| Show raised by the liberal aang ATTACKING THE PEOPLES PARTY A mess of tion and the chairman of the territorial central committee of the liberal party has been adding oral remarks to his printed attacks on the peoples barty they are equally unreliable and would be misleading if they were not BO erroneous here are the principal charges he makes as a representative of the liberal elements the system which has been built up by the peo pies party he says is based upon abo idea of communism this the growth of the intellect and here in utah we have our dukes and our earls and our barons the result is that millions grow up in poverty while wealthy citizens are stir rounded by luxuries that millions suffer and remain poor and their children are and the state is injured that giant corporation zions coop co op is a commercial ana conda which encircles in its folds every man of moderate means who seeks to do business in his line and completely crushes him out of existence in political matters everything is prepared in secret conclave the members of our city council whenever any problem arises of vast interest to the public close the doors and enter upon an executive session where the voter cannot go the people receive no value in return for the money which they contribute for the support of their municipal and territorial governments we are not possessed of adequate water rights and water privileges and the only answer we receive is that god has brought the drouth and that we have no right to complain and criticism criticise critic ise those who have so wisely expended the peoples monay the liberals of this city own more than half of ahe real estate the liberal platform is equal rights to all no privileges for the few and equal rights to the many etc etc this is the sort of stuff dealt out to the small knots of liberals who congregate for political purposes if ahe object in view is to stir up men billed with bitterness to still further hostility to the majority here it may have the desired effect if it is to win votes from the peoples party it is the very essence of folly because every peoples party man who is not insane knows that this twaddle rs a mesa of misrepresentation representation mib and positive absurdity and that it maligas maligns him in common with all his political associates Black guarding men and then inviting them to vote with you is a singular method of making political converts now the idea of communism forms no element of the principles of ahe peoples party nor of any system which it has built up communism is foreign to the faith and purposes of the peoples party and of the church to which most of the members of that party belong therefore all the dire results of communism which the fancy of the liberal orator has painted are based upon a fallacy so with his flights into feudal times and his reference to barons and dukes and jearls and the millions who grow up in poverty and the millions who remain poor etc as the result of these imaginary orders of nobility the speaker must have cut bodily of some old speech suited to the old world all this how many millions are there impoverished by barons among the two hundred thousand of tion how many millions are there uneducated in utah to the injury of the state before we have any stater does any liberal whether inebriated ebria ted or sober pretend to gay that there are no misery and poverty and lack of education among the great states of this nation far away from utah that there is no wealth sur rounded by luxuries while the mil lions grow up in poverty in regions where the peoples party is unknown or would he venture to say that there ire no inequalities among the lib there no poor no uneducated no suffering among hem if thay own half the real estate in this city is not that property in the hands of ant a few of their number while the many are landless the truth is that prosperity is more evenly distributed among those who belong to the peoples party and there is less aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few than among any other people of eagal numbers in the world and whatever inequalities exist are no more chargeable to the peoples party than they are to the glittering stars and moderate means or of large or small means has Z 0 AT L crushed out of existence if some merchant anxious to make huge profits has not succeeded be cauce the effect of Z 0 M L busi nea ne a methods has been to ensure goods to the purchaser at reasonable po c who but the unsuccessful in his caubo to complain and what ia all that to do with the peoples party that party does not run or control Z C MI why not malio the peoples party responsible for the high price of sugar and the low price of political buncombe T and so political matters here are settled in secret conclave are they what a remarkable state of affairs how are they settled among the liberals do they hold no private and secret conclaves and pick out the man who shall be candidates do the democrats south and and the republicans north and parties in the east and the west never settle political matters in secret conclave no we happen to know that there is less of this among the peoples party than elsewhere there is in our opinion not enough of it we believe that more conference of leading minds to talk over the ritaa lion and give direction to public sentiment would be beneficial and there is nothing of importance set tied upon among the peoples party but has been done in the bright light of day deeds of darkness ing in political fraud belong to the party of misrepresentation and trickery and are illustrated in the history of thoele tooele and ogden the city council sometimes goes into executive session well what legislative and deliberative body does not Is there anything rong or unusual in that and are there not live liberal members in that caun aih are these gentlemen to be held up for censure on that account by his liberal orator what anvel will he pour forth next when he nonsense about the peoples party and the people receive no value tor their taxes where does the revenue go then has any city councilor liberal or peoples pocketed the taxes what about the regularly published reports of income and expenditures are not the taxpayers furnished with full accounts it is not a fact that the people here are more faithfully served at less cost than in any other municipality of the same size anywhere the remuneration received by a city councilor is the munificent sum of a year Is not this a marvelous financial prize te struggle for and then there is the water question it ass been a great vexation the liberal way with it ia to growl and stir up contention but throw no light cupoo it the city officials are solving the problem quietly but efficiently but they have never eaid we have no right to complain or to criticize the peoples party have held meetings for the purpose of hearing complaints and criticism therefore it is a direct falsehood to say they have declared that people have no right to discuss the matter of the acts 0 those who have expended public money it is not true that liberals own more than half the real estate in this city but if they do they who own it are not those who take the stump and pour out and falsehood and at the same time pose as pure and honorable meek and truthful citizens these are they whose names are noi on the tax list ab all or if there they contribute so little to the revenue that the whole of it pave a rod of street or lay a single pipe the liberal platform does not favor equal rights to all it proposes to take away every political right from every member of a particular influences to do this in idaho its purpose is to do it in utah it is neither republican nor democratic nor americal Ame in any sense its object is to place utah in the handy ot a few that is fifteen persons not answerable to or elected by the people to make laws and prepare the way for a loigu of spoliation and plunder it means the extinction of local popular government and the establishment of local tyranny if the purposes of the liberal party are infamous the logic of its public apologists aud supporters would be no less wicked were it not so weak it is simply trash of the feeblest and most worthless kind and any peoples party voter who can be caught with such miserable nonsense nou sense pac into words ought to go over to the liberal party he would be in congenial company and his defection would be a strength to his former associates we hope these liberal orators will continue their remarks if they do not help to make up dilatory peoples party voters and stimulate them to come out and sustain thir own ticket on election day it will be simply because the sound thereof has failed to reach them go on with the tin pan tumult news |
