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Show j . THE BOUNTY QUESTION. I Utah has had an object lesson within. with-in. nthe last few days, which she should con very effectually this week, or before be-fore ehe elects a set of men pledged to make a constitution which will encourage en-courage the subsidizing of private schemes of gain under . the thin pretense pre-tense of encouraging home industry, in the present situation of the Lehi Bugar works. Every dollar invested thereby citizens and all the bounty money paid in " is at hazard, . with ! rather more than a good chance of being be-ing lost altogether, certainly of haying It shaved down so that the residue will hardly be worth claiming. Of course the management of the mill is not to blame in any senBS. Her disaster has come to her by and through the wretched policy of subsidy or encouragement encour-agement (?) which is one of the pet theories of the republican party for which they are frantically begging us to vote next Tuesday. Of: course" if the Lehi works do come to grief they will only have" the republican party ana its policies to blame, yet with an assurance monumental in its proportions, they ask us to assist iu perpetuating in Utah the policy by which the Lehi mill is to be ruined, by i installing that party in power here. There can be no doubt whatever of the character of constitution the republicans republi-cans will give us if they have a majr- i Ity in the convention. The only thing we can do to prevent it, is to vote for men pledged to eternal warfare upon the principles ol the republican party. Hai Utah subsidized the Lehi mill to the extent of tea millions of dollars, the result would have been exactly ex-actly the same while the disaster would have been just that much more grave in its consequences. The sugar trust handles hundreds of millions yearly as profits and of course it could ruin Lehi any moment it sees fit to do so. What can then be said of a policy or party which permits such a thing. It is well perhaps that we have had this bit of an object lesson in Utah thus early. We can now take the policy of I the republican party home with us. It 1 sits on our door step. We can see and I feel of it Had it not been for this, the thing would haye been only a distant and perhaps a cloudy evil to us. But this standing face to face with the problem and having our own money up at hazard, enables ua to see deeper into other peoples' wees, and to come to more correct conoluBionB as to the turpitude tur-pitude of the principle. Utah must tight it with an undying determination never to give up the struggle until the threat ot this disaster is far removed A forever. Thus does it come that all - f other issues and interests pressing for 'J solution this election sink into utter insignificance before the necessity which is upon us directly, to elect only democrats to the convention charged with the work of framing the new con-Ititutiun con-Ititutiun for Utah. , Let no democratic y otef loBe sight of this great necessity for a single moment. Let no one neglect ne-glect the solemn duty which is now upon up-on him to 6ee that that vote goes in straight, if for no other reaeon than to make the new consitution so explicit upon the question of subsidies and bounties as that they never can be asked for again in Utah. The history of this enormous cormorant, cormor-ant, the suear tru3t, is such as that its very name should become a stench in the nostrils of the accent ar.d honest people of Utah. We j know it now, and if after this we fall into its j.ower vte v. ill have only ourselves to blame and ri will deserve nothing better than tbe treatment treat-ment it pleases to accord us. We are forewarned already, let us b forearmed fore-armed by making a constitution which will forever protect us from all the blandishments of the sugar, and trusts of all other fcinds, and forever. |