Show THE PUBLIC PULSE Communications under this head are published pub-lished on all proper subjects at the responsibility responsi-bility of the writer The amp Sophistry To the Editor of THE HERALD I have read your editorial of last Sunday on Why Bounties Are Undemocratic and am still groping in the dark I am unable to seo why bounties are undemocratic undemo-cratic or otherwise or what any political party has to do with the domestic economy of a new country whose very pioneers are still living and battling for something to cat and wear I studied carefully the wholo text of the editorial for I thought in that I would find the key to Inn HERALDS opposition oppo-sition to tho sugar bounty and its unaccountable unac-countable advocacy of some other things But the more I studied it the more was I filled with surprise and painsurprise that one of your intelligence should presume on the ignorance of your readers by such untenable un-tenable construction of language nnd pain that BO powerful a journal as THE HERALD is should lend its influence in such a cause What has Republicanism or Democracy to do with such questions Why not STAND ox BROADER GROUND than the choked and narrow platforms of party prejudices Why not rise up out of the quagmire of party blindness Your quotation from an encyclopedia the name of which you forget to give is unfortunate unfortun-ate for it impresses the reader with being a detached part of some ancient Democratic Demo-cratic document and absolutely worthless as applied to the primitive conditions of this territory Huilded by the obsolete barnaclecovered standard of Democracy would this last Lnlf of the nineteenth century be what it I is today tho wonder of gods and tho admiration ad-miration of mankind t The push and progressive pro-gressive spirit of the world would still lie hid in primeval fogs The oldfashion looms the pride of our grandmothers j would still bo weaving their homespun gowns the farmer would still be going to mill with a grist in one end of his bag and a stone in the other to balance it and tne I land would still be plowed with a heifer and crooked stick Lift THE HERALD out of thA old rut that was made by men long since dead for other times and be worthy the spirit of a newer ace and the prestige I of a great paper Let it not bo like the Dima mOle teat pamiuliy posies its spaaed snout through the earth close to the daylight day-light but never dreams of a beautiful world that is glorified by a sun whose beams bo will never behold You quote with approval from Adam Smith but who will stand endorser for Adam Smith Adam Smith has been IN ISIS GRAVE A HUNDRED TEARS and never set foot on this continent He knew no more of the telegraph the telephone tele-phone or the power press that mighty evangel of this inventive and wide awake age than did Nicodemus of the second birth Take Adam Smith from the abode of the dead and clothe him again with life and stand him beside Edison or a Howe or the living political economists of our day and he would bo a pigmy Adam Smith was a Scotchman nnd advocated free trade for Great Britain but what has the free trade of Great Britain to do with the sugar bounty of Utah Give us something from the newer thoughts of men and let the dead rest in peace It must be self evident to the most superficial super-ficial that the bounty proposed for tho little sugar plant at Lehi will be of vastly more benefit to the tiller of the soil than to the projectors of the enterprise Tho men who were bold enough and cood enough to risk their money in an experimental sugar factory in a desert wore philanthropists of the highest order for the money could have been more safely invested and with tho assurance of a greater profit t But of what use is a money lender in anew a-new country that is in need of a revenue I It is the producer and the consumer who I are the real bone and blood of a growing commonwealth If tho sugar plant at Lehi can be made to prosper others will spring I up all over the territory Sugar the necessary neces-sary adjunct of every table will be in easy reach of thi very poorest Transportation money that m w goes to make richer great railroad corporations THOSE MONOPOLISTIC DEVILFISH that fill the average Democratic mind with night marewill go to the consumer the cultivated area will bo many times multiplied I multi-plied everybody will want to plant the beet because it will find a ready market at renumerative prices and that beats all I Indirectly the bounty will put into the I farmers hand the power to pay his debts at tho country store and the small merchant will thereby be enabled to pay I the jobber in Salt Lake city Taxes on this increased cultivated area will be multiplied multi-plied many fold and the farmer will be able to pay it without feeling It because of I ills increased facilities for earning it and tho revenues of tho state will be correspondingly I cor-respondingly augmented and so the bounty will all come back Into tho treasurers strong box in the near future and bring with it tho assurance of a yearly increasing I increas-ing income In my solemn judgment every member of the legislature who voted for I that bounty voted to Increase the wealth I I of the whole territory and to give employment employ-ment to the deserving laborer and everyman I every-man who voted against it voted to put a I heavier yoke on unrequited toll nnd turn 1 this fruitful valley into a I homo for tramps j and at all future elections every mothers eon of them should be voted into retire I ment without pension The same spirit was abroad when tho building association bill was up for consideration con-sideration That spirit would let competing compet-ing associations from surrounding states 1 and territories come in and do business without taxation here against our own I HANDICAPPED BT A TREBLE TAXATION i Foreign associations fostered at homo by a light taxation or none at all will spend their money at homo to build tip thoir own I cities and marts of trade while ours weakened weak-ened by grieveous burdens and vexed by annoying and uncertain legislation will be compelled to dlschargo their workmen ands < and-s < finally go to the wall This is no fancy picture but a living fact The spirit that inspired the majority vote in both tho abovo named cases is indifferent to the welfare of the laboring classes und the wishes of their constituents and I speak without malice but in the interest of him I I who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow If my own political party believed I be-lieved in such methods 1 would never again vote with it while the world stands Had I been a member of that legislature leg-islature I would not only have voted for the sugar bounty bill and the building associations relief but I would also vote for a generous aid to Utahs exhibit to the Worlds fair and I would do this though I were a Democrat and it mashed Thomas I Jeffersons catechism into smithereens and the constituency in this neck 0 woods would say Will done I What great opportunity this will be to show off our resources and invite the stranger to come here and buy our lands and beet sugar How will any member of the legislature who votes against the subsidy feel when he visits the Worlds fair if wo do not show up to advantage with our neighbors We have the ready things that are worthy of a prominent place at the exhibition and with a little effort we can spare the means to maize the display God pity the rich miser who sends his little children ragged to school to be avoided andshunned likellit tIe outcasts by the children of more loving parents and God pity the wounded hearts of the neglected children Our behavior at the Worlds fair will turn the eyes of the world toward this gem of the mountains moun-tains or with averted faces everybody would pass us by Do you say these things are unconstitutional Theu I would rebuth the const ution and have one that would work But I dont believe It is unconstitutional unconstitu-tional In the worlds broad field of battle In the bivouac of life Do not like dumb driven cattle Be a hero in the strife strifeA A S CONDON OGDEN Utah February 15 |