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Show ; l 3 Warren SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1898 VOL 4 Successor to THE mighty and will prevail. Those who get discouraged, as many do, should really rejoice that the right ideas have spread on such a grand scale. Ten years ago no one could have foreseen the present growth of the spirit is not sold: but the advan- of reform. Twentieth Century. correct some false reasoning. Retriever. The same security The St. Louis that is behind a bond. Medicine Lodge, Kan. ADVOCATE. NO. 28. common people, the proletariat, have it in their power to engratt any policy they like upon the country. Hence the folly and uselessness of talk about the enslavement of 'he masses. It is too late in the day to talk about any enlightened nation becoming enslaved. Alameda Enciual. The ballot" is no use with a misrepresent-ativ- e system which makes it next to impossible for the people to be represented, especially when they are further tied up by constitutions and courts. I he ballot" gives the people the form of voting, but not the fact. This proposition has been irresistibly demonstrated for years and never contested in detail. A representation" which is not proportional is no "representation" at all; it is a mockery, a delusion and a snare," as a rect vote, to which politicians of all parties are opposed, would demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt. San Francisco Star. a greenback Birber County Inde, is behind V The speed with are turning out millionaires and tramps, it will not be lung until all our people will belong to one class or the other. which we the rich and giving it to the poor may be a bad ihing and most certainly is, but to our mind it is not half so bad as rubbing ihe poor and giving it to the rich. Robbing ; the money that is paid The only way to purify politics is tp by reformers for papers which are working place the power in the hand$ if would, in the interest of plutocracy paid of the whole people. Advance Guard. Theoretically, this is the freest and ' out for reform papers, arouse the whole world purest government on earth. I'ractically, it ; contains more abject slaves and guarantees of its a Commonwealth, sense to danger. The government pays the railroads 8 the greatest protection to thieves of any New York. cents per pound for carrying the mail while nation on which the sun shines. they get only one cent for carrying mer Capital should not be allowed to absorb chandise for the express companies. If all the advantages of applied machinery for Stripped of verbage, there has never seems to us th?t Uncle Sam is getting it in been and never can be but one political questhe purpose of amassing wealth more easily the neck on that deal. Barber Co. Index. tion, and that is the question of how to preand more rapidly than he otherwise could. Medicine Kan. Lodge, vent one man from living uif the labor of The advantages of machinery lie in the savanother. The question is as old as the human the and and of life, expense, energy ing in their United the States The of people family. laborer as well as the capitalist has a right Statistics show that in 1840 there was do not seem to have a capacity corporate Stolze. in share these John to advantages. Under our glorious system of equal only one millionaire to each 2,000,000 of the single attribute of sovereignty. in which "moral worth and not own nothing. population, while in 189S there is one to rights, Let our laws but open the way to the They wealth" is the supreme consideration, if a They operate nothing. every 15,000. ragged to do such work as they can, in expoor man should announce himself a candiare at the mercy of contractors and They You cannot enjoy any of the benefits date for the United States Senate he would change for clothes; let them offer but natural corporations. Pittsburg Kansan. of money until after you have parted with it. be opportunities to the hungry to earn their laughed at. Strange, isnt it? bread in the sweat of their own faces; to toe Money is worthless as long as you keep it. When no one suffers from lack to supply The With the many advantages of the ninehouseless to exchange their labor for the opposite is true of everything else but his material wants, no one will care for laws teenth labor of builders; to all to satisfy their wants century, everybody who labors ought money. to assist him to rob his neighbor or to prebe in to as nature has ordained, by the application The fact that man has lived and traded not? prosperous and happy. Are they? Why bis neighbor from robbing him. Then vent Did you ever ask yourself why this is freedom of their supressed energies to our without none will be cursed by their own avarice, and trafficked with his fellow-ma- n thus? You ask how can it be changed? How? of soil, mine, forest, monpolized resources will not be esteemed a virtue. the use of money ought to be sufficient to and frugality tell us. You are as much obligated . . and citv lot; let those laws also open the way , show that there is no reason why men should Well, you there ,no !'mPUt,on t0 Wh'n ,reM "P we tell us are to tell you. to as of their trade the fruit, to then mutually to accept a money system that makes them Mrtb' T" industry, without paying either public or prihven.-Cha- rle. Clatk slaves to money. Why should men create a It is generally the case that the man UP treMur let this ju,. vate tribute, each with all-o- nly master that crushes them, as we have done? who knows the least of the teachings of tice be done, and there will be no necessity, , is the very same man who is the reform either real or apparent, for the sale our pre- - Notwithstanding the undoubted public is a startling fact that 15,000 hands can most against them. Indeed, we a outspoken v. do ,f.he work . that required the labor of ducts. We shall then have a limitless marketLeDtjj(g( favorable to thejnit'tf'1i,r IU: feel that' hands one hundred years ago-weL&egood reasons to. 4cubt the . 1, at home. All that is required to bring abdut jerend um one State legislature after another so .tJoooqb have the productive forces of lionesfyVFa man who abuses reform after he this result is to treat land that is not covered has declined to submit the adoption td a vote the enormously woi Id been increased by machinery! has fully investigated the case. r. Pulpit and Social Problems, San Francisco. by water as we treat land that is covered by 0f the people. The corporations which trol most of the State legislators live in con- Chicago Public. Give us a governmental postal telephone And what is more startling" is the fact stant dread of the Referendum. Legislation that the 15,000 are reaping all the benefits system and in less than ten years every reWhy should we worship the Constitu- - is now enacted in haste after preparation in that come from the machines, thus leaving spectable family in the land would have a tion? It was made over a hundred years ago secret. The magnates and the millionaires 1,985,000 people without anything to eat or telephone in the house. This is certainly an end most devoutly to be wished for, but it is by men who could have had no idea of pres- - find inesrimable the priivilege of going out any means for earning it ! e is stairs on back laws. to the No impor-wa very dangerous thing to say that you are ent day conditions. It hardly likely that pass Politicians in both old parties spend in favor of it, for that is Socialism, and would care to say what law would be just tant laws is ever really understood now be-i- n a hundred years from now what measure fore it goes into effect except by the class many a wakeful night mourning over the everybody, except a very few, knows that would govern justly fur all time to come, that had it enacted. Nowadays every mag-N- awful possibilities of some reformer "throw- Socialism is an awful bad thing. is it probable that Washington or Jef- - nate has his own private law, passed for his ing his vote away" by casting it for what he Money is an order on the gardener for ferson had any idea that the laws laid down personal benefit. That is why we have so thinks is right rather than to cast it so as to fellow some particular into an office. onions. If the gardener has no onions, your by them would be eternal in their applica- - many laws. It is a fact that a community help that isn't should it, of words men a with Strange, few can get along they laws none at keep these order is no good so far as onions go. The tion. Yet we hacg onto very lot a over of crazy cranks! same money, if a full legal tender, may be century dead, afraid to move for fear we will all, probally. The Initiative and Referendum sleepless vigils not conform to what they believed to be the would speedily weed out humbug laws and Why should it be any of their concern how used as an order for potatoes. But if no potatoes can be had your money again bedesirable thing at this time. As there are provide us with genuine ones. The earnest or for what these fellows vote? comes impotent. So on the list of differences of opinions as to what our fore-- men and women who are agitating this man has the cause of his articles. We are forced through who Every to the conclusion that really did think on some questions, ter aie to be congratulated for the good country at heart should take fresh courage should there be what were decide work is to It have nothing to sell money would already accomplished. we genuine something judges the following from Abraham Lin- be worthless. reading by tele-1 before a started such to have wide and valuable a ideas of colonial government coln. He said: Let none falter who thinks railroad, telephone or ocean cable cussion as is now in progress. The legisla-wa- he is If Congress had spent the same amount right, and we may succeed. But if, built. This country doesnt need a con- - tures will be less capitalistic some day. The after all, we shall fail, be it so; we still shall in trying to do something for its own people stitution any more than it needs a tail. If we Twentieth Century, New York, have the proud consolation of saying to our that it has in trying to help Cuba (?) what a . are to progress we cannot constantly be dig- conscience and to the departed shade of our wonderful change for the better there would rules of conduct to guide Just WHy THE common working class countrys freedom, that the cause approved have been! Think lor a moment: The amount ging up century-olus. It would be just as reasonable to refuse should fear to make departures in their of our judgment and adored of our hearts, spent would have put a public telephone or to ride on a railroad because our forefathers methods of government is hardly under- in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we telegraph office in every postoffice in the Away with prece- - Utandable. All or nearly all of them have rode on a stage-coacnever faltered in defending." nation, including the entire cost of poles, dents! The Coming Nation. to die some day. Billions have lived and wire, right of way and office fixtures! But died on earth and fought over "trifles light You may place a half dozen men side by what is the use of talking about it? When we Ideas are what tell. A man who devotes as air under the impression that some great side on the bank of a stream, each equipped come to think of it, that would be doing himself to the propagation of the ideas oi calamity would happen the world if their with a tackle, and probably one of the men something fur the people and that would be social views were not concurred in by the balance, will catch more fish than all of the other five. government ownership, Socialism, and you know that Socialism is a reform need never fear that his woik does Most of these issues are dead, as well as the It does not follow, huwever, that the other bad, bad thing. not tell. The results may not show them- - people who endorsed them the world still five must leave the pond all to him. They Great stress is laid upon the fact that selves in violent conduct. There may be no moves through space and, no doubt, would should at least have an opportunity to fish diiTer- - be no makes so It the side had other same certain rich people in New York have shown the doing as long as they desire, whether they catch just great political activity. indifterand of any particular question, at any time in ence. Beneath all the apathy many fish or not. But we do not use the some signs of patriotism. The Astor Battery are ideas the won Yet a have we to seem history, prevail, victory. today same sort of common sense and justice in is pointed to as a shining example of patrience that may the a moment people constituency of several economic matters. Under our laws, if a man otic plutocracy. We would like to ask: If the fermenting. At the very is unfortunate in the start he soon loses his rich are not patriotic, who should be? They seem most supine in enduring every form of millions that believe the United States revolution stitution be to the sacred a instrument divinely opportunity to apply his labor to Natures certainly have more to fight for than does the and oppression great of and who have a vague idea that the bounties and, without such homeless laborer of the land. They certainly opportunity, he may break out. This preliminary spreadlead- - inspired the before would sun cease shine to were document that must again earn an opportunity or else lose have more interests for the government to ideas has to be accomplished his can do radically changed or abrogated. There is no his hold on earth altogether. That is to say, protect than dues the man who has nothing. er of men, whoever he may be, that need of it this worship of a piece of parch-lov- e he, without an We insist that if the rich are not patriotic, be not any supposed opportunity to fish, must part It should does If it written ment by men one hundred years ago catch fish enough to earn an opportunity to thev should be made so; that is to say, if is lost or even neglected. not make its way it must be because enlight- is used only used for purposes of oppression, fish. Our laws are in keeping with the advice they are unwilling to contribute their proin Who today is so wise that they can draw up the old lady portional share of blood and money in time but simple-minde- d enment is scant. No matter. One man and laws which will be just today be wise in a earnest who convinces ten other men gave to her daughter when she admonished of war they should be compelled to do so. has which hundred are to not go near the water till she had If there is any man really excusable for not so that himself, as begun years makes them as earnest will The be the embodiment of justice to learned to swim. The Single Tax simply says wanting to fight for his country, it certainly they a revolution. Look at the country today. I vast army of men who are striving for social every individual in a nation lor all coming that the man shall always have a place to fih ought to be the man who has no country to is time? The Coming Nation. whether he is a good fisherman or not. fight for. reform must convine anyone that truth One-quarte- of r law-makin- -- N If this number is on the label conTHE FORM WITHOUT THE POWER. taining your name, you had better With the ballot in their hands, the great number of renew mighty quick, as that is the the next issue. HOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. A man "who is wil ing to work but cannGt get work has a right to steal breaJ. Cardinal Manning. In fact, land tages of occupying it. Land, merely as land, is worth nothing. This fact may serve to INTER-MOUNTAI- g all J - i1 con-wate- or mat-fathe- rs dis-grap- s d h. fetish-worshipin- g Con-tyran- kind-hearte- d far-seei- r .VI |