The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-16
LNTI.MONOPGLY SOREHEADS.

The Anti.Monopolists have mel
in national convention, have dis
cussed, ssresolved," nominated and
adjourned. They will now await
results. The convention which has
lust been held in Chicago appears to
have been about as stormy as the
200 delegates Of the 1890 invited
could make it. There was quarrel =
ing from the time the doors were
opened and the undeliberatiVe body
was called to disorder until the mob
adjourned and the doors were closed.
Ben. Butler was nominated for Pres
ident, and this selection was toe oc-
casion for increasing the trouble. 1t
is a remarkable fact that all
these s'reform" parties are
short. lived, each carrying with
it the elements OF self-destrucdon.
Familiar examples are the Green
back and Workingmen's organiza~
tons, both of which should be il
fourishing condition to-day, and
working out an honorable destiny
instead Of languishing II not dead,
despised by the very men who
should by carrying them forward.
This proneness to party suicide is
due to the fact that men are too
often guilty of what they condemn
in others, and they seek power, less
with the view to the correction of
evils than to the advancement o.
self. Denis Kearny gave Califor
MIA the worst shaking up it ever ex-
perienced. He frightened or shook
the life out Of corrupt politicians
and officials, gained control Of the
chief city and had firm grip on
the State, when instead OF CORE Ct
ing the evils that existed, he COM
mitted others, and, undertook to
convert California into a Kearny
colony. There was necessity for
man like Kearny, and had the fell
low been as honest as he was enthu
siastic, and as intelligent as ambi-
tious, not only would Cali
fornia have been blessed with good
government, but Kearny himself
would be regarded as a savior
instead of being looked upon as
disreputable cur, without honor,
honesty or integrity, unworthy the
respect of his vilest tool during the
days of the sand lot tyranny.
The Anti-MonopoIist party is
made up largely of politicians who
have been disappointed in the other
parties, and who are not themselves
monopolists, because they cannot
be. They are the political sore
heads Of the country who are liable
to be afflicted nextyear with burn
ing desire for reform" in some
other direction; and it is not i'm
probable that they will be advo-
eating Butler as the man to lead
them, no matter what the direction
they may travel.
The way to reform is inside, not
outside a party. Kearny defeated
both the Republicans and the Dem
ocrats. but he didn't reform, and he
made both those organizations his
enemies; whereas if he had worked
with either against corruption he
might have achieved something;
the Workingmen in the east four
years ago withdrew from the other
parties pulled together, and "left"
themselves, while no reform was
brought about yet if they had
carried their ideas and strength into
either Of the organizations, much of
what they wanted and deserved
might have been obtained. The his
tory of the Greenbackers is not I'm
like that of all these parties Of NAL.
contents.
There is need Of curing the mon
opoly evil; but whatever is accom-
plished in that direction, must be
done through one of the controlling
parties and not through an organ
izstion like that which has just
closed its disorderly convention In
Chicago. The farther these ''re-
formers" get away from the parties
the weaker they become, and the
less they can achieve.