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Show VING Warren ! VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1897 THE TWO METHODS. , This city contains two very fine structures the great Mormon Temple, and 'what is known as the City and County Building, They are both constructed of our native granite; both very beautiful and sufficiently substantial to last many thousands of years. The Temple cost about $3 000 000 and is paid for. The City and County Building cost about $1,000,000 and u not paid for; and if you ask when it will be, you hav asked a question that neither we nor am other person can answer. The county of Salt Lake owes $420 oo of the building. This amnui on its one-har bonds. is represented by 5 per cent The interest on this amount is $21,000 per annum, or nearly $2 000 per month; about $75 PC' day, $3 per hour, or 5 cents pet minute. At the end of twenty years, the county will have paid $420,000 in interest and will still owe $420,000. An encouraging picture, surely I The city's half of the building is in about the same condition. As we said above, the Temple is paid fir, the City and County Building is not and, unless there is a change in matters and things, never will be This leads us to look into the methods employed in the building of the two structures. The Temple, as all know, was build bv the Mormon people and without any outside help. There never was a cent of interest paid on a dollar that went iato its construction and never will be. As we understand it, all the labor and nearly all the material was paid for with tithing scrip. The scrip drew ho interest and has all long since been redeemed by the church, which, when it was done, paid for the Temple. The system was practically this: A man would work a month on the Temple. He would receive a stipulated amount of church tithing scrip. He would take the scrip to the tithing office and there buy meat, flour or vegetables or any ether article of use the office might have. He thus practically worked for these things instead of money, which . is true in all cases. The power of the cf.i rch to redeem its own scrip lay in the recj.nized power of h the church to levy a tax on its people of of all they produced. Thus the church would issue its own notes or orders with which it hired men to build the Temple and em with the produce thus collected Tedec 'lie. When the Temple was from the complete, the thing orders had all been redeemed, the work was done, the debts were all paid, and the Temple stands today to show for it. It is but the crystalized labor of the people. ; Now if a small organization like the Mormon church can and did accomplish such a feat as that, why cannot the people of Salt Lake county do the same thing? It will greatly accommodate us if you will answer one at a time and thus save confusibn. Let us see: There are a great many more people in Salt Lake county than there were of the people who built the Temple. They certainly own more property than did the Mormons. The county has the power to tax the people just the same and more so than the Mormons had. The county has a right to issue its scrip the same that the church had. Then why has it not done so? It is claimed that it took forty years to build the Temple. True, and it will take twice forty years to pay for the City and County Building. These two tniildings represent the two ways of doing things. Th6 Temple was built by men who had an eye to business; men whose highest aim was to get best results. The other was built after our more modern do they way of doing things, and very aptly of condition the things in present represent a national way. There is no excuse, and we defy any man to give one, why this great government of ours should pay interest on its bonds. It is a steal, pure and simple. The $262 000.000 of interest on the Cleveland issue of bonds worth of represents exactly $262000,000 and the for excuse is no it, stealings. There feather done to was only reason why it was the nests of those who bought them and those who issued and sold them. the nests-oThere is much less excuse for the Nations is issuing of bonds than there for the county or State. Neither the county nor State can make its notes legal tender, but the govern lf 20-yea- fa-.- one-tent- f ment can. If the government needs money, all it has to do is to issue it and force the people to take it (they, however, would not need any forcing, for they would be only too glad to get it), but a county or State cannot Now put on your magnifying glasses' and enlarge the county of Salt Lake to the 'size if the forty-fivStates in the Union. Let he debts and the stealing be magnified by he same glasses, and did it not overreach tie power of finite conception you could get some idea of the vast stealings of those who sofoss to be statesmen. The manner in hich the Temple was built and paid for presents the greenback non interest-bear-nsystem of money, while the City and County Building represents the interest-bearingoldbug, bond thieving, nation-robbin- g system of Grover Cleveland and Bill McKin-tev- . To hr 11 with the system and those who . advocate it. e Successor to THE INTER-MOUNTAI- POINTS FOR THINKERS. From Tht PitUburf Kanian. Why should a community hire a private corporation to do for it at a profit what it cat do for itself at cost? A postage stamp is good at any postoffic a railroad ticket ought to be good on ani railroad; under collective ownership it will be. It is the right of every one to be rep resented in the lawmaking bodies and if hit. vote doesn't help to elect some one he in k disfranchised. When the big department stores get in their work, the expropriated little store keepers, who can't get jobs as clerks for the big fellows will take to studying Socialism. The aggregate wealth of the United States is computed at seventy billion dollars, of which the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, the Rockefellers, the Huntingtons and Morgans own more than half, but not one of them iu It is not out of the wav to note in this all their lives ever produced or added a cent connection that the Mormon people not only to the wealth of the country. built and paid for the Temple and the hundreds of other temples, tabernacles and The loss of labor in begging for work is sad uf churches out their own labor, but they in to contemplate With four men waiting and addition paid their share of State, county watching for one j ib and the whole transient and municipal taxes right alongside their population hunting about tor odds and ends Gentile brothers; and what is of fur her note ot employment, it takes about four days' is that while they were doing all this they labor to find one days work. Under the were providing for themselves homes, so that proper: system of exchange, there would be today it may be said, and truthfully, too, no floating population prowling about in that there are more Utah people who live in search of bones and crusts thrown from the their own homes than that of any State in tables of those who are so fortunate as to the Union. While, of course, the devout have anything left over. All would have Mormon might attribute all this to special homes and be secured in the right to favors from God because of their religious at fair rates of exchange. It is beliefs and service We would give quite just as great an indignity for a man to be another reason for it, unless mayhap we mnv obliged to ask for employment from a follow say that it was a special Providence that being as it is to k for bread. The Comgave them a leader and teacher ' who haj moner, Portland. Ore. brains enough to know that man is a land little children to see the thousands ot animal, and that to be prosperous and happy tty things now on sale and not be able to he must have some place where he could uy thehilscrudty in the extreme. A small apply his labor to the land. The real seer to our mind, of the success of the Monti r. boy or girl can get mere real j y and satisfaction out of a toy than a grown people is due largely to the absence of land wr could man man or get out of a Klondike menopoly. The facts are that Brigham Young reduced Populism to a science and to that mine. We forget how very acute was our when children. When we confact, and to that fact alone, is due the phe- appreciation nomenal growth of the Utah people. Any sider further that the poverty of the loving other people, and at almost any other place but penniless parents is due to our infamous under like conditions would have shown the svstem ot government, and that the men same prosperity. Moreover, the same is true now in power are doing all they can to continue and even to intensify this condition, we yet. Give the people homes, give them the feel like saying and even doing things that right kind of money, and restore to the pubare desperate. To hell with the gang who lic its natural right to own and operate its for the pangs of poverty that utilities, and the desert would again blossom are responsible permeate the breasts of these worthy but as the rose. helpless parents, 'and the unutterable sighs of One of the stock arguments of ' the metal disappointment that break the hearts of little money cranks and one that is accepted very ones. Every time we see one of these little largely by many who favor paper money is ones looking with longing eyes on beauties that we must have metal money with which they are not permitted to erjoy, we wonder to do business with loreign nations. Nothing to ourself that if tin re be a of justice in is farther from the truth. The facts are that heaven, what is he doing that swift retribuwe do not use our metal money when trading tion is not speedily visited on these dispoilers with foreign nations. We only use the metals of human happiness? out of which it is made. It does not go as ' I don't know how it seems to you. but to money at all: It is weighed and goes by it seems that life is one continual struggle me of for sake the weight altogether. Granting argument that other nations will receive noth- and disappointment From the time we are ing in exchange for their goods and wares but forced to tackle the struggle for bread,, it is gold, it does not follow that we must coin it one desperate fight. The lives of nearly for them. They would rather have it in the every one is a round of work, sleep, eat, bar. The stamp of our government is repu- work, sleep, eat There is never a cnance diated altogether and does neither them nor to enjoy life and as I see it the object of us any good. Then there is no need of us life is to develop and enjoy it. When the coining it for them. We certainly do not need time of dissolution comes and the poor devils it for ourselves. But the whole premise is look back over the fitful dream, their life has wrong and founded upon a supposed fact been a dreary waste and all they have been that does not exist Business transactions permitted to enjoy has been about as much with other nations are not made by exchang- food, clothes and miserable shelter as a chating gold lor goods or goods for gold, either tel slave. And all this that a system might coined or in the bar. It is all done through be maintained under which the vice of gred a aystem of exchanges bookkeeping, if you could develop and expand. The mass of peoplease and itis only the small amounts nec ple in this land and all other lands are mere essary to maxe up balances that are really machines, creating wealth they are not pertransferred in coin or metal. You can buy mitted to enjoy. Like idolators they have all the goods you want from Japan or China been trained from childhood to believe in the or any other nation and pay for them wiih things as they are by those who happen to national bank notes, which are not a legal profit by the condition, and they are not pertender even in this country. Its all bosh and mitted to see that it is wrong and degrading. hogwash; the vaporing of an empty head, or I can see no progress in a system that dethe pratings of a pirate who expects to make bases the many that a few may wallow in money through the stupidity of the masses luxury. All the ills that affect the human family are a result of the present social sysall the bonds been have made pay- tem and'ean be traced directly to one root After able in gold and a process has been discov- private property for profit. Whenever a mind ered by which gold will be almost as cheap sees the picture of the golden possibility of as scrap iron, you just watch the gang hurry the new social order, it ceases to idolize the about to make the bonds payable in diamonds. present chaos. Appeal to Reason. g g, -- a-- ten-ev- nt G-i- TE. AD' N Irr NO. 50-- II thia number in on tha label eoatain'nn your name, yea had better renev mighty m that a the number of the neat quick, Mue. No papw will be aent fur n lunger time than paid (or, nor un credit, except by apodal arraniceiiMiit. One of the bright spots in the current tews of the day is the statement that the Vanderbilts have bought over 500 000 acres uf coal land in West Virginia and will at railroads connecting it with their systems of roads, and propose to monopolize the soft coal business east and west. The mines are to be operated by electrical dnee construct machinery, reducing "labor troubles" to a minimum, and that the coal will be sold and delivered to the consumer by the operators, doing away with all middlemen. Other shippers will have to use and pay railroad freights, while the Vanderbilts will pay freights to themselves and will sell coa cheaper than the other fellows until they are run out of the market and the one combine f great capitalists will have the entire field to themselves The Vanderbilts agent gives it out cold that this is the programme, and they are able to do it Their railroad interests are so great that they can prevent any other road from giving rates that will com- -, pete with them Golly, wont I smile as I see the middlemen get a dose of their blessed private property that will make them sick! Boys, its workin out all right. The sooner the finale comes the less of human misery it will entail. Appeal to Reason. Of course dont eat up our actually and literally; but we do it indirectly, by a roundabout .method, with great ceremony and much red tape, This is how it is done. Every mans labor is the product of his life's forces. Each person has only a limited amount of life force and be needs it for himself. To rob a man of part of the products of his labor is equivalent to robbing him of a portion of his life. To deny to him the opportunity to labor is to take away his fight to the means'of life and is equivalent to murder. To grind down the poor in the mill of industrial slavery and rob them of nearly all they produce is just as surely cannibalism, as to boil them up in a big kettle and eat them actually. The difference is, it takes longer to pick their bones and they are expected to consent to the operation with cheerfulness. The New Dispensation. we fellow-citize- ns owns V! V natural the of Nation. Freight by water waterways is always very cheap just as cheap as it is possible for the stuff to be handled. Why is this? Because anybody who wants to can use the waterway, and the boats thus come in competition with each other. The government does not operate the boats at all. Should the government give to a certain corporation the exclusive use of the river, freight rates would go up at once to the' highest point that the traffic would bear, just the same as is now the case with railroads. Why would not the same rule apply with the same effect on railroads? The government The following story is going the rounds of the press: A man travelling on a Missouri train said he could tell by the looks of the passengers what political party they belonged to. "This man here," said the passenger, "is a Bryan Democrat" "Yes," said the passenger, "thats my politics. "That man over there is a sound money Democrat" "Thats correct," responded the passenger. "That man in the third scat is a Populist." "Correct you are," said the PopAnd that man further down is a Reulist publican and voted for McKinley." "No, I am not," promptly responded the fellow. "I have been sick. Thats what makes me look this way. Under Direct Legislation the occupation the lobbyist will go When he is compelled to appeal his case directly to the voters and submit his designs to the scrutiny of public disussion, he will conclude that his game is up; and thus about the worst, most selfish, corrupt and demoralizing phase of our political system will be at once removed. Under Direct Legislation, bribery will cease and the sovereignty of the people will be something more than an empty name. The curse of our land is purchasable legislation the practice of our lawmakers to sell out the masses to the highest bidder. The Reformer, Kingfisher, Okla. of |