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Show Vf I. VOL. 4. VING Warren Posters SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL A QUESTION OF GEOGRAPHY. Most people suppose that right is right and wrong is wrong, regardless of locality or anything else. But not so. That which is wrong in one place may be right in another and ice versa. For instance: Take a step on board a street car bound for Murry. It is a crime assessable with a fine of $5 00 and costs according to statute made and provided for you to expectorate on the floor of said car. But by keeping your seat until the city limit is passed, you may then empty your mouth withont fear or favor, on the door or elsewhere regardless of its contents. Only a question of locality. Again, The Bible and the statutes of nearly all the states imposes a penalty for usury. What is usury? The Bible looks upon it as a crime against humanity and honesty, while its legal definition is that of charging more interest for the use of money than the law al- lows. No one doubts the justice or propriety of sending a man to hell for robbing his fellow men by usury. But this is a question of locality, For instance: A money loaner in Kentucky who charges his neighbor 8 per cent, for the use of money, would go to hell in a hand basket, but the same man to do the thing in Kansas would be looked upon as an angel of mercy and would be passed in by St. Peter and given a harp and a seat close up to the throse. J ust imagine St. Peter at the gate with a sheep bound volume of the statutes of each state, settling the question of right and wrong by looking up the statutes from the dfferent states from which the applicants come. Every day " though he really expected they would come Poor fellow I We feel sorry for you, or for any one else who has been so foolish as to expect a change in results while there has been no change in causes. McKinley is only a sort ol vest pocket edition of Cleveland. The only difference between the two being that Cleveland was honestly dishonest, while McKinley is dishonestly dishonest. The pol icy of she two is exactly the same. Times are no better, nor will they be. They will be worse next year, and still worse the next, and will continue right on getting worse, until they get so bad that the revolt comes. There is no way to stop it. So hold your face straight, look pleasant and take your medicine. We know it is bitter, but you must take it, and you may just as well take it now as later on Suppose we had $50 or even $50,000 per capiti in money and the Goulds, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockybaptists had it all, how much do you think it would benefit you? Well, if we had that much they would soon have it all under our present monopolistic and competetive system. They can get all that you may get in precisely the same way they have gotten all you did have only that they can accomplish it much easier now for they possess the tools and the experience for No superficial change is worth working for. The whole thing must Until man has regained his be changed. lost estate, and the government is restored to the people, whose right it is to rule, no sort of change will accomplish any permanent good. (loing the work. Barlow, populist condistrict in California, sixth the from gressman has proposed an amendment to the constitution to permit the levying of a tax on incomes in excess ot $2,000 per annum, a common rate to be fixed for all incomes, or a graned rate, according to the amount of income, as congress in its discretion may deem best for the welfare of the nation. Associated Press. And if congress amendment passes we warrant that the corrupt old supreme court will decide that it is unconstitutional to amend the constitution. They will do this if there is no other way to get out of it. Representative to get right down to busIt Now remains will happen in the event what see and iness of war. How will it aflect the movement for aocfel reform? There can be no doubt that a war with Spain just now would be popular with the masses of the people. It would be very popular with the young, and the government would have no lack of volunteers. It is not likely there will be very much or V Successor to THE 189S. The Wall very long continued fighting. Street men will want the war to come to a speedy end, because its continuance will endanger the gold standard. The government has practically nothing to carry on the war with, so far as money is concerned, btt it could very easily get all the money it needed. But the financiers would insist upon a gold bo d before they would advance any money. The Populists and Silver Democrats would resist any issue of gold bonds. Another source of trouble would be private enterprise. Some very strange stories have found their way into prfnt regarding the expenditure of the $50,000,000 voted by Congress Our government is said to have been forced to pay outrageously high prices to speculators who cornered the market for war material as soon as they heard we had entered it. Fortunately, the integrity and capacity of the naval officials has stood every test to which it was subjected, and we may be sure that if we are cheated we can know the reason why. It should be borne in mind that, in case we have a war, our greatest ememy will not be the Spanish. It will be the contractors, the financiers, the trusts and corporations. This fact must be the text of If war comes, we will be as the reformer. ready to fight for our countrys honor as anyone. We will fight to free Cuba, but we will also fight to free humanity. If, however we can do no more for Cuba than we have done for ourselves, will the Cubans feel justified in thanking us for "freeing them? The only difference we can see between the reconcentradoes and the unemployed, is that the former are carried to the extreme of suffering and upon a wholesale scale. The same motive that impels the misery of the unhappy reconcentradoes should impel it to relieve the misery of the exploited at home. The only difference between a reconcentra-dand a wage slave is in the superior speed of the Weyler process of arriving at results. Twentieth Century. o we hear some fellow complain ing about the good times not coming just as ; ij. 4 The Presbytery of this state, at its session last week, Passed, by a unanimous vote, a resolution condemning the Pope for using his influence to prevent war between this country and Spain. Strange, isnt ic, that these people, who claim to be followers of the meek and lowly Jesus; he who preached the doctrine of "peace on earth and good will towards men; should resent the efforts of Pope Leo to prevent two so balled Christian nations from engaging in wholesale murder of each others subjects? Wonder why they did not pass a similar resolution denouncing the powers of Europe for presenting a joint note to this government, asking that the difficulty between the two countries be settled without resort to arms? Could it be possible that jealousy of the Pope had anything to do with it? Perish the thought! INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N ivVf NO. 14. To license a man to do a certain thing If this number Is on the label conand name, you had better taining then abuse him for doing it is both vascillat-in- g renew your quick, as that is the of the nextmighty number issue. and foolish. The people turn the railroads over to corporations with the express WHY SHOULD WE MOURN? nnderstanding that they are to charge for Why should we mourn for those who sleej their services all the traffic will bear, and Within the quiet tomb? then they get mad and the meanest things God only knows if they had lived they can say about the railroads are too good. What would have been their doom. Stop your foolishness. These men are only better far spare all your tesrs Oh, doing what the best of you would do if you those who go astray ! For had the same chance. It is the system that The dead within their quiet graves is wrong. If you dont like to be robbed, Are happier far than they. change the system. Why should we weep for her whose life Was as the (lowers pure? is creation of law, then all If money the An ocean of our tears would not money is fiat money; hence the greenbacks More bliss to her secure. are right. If it depends solely upon the comBut mourn for these poor fragile ones mercial value of the coin on which it is stampWho still dwell on the earth ed, then the gold bugs are right. This takes And pray that virtues flower fair all the foundation from under the average free silver crank. May in them spring to birth. No power should be delegated to the individual that can be exercised by all the people. No man or set of men should be empowered to enact laws without the same being ratified by all the people. We need no other reason for this other than it is right and practicable. Direct legislation might not cure all the evils the people of this country are suffering from, but we would just like to see them given an opportunity to try their hand at self government for a while and see if they could not make some improvement upon the methods now employed in governing this land. The inheritence tax law, in the state of has been declared, by a district Judge Iowa, to be. unconstitutional. Of course its unconstitutional. When did you ever hear of law, touching the purse of the rich, that wasnt construed by some mummified tool of plutocracy, who occupied the position of judge, to be unconstitutional? What part has the prducer taken in all this war fuss? Simply howled and been ignored. The whole business, pro and con, has been Financiers are engineered by financiers. if be wouldnt they had not wealthy. They for years made use of every opportunity to make money for themselves. Is it beyond-thbounds of reason then to believe at this time they are going to take any action that would not only not make them any money but possibly lose them some, as war might? Yet that is not it exactly. The point is that the people who must furnish the soldiers and means of war have nothirg to say about it. machine that runs when a They Do you suppose that if the private monop- lever isare like aand stops when it is shut off pulled oly of land was done away with, that all those The only way to declare war is by a vote of people would have rushed into the Uncom-pahgr- e the people, and under direct legislation that Reservation as soon as it was thrown is the only way it could be done. Coming for settlement, and have gone to fight- Nation. open ing for the privilege of occupying a few thouWHO OWNS THE LAND? sand acres of desert land. Dont you think they would have preferred to occupy some of None will deny that any person, unaided the vacant land that lies nearer to market in any way by any other person, absolutely the thing he makes. But, if he receives and where they would have more of the con- owns assistance from another, then the product of veniences of older settled countries? You dol his hands is not entirely his, for he was unWell then, the Single Tax .will abolish the able to produce it unaided; part of the proor land monopoly and give those who are being duct belongs to his robbed by landlordism a show to make a liv- in amounts according to the services rendered. Did any man make the land? Could all ing. Think the matter over and see i it is men working together make the land? They not so. can reclaim land from the seo, but they cannot make land. Land is a gift of nature. This being true, no man has' an absolute Taere is little hope, in fact none, for betright to it. Before his birth he did not conter times until the grip of the land monopolist trol it, and after his death he cannot use it. is broken. The way to break that is to make All men have, however, an unalienable right it unprofitable to hold land out of use. This to use the land. This comes by reason of can be done by the state taking its full rental life, existance being impossible without a on which to exist and the right to exvalne in the way of taxes. Being unprofitable spot ist being universally admitted. If, then, all it at once becomes undesirable, and being men have a right to the use of land, the undesirable it would soon be abandoned. holding of great bodies of land by capitalists Neither moral suasion nor abuse will accomp- and others in idleness or for speculative purposes, while some suffer because they have lish this. no land, is a crime against the race. Ii once it be admitted that a mans right to the land in the fact that he needs and can use it, lies Now that war between this countr d every foot of land not in use belongs not to Spain appears to be almost a certainty, the the person generally known as the owner, money sharks are more active than usual in but to the state, which should hold all such scheming to get hold of the bonds that they idle land in trust for unborn children. We expect to see issued to carry on the war. We are told that, in New Zealand, land untilled years reverts to the govdont need any bonds, war or no war. or unused for three is right and, lacking com- This ernment. Greenbacks were good enough to pay the ownership, should be the soldiers with during the rebellion, and green- Elete government our own country. When a citizen backs sfre good enough to carry on a war gets ready for farming, stock raising, or any against Spain, or any other nation on earth, other pursuit requiring the use of land, he if we are going into the slaughter business. should be allowed to take it, paying to the state the taxes thereon, and retaining it as Congress should chop that proposed bond long as he has need for it. issue oil at the pockets. Ocala, Fla. Oh, shed no tears upon the graves Of those who die in age; For they are happier far than we Who still life's battles wage! They sleep in peace, secure from woes, Beneath the silent sod. Their earth freed spirits know no griefs Communing with their God. Finley Johnson in New York Ledger. TENDER, LOVING AND TRUE. Though we may not climb to fames lofty height Nor stand midst the rich and great, Yet we have a part to play in lifes mart. We are not children of fate. Though earths lading laurels deck never our brows (Such honors conferred on the few), Yet all have a right to strive with our might To be tender and loving and true. Ella Martin in Womankind. Better by far to feed a thousand unworthy tramps than tura one worthy man hungry from your door. When the money question the silver bug as well as the is fully settled, gold bug will have taken up their abode with the mound builders. A civilization that does not make people better is no civilization at all, and a government that does not operate to give the people best possible fruits of civilization is a failure. The Editor left for Chicago last Saturday be to morning gone probably ten days. During his absence the business of the office will be under the superintendance of M. V. Wagner of Fruia, Colorado. If the Spanish war business gets away from the bond thieves so that the Spanish bonds become worthless, God help this country, for they will not let up until bonds enough are issued to cover the loss of Spanish secuaities. er If Congress has power to create money, it has the power to create all it needs. If it has that power during war times, it certainly has it during peace. So there is no excuse for suflering from a shortage of money. As soon as a man becomes fully contented with his lot, and decides that he and the world are both as good as he would have either of them be, take him out and kill him. He is worthless. It is only the discontented who move the world. Experience hath long since preven that a threat to not return a man to Congress does not prevent him from selling out The people want a better and quicker remedy for derelictness than that. We need direct legislation and the imperative mandate. The question of the "getting together of the democrats, silver republicans and populists of this state is again being agitated. By but be sure you all means "get together, on a platform that will be of "get together benefit to the people in case its some lasting tenets are put into effect If this cannot be done, we say dont "get together at all. |