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Show THE NINETY AND NINE. There are ninety and nine that work and die, ' In want and hunger and cold, That one may live m luxury, And be lapped in the silken fold! And ninety and nine in their hovels bare, And one in a palace ol riches and rare. From the sweat of their brows the desert blooms, And the forest before them falls; Their labor and builded humble homes, And cities with lofty halls, And the one owns cities and houses and lands, And the ninety and nine have empty hands. But the night so dreary and dark and long At last shall the morning bring, Aod over the land the victors song Of the ninety and nine shall ring, And echo afar from zone to zone, Rejoice! for labor shall have its own! Exchange. COMEDY DIVINE. BEGGAR Food, madam! I have tramped all day Without a bite to ease my way. PRESBYTER I AN I am a Christian; so. Sir Oaf, Hrre is the goodly heel of a loaf, For which you should return thanks to heaven. Tis not for thy sake, Tis not for my sake, But for Christs sake it is given. BEGGAR all I wtsh. Thanks, lady, Sweeter than the most savory dish To sated palates, is a savory crust To him that starveth on a bust You have my solemn word upon it; So not for thy sake, And not for my sake, But for Christs sake, put some butter on it. M. H. Veon in Boston Investigator. thanks,-t- is PEOPLES PARTY MEETING. The Peoples party meeting called for last Saturday evening was held at the office of H. W. Lawrence. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Lawrence and, the regular secretary being absent, August Stein was made secretary pro tern. A letter and set of resolutions requesting a fusion with the Silver Republican party was read from the unification committee of that party. Letters from a number of prominent Populists in various parts of. the State were read, which urged the of reform forces. The prevailing opinion of those present was that of the reform forces was desirable, but would consent to fusion only on condition that Direct Legislation be made the most important issue of the campaign, and that the silver issue was of minor importance. A motion was passed to appoint a conference committee of five members to meet with similar iommitees from other reform parties. The committee was appointed as follows: H. W. Lawrence, James Thomson, Col. Nat Ward of this dty; Dr. John McCurtin, of Provo, and S. S. Fitz-Geral- Smith, of Ogden. LABOR EXCHANGE MEETING. Those in charge of the orginization of the Labor Exchange in this city met last Tuesday evening at the rooms ot August Stein in the Constitution Building and organized by electing James Thomson chairman and N. J. Hansen secretary. There are 12 names enrolled as members. Among them are J. W. Snell, manufacturer of bluing; S. K. Jorgenson, tailor; G. F. Peterson, second hand dealer and Scott Anderson, sign writer. A report was read from the Labor Exchange at Denver which showed that the business of that branch last year aggregated $80,000. Another report was read from Portland Ore. which contained the cheering news that the checks of that branch last year went to a premium and were worth $1.18 in gold. The next meeting will be held Monday evening at 7.30 oclock at Fords Hotel, on West Firsl South Street. Everybody interested in the work of the Exchange or of building up such an organization in the city is invited to be present. In our short career as a journalist we have noticed that whenever a scurvy exchange finds itself utterly unable to answer a point made, it resorts to personal thrusts at the writer of it. This is always indicative of in the paper which resorts to it, the dry-ro- t or a perfect willingness to be vicious and unfair. . The Living Issues belongs to this -- class. Scurrility is its main stay vulgarity its mother tongue. A squib of four or five lines in The Commonwealth in regard to Sunday observance was worse to the Living Issues than a red flag to a Spanish bull. With all of its bile it cannot comprehend what decent journalism is. The Commonwealth will not descend to that lower level. The Commonwealth, Ogden. To pay any attention to the above or its shootbigotea editor is so much in line withwe feel that ing a gatling gun at a pismire like begging pardon, and do beg pardon, of our readers for the space that we use in so we doing. Of course our readers read what time some editor same this said in reply to had the ago on Sunday observance, which endorsement of every decent man who read it. Our position then was and now is that and everybody ought to observe Sunday observe" it in his own way; that no one has a right or should have a right to say how any other person should observe it, and asked if The Commonwealth would concede so much, and the above nonsensical stuff is the reply. He dare not give our reply for fear that about ten out of his possibly twelve readers might endorse what we said, and so they would. We do not know how his Sundays. Judge Boreman observes We dont care. It is none of our business, and it would be meddling with what does not in any way belong to us if we should in any way try to interfere or dictate to him how he should sperd his Sundays. If Judge Boreman prefers spending his Sundays at church, we have no objection. If he prefers staying at home rather than taking an outing, that is his business, but none of ours. On the other hand, we claim the same untrammeled rights for ourself that we willingly grant to him. If, after working hard all week, we feel like taking a trip to the lake on Sunday and taking a bath in its briny waters, we feel that we have, or at least should have, the right and the opportunity of so doing. Just how the editor of this paper going to the lake and taking a bath affects the editor of The Ogden Commonwealth is more than we are able to comprehend. It being true that our act in no way affects or interferes with him, we fail to understand where he has any right to kick. Granting, for arguments sake, that it is contrary to the teachings of Holy Writ, and that Holy Writ is the inspired word of God, and wholly true, and that God will call us into account for our acts in the last day, certainly no just God will hold Editor Boreman responsible for what Editor Foster does. Even then he has no real cause for complaint We favor Sunday excursions for the reason that there are thousands ol good men and good women whose occupation takes all their time for six days in the week. Many of them are shut up in stores, offices and shops where the pure sunlight of heaven never falls upan them. Sunday is the only day they have to get the sunshine and fresh air, and to deny them 'that privilege we consider cruel, unjust, yes, wicked. And to believe that God will damn a poor man or woman for enjoying the day thusly is to believe God to be more of a tyrant and more inhuman and unreasonable than is the poor, narrow bigot who pushes the Faber on The Commonwealth. If God dont want people to enjrw the sunshine on Sunday, why does he let the sun shine? Why doesnt he shut it off for that day? Or does he tempt us with the sunshine for the purpose of damning us for enjoying it? So far as decent journalism goes, that is all right. We have never, yet and never will be guilty of trying to take from others a privilege that we ask for ourselves. The American people will not stand opA man who thinks so is pression, oh no! foolish? They are so broad and their patriotism, love of freedom and hatred for oppres sion that they will not even see the Spaniards oppress the poor Cubans! Just look at their liberal loving souls! Americans all have a nice plot of land on which to live and rear his family! They all have nice houses and pleasant surroundings! No rent gatherer ever crosses the threshold of an Americans home! Some nations allow their rulers to live in luxury while the masses who pay the bills live in actual want, but no such condition of affairs exist in proud, liberty loving America! We would just like to see the color of the hair of any sort of an oppressor who could live in America, or who has the foolhardiness to try it! We are a great people, we are! No, if any man should try to monopolize the lands of America and compel the people to become homeless renters, he would be hung up at once! Men whose business it is to oppress must ply their vocation elsewhere for Americans can not be oppressed. Oh no! The free silver Republicans and the Democrats are great reformers, but it must all come through their own party and bearing their own peculiar label Tender heartedness is a very nice virtue but we are just as tender hearted as any Democrat or Republican dare be. So a Democrat or a Republican who is too cowardly and narrow to vote with a party that advocates true reforms is too cowardly and narrow to amount to anything anyway. In no country where the government protects the interests of the masses of the people is it necessary to teach patriotism to the children. 'It is as natural for such people to be patriotic as it is for them to love their mothers. It is not even necessary in such places to dismiss school to allow the children to take lessons in patriotism from seeing a company of soldiers going to war, as was done in this dty last Tuesday. The Populists last year fused with the Democaats. Now the Democrats have kick-e- e them out and there is a proposition on foot to fuse with the Republicans this year. We have not heard of it yet, but we will not be surprised to hear of them considering a proposition to fuse with the Salvation Army. Why not? According to Public Ownership, published' in New York City, a man can ride 1,000 miles on the railroads of Australia for $6.50. This is first class, too. The roads in Australia are owned by the government. Did you ever hear of a Democrat leaving his party to vote for free silver or any other THE DRAMA. thing that is supposed to be good for the John S. Lindsay and company returned people? When? Where? What was his name? home last week after a very successful tour What was it that he voted for? of Idaho and Northern Utah. His repertoire embraced Othello, Richelieu, Damon and So long as a protective tariff law proPythias, Virginius, Ingomar, and The Mer- tects only a few, it is class legislation. As chant of Venice. The people who, accord- soon as it protects everybody it at once fails ing to the critics, do not want Shakspeare, to protect anybody. So that it is unjust in were not heard from during Mr. Lindsays the first case and useless in the other. travels; but the size of his audiences rather emphasized the fact that there are sufficient Now is a good time for those Democrats admirers of the poetic drama left to give its who are so much in favor of an increase in portrayers a liberal .patronage. During the the circulating medium to vote for an issue summer, Mr. Lindsay will conduct a school of greenbacks instead of bonds. Will they for the study of elocution and dramatic art doit?, Yes, they will-- NIT. Chas. E. Blaneys comedy success, A Hired Girl, which comes to the Grand next Poor old John Sherman! He has an easy week, is composed of three acts. Mr. Blaney, ob. All that he is asked to do is to draw the author, makes no claim to plot whatever, lis breath and his salary. H is nominally but agrees to amuse the theatre-goin- g public. Secretary of State, but when did you hear It would be out of the question if any author from him? of farce comedy, such as is given on the If bimetallism is better than monometal stage at the present day, to hold themselves to a plot. They are all written on the one lism, why would not trimetallism be better idea to introduce clever and unique special- still? Eh? Dont you think Mr. Biyan might ties, and it is in this way that the theatre- be induced to become a trimetallist? going public have had the good fortune to be entertained by the high class vaudeville To get out of the war with Spain may artists. A Hired Girl has with them some prove to be a harder job than it was to get of the highest-salarie- d people of the stage into it We will warrant that somebody will today. The company is composed of thirty get tired before they get through. comedy stars, and the other people, one-hahalf vaudeville artists, who introduce their Give us the Initiative and Referendum, specialty at odd times during the action of and then if we want free silver we can get it tie comedy. If we would rather have something else we could have that Direct Legislation, that is, the people in is favor with electing or rejecting any law, By the time the Spanish war is over, the every person who gives it an understanding. It is as much in favor with Democrats and bond thieves will hold bonds enough to Republicans as with Socialists. Under its enslave the unborn for the next ten genprovisions there could be no corruption of erations. officials in the matter of passing bad laws or If Bill The question has been asked: rejecting good ones. What the sense of right of a majority decided would be the law. It McKinley should die, would Mark Hanna We presume he would. would be impossible to bribe a majority of still be President? votes in favor of a bad law. The people might be fooled for a time, but as soon as Ella Wheeler Wilcox says the very they discovered it they would initiate a first hour of positive success is often the last repeal of the law, and party prejudice would hour of great achievement not stand in the way, for a law could be enacted or repealed without having to put in see Mark Hanna championing When or out of office any one. If the theory that a cause it you is perfectly safe to take the other the people have a right to rule is good, the side. only way to carry it out is through the Initiative and Referendum. It is the simplest PEOPLES PARTY COUNTY CENTRAL method of government. Every one can unCOMMUTE MEETING. derstand it. If liberty is worth having, it is There will be a meetihg of the central worth voting on. Appeal to Reason. committee of the Peoples Party of Salt We DO not believe that we who live on Lake County, held at the office of H. W. the earth now have the right, or ought to Lawrece on Saturday evening April 23. for have the right, to barter away the earth from the purpose ot considering the question of the unborn, Those yet to be born have as a union of reform forces tor the coming much right to be born untrammeled as we campaign. All the members are requested had. No condition of affairs should obtain to be present II. W. Lawrence, that will deprive the unborn a free use of the L. H. Gray, Chairman. Secretary. earth. lf FROM THE REFORM PRESS. The noise of a foreign war should not cause the people to cease their war on mon- The New Era. To think is to be a revolutionist. No man can think and be satisfied with present social conditions. Social Economist When an army is needed to protect privileges and not to defend rights, it is an instrument of tyranny. Commonwealth. Reformers who never read anything but papers controlled by monopoly are of little value in the reform movement The New Era. opoly. Employes of the street railway in Plymouth, England, work eight hours a day. The city owns the lines, and the fere is two Public Ownership. Direct legislation is not only cents. a method but a principle-t- he principle that the people must rule.1' Without this principle there is no such thing as liberty. The New Era. The corn grown in the United States each year is worth twice as much as ail the gold mined in all the world. Corn and its kind are real wealth, gold is only a counter. Age, Chicago, III raise such a fuss over such a little Why scraP' of land as Cuba, when the Czar of Russia slices off more of Chinese territory every day or so and not a word said about it? The Saturday Argus, Clinton, Ind. When people generally have a vote on the laws, the money powers cant buy legislation. When that time comes, if the laws are bad the people will have no one but themselves to blame. Star and Kansan. No people can be who are denied the right to vote yes and no on every law by which they are to be governed. This is Direct Legislation through the Initiative and the Referendum. Work for it and vote for the party that has it in its platform. Public Ownership. When the gas works of the city of Glasgow were run for private profit, gas cost $1.14 per thousand feet. Now, with public ownership and operation of the plant, 62 cents. The way to escape the tyranny of monopoly is plain. The Pulpit and Social Problems, San Francisco, Calif. This is your country, eh? How much of it do you own? Do you have any voice in making the laws? The majority of you great American voting kings have no more legal right in this country than you have in China or Russia. You have to pay rent to live here and you can live in those countries on the same ignoble terms. Your country, indeed! You ought to feel proud of your proprietorship. The Commoner, Portland, Ore. is there If a city can build a prison-hous? any reason why it cannot build a If it can build a bridge, is there any reason , why it cannot build a bakery? if it can own fire engines and pay firemen, is there any reason why it cannot own a factory and make engines If it can provide police to guard stores at night, is there any reason why it cannot provide clerks to run stores in the day? The Pulpit and Social Problems (San Francisco). If you will take one cat by himself and will bite and scratch your Einch his tail he But take two cats and put them side by side and pinch both their tails at the same time, and they will bite and scratch each other. Plutocracy has learned this trick. So it gets the people arrayed in two parties and then pinches their tails and they fight each other. Like cats they never turn to fight the hand that pinches them. The Champion. Here is the way the plutes run it in the mining business: The average wage for mining bituminous coal is 81 cents a ton; the average for mining anthracite is $1.65 a ton. In 1897 the number of tons for which 81 cents was paid was increased 600,000 tons; the number of tons for which $1 .65 was paid was decreased 2,150,000 tons! So long as the ownership of the means of production, transportation and sale is in the hands of private individuals, just so long will the laboring man get the worst of the deal The Pueblo Courier. self-govern- e, bath-house- Nebraska has a State law which declares that all obligations made payable in gold coin are null and void, contending that silver and gold are both legal tenders, and either can be used in no matter what thea amount Kentucky sees how well it works in Nebraska for no State is more prosperous and recently a law similar in every respect passed her Assembly. By the way, why would not this be good policy, as well as honest principle, for every State in the Union? Carson Appeal The Constitution is greater than the people. This ancient document was drawn up over a century ago, when nearly every condition it governs was different from what they are today. Yet it is sprung continually as tiie one thing needed to nullify laws made to meet new conditions, and the people of today must live in accordance with rules laid down over a hundred years ago. Would it not be just as sensible for people to ride in stage coaches because that was the custom of those times? Why should not physicians bleed their patients for every disease today because they did so in 1776? Why should we not wear powdered wigs as did the patriots of the Revolution they surely must have known the only proper way of wearing the hair, since all knowledge of what is Constitutional died with them. We are being governed by dead men and living rascals. 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