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Show VOL. 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE POLICE JUSTICESHIP. Some weeks ago we published an article charging Judge Wenger with certain acts that to our mind were outrages on justice and humanity. The facts upon which these charges were made were obtained from disinterested parties, and we had at the time what we believed sufficient proof ' to substantiate them. But we have always stood ready and willing to modify or even withdraw the charges altogether if shown that we were wrong. As we have said before, there are no personal feelings in the matter; that as a man we have always rather liked Judge Wenger; that his acts were chargeable to his natural unfitness rather than to any disposition to do wrong. The Judge has not seen fit to deny any of the charges made, which of itself ought to be sufficient proof to the unbiased mind that the charges are true. Lately, however, mutual friends have put the matter Equarely to him and asked whether or not they are true; which has elicited from him an acknowledgement that he did the acts, but believed that his policy is the correct one; and hence, by implication, admits that will pursue the same course. if For instance: We charge that some months ago two men were brought before him charged with trespassing upon the property of the railroad company by sleeping in an empty box car. One of them had his trial and "took his medicine, which was ten days in the city jail. The other asked for a jury tnal. It was granted. The jury found him guilty of sleeping in a box car. The Judge gave him eighty days in jail. The extra seventy days were given as a rebuke to him and as a .warning to others for demanding a trial by jury. Judge Wenger admits that his custom is to do the thing charged above; giving as his reason for it that he wants to expedite business by discouraging jury trials. If that be true and we now have the undisputed proof of it the thing to do is to defeat him ; and we believe that every man and woman in this city in whose breast there yet remains one drop of the milk of human kindness or one spark of patriotism will say, Amen! The question is: How can it be done? It goes without saying tha; to defeat Wenger some one else must be elected There is no other way to defeat him. To defeat him, some other man must get more votes than he does. Then the question is: Who is that man? Can the Populists name a man at their convention tomorrow who can defeat Wenger? We may as well deal frankly with facts. It is safe to say that no matter how good a man they may nominate, he cannot. Then the question is: Shall we, who profess to be on the side of unfortunate, n humanity, take the chances of tyrant turned loose having this upon them again lor the next two years? down-trodde- cold-bloode- d Shall we miss this opportunity of doing something for the cause of these people who are the known victims of a vicious system of which Judge Wenger is an outspokVn These are questions that every believer in humanity-lovin- g his own heart and justice will take home to hearthstone and ponder over prayerfully advocate? warm-bloode- ADVOCATE. INTER-MOUNTAI- N defeats him is of minor importance. The successful man might be little better, but we are safe in saying that he cannot be worse. The right of trial by jury is a constitutional one, and .a right that was purchased with the noblest blood that ever coursed the veins of patriots; a right that was bequeathed as a legacy to us all; a right that we propose to defend; a right that no upstart of a police justice shall in silence be allowed to either deny anyone who desires to exercise it or to inflict a punishment for so doing. There are three courses open . to the convention tomorrow: First, to nominate a candidate; second, to ltave the ticket blank', thus leaving Populists free to act as they individually think best; and third, to endorse one of the candidates already nominated. .To do the first would (as we have already shown) only tend to divide the forces against Wenger. To do the second would leave the people untrammeled. To do the third would possibly do little towards centralizing the forces and would savor too strongly of fusion a proposition that we oppose on principle; but we see nothing out of the way in leaving the place blank by not making any nominatien. Again, the question is, if an endorsement is made, who should be endorsed? The Socialist-Labo- r party .has nominated Mr. Lambson, but an endorsement of him would be open to the same objections as that of putting up a Populist candidate. ticket contains the name The of Mr. Woolley. Personally, we know little of Mr. Woolley; but the fact that he is the nominee of the bankers, bondholders and franchise-grabber- s of the city puts him beyond consideration by Populists at all.art So there is but one man left - for us to endorse, and that is J. B Timmony, the Democratic nominee Of Mr. Timmony we know but little. We are not extolling his virtues, for he may have none to extol, so far as we kaow. We have never spoken a n words to the man at any time. It would simply be chancing a man who may possibly be unfitted for the office against a man whom we know is unfitted. But we would be in favor of giving him the benefit of the doubt. NO WORK, DID YOU SAY? The man who says there is no work in this country is badly off the truth. There is work that should be done all around. In a short time the people of this city will begin their usual winter custom of tramping through mud. The hills are full of stone and the streets full of slush, and thousands of men doing nothing. A rough estimate shows that there are not less than 1,200 miles of unpaved streets in Salt Lake City. No one dare to say the streets do not need paving, for they do; nr one need say that it would not beautify tin city, for it would; no one need say that tin people do not want the streets paved, for they do, And yet it isnt done. The people are too poor to have it done, or at least they think so. But we believe that a system of public works might be inaugurated by which all the unemployed might be put to work. A great deal of these unpaved streets face on vacant lots; in fact, one-hal- f do. These lots are held by speculators for an increase in value. They are playing the dog business of not using them themselves or letting anyone else use them. They are assessed very low because of the fact that they are vacant. We believe that the policy of fining men for being industrious and frugal is wrong. So we are in favor of raising the taxes on these vacant lots; and when we say raise it we mean raise it raise it so high that the speculating owners will be compelled to either put the lots to some practical, paying use or else give up the ownership of them altogether. They would do one of the two, and that right speedily under that system of taxation. Tax all the speculative value out of the land and use the proceeds for paving the streets. We refuse to believe that a man has or can have a right to the use of a piece of land that he himself is not using; but if these speculators really want to hold these lots out of use and grow weeds, let them pay for the luxury cf it. These are only suggestions to the convention. That body is not in any way bound to abide by or even consider the suggestions of this paper. We are not presuming to speak for the Populists, only as an individual member of that convention. No Populist aside from the editor will be called into account for the utterances of Living Issues, and Living Issues will not be called into an account for what the convention shall do; but our feelings in the matter at this writing are that Judge Wenger should by all means be defeated, and Living Issues will do what it can to accomplish that laudable end, regardless of what the Populist convention may or may not do. If it appears that supporting any one will do that we shall not hesitate to do so; not because we love him more, but because we love Wenger less. That our action in this matter will be criticised, there is little doubt; but for the honesty of our purpose and the rectitude of our intentions let facts be submitted to a candid world. Government by injunction has spread non-partisa- n " half-doze- before he casts a vote. Would it be better to divide the forces POPULIST CONVENTION. and elect this man or unite and defeat him? A Populist city convention for the purpose We are asking the people the same question of nominating candidates for Mayor, Rethat we have asked ourself. The people corder, Treasurer, Justice of the Peace, and Auditor for the city cf Salt to give an answer, but Attorney may not be ready Lake, and to transact such other business as we are. We say, defeat him. Defeat him may properly come before it. is called to if we can, but by union of meet at 2 p. m.. Saturday, October 16. in single-handethe Representative Hall on the fourth floor defeat him. Let that of the but we must; if forces City and County Building. be the paramount that let S. H. B. Smith, Chairman. be the slogan; Who the August Stein, Secretary. judgeship goes. issue in so far as d Successor to THE 15. 1897 The. metropolitan press is very much worked up over a report that comes from Kansas to the effect that the schools of that State are to become hotbeds for the promulgation of the Debs idea of Social Democracy. Possibly a more barefaced, lie was never started from any place for any purpose. We venture that in three guesses we can name the man who started it. We have lived in Kansas, and know the gang rnd are acquainted with their methods. We brand the whole story as a lie of the first water, without any foundation in fact whatever. thin-textur- J -- JM 1 1 IMiM I pui.l for, nor on NO 40. lfltna number it on tlift land con- onr name, hotter ir- uw illicit y quick, you'd an that ii tha niinibnr of the next iMtutt. No paiwr will tin tent for a lunger time than credit, except by epcii urruugemout. J tHiniuK PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY. We lay down as an equable proposition that John Smith should own John Smiths property; that John Smith should manage John Smiths property, and that whatever benefit that accrue from such management should go to him. We further claim that the same rule applies to Bill Jones and to Bill Jones' property; and, furthermore, that whatever rule applies to John Smith and Bill ones, applies with equal aptitude and force to every other individual. Possibly no one would take issue with the above proposition. Upon the same- - system of reasoning, we venture to lay dawn the proposition that, as private property of all kinds should be owned by private individuals, managed by private individuals and for private gain, that public property should be owned by the public, operated by the public and for the benefit of the public. Populists have always declared in favor bf separating the judiciary from politics as much as possible. A political judge is a bad thing, whether he be Republican, Democrat or Populist. Justice knows no politics, and should know none. The Coming Nation says that if the passenger trains were filled, the rate could cent per mile. To easily be made one-hawhich we would like to add: If the rate were per mile, the trains would always be filled with passengers. lf one-half-ce- nt has really been reached. A man near Canton, O., sold his wife and six children for $ioov A little while ago wives were only quoted at $12.50 in Missouri. This is quite an advance in prices, considering the half a dozen serious incumbrances. Los Angeles Labor World. . Prosperity There are thousands of pounds of apples on the ground. An evaporator would rotting change the scene. Who is public-spiriteenough to start one going next fall? Payson Header. And there are thousands of people in Salt Lake City who have no apples, although they would like to have them. The cities of Payson and Salt Lake are about sixty miles apart and two railroads connecting. And these roads are continually running empty cars. Did it ever occur to you that there is something out of joint while that condition of affairs exists? . d A home is a necessity, yet no other sort of out so as to cover not only labor strikes but property is so well taxed. In fact, it is the also privileges. Recently an necessities that are always in sight and so are taxed ; while the incomes of the wealwas issued by a federal court for always injunction the greater part of which is luxury rethy bidding th removal of a couple of office- mains untouched. When we tax property we holders in the internal revenue service from tax a man for having had money. When we their billets. At the present rate of develop- tax incomes we tax men who now have the ment, government by injunction will soon be money. The Southern Censor, Richfield. so inclusive as to leave little for the people to The Censor is quite right in many things do but to obey injunctions. Cleveland (O.) it says. The custom and that custom is office-holdin- g Recorder. There are few political leaders. Nine hundred and ninety-nin- e out of every thousand political leaders are the most abject followers of public opinion imaginable. They never get out of their tracks until the crowd leaves them. They are invariably the last to move forward on a new line of thought or action. d If Judge Wengers theory is a correct one, why not do away with jury trials altogether? If one mans rights can be jeopardized in the interest of expediting business, why not another? Why not all? The only way to solve the child labor question is to make it possible lor the parents to procure the necessaries of life without the aid of the children's work. The proposed sustained by law is that we encourage men in holding land idle, while we discourage men in being industrious by taking the taxes off vacant lots and putting them on the improvements. The opposite ought to be done: Take the taxes off the improvements and put them on the vacant land. This would soon deprive vacant land of its commercial value, the very thing that ought to be done; then everybody could have a home of his own, provided, of course, he is industrious and .frugal. Remove the incentive to hold land out of use and no one would want to do so. No one would claim a piece of land unless he expected to use it. The Censor is quite right in its condemnation of the idea of making money more sacred than property. It is extolling the shadow and destroying the substance. Yet it is true that today money is the only sacred thing out. A man may invest $5,000 in money in a $6,000 property, and the balance of $1,000 due on it will finally consume the whole. Great fears are entertained and many laws are passed to keep up the money to its full value, but property which is real wealth may shrink up to nothing and no thought is taken of the matter at all. Every tendency is in the direction of encouraging men to hoard their money and to hold their lands idle. well Pacific railroad settlements give the corporations about $210.000000; that is to say, the government gets $46,000,-00- 0 for a property worth 5256,000,00a Put none but true and tried men on the ticket tomorrow. If such cannot be found, leave the places blank. Let no trading be considered for a moment. |