he had in mind such call for their mail? Seemingly, they fail to japer money as was formerly issued by the realize that it is one of the most intensely old State banks, there would be some truth Socialistic institutions on earth. Wonder why in what he says; but it does cot apply to lull these fellows who are so afraid of Socialism egal tender greenbacks issued by the gen- will do this? They ought to know that it is eral government, and Mr. Gage knows it dangerous. quite as well as we do. We defy Lyman Did you ever stop to think that if every Gage or any other goldbug, living or dead, man and woman should cease to to point out one second of lime at any time laboring work for one year that every millionaire in in the history of this Nation when full legal the world would be dead from sheer starvatender paper money was not on a par with tion? Well, think of it now for about one fold. Now here is Mr. Gage's chance, or minute. All the millionaires on earth might any one else v.ho wants to take it up. No; work or all die today, and Mr. Gage has associated with that gang until stop their suffer any inconvenience. would he really believes it no sin to lie when the nobody interest of the gold gamblers is served If some of our successful men were comthereby. pelled to earn a living by honest methods there would be less talk of some so Everything that was ever essential to be much more ability th2a others. having would They done for the perpetuation of the human spesoon find that ability and sharp practice cies and the comfort of human life oa the were two different things. planet has been done by labor The achieveAge, Chicago, 111. ments of labor almost exceed the B l . comprehen- sion of man; they do surpass the understanding of the avenge laborer today. The toilers of the world have been so busy doing the worlds work that they have had no time to think about rights; and with only the dull and monotonous round of labor, multitudes of them are today totally ignorant of all questions touching human rights. Even where the masses have political liberty, they fear lo ex ercise it in a manly and independeni way, and life to them has become a condition of leaning on and cringing to the private capitalist, who sometimes has the power to give them a job, and at all times the power to deny them a job. The workers have been too much engrossed with looking for jobs than to look for their rights and security. So that today, while they are political freemen, they are economic slaves. And they have been made slaves by work blind, unintelligent, almost hopeless work; work that has bound all the nations of the earth together in a network, of related interests; work that has mined and molded the resources of nature into forms of beauty and utility and created wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, but work that is without meaning to the workers. The Coming Nation. The doctors claim to have discovered recently that a person can live without a stomach. ' The discovery is certainly opportune. It comes just at the moment when stomachs are being used less than ever before in the history of the country. There is an investigation of the bribery charge going on in Ohio in connection with the Hanna ele tion. It is a waste of time and money. So long as Senators are elected as they are, fraud and bribery may be expected. Change the system. The frantic attempts that are being made Administration worshippers to make by the people believe they are prosperous is much on a par with the old mans attempt to get his horses to eat wood shavings by making them wear green goggles. ' When we say that tims are going to feet worse we are confronted at once with th cry: You are a pessimist! All right. W would rather be a pessimist than a damphule. People have lived without capital, biit they have never lived without labor. They never can. V -- V |