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Show LIVING SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1898. VOL. 4. UE 9 Successor to THE INTER-MOUNTAI- N ADVOCATE. NO. 15. , 1 FIVE CENT TELEPHONE MESSAGES. rich. Wealth We have every reason to believe that if the government owned the telephones of the country that a flat rate of five cents per message would not only keep the lines in repair but would yield a revenue to the government sufficient to pay for its construction in a very few years. Let us suppose that there were a public telephone at every corner of the streets in Salt Lake City connecting all towns within reach, as well as all the business houses in the city; that each ofthese phones be supcontrivplied with a ance. Do you know that there wauld be a hundred messages sent to where there is one sent now? Would it not be a great convenience to everybody? Would it not be better on the whole to accommodate one hundred people than one? We think so. We know so, and so does everybody else that has ever given the subject a moments notice. Then why should we not have it? Take for instance the line from Salt Lake to Eureka, Utah. Under the present system, the charge for the use of the line for five minutes or less is 60 cents. No one patronizes the line unless it be a case of immediate and great importance. They do not want to be robbed any oftener than possible, but give us a five cent rate and the line will be in constant use. As it is now, the wire is idle about 23 hours and 40 minutes every day, and the actual wear and tear of the line is just as great now as if it were in constant use. Why allow a corporation to stand between the masses of the people and rob them on one hand and deprive them of the benefits of this great invention on the other? The people are a set of consummate fools to submit to it. Make the telephone a part of the postal system and operate for the good of the people instead of the corporations and all would be well. If the present owners do not want to sell, let the government build its own lines. SOP FOR THE SILLY. About the thinnest of thin sop that was ever thrown to a suffering, robbed and outraged public is the proposition now (Wednesday) before Congress to call for a popular loan of $100,000,000 and to issue $400,000,-00- 0 bonds. of interest-bearin- g twenty-yea- r The popular' loan is to be solicited through the postoffices of the Nation, where small de nomination bonds will be on sale. The other four hundred million is to be the special pay of the big thieves' who have been paving the way and whetting their appetites for it for the past ten years. This popular loan business is only sop thrown to the public as a blind. The gang has not forgotten, evidently, the howl that went up when Cleveland helped them to a $io,ooe,ooo slice, without giving the public any chance to bid on them. But to the people, see how it is divided four-fiftto the gang. Why not make it all a popular loan? We warrant that the people would take a whole billion of bonds of small denomination before thirty days had passed. The reason is, there would be nothing in such a loan for the gang of bloodsuckers who are manipulating die thing. The facts are, there is no 'need of making any loan at all. One billion of full legal tender greenbacks would fill the bill all right. That would cost only the printing. If anybody happens to ask you what security there would be back of the greenbacks, answer him (or her, as the case may be), by asking what security there would be back of the bonds? Then watch the color come and go in his or her face. is the product of labor, and if one man possesses what he has not earned it simply means that it has been taken without remuneration from some one who did earn it. The trouble seems to be that with every improvement in the way of labor-savin- g machinery there has been a corresponding contrivance for robbery that has so operated that it matters little how much the producer really earns it finds its way into the pocket of some fellow who did not earn it. So, dislike to admit it as much as we may, it is a fact that labor-savin- g machinery, instead of being a blessing to humanity, as it ought to be, and really would be under proper conditions, is today a great curse. It has been diverted from its proper, natural, and legitimate use to that of concentrating the wealth of the country into the hands of the few. The machine, while it takes from the man an opportunity to earn a livelihood, does not deprive him of his appetite or other physical needs. The machine continues right on producing an abundance of the necessaries of life, but when they are produced they go into hands that cannot use them because of their abundance, while thousands starve and suffer from a scarcity. So when we reach the point where one man owns everything and has machinery enough to do all the work, he will have a billion times more than he can use, while there will be a billion of others dying for the comforts of life. Thfs is only an overdrawn picture of what today actually exists, and not so badly overdrawn, either. Labor-savin- g machinery ought to produce the just opposite effect, but it does not and will not until there is a change in the whole system. The whole people ought to enjoy the benefits arising from these inventions. That they do not is patent to all. The question then is, how can this desirable yes, absolutely necessary end be attained? To our mind, the only real solution of this great question is embodied in the Socialistic idea that the means of production and distribution should be in the hands and under the control of all the people the public, so that each and every man who is willing to work shall have an equal chance with every other man to use the machine either directly or indirectly; at ali events it should be so arranged that every man shall enjoy his share of the proceeds and profits. Do you see any other method? We do not. The government cant run railroads oh, no; it doesnt know how! Besides, that would be Socialistic, and Socialism is an awful dangerous thing, you know. Just look at the school and postoffice systems The most that the government can do with safety is that when a corporation blind, and it fails longer to pay running expenses, it can step in and take charge of the road for a company and put it again upon a paying basis; and when this is done, turn it back to the corporation to ruin again. It can run a road all right that does not pay, but to have it run a paying road would be an awful bad thing. Again, people (that is, foolish people, like Socialists and Populists), foil to distinguish the difference between running a railroad for a corporation and running the same road for all the people. It is all right to have it transact the business for a busted corporation, but to run it for all the people well, that wouldnt work, thats all; its impracticable its visionary well, it just can't be done, and thats enough. Why, of course, anybody with any WHY ARE PEOPLE HUNGRY? brains at all knows that it cant be done. BeFrom a little pamphlet entitled Beres-ford- s sides, it would it would it ah would be Pocket Book of Statistics we dip the unconstitutional; yes, unconstitutional yes, following significant statement. It says: it, thats it "With the best machinery, one man can one thousand for cloth cotton peoproduce When Grover Cleveland became President ple; one can produce enough woolens for five hundred people or can produce shoes enough the first time there was so much money in for two thousand people; one can raise wheat the Treasury the result of protection that enough to feed three thousand people for one his party did not know what to do with it. year, a second can thresh, winnow and sack Now. it is beginning to come back again, and it, a third convey it to market; one miller can a $50,000,000 appropriation was made withmake flour for ten thousand; one baker, with out disturbing our finances. That has made best machinery, can feed five hundred per- Wm. L. Wilson, the author of the last free sons. trade measure, jealous, and he says that such The same is true to a greater or less extent a sum should never be voted to the President. of all trades and callings, With this wonderProvo Enquirer. ful power of production in the hands of the We certainly have no love for Grover people, how is it that there are so many who live in actual want? Is there not something Oeveland, nor any defense to offer for his sadly out of joint when the present condition nefarious policy; but even the devil himself of things obtain? We have often said, and is entitled to what is due him. That there we say now that under a proper arrangement was plenty of money in the Treasury when that any man who labors four hours per day Cleveland was first elected, is true; but that ought to be independently rich, and would its due to the protective tariff presence was be were it possible for him to reap the fruits othof his toil One man produces and some may be true or it may not. We think not er man manages to get it. This fact alone A protective tariff does not put money in is sufficient to account for the presence of the Treasury, except so far as it fails to proand the tramp. both the If a large sum of money accumulated tect. These two classes of people represent the anin the Treasury, the very fact that it was tipodes of a system that, while it makes the inevthere was evidence that it was not a protecmillionaire possible, it makes the tramp itable. If you take from one man what he tive measure. It may be true that the law produces, without remuneration, and give it then in force resulted in the putting of the to another without consideration, you make be- the one unjustly poor and the other unjustly money in the Treasury, but it was not one-fift- h hs multi-millionai- re 1 cause it was a protective measure, but because it was not If you build a levee to keep a stream of water from overflowing your farm and you find that you have more water on your farm than you had before it is rather evidence that the levee has failed to do its work. To expect protection and revenue both from the same source is like blowing heat and cold with the same breath, and a man who expects it would very naturally want to eat his cake and still have itJjSo far as the pres ent condition of the T iryis concerned, there is no surplus in s not been, and will not be. This $5 and all the other millions that 'C s is voting will sooner or later be fun $0 interest-bear- ing bonds. . If thla number Is on the label conhad better your name, you taining renew mighty as that is the quick, of number the next issue. JUST THE SAME. Yes, you hate to be bought, and you hate to be sold, And you hate to be forced to pay Shylock in gold. You hate the hard times, but you're bound to die game You hate em, but you vote for em just the same! You hate politicians that swagger and rant; You hate a good deal of the old party cant. You hate a large share of the ticket you name You hate it, but vote for it just the same! You hate to be trampled in a financial way. And l If the government you hate giant frauds going on day by take on a real day. patriotic air and Issue, 1,000,000 in full You curse in your soul the corruption you Would cause such legal tender green blame consternation amoa fra- - You curse it and vote for it just the same! All hands would ternity as was never You for laws and prosperous times, ' at once. be in for stopping the That is And long wantgood to see boodlers sent up for their you the way to do the . There is abso-on- e crimes. lutely no sense in isjfei cents worth You want more reforms than weve space here to name, of interest-bearin- g and every such But you never vote for them just the same! issue is a steal; andth ho favor it are either ignorant of the' p or else they are You hope for a change, and you pray for in on the bond deal relief, may hit some a little hard, but it is none 1 e less true, and And you swear youll bring partisan schemthe fact that it is true .is V ' it makes it hit s Then ers to grief; you march to the polls to put blockhard. heads to shame, But vote the old ticket again just the same! 1871 bought out Wheeling, W. Va. Exchange. the gas plant. It had paying: $3-P thousand feet for very r. About a carload of Republican literature gas. The city le price down to has reached the Republican State Commitimproved the gas and $3, afterwards to $s;nnt iter on to $1.50; tee. It will be sent out under Mark Hannas then to $1; more recfen to 75 cents, al frank. The party managers did not overlook the interests of their friends, the railroad which price it is now fu ling it and stil companies, in sending it out. It came while What have yoi the government weighing of mails, which making money for the' ci w damjihules got to sa forms the basis for payment for four years, is to these facts, for facta they are? Would yo being made. Citizen, Howard, Kan. It might not be out of place for us to not be afraid to reaid a fewspaper by a ligl fornifkd in such ft. .Socialistic way? ,Th explain farther that the railroads are paid public ownership of gMls becoming almo for hauling the mails by weight. The conas great a menace .vfeJciviiization as is tl tracts are all made for four years. For a certain period of time the mail matter going postoffice system. ? over the route is weighed, and upon the During the past weight of the mails during that period, the $10,000,000 worth computation is made for the entire four been recoined into Hanna sends out an years. Now the mint in San Fi extra carload of mail daily during the gold sovereigns to were received at the weighing period, the railroad company will American mint offii get pay for this extra carload every day for of the British go the whole four years of the contract, whether Mercury, Dallas, Ti it hauls it or not. Now, as Mark sends a We would like forftcjjie goldbug whole carload to the State of Kansas, it is damphw & tell us why these reasonable to suppose that he did the same British coins have to M:fecoined? Why not for all the States in the Union. If he use them as they anj.lVe have often said, thing did not, others in the deal did, so that it is and we say again, tfc&e' money of Europe an outrageous steal. Think of a man like or any other countfjjjgv pot money in the Mark Hanna being the President de facto of United States, norJUe,the United States this great Christian Nation! coins money at anyjjaspp pn earth except in the United States, . full- - weight, newly- Keep an account of the bonds that are iscoined golden eagles no more money in sued. Multiply this by the rate of interest Corii or potatoes. It they bear, and that by the number of Europe than is wheat years is true that the deac metal of which they are the bonds are to run, dot off two figures to made can be recoinL.and made into the the right and the result shows the exact money of the realm ; &t6. which they go; but amount that the thieves are stealing. For positively they are S'not. money until so re example, take $500,000,000 the amount of 4,, coined. i issue; multiply this by .04 the rate of inteiest MR. BRYAN A BUSY MAN. they draw and you have $2,000,000. This ' Some months agojllr. Bryan was asked multiplied by 20, the number of years the what he thought of the Henry George single bonds are to run, gives you the sum of tax proposition. This is the sum that could be saved Hi) reply was that he had not had time to look into,- the matter, hence by issuing greenbacks instead of bonds. could give no opinionLvWe thought then This is what the bond thieves and we think now that ; Mr.' Bryan should for share of their the fighting Spaniards. take time but we have not heard as yet that get There will be several $500,000,000 issues of ' , he has. Considerable interest haS been manifest bonds before the thing is through with. recently, by the people jp learning Mr. Bryans views on governnieiit'$wnership of pubWhile it is true that the Chicago Demolic utilities. Some the question cratic timijago platform did call for many reforms was put to him by the editor of one of the demanded by the Peoples party, it is also leading journals of the Wtest and his reply, by letter was that he had ftSf had the time to true that no Democratic leader, speaker or look the matter ap. We f think again that editor ever mentions anything but the free Nr. Bryan had better.take a little time. It coinage of silver. The facts are that not one would not take him very long a few days, Democrat in ten knows or cares anything probably, and we believe it would do him a about any other issue than that of silver; world of good. If Mr.' Bryan is to be leader ot the reform forces as softie people claim he and so long as the party as a whole clings is to be(though we dont believe it) it will to this issue alone, there is no room for any save him a great deal of embarrassment, to real reformer to confidence in their place be able to give an intelligent answer on these of purpose. What is it that Mr. great questions. People will hardly be will- honesty talks about when he speaks? Bimetaling to elect him president and depend on Bryan him studying these questions up after he is lism. Nothing else. What is it that The Herelected, for the chances - are that with the ald talks about? Free silver. That is all it bnrdens and responsibilities incidental to the knows, and it doesn't even know that. No affairs of the nation Oft his shoulders that he will have less time for . study then than Populist who is a Populist thinks anything business. There is he now has. Better lay Off a day or two Mr. of the nothing to it. 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