| Show NF ws I 1 ihnat I 1 the democratic c party to the people of utah that we approve the benti luent of facts and principles principle 5 therein set forth and t that I 1 bat tocoi wo amend commend through the a agency ency of the separate societies abe thee e principles rici ples and policies to the favorable consideration of the voters of the territory second that we ire our devotion to the cause of tariff reform and we reiterate our demand that the present illogical unjust and destructive system of federal taxation be reformed and remodeled in ia keeping with the necessities bics tics of 0 lecessi the times ond and the plain requirements e quire of justice to the industrial agricultural and laboring clas classes third that we commend the prompt pt honorable and thorough 0 action of the democratic house of representatives in passing by an imp majority a genuine measure fur for tariff reform and we contract with this manly inana and statesmanlike procedure of the house and condemn as an all outrage a a against 0 ainest the expressed will of tho the people the d dilatory dilatory and obstructive tactics by which the republican senators are arc using ra the time honored rules of the senate to delay mutilate and if possible destroy altogether gether c this democratic measure for t hc relief of an overburdened and tax ridden people and we call the people to witness that while thus month after mouth consuming the time and exhausting tho the patience of an indignant country these republican obstructionists ire arc taunting the democratic party arty with inaction and are actually prete pretending riding to cepure the baity for tle chuel and exasperating n delays caused by the unpatriotic and revolutionary tactics of republican senators supported in their nefarious course of obstruction against the will of tile the people by the whole republican Republic ail party in its efforts to defeat the re forms the voters have deina demanded B d C d with overwhelming majorities in ill three successive elections election fourth that we protest against many of the amendments au and d alterations te in favor of protected monopolies that have been made in the house bill by the senate and that we urge the democratic house to insist that the interests of the people be not subordinated to tl those ose of tho the trusts combines combine r and monopolies that rule the lie republic can party coid milan on fifth page continued front from first pa ac fifth that we commend without besic reservation ovation the democratic if in conic come tax provision of the tariff bill now is pending 1 as a im n just and honorable amendment to our sy system of federal taxation by bv means of which the wealthy shall be compelled to pay some orne of the expenses of government this pro position to place a light tax on oil tho the excessive incomes of rich persons and corporations in in order thereby to lighten soni some le of the burdens of taxation now borne by the laboring poor we ire regard as a characteristic democratic i measure and we cill call the atten attention tio n of f the people of utah to both the d determined e ter mined and of the income tax by the democratic leaders and party ut at large and to the determined opposition of the republican leaders and party to this just equitable and scientific method of taxation sixth that in the most solemn terms and sober words of warning we ve call the attention of the people of utah to the final struggle tr now goiti going 0 on between the plutocratic few that have really ruled the country and dictated its financial legislation in accent years under tinder the republican party parly ou on the one hand and the sixty millions of people represented by b the democratic party on tile the other wh have been robbed not only of an undue share of their earnings but measurably of their birthright of fie freedom Elom also also by bir the gio gigantic 0 antio corporations authorized by law to enrich themselves ot tile the of the masses of the people we live call tile the attention ol of the people to how 13 ow they ire arc flouted and mocked by this legalized aristocracy of wealth how their will is balked by this moneyed po how low every step toward tile the reform of the present system of tariff spoliation is impeded and perverted ted by open republican obstruction by secret ienir intrigue ue and it is even charged ir by bv actual bribery of the peoples representatives by these forces of plutocracy we call the attention of tile people to the notorious note riou 9 fact that the republican party is now the agent of the trusts monopolies and beneficiaries of the present tano system and as such is ready at any time to deliver the people into the hands of the moneyed and that the democratic party is is now struggling 11 as never before to loosen the grashof grasp of tho the powers of ill gotten w julilly ff to jhc thc zmer american lian people eople that participation in in the affairs of this government of which the rn moneyed interests inheres ts have deprived them 7 that we ask the people to be as is patient as possible under tile the delays enforced by republican ob and t the lie mighty powers of centralized wealth the Therein reineld ely though necessarily a slow one is in their own hands hanels and they the y cm cin dismiss s public servants f who d disobey I 1 s them or defy their will and that we ire give to the people the statement that while we are as impi tient as they can poc possibly be at the intolerable delay in the passage of needed legislation le isolation yet that th it any bachoua by the democratic party at this time would imply the peoples sanction of a government t liv by the wealthy few in the place of ofa a free fre government ON ern ment of for and by the people it would mean a perpetuation a t ion and extension of all tile the wrongs under which the people are today suffering it would mean additional tariff burde burdens ns by which wh jell the country has bas been dur gitig ing 0 the thirty years tho the effects acts of which it is now disgraced humiliated and prostrated it would mean additionally the renewal of such force bill legi legislation lation as might put an end to the last vestiges M of popular government NN we I 1 e therefore ell encourage cobrae co urae 0 tile the people to stand by their principles and never to relax their vigilance lence until the burden of unequal taxation shall have been lifted forever foreve r from the overburdened back of 1 labor abor and more inore equitably distributed upon the dealt wealthy by the luxurious and idle classes of society S that wo we favor the der democratic noc batic in proposition opposition to elect united states S senators Eena tors by direct vote of tile the people lest the senate should become a centre of organized resistance against agai the peoples will by reason of its lack of accountability to the voters at large 9 that we ire favor the li lish ment of the motley money of the constitution ution by means of the flee and unlimited coinage of silver at tile the historic ratio of ag 16 of silver to I 1 of gold 10 that we congratulate the people on the repeal by the democratic congress of the odious federal eral election laws thus returning h to the people of tile the beyer several a stales tat es the right to conduct their r own elections L it right wrongfully wrested front from tl them leni by tho the republican party in its endeavors to coerce voters and ors 11 that we con congratulate ho people of utah upon the home rule they now andoy for tile lie first time under the democratic tion all the appointees to federal fei leral offices bein being bona fide residents ol of the territory and selected without to their the irreligious religious 0 affiliations affiliation upon ahr th prompt action 0 the democratic congress in rest restoring oring the d dominant church of utah its llcy personal onal property propel prop eity ty and we favor immediate and similar notion action as to the escheat es cheated cI real property upon tha indefatigable and efficient labor of our delegate to congress congles lion joseph L rawlins rawlin in advancing vanc iii the interests interest s of this commonwealth mon wealth and in maintaining 0 the dignity honor and f of our territory and upon the prospect of the eaily admission of utah to statehood tat chood is as soon as tile the all lin important 1 octant question of tariff reform shall have been acted upon that wo ire invite the im ople to contrast the paltry undignified inefficient fici erit and till tate ni record of the late republican iio legislature of utah with tile the achievements of the democh democratic abic le that preceded it we as ask L the people to pass their judgment upon the republican publican ican abandonment of the cause of f higher 0 education in utah in order to provide funds fur for bounties to ile be given out of the public treasury to 0 o private individuals find and corporations po rations ioos aud and we confidently invite to people to a candid investigation ti atio of democratic principles principle and politics fully confident that tile the result of such invests investigation 0 aaion will he be the triumph of those principles in the territory and in the nation |
