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Show THE LABOR TICKET. The labor forces' of this city in politics pol-itics made their nominations of a county coun-ty ticket on Sunday. That ticket is a fairly representative ono of tho different dif-ferent labor elements in this community. com-munity. The platform is of the usual ordor some good, some bad propositions proposi-tions iu it. A great deal of what is commended and demanded would be quite impossible of realization, even though all tho Legislature should be composed of men pledged to its support. sup-port. No one has the least business to dispute dis-pute the right of the labor elements to enter iuto politics; they have just as much right to put a ticket in the field as any other set of voters have. And no one else has anything at all to say about it, any business cither lo interfere inter-fere or condemn. It is an American privilege privi-lege that every voter has, to vole as ho or she sees fit, without the shadow of iuterfcrence fromany ono. This right and this liberty is precisely what tho American party stands for and defcuds. Wo believe not only in individual freedom free-dom iu this respect, and iu combination freedom -to tho fullest extent, but we believe in tho practical escrciso of that freedom when any person or number of persons feel disposed to exercise it iu their own way. We desire, of course, that those who make this labor move in politics should understand precisely what they wish to effect by it, and that the method they have taken is tho method which they desire to pursue. At the same time, wc cannot "but regard it as unfortunate .that their view should be as it is in this matter unfortunate for their owu cause as well a3 for the general cause of American liberty in this Slate. The more thoughtful of tho labor leaders must sec that the great foe they have to fight here ic the organization which is supreme hud iu control; that tho combination which is moro hostile to them as laboring men, and. as organized labor, is tho ecclesiastical combine' which holds tbo masses of tho Mormon people within its clutches. The outspoken out-spoken condemnation by the hierarchic leaders oC all labor organizations, Iheir autocratic announcement that membership, member-ship, in the Mormon church is sufficient fur any and for all purposes including the protection of their rights as laborers, labor-ers, their sweeping demand that obedience obedi-ence to the hierarchy shall be conceded, and shall include every thing -vf iuteresf to man in this world and in the next, must surely awaken the attention of thoughtful men to tho fact that tho foe to them as laborers, as it is also tho great foe to American Iiberly in Utah, is the aggressive, selfish, monopolistic, pxclusiro ecclesiastical control here which dominates men's consciences and seeks to enslave every thought aud every act. And yet, if the laboring men nro unable to see this great and overwhelming over-whelming fact, we would upt in the least intcrfero in their liberty of action in their own way. We are firmly of the' opinion that they are mistaken from the viewpoint of their own interests aud desires in putting up a separate ticket at this time, whose only effect could bo lo take away from tho free and independent inde-pendent vote of this county some of the strength which of right belongs to it, and which, if rightly directed, would help to throw off tho overpowering, dominating oppression of church rulo in this city and county. We believe that ovcntually tho laboring labor-ing men here must sense the great fact of where their interest lies, and where the argument is with respect to their best interests. At tho present time, however, they .seem unablo to see this, and we can ouly hope that events will open their eyes and show to them where their true activities ought to center. There is but one great oppressive foe to freedom and liberty in all this region, and every one knows just how it gets in its work and how it ruthlessly crushes every ono whom it cannot control. con-trol. Tho only relief is iu the union of every free voter to combat and put down this autocratic assumption, and in that way alono the final victory in this State will bo won. Wo do not bo-lievo bo-lievo that the laboring mon will for long allow themselves to be side-tracked where they will be helpless either to help themselves or to aid the genera cause. |