The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-25
A YEAR OF SURPRISES
Galtsau's Greatest Danger =
BlaiDe'S American Idea What
Will the PeruVains Do +?
[Corre 'pOndence of the HERALD

The resignation of Conkling in a
pet; the assassination of the Presi-
dent; the Monroe doctrine manifesto
OF Blaine. which is the greatest
European sensation in several years
the opening of Mexico to Ameri-
can cOmmerce-are events either of
which would render notable a sim
gle year. Among the lesser sensa-
tlonS are the vivid Guiteau trial !:
the result of the Virginia election |;
the Campbell-CannOn controversy !:
this latter is almost too incredible
Tor belief-and the new political
departure of Sanator Voorhees,.
AS the Guiteau trial progresses
the doubts Of the bar and the people
as to his conviction appear to In
crease. If the portraits of the jury,
as given in HGTpeT'S Weekly, fur
nlsh fair impression Of the indi-
Vlduality of these twelve men, the
conformation of their heads should
fail to encourage the prosecution in
taking sanguine view Of the re-
suits Of their efforts. Though evil
IDENTIFY below the average jury in
those characteristics that denote in.
telligence, or everyday contact with
the business world, some Of their
faces nevertheless bear the marks
OF earnest thought and tenacious
ideas. Evidently Guiteau has read
the dozen more correctly, and is in
splred by the belief that they are
likely to disagree on verdict.
This may be the secret Of his pos
turing for effect, and insisting so
strongly upon the theory of the
Diety-inspiratiOn in his case. But
in proportion as the belief in the
disagreement of the jury obtains
will the greater danger and peril of
another assassination increase.
Scovllle sensibly feels this tendency
and knows that there are plenty Of
Americans imbued with the spirit
of revenge for Garfeld's killing.
Guiteau's conduct On the trial, his
lofty assumptions, abuse Of wit
nesSes and the court, and his bragga-
docia airs, holding his head so far
above every body else, because his
revolver was more potent than the
votes of majority of the people in
debating the Presidential success
siOn-all intensity the feelings of a
multitude of Would-be-avsngers,
and nothing save a lack
of organized secrecy and eff
cheney among them-or the
constant guarding of the prisoner
by regiment of soldiers can pre-
vent his death, should the jury dis.
agree. There are many soldiers even
who would not think it a criminal
act to dispatch Guiteau, and not d
few ZealOts who would like to carry
out his inspiration theory to its
legitimate results.
What a shocking series Of mis-
haps and plumbers the course of our
politics seems to involve to the
thoughtful man. How crude and
tortuous The ways through which
the purest parties and administra-
tiOnS wind in their progress to.
wards reforms in government anG
III aid of popular civilization. The
graphic pictures painted by Mdcauly
of English political history, IL which
the prOhigacy, duplicity, and i'll
Justice of mOnarchS, statesmen ant
Legislators shine out wildly upol
the canvas. if not fully paralIeled in
recent American history, at lea~I
shame the country and the age
and show through what question
able methods the highest popular
government on earth Is working Ju
It's own salvation. English govern
ment history teens Oh every page
with the VIlest intrigues ana most
shocking violations of its ethlca
principles; yet progress and cIvIll-
zatiOn, though compared at every
step by bad system, have marched
steadily onward. Doubtless by
similar crooked methods and acts,
the United States is also reaching a
higher position in civilization, yet
one can hardly avoid the thought
that the people will one day cut the
gordon knot by releasing them
selves from the costly machines,
which ride so remorsely over the
weak. and really retArd the advance
of progress and just principles.
But there are such distractions
as the socialistic party and the
libelists delighted to revel in, and
| society must take some &C
count of every tender cry
and organization that may
serve to disturb its tranquility.
Probably the socialists have come to
stay. They are a natural instinct,
or a result of such governments as
those of Germany and Russia, and
if the course of great mOnOpolies is
not checked or regulated here, some
thing similar may grow up amongst
US. Naturally, however, the United
States should not be troubled for
many year with such revolution
airy phases. We have to Subdue and
clvilize the entire southern CONT
nent. Blaine too again struck The
key note of the old Democratic Mon
roe doctrine. America is obliged to
feed all Europe. either at their
| homes OF after their arrival here.
In sense. the United States is
responsible for the sustenance,
physically and politically, Of the
whole Werld. The utilization Of
Mexico will be speedily followed by
the progress of American civilization
| to the isthmus, and another hundred
years will probably witness a pre-
| nOuderatiDo meric3n- bnOliSh cOTO-