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Show Successor to THE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1898. VOL. 4. INTER-MOUNTAI- ADVOCATE. N NO. 31. If this number Is on the label conARMOR PLATE BIDS. TOM JOHNSONS VIEWS had better your name, you taining renew mlffhty as that Is the ' Washington, May 24. Bids were opened number of the Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, ex-- 1 next Issue. quick, Congressman, millionaire, Single Taxer and at the navy department today for armor for street railway magnate, talks this way about the battleships Nos. 7, 8 and 9, to be known PLEASE REMEMBER. ustice and the unwisdom and icefficacy of as the Illinois, Alabama and Wisconsin. There were Bethlehem evils bat the two Please for remember that this office has been the bidders, misapplied charity as a remedy and Carnegie companies. They divided the moved from the of the present industrial system: Hooper Block to No. 76 "What the world needs is justice and not work And bid the same price $400 per ton. West Second South Street, with Mr. Henry enevolence. I shall continue to decline to There are 7,700 tons required. Press W. Lawrence in The editor's lives family ; give checks to charitable institutions, and but been no there has and shall leave no money to build churches change This ought to show how the armor plate Farmington, in the paper. It will be printed and mailed bund libraries. thieves of the Andrew Carnegie 6tripe love in Salt Lake City as it has ever been. It is "My family will be well provided for, but the government. The two traitorous thieves the rest of my fortune, after my death as a legal paper for the publication of any and well as before, will be spent in trying to combine to rob the people and enrich themteach people how to stop me and men like selves. When we apply the word thief to all notices as before. The only object the me from robbing them.. So long as it is per- Andrew Carnegie, be it known that we mean editor had in view when he moved hb family mitted to any man to take what doesnt it. We use the word thief because it oomes to a suburban town was to save rents. Many to him through monopolizing Natures others will follow hb pious example, else resources and the private ownership of pub- just a little nearer expressing the truth re- there will many rent bills go unpaid. Not ic utilities, plenty of men of my kind will garding the man than any other word in that in rents Salt Lake City are higher than always be ready to do the stealing. My common use in the English language. There to show mission is to the people how it is be, but because the resources to be one coined especially for usp in they ought ought to what are of the people are such as to make payment done, to take stupid enough they to word et me take, and to show them how they can referring such men as Carnegie. The of them impossible. Call and see us at No. thief telb only half the story. Hb action in a put an end to the system which enriches me former deal was enough to not only brand 76 West Second South South, room 14. and impoverishes them." The reader is asked to make hb choice him forevermore as a thief, but if justice or confessions of etween the even half justice had been meted out to him Whatever doubts may have existed in millionaire with reform proclivities. who would have been hung as a traitor and the minds of the people as to the attitude of he would apply the simple methods of justice g And the Republican parly toward the to reduce a wrong to its simplest form, and conspirator against the government. who would reform not only so, had justice been done all round, the fraternity should be dispelled now since the world by the souphouse plan. When he trover Cleveland, then President of the their hands have been shown on the question is prepared to do this and proceed accordJnited States, would have been impeached of a bond bsue. The Republican party leadlearn 10 must ing to his findings, the children of men will and ambitions just a little. They hung as a traitor at the same time for ers are for bonds. They are for Wall Street and his labors live more and pretend less; more grub and have just cause to rejoice, shall not have been in vain. The Southern compounding the felony. Yet after all this They are against the people. Everything that less greatness. One of the bad effects of we see thb same traitorous thief Carnegie savors of wrong and robbery finds its cham-io- n Mercury, Dallas, Tex. our educational system is that it carries with in the party of Hanna and McKinley. We have often tried to impress upon the conspiring with others to rob thb nation it, impliedly at least, the idea that it is more minds of our readers the very things that again and, what is worse, we see the same The Democrats have been a little more dehonorable for one to live off his wits than off Mr. Johnson so plainly states above, namely, nation which he once betrayed awarding the cent. This, however, b due almost solely to his honest toil; that the acme of greatness is that it is the system and not men that we work to him. Now look out for more blow-lol- e the fact that the Democrats always take the reached when one invents seme scheme by plates. If caught at it thb time, we opposite side of every question, regardless of are opposing. So long as the people are which he can live off the labor of others foolish enough to pass laws that enable one wonder if he can "fix" McKinley like he did right or wrong. Democrats, if they ever get instead of his own; that to obtain property Cleveland, or will the people take the matter right, it is through sheer contrariness. That man to rob another, the robberies will without paying for it and stay out of jail, the in doubtless hand now. case him is and swing to a limb as they and few indeed there are who will not is to reach the highest pinnacle of human , Mr. done have to:' benefits offered. so of take ought, iCagq? The ' advantage idea. that rid of must We Louis' t, get TheSt.' date greatness. Johnson b a millionaire. He knows exactly price, ,$400'. per. ton, outrageous to start kof account Natures to way We must May 20, publishes an 'of seven : how he'" made hb money. ' He knows that will?. It will give him a clean stealage of at habits families that recently left Dakota for Canada, living. We must cultivate simpler' he made it by making use of laws passed in least $300 for every ton he puts out, which who as soon as the line was crossed began to and methods. We must get back to earth the interest of millionaires. He also knows aggregates the neat sum of $1,135,000. What mortals belong. shout "Canada!" "Long live the Queen!" where earthly that so long as such laws exist that rich he will steal by substituting defective plates b "Hurrah for the "Good-bymen will take advantage of them. He knows not known. Did you ever notice how a poor old range Dakota! "No more six per cent a month that the Single Tax proposition put into law The social revolution is bound to come. It interest!" and cow stuck fast in the mud will try to fight many similar things expressive would shut off such men as himself, and will either come in full and hook you when you are trving to pul panoply of law, and both of disgust for the United States and its he is honest enough to say so. He does not surrounded with all the blessings of peace, laws, and of admiration and good cheer for her out on dry land to save her life? This is believe in consists that the remedy stealing her the have are thinks the wisdom to take Canada and her institutions. It is a provided people you because the cow is wild, thing to from all he and man the then possesses poor it ok by the hand and introduce it betimes; or it be that conditions enemy and want to hurt her . The poor such are sorely regretted of it back to him and calling it may break in upon us unexpectedly, amidst in this country as to cause people to feel that cow b not to blame at all, for she does not giving part the rich from stealing and the all the convulsions of violence, with wild, know that you are trying to do her a good charity. Stop way, but there are thousands who are realizneed of charity would disappear. disheveled locks, and shod in iron sandals. turn. She does not understand your inten ing that this country is not what it should be. Come it must, iu one way or the other. tions or motive. Like old range cows, there Eugene Debs says war is murder. The When I withdraw myself from the turmoi The importance of the land question, are millions of our fellow beings who are anxious for Eugenes opinion of isnt country diswhich dive into the single tax would go far to solve I and hear the of day history, poverty, unrequitec just at this time. bogged in the swamp its in the right direction, was fully comprehendtinctly approaching tread. Lassalle. toil and human mbery. They imagine that The above b from that editorless sheet ed before it received much agitation in this are because tryyou you want to hurt them called The Salt Lake Herald. Of course We with if not at look horror, disgust, country. Witness the following from Cardiing to pull them out and stand them up on there b no one responsible for what it says the time when the man with the largest nal past look old like the cow, they Manning: "The land question means dry land and, and so it says what it pleases. The whoever muscle, the biggest club and the hardest and try to hook you. it-- that filb the space occupied by the first heart was considered the best man in the hunger, thirst, nakedness, notice to quit, laupon you as an enemy bor spent id vain, the toil of years seized They are simply wild and dont understand editorial column thinks he b funny, but to land. Those were days when made might the breaking up ol homes, the misery, better to and trying that you are their friend mind it b funny to think that he right. We have passed that now. Oh yes, upon, the average sickness, death of parents, children, wives, their condition. As they sink deeper and thinks so. It was this same unwe have passed that. We are now living in the become despair and wildness which springs up in helpless they deeper in the mud and who some months an age of justice. Might cuts no figure, or, the appreciative paragrapher hearts of the poor, when legal force, like will cease to fight those who are trying to made an unsavory hit at Ella Wheeler using a more modern term, it "cuts no ice." ago a sharp harrow, goes over the most sensisave them. Humanity has always fought its Wilcox. He now onto Mr. Debs, be- Qnestions of justice and equity are no longer tive and vital jumps of mankind. All this is best friends, mistaking them for enemies. cause he thinks that by so doing he wil decided by brawn and club. No, the dub has contained in rights the land question." Cleveland The Real Republic, Amarillo, Tex. gain the applause of the ignorant rabble been relegated to the irrelivable past. Instead Recorder. One line of Mr. Debs opinion b of more of the club we have substituted dynamite Henri Watterson of the Courier-Journa- l The trouble with a great many persons weight to the sound thinkers of this country guns and steel-clawarships. We dont beat who try to reason on economic principles is of Loubville, Ky., b out with aa editorial than would be a mile and a half of The mens brains out with a club now, but we who oppose the calling the Congressmen blow them to atoms with gunpowder. The that they cannot understand how the whole Heralds paragraphs. Whenever we see the bond issue, Spaniards and traitors. This b shallow-brainewhat-is-- it that edits The Her- people of this generation are a great people, of a thing is greater than only a part. They be it rememHenri Watterson, same the b figure it out that the railroads could not be ald barking at such men as Debs, we are re- so they are! sold hb four about ago who years owned by the government for the reason bered, minded of what we so often see, a little dog attention has been called to the fact, that the railroads are Our soul (if he ever had hb and his body, paper, bigger than the govwith hb bristles all turned up, running after a or what was represented to us as a fact, that We think now b a the to goldbugs. ernment, seeming to forget that the railroads one) railroad train. We sometimes wonder what the board of in some plain talk, so Salt Lake City has leased a are to indulge time only a part of the government. These good would do with the train if he shouk foe the time of ten years for the and a Span- the dog thief a between building As same people insist that the whole people are here goes: happen to catch it. Whenever you see The iard there b little difference. As between a Herald making scurrilous hits at anyone you High School, at the enormous rental of not rich enough to maintain their own notes conn-tr- y $4,200 per year, which means the payment at a man who sells out and betrays his own par with gold, but insist that a very set it down that that person b safely may decidhas of for end the lease at of which the $42,000 rent, Spaniard and a Spaniard, small portion of (he people can Again, they all right. the city is as far from having a school build- seem to of it. There b no need of a best the forget that the bankers are a part edly wonderful civilization a it we wouk as is. now What have Watterson all It and Henri and been ing thb time, might at of the government. bond issue r soon have if the people would only allow enough to lease a building for a short time, knows it. Every cent that b to be paid as themselves to think, and try to lay aside but to tie the hands of the people for ten No one believes in a nation or an individinterest on bonds b so much stolen from the When people talk to long years, to us seems an outrage and was ual paying honest debts more than we do, Watterson knows it. The their superstitions people, and Henri suit follow or to customs because it quite a stretch of the official prerogative of but we hope to live to see every interest-bearin- g bold others, bonds b bsue holdup present scheme to believe as others certain theories the board. We are opposed to the principle bond of the nation repudiated, esdo, or in the interest of the b robbery of the masses inof class of one that allow to or interest part of it, and more esthe contracts and knows please teachers, generation making that, pecially classes, and Henri Watterson in be themselves debts to controlled for the next generation to pecially that $262,000,000 issued by Clevecurring favors it. So that a Spanby usurpers too, and yet he to the true laws of nature, such accept and pay. The rent is too high and land. The whole of that was a steal. Clevewith Henri opposition Watterson, iard, in comparison the lease is too long. No schoolboard or any land knew it; John Sherman knew it; Carlisle angel of purity, people are still infants and need the aid ooks like a white-wingthose who have progressive ideas to ad other board should be given any such power. knew it; Morgan knew it, and they all know M.ve and justice. The meanest devil on earth vance themselves. Those who will not learn The people who are to pay the bills should at it now. We hope to see the people know it, own the man who betrays and selb hb And that b to think should not try to interfere with the least be allowed to say whether or not they and when they do they will refuse to pay in itry and people bondage. want to enter into such a contract. them, as they ought to do. kind of a devil that Henri Watterson b. progress of others. Progressive Thought GET BACK TO EARTH. Mans first method of making; a living was by tilling the soil. It is from that source that we all live now, and it will ever be thus. But under our moae modern system of the division of labor, many there are who never have held a plow or wielded the hoe. For as far years the tehdency has been to get our under from the earth as possible and, concluded complicated system, many had their with do to that the earth had little erected existence. The result is that we have y upon this false premise a vast, thousands are enterprise in which there We being shut out from a means of support. fact that the have ignored the earth is the mother of us all and that foundation of our agriculture lies at the entire social fabric. While the top has been expanding, the basis has been contracting, until we have reached the point where a The only toppling over is almost inevitable. the reverse evil to is way to remedy the back order of things. The people must get onto the earth again. They must get in closer touch with their common mother. rents and They must learn to quit paying interest, and not only to get out of debt, but to keep out They must lower, their Db-patc- h. top-heav- be-on- well-know- n open-hearte- d bond-holdin- pseudo-philanthropis- ts con-tiau- e, 'six-yea- rs , - . Globe-Democra- get-bac- k - red-coats- !" e, is thick-heade- d, d d 1 - 1 ed |