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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 14, 1938 Page 2. Utaf) labor Jtetotf OF THE A MEMBER Established 1929 This paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0, affiliate. -- 04 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Advertising rates by request. $1.50 per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Tnhor News 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. ....Publisher M. I. THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON Office Manager . We stand for what the Constitution stands for "domestic tranquility, the "establishment of justice," and the "promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. born integrity of Grover Cleveland. Then came Theodore Roosevelt and the resurgence of the morals of democracy. lie, too, preached majority rule to end the autocracy of the same old type of opposition. He pleaded for decency in public as strenuous decency well as in private life. He laughed at those who called him unprintable names, and challenged again the small minority which claimed vested rights to power. Lauds Wilson You know how Wilson carried said it to Lincoln, to Theodore Roosevelt, and to Wilson. Strangehad no ly enough, although they in a peoples governconfidence demanded that a peoment, they confidence have government ples ion can bo easily located. I wa3 interested the other day to read the report of a correspondent of a London financial magazine who had recently surveyed conditions in the middle west and other parts of the nation. He found a point of view in other parts of the country wholly dif- In my message to the congress ferent from that of the last, I made it abun- financial centers, such principal ns New dantly dear that this administraand York, Philadelphia and Chicago. the needs, serve tion seeks to And he found this other interestto make effective the will, of the Wherever an development: ing our overwhelming majority of is controlled enterprise locally its citizens and seeks to curb only have local a indemanagers and privilege by abuses of power view. of But when on the fight. If the cataclysm of small minorities. Thus we in turn pendent point the business is controlled from the World war had not stopped his are striving to uphold the integfinancial centers, the local great our of hand, neither you nor I would rity of the morals takes his cue from what manager today be facing such a difficult democracy. his are saying and reflects bosses and reform. task of reconstruction There is an ancient strategy the state of mind prevailing hunOn the eighth of every Januaiy which we have seen recently emmiles dreds of away. we honor Andrew Jackson for his ployed whereby those who would from an outsider, conviThat, seek to the a contribution dominate or people, unending exploit firms our traditional democratic tality of our democracy. We look to delude their victims into fight- antagonism to concentration of back on his amazing personality, ing their battles for them. And control over large areas of induswe review his battles because the in these days of organized nationthe needs of operating struggles he went through, the wide publicity, the strategy for try beyond deenemies he encountered, the (Continued on page 4) undermining a government attack feats he suffered and the victories upon minority abuses is to make he won are part and parcel of the this appear to be an attack upon Welcome, and Best Wishes to struggles, the enmities, the de- the exploited majority itself. 'Thus feats and the victories of those during the past few months atLabor for 1938 who have lived in all the genera- tacks on the misuse of concentions that have followed. trated power have been distorted In our nation today we have into attacks upon all business, big still the continuing menace of a and little, and upon our whole comparatively small number of system of private profits and Apartment Hotel who honestly believe in private enterprise. people During the 1 AND APTS their superior right to influence past few days I have been happy and direct government, and who to note a definite improvement Moderate Rates are unable to see or unwilling to of understanding on the part of admit that the practices by which many who have been led to follow Lights and Gas Included they maintain their privileges are this false guidance. harmful to the body politic. Source Easy to Locate After Jeffersons election over 5Uj So. Main. Was. 10282 The source and influence of their violent opposition, such peo- such misguidance of public opin Let us alone ple said to him do not destroy confidence. After Jackson had won his fight against the Bank of the United States, Labor Expressing Our Best Wishes they said the same thing. They on Monday ROSLYN , PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS TALK AT JACKSON FEAST (Continued from page 1) democracy, which rest on respec for the rights of and faith in majority rule. They knew, with the wisdom of the majority experience, that often makes mistakes. But they believed passionately that rule by a small minority class unfailingly for rule makes worse mistakes itself counsel from bv class takes the to heed and fails problems; and, therefore, the good of all kinds and conditions of men. In the long run the instincts of the common man, willing to live and let live, work out the best and safest balance for the common good. That is what I mean by the battle to restore and maintain the moral integrity of democracy. ; nt Misuse Power At heart, some of the small minority of the other side seek and use power to make themselves masters instead , of servants of mankind. At heart they oppose our American form of government. That is the cause of the great a struggle we are engaged in of maintenance struggle for the the integrity of the morals of democracy. And we are in the process of winning it. President Washington, feeling his way through the organizing years of the infant republic, questioned whether government would not be most safely conducted by the minority of education and wealth. But Jefferson saw that this control, if long exercised by a minority, would be destructive of a sound, representative, democratic system. He preached the extension of the franchise and government more responsive to the pop- ular will. Controlled Press Against him were almost all the newspapers and magazines of the day. And so, to disseminate their policies in every hamlet and town his associates resorted to printing simple leaflets and pamphlets. The handful of printers and editors who helped them were harried and arrested with the full approval of the great papers and magazines of the day. This was the first effort, with the cooperation of the owners of the press, to curb the essential freedom of the press. It failed just as any similar effort would fail today. Time went by. Men were not eternally vigilant and once more the control of national affairs was maneuvered into the hands of a group of citizens small in number. The governments face was turned toward the handful of citizens of the seaboard who owned the Bank of the United States and the great merchant and shipping companies. The governments back was turned on the tens of thousands of pioneers who were settling the mounand spreading over tain regions into the ' new country that lay westward to the Mississippi. Jackson took up the battle of these pioneers of the wrest and south and the battle of the inarticulate poor of the great cities. For that, like Jefferson, he was called a rabble rouser. He had to fight the same evil Jefferson fought the control of government by a small minority instead of by a popular opinion duly heeded by the congress, the courts and the president. The Bank of the United States was the purse and sword of the ' and with it were opposition, all those who, like the aligned in Jefferson's Federalists early day, were at heart in favor of control by the few. With it were aligned all of the nationally known press of the day, with the exception of three newspapers. The bank sought to array all the money in the country against him. Fight Was Won No one who reads the history of their period can allege that either Jefferson or Jackson attacked all of the bankers, all of the merchants or all of those of wealth. Nor can anyone say that even a majority of these elements in the population were opposed to either one of them. The fight was won as all such fights are won in the long run because Jackson was fighting on the side of people whose instincts did not fail him. He was fighting for the integrity of the morals of for for 1938 IN THE MAIL Editor Utah Labor News: Please excuse delay in remitting. I appreciate the good work being done by yoqr valued publication. Wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year. J. W. M., Salt Lake City. Editor Utah Labor News: Heres subscription to my favorite paper. You are doing fine work in behalf of democracy, and you should have the support of every democracy-lovin- g citizen of Utah. M. C., Salt Lake City. NORGE INTERMOUNTAIN CO. 56 EAST 4TII SOUTH WAS. 8343 Best Wishes to Labor my Utah Labor News: As a , Editor successful business man I have read the Utah Labor News for many years. I shall do all I can to help you in your campaign for education in behalf of democracy. E. J., Provo. Editor Utah Labor News: I take to congratulate you for your fearless stand in behalf of justice and democracy. I am an eager reader of your publication. J. C., Salt Lake City. this opportunity Editor Utah Labor News: I am for 1938 FAWCETT and PESSETTO GENERAL BUILDING 3322 SOUTH CONTRACTORS STATE PIIONE HY. 1890 Happy New Year TAYLOR MORTUARY CO. 125 North Main Was. 320 Salt Lake City a successful farmer and you cerwent by. tainly voiced my sentiments in and was vour editorial in the December 17 democracy. Another generation Lincoln emerged scorned for his uncouthness, his simplicity, his homely stories and his solicitude for the little man. He faced opposition far behind his battle lines from those who thought first and last of their own selfish aims by gold speculators in Wall Street who cheered defeats of their own armies because the price of their gold might rise; by army contractors who founded fortunes at the expense of the unboys at the front willing to support their people and their government unless the government would leave them free to pursue their private gains. Upheld Democracy He, too, fought for the morals of democracy and, had he lived, the south would have been allowed to rehabilitate itself on the basis of those morals, instead of being reconstructed by martial aw and carpetbaggers. There followed an uninspired commercialized era in our national life, lighted briefly by the stub- - Best Wishes to Labor KIMBALL ELEVATOR COMPANY, INC. KIMBALL SALES PASSENGER AND FREIGHT Maintenance on AIL Makes 139 MOTOR AVENUE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH R. W. Connole, President D. W. CONNOLE, Manager WASATCH 1848 PHONES HYLAND 3956-R issue under caption, Farm Group. Reactionary I am glad there is one publication that to the reactionaries dares to point in farm, labor and business organizations. A. F., Farmington. CENTURY Editor Utah Labor News: En closed my subscription to the best paper in Utah. I am sure some of the local economic royalists do not like your fearless stand for democracy. P. F. R., Salt Lake City. PRINTING Editor Utah Labor News: Find enclosed my renewal subscription to your fine paper. I see your bitter foes have made a mess of the state federation of labor. Of course, you cant expect anything different when all the statements of policy come from a lawyers' office. H. F, N., Salt Lake City. Utahs oldest and largest UNION Printing Plant |