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Show 7 , LIVING UES Warren Fosters Paper. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH VOL. 4 TIIE EXTERMINATE LAWS. Our esteemed cotemporary, tlie Deseret News, in its issue of last Monday contained a very strong editorial favoring the extermination of certain outlaws who are plying their unholy vocations at various points in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho. It also calls attention to the fact that on the date of the editorial a conference of the several governors of the above named states was in session, with a view to perfecting some plan ly which these outlaws may be exterminated. It seems that their outlawry consists largely in The stealing cattle and sheep. News closes its article with certain suggestions as how to reach the end sought. We join the News in its efforts . against outlawry, and hope the four . governors may reach some successful method of coping with the evil. Other governors should do the same thing, and the work should be wide enough in its scope to include all kinds of outlawry by which and through which the masses are made to suffer. A worthless lazy cuss that silently steals into his neighbor's pasture and takes therefrom his cow, his sheep, his swine or his horse ought to he pursued and exterminated. There is no excuse for most of these fellows. A man who steals because he is hungry, or because his family are in need has some excuse for his action; but such is not the case with those of whom we are speaking. They are men who steal because it is easier to get property that way than it is to work for it. There are many grades and kinds of these despoilers of property, all of which ought to come under the ban of the governors. Take such a man as C. 1. Huntington. Through hw stealing andL legislative .mauip1 ulations, through bribery and otherwise, practically has possession of the state of California. In law he He did his stealing owns it. -- , n- - through law, but it was the same and ing all steal- was effects attended with same upon both the people and himself as though he had stolen in the manner adopted by the cattle thieves. We consider it just as bad to steal a railroad as it is to steal a cow, and just as great a wrong to rob all the people in the state as it is to rob one ranchman of a sheep. We, like the News, favor extermination of thieves. We favor exterminating C. I. Huntington! What do you say, Brother of the News? Do you say. Amen? Why not? We have in our mind another thief of the same kind, only that he is much smoother; yes he, is oily. This thief, through his various manipulations with legislatures, courts, railroads and other combines, has foisted a system of pillaging the people that is so perfect and so far reaching that none can escape his marauderings. The rich and the poor alike are compelled to wy tribute to this outlaw every day in the year. There is no avenue of escape, and he applies his force relentlessly on all and all alike. Not only so, but he is most devoutly religious. He claims to be the Lords special agent to rob the masses, on a big commission, a commission of 99 2 per cent of the gross receipts. The other 2 per cent goes to the Lord; that is, he says it does. We refer to John Rockefeller. He is an outlaw of the most dangerous type. He is not only an outlaw but he is above law. No law can touch him! What! . Is the News editor shocked again? Why not? If you propose to exterminate thieves, why not big thieves as well as little ones? Why pass by unnoticed the thief that enters force-abl- y into the sacred precincts of our households and steals from every unmerfamily in the land, while we of the exterminate purveyor cifully a fifteen cent donkey. There are a few other thieves we would like to see exterminated, and of our hope the governors, not only western states, but of all the states as well, will unite in the work, and terminapursue it to a successful in this us tion. Will the News join 1-- 1-- work? k NO WAR. OUT-- 1$. ! Up to, and at this writing, (Tuesday noon) we have insisted there will be no war with Spain. Nothing has occurred as yet to change our mind, although there may be before we get on the press. The reason why we have not and do not now believe there will lie war is, that a war at this time, with Spain more particularly is not wanted by s, and it goes withthe out saying that their will is law in America, in matters alike of war and peace. . This matter was fully aired some time ago by Mr. Ridpath in an exhaustive article published in the Arena. He showed that war with Spain was not wanted by the money ljords of the Earth; in fact Baron Hothclischild has recently joined the Quakers and is to work for peace the rest of his days, or until such time as his financial interests may bti served better by war. The facts are that Spain is now bonded for all she is worth, even under normal conditions, and much more than she is worth under present conditions, and a war at this time would come near, if not altogether destroy what value Of course the the bonds possess. United States can stand quite another batch of bonds, and were it possible to enforce an issue of United States bonds without a corresponding increase of Spanish bonds, war would ensue inside of a week, but suc-l-i is not possible. But they arc getting there after another fashion all right. By keeping up the war scare, without any war, this nation will continue to prepare for war, and in so doing will expend many millions which will be funded into bonds good gold interest-bearin- g sooner or later. Eliminate the financial feature, destroy the possibility of making an immense war debt, on which these ...'awr to feast and the war scare, together with the war itself would die out in a week. The whole thing from beginning to end has been a game of grab and gain. The Cuban atrocities would have been stopped two yearn ago, and Cuba made free by United States intervention, but from fear of imperiling Spanish credit. The cries of the murdered and the groans of the starving are lost sight of entirely, falling on deaf ears, ears made deaf and hearts made hard by this ungodly greed for gold. It is all right to talk patriotism, it is a very nice thing indeed, but it plays no part in the present case none whatever. It is reduced to a plain, business proposition of so many dollars and so many cents. Patriotism, love of justice, love of life, love of home, love of friends, love of everything that is endearing and enobling must be sacrificed in the most ruthless manner upon the altar of Mammon. And so it is. There will be no war. bond-holder- .blood-sucke- rs DESIRES UNDER SOCIALISM. Does it benefit mankind for any individual to purchase and awn a house? Would socialism destroy individual ambition ? (Hendrick.) Look about you and you will find on answer to your first inquiry. Men purchase and own homes today and what is the result? A few of the most cunning and unscrupulous own them all and the masses arc tenants like they are in Europe Judging by the effects I am convinced that mankind is injured by the theory of purchase and private ownership of the house. There is no more need of men buying homes, working often for years to do it, than there is for them to own school desks privately. There are houses people are enough now, but the houseless except by raying some other person. The working people build all the houses out of material furnished by nnture, and they were fed, clothed and housed by tin labor of other working people while they were doing it then why dc they not own them? Because of the theory of private ownership. It is impracticable because it does not work out ns it advocates claim. It docs not produce the product desired. If the homes were built by Successor to THE 1898 INTER-MOUNTAI- N ADVOCATE. NO. 10. the nation then thee would be K thU number la on tha label First, he can be a hobo and 1 Ciw7 cot tain in jronr name,' yon bad I all and Q all lie would in and about the able bottar ranew niihtiqniek, aa sleep barns, homes(for go la tha that of tha umiumimi. No number to occupy homes, and the rent begging food, but no decent man wUl ha eent for a longer time tbaa pail or, nor on on dit, except by apodal would go to the pubfic (themselves) would do that. is a crime for which von instead of the school ers, thus en- are Begging liable to get six months in the abling them to live oil other peo lies house of correction, and when your THE ANGEL OP DISCONTENT. sweat. Bellamy puts the case fair- time is up you can got out and then When the world was formed and the ly when he says it would be better take to bogging again then get anmorning stars 1 to have every one hold a stake in the other six months. Tpon their paths were sent, loftiest-lirowination instead of a private stake inThe of the angels This really means that a man side of the nation, for then each has must suffer was made imprisonment for the an interest in the whole and is inter- rest of his life. The angel of discontent. ested in having the whole protected. commit he can suicide; And he dwelt with man in the caves Second, To the second I would like to ask but he is not successful he providing of the hills, which would cause a man to be most may get ten years for the attempt. Where the crested serpents sting, ambitious one .dollar a day the or Tli ini, he can try a liohl-u- p And the tiger tears and the lf workers get now or the eight or ten the sand-ba- g calls for but that act; howls, he would get under socialism? 1 a sentence of twenty years or perAnd he told of better things. will admit it would .destroy the amhaps hanging. bition of men to enslave their felSo a man without work or money And he led man forth to the towered lows, for it would famish no oppor- is a criminal, either vagrant, suicide town, g and or a hold-u- p tunity to do it. The man. And forth to the fields of corn; 1 glory of the state would be the greatprocess, so Ami told of the ampler work ahead prefer the liold-u- p est incentive to the exercise of the 1 1 will some guns and For which his race was born. guess buy ambition of men, for men would la? tools, and try it before money my And he whispered to those men of honored Ijecause 'they had done is all gone. those hills he sees something for the welfare of the Some people will say, Why did In the blush of the misty west; race. The world1' today really you not save your money and try to And they look to the heights of his honors only such;- -' We do not get work in the spring? lifted eye honor Washington because he was I know, however, that I can get And they hate the name of rest. one of the most successful men no work, because I tried it for ten of his time in gathering private springs and summers, and 1 guess I In the light of that eye docs the property, but because he did some- ought to know. slave behold thing for' his race, Beside which If I could earn $1 a day I would A hope that is high and brave; honor all the lustre', of the gods of be very happy; but, then, there is And the madness of war comes into greed today will be offal from the no chance for me. his blood Does the world mouth sewers. I know if I break the law I will For he knows himself a slave. the names of Milton, Shakespeare he killed or put in prison, but then Dante, Angelo, Raphael, Corperni-ciu- s, death has no terrors for me, as I The serfs of wrong by the light of and the thousands of other have often risked my life working that eye March with victorious songs; really great men of the past because for $1.50 a day on the railroad. of their ability to accumulate private Perhaps the first man I hold itp For the strength of the right comes comes into their hearts property? Did the incentive of will have a wife and child depending When they behold their wrongs. private gain or the ambition to lord on him, but it can't lie helped. their fellows cause them it over I cant have a wife or family, lie 'Tis the by light of that lifted eye to do their work?Ts' Not in a single cause I cant work. As I know get mists re rent; errors That instance. John Haskin says that no I cant get a living I will risk my A to table lands of Truth the for guide good work has eeer been done life at anything, and if I am not Is of Discontent. the for Angel been., done money but ha killed, will be hunted like a wile of love the the love of the work or benst. And still he looks with his lifted eye. Master.' . When l( every adult ., person If I am cornered, then I will kil And his glance is far away, could - have, everything ' that1 money to reason. On a light that shines ontheglim-incrin- g myself. Appeal will buy today (except direct human hills slavery) for the three or four hours Of a diviner day. labor daily, additional compensaSPEAKING OP CHARITY tion in wealth would only be a burSome time ago we gave facts and But the love of den and a care. The Salvation Army folks have figures which proved that Grover approbation of ones fellows is the acquired a great reputation for Cleveland, through his needless bond strongest sentiment in man and he charity. issues, stole more from the people will exert his ability to get that in Do they deserve it? have all the thieves in all the than the only way it can be had by doWe don't see how putting in ones states in the Union since the signing ing something that will help the hu- time begging from one, to give to of the Declaration of Independence man race and lift it to higher planes, another helps matters any. in 17TG. The figures arc still in our and each will have the opportunity Is it any better to have organized poscssion and we can give them of developing his ability by the beggars, begging for unorganized when required. whole power and capital of the whole beggars, than it is to let unorganpeople and not be tied down to a ized beggars beg for themselves? Our only hope of reform is in dimachine as they are today (if lucky Such a method of preedure only rect legislation. The only national enough to be so permitted) where adds to the army of the unemployed representative of the people their they must slave for the profit of an and makes the business of being un- congressman even if he was other. Every man or woman who employed a little more respectable. to carry out the wishes of his could invent, paint, write or discover That it all. is handicapped effectconstituency, wonld have every opportunity that Middlemen in charity work even ually. Between him and his desire the nation could provide to aid them more hardship on society than mid- to serve the people are interposed and they would be honored as public dlemen in business. three almost insurmountable barribenefactors for what they did. Ad Helping people means more than ers the Senate, the Presidents veto ditional wealth they would not need, merely prolonging existence. The and the Supreme Court. More than for each would have all they could Christinas square meal is good. But this, we are not permitted to elect a use. Men, would, under such con- is it not as enjoyable and necessary president by direct vote, and more ditions, have greater fields for am- on other days, as on Christmas? Put than one president has taken his bition than under any that have the fellow in the way of a Christ- seat, and served his term, who was ever been accorded the human race mas dinner each day in the year, defeated at the by a good mabut it would be for a noble instead which he can set down to his own jority. Is it anypolls wonder with all of for greedy purposes. creation, and you have done more these obstacles in the way of Appeal to reason. than charity; you have done justice. that the people have Ilumanitv. found it easier to he governed than to govern, and have given up the TIIE OLD STORY When a man has reached that attempt? The initiative, referendOn the dead body of a Boston burwould point where making money is his um and imperative mandate glar, who shot two policeipen lie highest ambition he is in the swift insure for us the precious boon for fore he was killed, was a memoran- road to destruction. When he reaches which the patriots fought a govdum he had written before he had that where this is his only am- ernment for the people, of the peoentered the arena of crime. He said bitionpoint he is already destroyed. So ple and by the people. Herald, ihat there were three things for him far as himself or others are con- Farmington, Iowa. to do: Be a suicide, vagrant or cerned he had letter he dead. He hold-uns he hod no money and has reached a RAIL ROAD DEBATE. depth of depravity to could get no work Here is a part of which no animal This decends. The Litcray Club of Murray is to his dairy that ought to cause the brand of is found in man debate degeneracy the question of government reader to do some hard thinking, only. because the same fate awaits the ownership of railroads on the evenr. If such conaverage The man who lives without pro- ing of Friday, March 25. F. A. clusions are forced on many people ducing is a tramp. Of these there Copeland, A. C. Staten and Jos. Sanand they take a wiser notion to hold are two kinds, one of which John ders will affirm; Joseph Fowler, G. up the corupt or ignorant legisla- D. Rockv-haptirepresents, and the Altman and B. N. Mathews will tors who have enforced the present siK'allcd hobo the other, the differconditions on the people, there ence between the two being that one deny. The former three hail from might he a trembling among the is a success as a thief while the other Murray and the latter from Salt legislative bandits that would lie is not. Of the two kinds give us a lakc City, lreparations are being healthy for the country: million of the latter to one of tho made for a great time, which promThe exact wording of the missive former. ises to he a feast of reason and a flow as written in the memorandum of soul. The editor has been invited hook follows. At this ollice, a good subscription and requested to make a speech on As I am out of work and there and advertising solicitor. The right some evening shortlty after the is no hope or chance of getting any, man can have a profitable and per- -' above debate on the same subject, there ore three things that a man manent job. Call at room 78 Hooper in which ho will review the argucan do block. ments maac against the proposition. ya-i- m nl she-wo- well-bein- . - dis-H)s- cd self-governm- p, wage-earne- st ; |