| Show A UTAH POP POPULIST gives his views on the issues of the day says the man who claims silver as the paramount issue is an ass and is fooling the people and should be gibbeted ted poli politicians itic ians should read and reflect FD EDITOR tor the political deal known as fusion co operation cooperation or union of 0 forces being much discussed these days a statement of borne some of the reasons why the straight populists lists oppose the deal may bo be of interest to the people ot of utah first ot of all we be lieve that operation cooperation co la Is neither more nor less lees than a scheme of office seeking politicians having but ene aim the spoils it any one doubts thia this let him j look op up the antecedents and present occupation cu of the men who are working for operation cooperation co with possibly a very jew few exceptions every operation cooperation co is oat cut for an office or I 1 is working for some one who is As to this phase of the question we are not willing to ba be made cats eats paws to pull chestnuts irom from the fire for others we protest against the prostitution of our party to advance the interests of shady and shifty politicians we believe that operation cooperation co means weans the annihilation odthe of the populist party the fate of the greenback and union labor parties prove that a minority party especially if it be a reform party cannot survive fusion and fusion fasion and operation cooperation co are identical the latter word being brought into the discussion by benedict Ban edict arnold butler batler to fool the people men and women joined the populist party j because they believed it represented great principles which they wished to eee lee enacted into laws and when these principle aare rub subordinated to getting the spoils of office they will leave the party save the free coinage of silver there is not a single populist principle advocated by the co the silver question was always a minor one with the great malo majority rity of populists lists i and they will not give up their other principles for silver alone especially will they not favor the deal when it is as plain are a pike staff that silver ii 13 but a borso horse with which to get into office if we were thoroughly convinced that the operation cooperation co nials wera were sincere and were really and truly working r for silver we would still oppose the deal this because we are firmly convinced that the importance of the silver question is vastly overrated we are sure that the ills which afflict this coun try were in existence long befort before the crime of 73 tho deplorable condl condi i tion of the producers oi 01 this country are the effect of the industrial system intensified by vicious class legislation and there would bs be but little dif fererico if silver had never been de almost every industry in the count is controlled by a trust which shuts out all competition this under a competitive peti tive system enables the few to remorselessly morse lessly rob the many laborers in these trust rust t controlled oon strolled trolled industries are t forced to accept a beggarly pittance for their toil or eee tee their families starve free milver is useless here transports tion companies exact all the traffic will bear which means rein rain to many merchants chantland sand and firmen boise than this is the th discrimination against one pue city or community in favor of another many a flourishing city has been practically extinguished by a railway company i the property ol 01 many people is at the mercy 0 a taw men who control the croat great transportation lines of this country here again free silver will do no good the tile telegraph monopoly enables a few men to color to suit their views all the news the people get it shuts out newspapers in many places for associated press dispatches cannot ba be bad at any price in many places pisces and only tor for an enormous price in any place this deprives the people of the news to a large extent and nad what they do getis get ia fixed up to bolt suit those who control the avenues aveni iea through which it comes free ehver silver Ss is no remedy here A new era is to upon us thia this the silver men do not seem to corn com ever sirce the pilgrim fathers landed at plymouth rock until a very recent date dite men could get onto the land and become independent out of the hevea of the crowded eastern com commini muni ties people have swarmed over the western prairies and mountain valleys now the land ia Is taken in the arid rt regions gIone where irrigation is necessary land cannot be had lied except at a price which makes it impossible for a poor roan man to get it in the districts vast sums same of money are required for irrigation plants without out which the ladd is worthless this again shuts out the poor man so no longer can the men of the overcrowded cities go 90 out on the land but by oar present system on the land are being driven back into the cities of what use is tree free silver here again this i Is the ace age of the machine with the improved machine a weaver can weave cloth enough in a week to clothe a whole village for a year cyb morri A and nd who will deny this the eama larne thing la Is true all along through all industries dus tries it all who wish ta work had it products enough would be turned out in one year to supply all the needs of all mankind for or five years this condition doeg not exist in this country alone bat is worldwide world wide it you labor not neither shall you eat was said of old it is a condition of today what ia Is to be done with the millions who want work and cannot get it the world has reached a stara where it all who wish work and have to work or eat not were put at productive labor under existing conditions and at what is now called full time their productions could never be consumed the machine h has as kicked the working man into the street and in his starving and hope lesa less condition the operative cooperative co bimetal lists cell tell him free silver will pot put him to work acain again at full fall time and fall pay the man who cannot sea the absurdity of the claims of the silver men is a stupid ab a B wholly unfit to lead the people the man who does see it and still advocates silver as ae tho the paramount iesue issue of the day is a scoundrel who deserves to be gibbeted at the crossroads cross roads roade of public i opinion holding these opinions and many more which space forbids mentioning here the middle of ol the road populists lists as they are derisively termed will never inse fuse and if the party fusee fuses in spite of them they will pull out and continue on in their course leaving leav log the fusionists to do BO they like believing that the principles of their party are above the political ambition ambit fon of any man they will ever stand tor for a straight ticket U H L GAUT the columns of are open to all political parties but writers must 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