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Show LIVING UE Warren Posters Paper, I VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1897 THE PLATFORM REVIEWED. over the Populist platform and institute a comparison of it with the platforms adopted by the other three conventions. We regret that our space precludes their publication in full. A careful reading of them, however, will disclose to you the fact that not one of them touches the real issues of the day; that they are verbose and unmeaning; that if put into operation in full the city would be little, if any, better off; while the Populist platform comes squarely out, takes up every live issue and endorses it from the side of the The summary of the National platform gives the reader who is unacquainted with our ideas a very fair suggestion as to the underlying principles of Populism; principles that no man in this city can assail successfully; principles that have stood the test; principles that there is not a man in Utah bold enough to take the stump along with any Populist and deny. The local issues are treated fully and clearly. Its opposition to the further granting of public franchises to private persons or corporations to operate for private gain, is in line with the ideas that are being promulgated by all the advanced thinkers the world over. .The people have ha enough of that kind of work. The proposition is a plain one and only means that what is in nature public property should be owned by the public, operated by the public and for the good of the public; that the end and aim of public utilities should be service for the public without considering how much or how little money can be made; that whatever profits arise out of the service should belong to the public for public use instead of belonging to a private individual or company. Hence the demand that no more public franchises be granted; and, to the end that the people may regain what has been taken from them in that way, we demand that these franchises be restored to the public. That the same can be done we all know. No property can get out of reach of the government, and no franchise no matter by whom granted can put it beyond being reclaimed whenever the public good demands. So when this city feels that the public service demands that her street cars and other public utilities should become the property of the city, all she has to do is to pay the present owners a fair price and take them. The citv will be under no obligations whatever to the holders of watered stock in these institutions. Let them take care of themselves as best they. may. If they .have invested in something that is unprofitable or even worthless, that is of no concern to the public. Experience hath shown that under public control these utilities can be made to give a much better service at a greatly reduced cost, while they yield a large revenue to the city. Populists believe in homes for the people. A nation of home-ownewill always be found to be a nation of patriots. Why should a man love or fight for a country in which he has no home? None but fools do; none but blind fools will The proposition to raise the taxes on vacant lands to the point of compelling owner.-t-o either improve or else relinquish their claiiri on them,' is terse and to the point. Wt believe that men should pay for the privilege-theenjoy, whether they use them or not. If man a buys a seat in the theatre he pays just as much for it if he does not occupy it a though he did. He keeps others from using it, and it is for that privilege he pays. So if a man hold a piece of land out of use h should be made to pay for that privilege all that it is worth. He has a right to put it to its best passible use and get all out of it ht can. Nor should he be fined for being in All over this city there are va dustrious cant lots held out of use by speculators; every year they grow a big crop of ugly g weeds. The ownnoxious, ers are only waiting for others to improve the city so that the price of these vacant advance. The taxes on Vein are so low to d' that they can well afford to that. We want to change that; we want t quit putting an embargo on thrift while idleness. We want to stop this d manger business, and this system c f rs y ll e INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N was one serious oversight in the M fI JA V NO 41. If this number in on tin label con- taiuiuir your uauie, you'd Utter r. fl mmam U new mighty quirk, aa Unit ia l ha of the Populist city platform, and making-unuinbar of the next 1uh. No payer I will be arut for a longer time tuau that was its failure to adopt a plank favoring nor on credit, except by ppatcitl arrangement. paid for, the Imperative Mandate. ManImperative date?" asks one; and what is that?" The If paper money should be redeemed in Imperative Mandate is that power that is the same principle) should invoked by all men who employ others to gold, why (upon not gold be redeemed in diamonds? And work for them, of turning them oft when why not redeem diamonds in rubies, and they fail to do their work properly. No one so on? would think of employing a man to work for him for a given period of time on any other Nearly all Congressmen and Senators are condition than that the man is to do the bid- paid attorneys for some one or more railroad ding of his employer, and in the event of companies; and stilly some folks pretend to such failure, to be discharged. Yet in the wonder why we can never get any legislation matter of public officers we do just the oppo- for the people. site thing. We employ a man at $5,000 per The fact that Parley L Williams is a gold-bu- g should refuse believe there to that year to go to Congress to represent our interPopulists McKinley Democrat cuts very little figbe two laws and two rules of action one for ests. When he gets there he does just as it ure in the city campaign as against the fact the poor and the other for the rich. Yet that pleases him. He can sell out the peoples that he is the attorney for the Oregon Short rule is in practice in this city at this moment. interests who sent him every day and snap Line and Rapid Transit railway companies. County Attorney Van Cott refused to put W. bis fingers in their faces and ask, What are C. Pavey on the stand to testify in the Ham- you going to do about it?" The people have Is IT not rather an inverted state of affairs ilton case, not because he did not know any- no power to recall him. They do not even when society undertakes to collect a mans thing, but because he was a society man. If have the power to stop his pay. That is not private debts for him, and yet leaves to indiPavey had been a poor man, Van Cott would right. It should be changed. It ought to be vidual management and profit the telegraph have held him on some sort of a charge, so that when a representative of the people and railroad business of the Nation? New even though he had to put him in jail. It is in any capacity notoriously fails to discharge York New Earih. this sort of business that causes men to lose his duties that he can be called home. This Is there a Republican or Democrat in confidence in the justice of law and respect would have good effects in the way of getthis city who will go on the stump with a for those whose duty it is to enforce them. ting rid of bad officers and of making repreMans opportunity to make a living has sentatives more careful of the interests they single leading Populist and discuss the issues been taken from him by the public through are employed to represent. Corporations are of the campaign as outlined by the Populist laws that society has passed and enforced; running the country and despoiling the peo- convention? We dont think so. The road is open to any one or more who will. therefore, it is a duty of the public to give its ple. They can be reached only by legislation, idle people a chance to make a living until yet the very men we elect to represent our Government railroads would give to the such time as that opportunity which nature interests become the paid attorneys for the people in the matter of transportation what and justice demand that he should have, is peoples enemies. The people know it, but the postal service now furnishes in the way restored to him. Give man an opportunity are helpless utterly so. It is no uncommon of communication; and the Peoples party is and he is able to care for himself. thing for men as Congressmen to draw $5,000 the only great national organization which The corruption and robbery that have per year from the people he represents, while proposes to bring about this condition of grown out of the present system of letting he draws $25,000 a year to represent the in affairs. Missouri World, Chilicolhe, Mo. public work to contractors are too potent to terests of a corporation that is robbing the all to need any elucidation whatever. people. So common is this that no attempts Judge Wenger says he has been associatof demand that the water the city dre made to cover up the fact. They openly The with people of the Faster stripe. The should be free to the user and paid for by brag about it. Now it ought to be so that ing if is be true. There is lots Judge lucky that general taxation, is a just one and comes when it is discovered that a Congressman or of for to room, improve yet, so you Judge, under the same head as electric lights, fire city councilmen is doing this thing that the if it the Foster keep up stripe does not obdepartment, and so on. There is no argu- people can terminate his tenancy in office. There is hope for you yet if you have This is the Imperative Mandate. What do ject ment against it and can be none. not altogether lost your power of assimilation The resolution demanding the repeal of you think of it? and imitation. the poll tax and occupation taxes is right Some one signing himself One of the to the point. The renters of this city are At present individualism is a myth. has published an open letter to Mr. compelled to pay a poll tax by working Bar, Choice is out of the question. Opportunities on the streets, and as soon as the streets Parley L. Williams in The Herald of last sealed against the individual, and he has are are made passable the landlords raise the Tuesday, in which he shows that Mr. Williams could not serve as city attorney even to put up with what he is able to beg for a rent, because of the fact that the streets grab. He cannot do what he would like or are in good condition. Let the men who if elected, for the good and sufficient reason is specially fitted for, and millions of willing own the earth keep it in order. The occu- that he is the attorney for the Oregon Short Line and the Rapid' Transit Street Railway, men cannot get anything to do at all. Indipation tax is directly in the interest of the is a desboth of which companies are operating under vidual aspirations have no play; it big dealers in the city and against the perate struggle for bread. Pittsburg (Kan.) small ones. A meat shop that sells $100,000 franchises granted by the city. The reason is Kansan. worth of meat a years pays no more of a a good one and should be heeded. As an license tax than the little fellow who sells attorney, Mr. Williams has ability no one If the United States government cannot no one can but doubts; imagine certainly worth sell create If can $1,000 money, what nations are there that peddlers per year. sides of both man to big enough any can? occupy Arc there other nations that are greater vegetables cheaper than the merchants, they arc the fellows to buy from. Taken as a any question. Just how a man could defend than this? If so, which are they? If neither th city against a corporation this nation nor whole, the platform is the best one ever the rights of any other can create money, he is paid to defend, is a little where does adopted in this city by any party at any whose rights money come from? You do not more than we Can figure out. Mr. Williams know of lime. any individual who can make it, do his throw to one of two do up things you? Do you think you can? If so, try it Almost any man will agree that wealth ought with these two railroads or else get off once and see how job quickly you will be in the belongs, or at least should belong, to him or the ticket. The when is we hope, day, past God may be able to make it, penitentiary. they that produce it. Admitting the above to that kind of business will be permitted. but we have no account of bis ever having be a correct principle, we would like to ask: made any. Who or what is it that gives value to land? McKinleys international farce Is A thing There was a time when the corner on which of the past. It resulted just as every sensible It must not be supposed that l Cause we McCornicks bank stands was not worth or man believed it would, and just as every de- modified to some extent our proposed action it least it would not have sold for a cent man hoped it would. When a Nation in the city convention regarding the police piece. The vacant lot would today bring like the United States humiliates itself by justiceship that we are to let up on our fight several thousands of dollars. Has there been advertising the fact abroad that it is a poor, against Judge Wengers actions, for such is of the lot? None weak institution depending solely upon the not the case. A my change in the make-ujustice who punishes men whatever. Then why is it worth more now counsel and consent of other nations to do for demanding jury trial must be sat down than then? Because of the presence of the its business, its representatives be to oguht upon, whether it be Judge Wenger or who jommunity. To prove this, let us suppose sat down upon. No person or nation will else. To that proposition the public will acor a moment that for some reason or other ever get credit for being more than they cede almost without a dissenting voice, which 'he entire of Salt Lake City should move to claim for themselves. If this Nation admits assures his defeat anyway. When the votes Murray; would not the value of the lot go that it amounts to nothing that it must de- are counted he will be the hindermost man in o.ick to nothing again? And if, twenty years pend upon England for brains and power the race. ifterward, the people should move back to England will certainly not dispute it The Each year there is added to the wealth of Salt Lake City, would not the price raise action of McKinley from the start was a dis-- a this Nation an enormous sum not less than gain? It certainly would. Then it is the grace to American manhood and the spirit $10,000,000,000, counting agricultural procommunity that creates the value in land, is of American independence. ducts, manufactures, and the unearned init not? So, if the value is created by the , The foreigner pays the tax, says McDing-ley- crement. The share of this amount for 'ommunnity, why should not the value g but during the past two months the stu- every voter is about $833. Was that sum to the community? The Single Tax idea is for the communiiy to claim this incre- pid fellow has failed to pay $20,000,000 into aMded to your wealth last year, or will it be ment by taking the increased value in the the McHanna treasure box, and there is a added this year? Such an addition means $16 way of rent from the person who occupies it. shortage of that amount in the treasury. a week for every week in the year. Did you There ought to be a mandamus, or a gun- receive that? The grand total came, and all It is a poor civilization in which one class boat, or a Federal judge sent to Europe at of it went somewhere. If you did not get mii-i- t suffer in order that another may pros- once to compel the insolent fellow to dis- your share, somebody else took it. The per. Morgans Buzz-Saw- . gorge that $20, 000, 00a Pittsburg Kansan. Common Cause, Cincinnati, O. out-rag- people. lot-wi- There taxation will stop it in thirty minutes or less. And nothing else will. The condemnation of the system now in vogue in this city of denying men a trial by jury, or (what practically amounts to the same thing) punishing men for demanding it, is proper and timely and will meet with a cithearty approval from every liberty-lovin- g izen who reads it. So will also our denunciations of the present outrageous and inhuman vagrant laws which prrctically declare poverty a crime. Every tendency of legislation for the last thirty years is in the direction of making men paupers; and to follow it up with laws punishing pauperism is an We would be pleased indeed to have the reading, thinking people of the city read disease-producin- Successor to THE e. ten-ce- p be-'on- p nt |