Show o PEOPLES PARTY IDEAS OsJJOllJ The California lecturer Slakes a Street Talk J The Ionopolsts Arc holding the People iu U5Hl 1a c and the People Party ill Kcscuo Them J B Osborn the California Jabor orator and state lecturer of the Peoples party held forth in Salt Lake last night z He did not engage a hall in which to give his talk but addressed the people in the open air under the canopy of heaven because be-cause according to his way of thinking thfc open air and the sunshine were the only sifts of nature which were vouchsafed vouch-safed to the people five and that was only bpcauso the monoplist and trusts had liibiiCTto found it impossible to bottle up the air and the sunshIne and dole it out at as high a price as possible per cubic loot I In ancient times and not so very long I ago he said even in our own country millions of the human race wore held in slavery t bought and sold as chattels t and although the system of buying and selling human beings had been ostensibly abolished in realty the system still obtained ob-tained as one class of men still held in absolute bondage millions of their fellow jnen The capitalists who were the employers em-ployers held in servile chains the wage earning classes of the nations Although they couldj l not order the decapitation or other physical punishment of their victims they could do wLat amounted to practically the same thing that is cut off their means of subsistence by refusing employment to those whom they would and thus deprived de-prived of the means of livelihood the masses were in fact held in a state of slavery as absolute as any which ever existed in the dark ages The wealth of the world and of this country in particular particu-lar was being concentrated in a few hands and a plutocracy ruled with absolute say There were national trusts and local trusts which conspired for the enslaving en-slaving ol mankind He advocated so far as land was concerned con-cerned tho paternal form of government All men were born free and equal and With equal rights for the pursuit of I happiness and all had a just claim to the soil Separate man from the soil and he is deprived of his mother the earth to which ho had an inalienable right Time lands which belonged to the people were even in this country being acquired and held by trusts and capitalists and doled out to the people fora consideration paid in gold or labor and many men who Had worked hard for years owned not a place to lay their heads whilst their masters lived in luxury and idleness It was a common cry that the people who paid the taxes should have a voice in the government p0 it was just that it should be go But the question is who pays the taxes The landlord when he rents a house or a farm figures when he fixes the rent the amount it has cost him to make the improvements on the Jam or to build the house the sum the land cost I him in the first instance then the amount of the taxes and these are computed in the rent which the poor man pays for the land which rightly belongs to him and he it is who is the veal tax payer Trades unions were formed on the principle that in union there is strength and in the fight which is going on between be-tween capital and labor tho latter needs to unite its forces as the foe is powerful and concentrated Much good in the direction of securing the independence and freedom of the workingman had already been accomplished accom-plished but there remained yet much to be done The great struggle of the future fu-ture was to be between labor and capital and the former needed all its vigilance to 1 win or hold its own Both the old parties were denounced as pandering to tho rich and the party of the people was held forth as the panacea for tho evils of the times Mr Osborne will lecture tonight at the same place lIe had a large audience last night is a pleasant and fascinating speaker and has a voice with which he can make himself heard for blocks |