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Show Warren Fosters Paper. . VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE PEOPLES GUARDIANS. - It is a very wise provision indeed that when a man becomes incapacitated for business he may be taken into court and there relieved of all responsibility by having the court appoint for him a guardian. Recog-nizin- p the justice of such provision, there is a crowd of patriots in this city who have taken it upon themselves to do this tking not for one man, but for all the men and women in Zion. They seem to have realized the fact that they were the only men in the city capable of attending to this matter, so they appointed each man himself and proceeded with the work. They have perfected their labors, to their own satisfaction at least, so the people now have a ticket for which they can vote. The following is the list of patriots: W. W. Riter, capitalist and bank director. P. L. Williams, corporation attorney and bank director. T. G. Webber, president of the Z. C. M. I., and more ' or less connected with the banks. Geo. A. Lowe, carriage dealer and bank director. J. E. Jennings, secretary of Utah Sugar Company. p )hn Henry Smith, president of Furniture Company, back director, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ oi Latter Day Saints. of the New O. J. Salisbury, American Gas & Fuel Company, and banker. Jas. T. Little, president of Deseret Savings Bank. Bank. J. E. Dooly, cashier Wells-FargJohn T. Caine, patriot, available candidate for everything in sight. L. S. Hills, president of Deseret National Co-O- vice-preside- o Bank. W. S. McCornick, banker, bondholder and president of the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas and Electric Light Company. J. R. Walker, assistant cashier in Walker Bros. Bank. F. C. Geutsch, general super! tendent Pa cific Express Company. James Sharp, capitalist and bank director. There are several other smaller lights of the same stripe, concluding with the names of John Q. Cannon, editor of The Deseret News; Pat Lacnan, business manager, and C. C. Goodwin, editor, of The Tribune. These patriots got together and resolved First: The people do not know what they want. Resolved, second: We do know what the people want. Resolved, third: That we are the people. The resolutions having been fully and unanimously resolved, they proceeded to put up a ticket, which is known by the name of Citizens Ticket. WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS spirit of W. which some of the boys delight to tell: It seems that a few years ago Mr. McCrnick had a worthless, careless painter finishing up the work in the room now occupied by the bank. He. through his fixed up his scaffold after a most unstable fashion. The scaffold fell, striking a fine office chair in which Mr. McCornick was at that lime sitting, literally making kindling wood of it. The fall also broke the painters neck, who died on the spot. The action of Mr. McCornick was considered very manly by some. Notwithstanding the fright that the tumbling down of the scaffold gave his nerves, and the delay occasioned in the work of painting the bank to say nothing of the horrifying spectacle of a miserable painter actually dying in his house and right under his nose, and the cost and annoyance of cleaning the fl x)r of blood and debris Mr, McCornick only asked that he be for the damages done the chair. A most magnanimous thing to do, certainly! A man with a heart so large as that ought not to be in to questioned or hindered when he steps a of responsibility relieve the dear people which they ought to know they are not capable of carijfiag out. The laboring men, especially the painters, called upon to vote for Mr. McCornicks first-clas- s; state-owne- d, one-hal- ? some circumstances, they can be revoked and the property confiscated. If the situation were analyzed, it would be found that government is really, the owner of everything, and that taxes are the rent which it charges the holder and enjoyer of its effects. Surely, no other conclusion can be reached; for if property belonged absolutely to the individual he could control it without reference to government. And it is no more than fair that such should not be the case; for without the protection cf government, property ceases to be such and becomes merely the prey of thieves and robbers. Railroads are iron highways that really belong to the people, which means, or should mean, the government. They are all subject to the laws of the States through which they pass, and to those of the United States. The fact that foreigners own a part or all the stock of a railroad does not make it any less the property cf the United States. The time is not far distant when, without reference to present lines of party, the question will be agitated whether the government should not take possession of its railroad fairly those who have property, stock in the same, and conduct it as it now does certain other enterprises. Many voters will hold that the profits of such concerns should go to the people who own and patronize them, and that the losses, when they occur, should fall upon the country at large, rather than upon a certain number of stockholders outside the ring. We are cot discussing this question; we are only prophesying that it will arise, be seriously considered and voted upon; and we advise our readers to be thinking the matter If this number la on the label containing our name, yon'il better renew mighty quick, aa that ia the number of the next ieaue. No paper will be tent fur a longer tima than paid for, nor on credit, except by apeeiil urraauoim-ut- . a view is taken of the industrial we see the workers sinking lower when field, in and lower the scale ot living, when we see them submitting to greater and greater degradations from employers, when we see them blindly voting for the continuance of the conditions that is thus reducing them to mere brutes of burden, when we see them stupidly We notice among the reform books now struggling with poverty in stolid ignorance of offered tor sale, one called Common Sense the causes that have produced these changes readDo Paine. Thomas kind know, you iy during the past forty years, .it looks from that er, who Thomas Paine is? Well, we will tell side that it is futile to expect them to organyou: He is the same man that you have ize for their own good. They are divided heard your preacher say mean things about against each other on religion, in politics, in ever since you can first remember. Thomas nationality and in personal affairs, and it Paine lived a long time ago. Thomas Paine seems an Utopian dream that they will ever is the one man of all men else who is responsamalgamate and with their irresistible power ible for the Revolutionary War and its glorisweep away the conditions that oppress them. ous results. Thomas Paine is the man who But there is another side to this matter. That furnished the brains and whose pen inspired the workers are capable of working together the hearts of the Revolutionary fathers to for is shown by every strike that nobly do and to die for the cause of freedom. has occurred. Ia the present coal strike we Thomas Paine was the one man of all men find Catholic, Protestant, infidel, Moslem. that ever lived in America who was the real Republican, Democrat, Populist, Socialist, friend of the oppressed. You may now ask Prohibitionist, Irish, German, American, Belhad of before? this We not heard you why gian, Hun, Italian, Welsh, English. French will tell you that, too: Thomas Paine refused all kinds and manners of men standing shoulto believe that the book called the Bible is der to shoulder, starving and suflering for the inspired word of God. He was a firm what is feel mutual their rights. So it they believer in a God, but disclaimed that the will be in the future. When the time comes, Bible is the work of God. For this he was when the hour strikes, when the skirmishes persecuted; for this he has received the of Lexington and Concord shall have been of all the preachers in the land. fought, when John Brown shall have been Catholics and Baptists might disagree and executed then will labor unite in an irresistfight each other to death on points of faiih; ible strike and the forces opposed will be like but when the name of Thomas Paine was a cornfield attacked by grasshoppers. Everymentioned they were a unit, and are yet. thing on the stage today is only preparing Thomas Paine, my dear reader, is one of the the actors for the part they are to play when Natick's unburied dead. His works will be the curtain rises and the music of higher read more during the coming struggle than mankind. animate shall Every hopes day yrars brings its lesson, and the players are becomthey were a hundred and twecty-fiv- e ago. O that America could have but one ing more efficient in their parts. The evolumore Thomas Paine! tion of all life has ever been higher, never has it receded? and in accordance with this The individual who makes the statement immutable law a higher and holier social orthat silver is a credit money and that the der is evolving out of the present anarchy reason for the passage current of the silver and injustice. The people will win over greed dollar is because it is based on gold, or re- and cunning. The devil will be chained for a deemable in gold, is as ignorant of our thousand years and man will soar to heights financial laws as a hog is oi the hereafter. that he has ne'er yet dreamed. Well did The silver dollar stands on its own bottom, Shakespeare understand the world when he All the worlds a stage, and all the the same as the gold dollar, and is redeem- wroti!-- : able in nothing save taxes, labor or the pro- men and women merely players. Appeal to ducts of labor. It contains 40 cents in value Reason, Girard, Kan. as silver and the rest is fiat, pure and simple.. The Representative, Boulder, Colo. Attend the Populist meetings. ana-thema- es The Herald starts out on one of its learned editorials on The Way to Economize by saying that there is only one way in which to economize in municipal affairs, and that is to reduce expenses everywhere. This may be true, to some extent; but when it comes to saying that that is the only way, The Herald is badly off. If a mans horse is stolen, possibly the best thing that he can do under the circumstances is to walk; hut should he ever obtain another horse it would be proper for him to guard against further loss along that line. We do not believe in useless extravagance; neither do we believe in a niggardly pay for officers and others who work for the public; and when it comes to reducing the pay below the point where good service can be obtained, it is foolishness. So we claim that it is not so much a matter of expending the funds collected as it is a matter of how these funds are raided. If the city, instead of giving away its franchises that are worth millions, to corporations, and depending upon direct taxation for the running expenses of the city, had retained these franchises for its own use, the city WGuld today be practically out of debt and would have a source of revenue almost if not quite sufficient to keep the city up. We warrant that if Salt Lake City owned and operated its street cars, and would put the fare down to two cents, that the revenue to the city would be. great; if it had denied the electric light and gas companies the right of franchise and put in its own, that they would save thousands of dollars every year. Instead of curtailing needful expenses, the city council should exercise a little common sense. over, self-intere- NO. 38. ADVOCATE. N Nobody owns any land or anything, absolutely; his deeds are in effect leases from the government, under which he lives; and under S. McCornick is shown in the following story ticket. INTER-MOUNTAI- Will CurU'ton' Magazine, Every Where. Cornick. s, Successor to THE railIn Australia, on government-owne- d of miles roads, you can ride a distance 1,000 while workingmen can lor $6.50, ride six miles for two cents, twelve miles for four cents, thirty miles for ten cents, and to railroad men receive from twenty-fiv- e thirty per cent, more wages for eight hours of labor than they are paid in this country for ten hours. In Victoria, where these rates prevail, the net income from the roads is sufficient to pay all the federal taxes, which is another convincing proof the possibility of government without taxation. In Hunjary, where the roads are you can ride six miles for one cent, since and the roads were bought by the government the mens wages were doubled. Belgium tells the same story fares and f, and wages freight rates cut down doubled. Yet the roads pay a yearly revenue to the government of $4,000 000. In the United States, nnder private ownership, it is the other way. We have paid the railroads billions in land and money and are now paying them millions yearly for carrying the mail, and yet freight and passenger rates are so extortionate as to be almost prohibitive, while wages paid railroad employes are degrading and almost criminal in their smallness. Surely, America has a deal to learn from its various mother countries. In Germany you can ride four miles for lines. Yet one cent on the government-owne- d over are 125 per cent, higher than wages when the corporations owned them, and during the past ten years the net profits have increased forty-on- e por cent. Last year the roads paid the German government a net irofit of $25,000,000. If our government owned the railroads wc could go from Boston to San Francisco for $10. Here is the proo.'i The United States iays $275, for the. postal car .from Boston to San Francisco. A passenger car will carry ifty passengers, which, at $10 each, would se $500, or a clean protit of $225 per car; and this, too, after paying 5 per cent, on watered Sicck, which is fully 100 per cent on the cost of the road. These quoted figures are taken fiom a reliable source. Possibly no one in the city knows more of absent-mindednes- $ Uncle Sam, Cumberland, Mil. the manner in which tbe people have been robbed by the gas and electric light companies than do O. J. Salisbury and W. S. Mc- broad-minde- d 1897. THREE MILES FOR A CENT. NOTES. The generous, 1. People as a rule seem so frightened of Socialism or anything said to be Socialistic, yet when the principles of Socialism are de-- . nuded of the name they are sure to prove public benefactors as soon as the people have tried them. It has been rioting Socialin who usher to strove unmoderates, ism with massacre and dynamite, that brought on this disrepute. The public school and the United States mail are both parts of Socialism. Utahs mercantile houses and her irrigation systems have proved of the greatest value, but they are rankly Socialistic. It is more, not less, of adapted Socialism that the whole world is needing just now. The Southern Censor, Richfield. hot-heade- d People may sometime learn that there is something more involved in a campaign than the emoluments of the offices. That is all, however, that enters into the city campaign this fall, so far as any of the parties are concerned that have taken the field thus far. Not one word has been .uttered so far against the granting of franchises. The facts are that none of the men named are opposed to it. Brother Foster of Living Issues thinks that the State should own the irrigation streams of Utah. The State should own the streams if the communities cannot own them, but so far community ownership of streams has been so successful in Utah that the State would but be in the way. State ownership is needed in some neighboring States, however. The Southern Censor, Richfield. The return of Senator Teller to the dark and beggarly elements of Republicanism gives us another strong argument against any sort of collusion with old party men. No man should be trusted as a reformer until he gels sufficiently out of the shell to burn all bridges behind him. Teller has never been anything more than a Republican. If private ownership and private operation for private gain is so much better than public ownership, why not turn the postcffice over to a private corporation? Under private operation we warrant that it would cost cents instead of two to send a twenty-fiv- e letter. If the cannot Populists of Salt Lake find true and tried Populists I ulj .their ticket they had better not put ul all. Catching mavericks and bra I mg them Populists for candidates has had it! Cj 1 |