Show plutocracy VS DEMOCRACY a some time ago an order was lessed by the tile autocrats of the Itea heading ding railway that all brakemen and baggage mas tt rs re should shave off their whiskers there appeared to be borne some men on the road with the genuine american blood flowing in their veins an american soul in their bodies and a it luxurious american beard on their chins now those men are not employed on the Itea heading ding road but they aro are no not t out of a job whiskers and all the day is not come code yet that men w with ith the spirit to resist humiliation have to go begging for work apropos of this bit of history now a little stale to be railed called news our attention has been directed to a phenomenon in in one of the respect respectable ablo mercantile houses of salt lake it is a very slight matter but it will do for a text the whisker order was not particularly serious to one two thousand miles away yet ita its consequences were of some moment and thinking minds could perceive perc eire in it the elements of a revolution and referring ferri to the salt lake concern aforesaid we might also say bay there ii is nothing unusual cr peculiar in men wearing aprons and various other ments of service appropriate to the work in which they aro are engaged all borta aorta of respectable artisans and professional fess femi ional onal men do it t upon their own volition as an act get of preference but when those in counterfeit are sought to be used to convert an employee into a public spectacle for an advertisement it becomes quite a different matter in fine the whisker cut ting business basi as likewise its small imitation in the capital is one of the determinate little things that index the advance of plutocracy in this fair land of onra void of even the appearance of utility it is sought by the autocrats of wealth as an effective means to sharpen the line between the employer and the employed the man roan who pays and the man who serves the struggle is to transform the laborer however capable worthy intelligent generous or manly into a common menial to the ultimate end of reducing hit hie plane of action to a species of dumb discipline that the almighty dollar which buys his sustenance may pose in perpetual absolutism over his person and his mind this is ii putting the case strong but not too much so we are simply jumping over some oft of t lie intermediate territory en route and drawing upon apon the conditions sought for the coming century this sort of thing is not american it is european at the heart and the barbarous element of at that the encroachments encroach ments of kingi king and in d their armies upon the ranks of pure democracy as our fathers conceived e it are mild enemies compared with this implacable monster of avarice the brave heart that asserts ita its american spirit in the presence of such a foe toe to bis his manhood and the in institutions onder ander which he claims honorable birth is a patriot to the core may we larn of many such A N J trial jury after listening to the evidence against a man accused I 1 of wife beating sought to vindicate the defendant without doing violence to their own consciences and brought in a verdict ol 01 not guilty but bedont we dont want him ta to do it again TUB tim LATE LATIC cyclone brings the forgotten name of st louis pathetically to the front it is an ill tornado etc oto I 1 1 I 1 K 1 I 1 A A I 1 1 ui L iv I 1 |