| Show 1 BOAST Sl Ol OP RICHES Da Day after atter lla day lea leaders ers of the tho I Kearns party party are arc boasting boast boast- In ing ng of their wealth an and the license It gives them to debate de do- eba e- e ba bate base c the government of or this city as ai much as they please BECAUSE THEY ARE AnE RICH That is the Iho worst and and at the tho samo time the most argument they thoy havo have ever e ma made c In the first place places if it be conceded that only tho the rich have a aright aright aright right in government that they alone shall shah decide c on questions questions ques- ques lons of or public expenditure c. c an and public morals then the basis of true American institutions is destroyed If It this lan land and is to be ruled rule b by the rich rich then a worse than African 4 slavery has taken taken possession of the people If It only tho the rich ma may speak In the con conduct of or affairs then hen a hierarch of pitiless power an and shameless s prostitution ution has become the arbiter of or our national destinies If the manhood of or men mentis is to bo be measured b by the property they own then i is the curtain curtail of hope drawn rawn In n the faces of mankind The boastful an and vulgar claim Is neither Soo good politics nor or good sense Slating Stating that certain named persons pa pay moro more taxes than titan do O others opposed oppose to tho the rule of the thc Kearns Cearns crowd by no means implies that tho the rich ilch will support tho the Reams Kearns crowd in the coming cominb municipal elec clec- lon tion The Yer very fact that tile the they have properly Inter Interests at stake tako makes males sensible men an and women women protest against the tho ic seventy thousand dollar graft golart given to Moran and cut ut up with the tho members of the tike council that granted grante It The fhe very fact of their theil substantial stake slake In the community com com- makes them condemn the paying of or six thousand dollars ollars for an experimental report report only only to suppress s it And nd it is because they havo have Interests hero heio that the they will willby willy by y no means give i e their vote of confidence to the I Kearns J party arty art after the shockingly ba bad record of the pa past t two years rears ears But nut there is another side of the question Uon These bald baM castings o of the big biS real estalo holdings In Iho tho names of f men and women who lio aro arc not an and never ne were memel's mem mem- bars bels el's els of or tho the Mormon church ChUlch disproves very eloquently the 10 o repeated oft an and absolutely false e declaration that the Mormons never sell sell an any b land d to to d Gentiles l s.- s. There should bo be an cn end forever to that bald bal and notoriously false representation And n there Is still a 3 further argument against the rule ule that tho the rich alone have a rig It to govern So Probably as s much odium attaches to the Kearns part party's s conduct df f the Sheets case caso as to an any single instance of financial incapacity on the part of the city government No mater matter mat mat- leI ter er how bow much real estate a man owns In Salt Lake he helloes does oes not propose to indorse the robbing of or strangers by bya a protected police lot of or thieves thle He regards s that as both Immoral an and impolitic And nd the Ule con condemnation with which which the people will 1111 express themselves on next Tuesday will vill be as much because the rulers of the Kearns party part hel held eld that the they ha had a n right to rob unmolested every sucker from Scotland who might be attracted to lo this cit city Ity as ns from an any other rea reason on The last insult Insull to decency the last affront to manhood man man- hood is contained in hh the statement that lifts ui rich alone have ha ave the rl right ht to rule That publication will cement opposition op op- posItion to the vulgar domination of the Kearns crow crowd more e titan than an any other othel argument that could coul be devised |
