Show I i THE BOCK RAILROAD a 11 I Anothtr Earnest Protest Against it Editors Herald It is with no small degree of pleasure plea-sure that I have noticed the rising storm ggainst the Bock Railroad jam j-am glad to see thatpeople both feel and duly appreciate the insults flung into their faces by corporations and monied men in ignoring their wishes aad comfort Now in this particular case a few soeculators took it into their heads tat it would be a splendid enterprise to build a road from the mountains to the U C depotin fact they saw money in it To obtain this they did not care a continental about disturbing the comfort and of quiet residents on miles of streets nh rto > vvo vrt depreciating the I value of their property of arousing i their axity for the real or imaginary danger of their children the ruining of their houses and lots etc These same men seem to think that a few p d try dollars will be a sufficient t plaster > for all this heartache but they are mistaken The feelings of the people are not alwtys a mer ant He article I am not law erenough to know what rights tne law grants to railroad companies out 1 have heard it said that this comPany will locate their road just where they please in spite or all opposition from the people and Cit Council It is Euch expressions that breed bad blood It is a deplorable fact that of late years a shoddy aristocracy aristo-cracy has been developed here which cannot comprehend any nobler tributes than wealth and a man who has not yet the means tomeet them in their own areua is looked upon with disdain As for the bulk of our p pulation the working claesesthAY have no rights that we should respect If they are in the way of our aggr iidizement Thev manifest a feeling pretty m jch the the same as Vanderbilt when he said The public be You know it dont you > It is this disregard dis-regard for the wishes and comforts of tbe lower classes that has given birth to the Nihilism of Russia the Commune of France the Socialism of Germany the Fenianism of Ireland and the working riots of America and otfier places The peopre oegin to wake up to the conviction con-viction that the riches of the kings nobility and aristocracy have been wrung out of their sweat and sins sin-s they begin to understand that they are the foundaion on which this dazzling structure rests ands and-s conviction engenders envy hatred and revenge We need not go far from home to find illustrations illustra-tions of this Take for instance our own Cache Valley A more quiet < peaceable submissive people cannot can-not oe found anywhere but see what a bitter feeling has been aroused among them by the opores sion and arrogance of the Union Pacific railroad I hope that the wealthy in our Territory will be more considerate and thereby avoid unpleasantness Y |