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Show I v . . DRAWING TO A ClX)SE. The fiercest, best contested and most ' earnest political campaign ever waged in Utah, or the west anywhere, is now drawing to a cloBe. After tonight only two more working days intervene between be-tween the working days and the supreme su-preme lay, when the work of the battle bat-tle is to be summed up. The principles princi-ples foi which the democracy of Utah are contending are the highest and most unselfish which have ever beckoned beck-oned men to battle. Here we are in the interior of this vast continent, hundreds of miles from the sea coast and dependent more or less upon the transportation policies of the government govern-ment and upon the tariff, more than any other state of the union. McKin ley and Tom Reed are abroad in the land teaching us of the interior that the policies applicable in Maine and New York are those which will best Berye us of the mountain states.They f or- eet or ignore the thousands of miles of rail transportation which lie between us and the Bea board markets.the differ-eace differ-eace between water and iron rail transportation trans-portation They would not have ub buy where we can supply our wants at the lowest price, or sell our productions where we can get the most for them. They propose to shut out all competition competi-tion in manufactured goods and place us completely at the mercy of those combinations and monopolies of the eaet, which have already secured immense im-mense wealth. In other words, they would perpetuate the prosperity of the mill men as well as the poverty and distress of the workmen and force the entire west, like Utah, to purchase of the east upon their own terms ac.d at the'j own prices. This is all natural and it is very like human nature from their own stand-point of observation. But is it human nature for us of the west V to go on in this way? Is it not rather natural that we refuse to farther vote and do business upon the lines laid down by our eastern task-masters? Would it not be the more manly part if we called a halt and studied well the principles of this loudly vaunted party of protection protection for those already al-ready enormously rich and the oppres- ! eors of those who art now distressingly Ipoor who are their unwilling servitors? In Utah our every interest is con-nected con-nected with democratic theories of tar-I tar-I iff for revenue only and are foreign to I every principle of protection, as the JL term is understood in politics. It is V natural for these people to urge It, but what can be said of the men of Utah who have tamely bent their own n ;cks to the yoke of the east and who are seeking to persuade their fellow Utonians to do so also? Ignorance cannot, in this day of books and newspapers, news-papers, be longer plead ,hI as an excuse for this BOrt of subseryiincy. Utah manifests a decided disposition to throw off this yoke and to act independently indepen-dently of the elave-d rivers of the east. If she does, we predict that iu four ears from this good day sh will be ' . '- one of the richest and most prosperous of all the newer states of the union. Having the market advantages briefly sketched above, both in selling and buying, buy-ing, taken with her own home products and home supplies, getting the best prices by means of the open markets of the world and being able to put aside tha princiol share of her gains, will I soon result in a degree of prosperity she has as yet only dreamed of. The way for her to accomplish this, or to assist others who are striving in the good cause, is to vote on Tuesdy next for the democratic (aadidates, to make of Ucah a staunch and reliable democratic demo-cratic state instead of joining her to the greedy protectionists of the east. Take the Massachusetts cotton mills, the Pennsylvania iron mills, the Pullman Pull-man works, and who iB it among them who proeper? Is it not only those who own the mills? How fare their poor workmen? Who are the slaves of this day?Is it not these same helpless people who have no voice or lot in hxing the conditions of the business except to vote as their masters dictate? Will we fix these conditions here as the permanent per-manent policy of fair free Utah? If so, vote the republican ticket. If not, vute the democratic ticket |