The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-28
MULLIGAN BLAINE.
seathing DenunciatiOn of the
"Plumed Knight"
THE CASE IN A NUTSHELL.
race TO FaceWith ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the People Want = A Resolu-
tion-The Sitting Going
On in Earnest.

IT Hf. JdLlES W. OldlllC n4AOAh
and what he is fighting, he would proba-
bIy be very glad to withdraw from the
contest. He believes, no doubt, that he
has 10 battle only with the Democratic
Party and its Independent Republican
allies. He thinks that the object of the
combat is the possession of the Presi-
dency Of the United States. No man
ever made a greater mistake. The sup
nression of Mr. Blaine is but an incident
n the plan of campaign which began
last June, and which will be brought to
a successful ending sooner or later, as
surely as the sun rises and sets; as
surely as truth is true.
The oVer-confident faulty of the
Republican leaders keeps them blind to
the fact that they are now face to face
with Revolution. They know, indeed,
that there is a revolt within the party
lines against a personally Objectionable
candidate. Further than this they can
not, or will not, see. Theirs is the his
tory of all over-fed powers. When the
people of Paris came down TO Versailles
snd- shouted for bread, under the kings
windows, Louis XVI, doubtless under
stood that they wanted bread, and the
only question to him was whether they
should getit or not. When. few years
later, he stood on the scaffold one win
ter morning, the idea had probably
made its way into his dull head that the
people had all along wanted something
more than mere bread. They wanted,
he saw, Justice, the right of self-goyern-
ment, personal freedom, and, more than
any one thing, the recognition of
prfnciple-the principle OF Equality.
When certain men arose in the coun-
try and said that slaves should not be
reid in the newly-made States, the poll
ticjans OF the day discussed the ques-
ion as it was given to them, and when
thev made up their minds to side with
the shareholders, they thought the
question was settled. When the Free
Soil agitation took the phase of lawless
violence, they thought only of putting
Il down. When John Brown gave the
signal for an uprising of the negroes,
they saw before them only the immedi-
ate duty OF capturing and killing John
Brown. But after four years of cruel
and unnatural war they grasped the
truth that the Free-Soilers and John
Brown had been but factors in the great
scheme of Emancipation, and that the
killing of such men in droves would not
have quelled the spirit that made for the
establishment of true liberty in Ameri-
can.
To-day Mr. Blaine does not under
stand that ne is enlisted on the wrong
side IN q war which next NOYember'S
election can not possibly end. The sys-
tenn of political laxity and corruption,
which he and men like him have fasten-
ed on the country, Is to him what the
system of slaye-holding was to the
Southern sympathizerS of generation
gone. Their formulas would fit the
defense he has to make. The system
mas evils, which are to be deplored; but,
aftsr all, it is the only practicable
system. Criticism which condemns IL is
hypercritical. Ii is chimerical to look
for higher an ard of morals in pub
liz affairs. Human nature is selfish, and
absolute honesty is :. beautiful ideal i'm
,,racticeblity. Experience outvalues
theory. Radical change would only
open the way To other troubles of differ
ent kiads. We exist, we arc prosperous,
&nder the present order of things.
My should we risk change?
such sOphiStries - these are like
straTS IN the path OF whirlwind This
/, the idle chatter that was drowned in
The roar OF the French Revolution.
abandoned for ever before our civil war
was closed The voice Of self-intereSt
and poicyiS loud before the storm; but
II Is silent whea the storm breaks. This
wind has been long rising; but now it
mas risen, and II will not fall until-it has
uene It's work, whether that work be
oone next year, or year after, or ten
years hence.
The revolution that has begun, the
revolution that will turn our world over
INTO the sunlight OF honest government,
Is not struggle of blood. 1t will know
3eIther guiilOtine nor rifles. Il is a
revolution OF thought and feeling. For
the most part unOrganized as yet, the
honest and thoughtful men of this
country are gathering around one stand
ara Tor common purpose In one
seESe the nomination OF Mr. Blaine has
oeen a blessing to the country. Now
mat the very staudard-hearer of cor
LRpu0n Is put up for President of the
JnJed States, we have something con-
crete and tangible to fight against. The
issue is put Sguareiv before Us and we
may silt our friends from our enemies.
ana Know whom to trust i'll the coming
struggle We have 40 longer to seek an
u,hacinow!edged enemy in the dark.
ne may uow divide the people of the
country into two camps-on the one
Slde The men who are willing that We
sIAould have a corrupt government; or
me other the men who are determined
that We shall not.
And now the sitting is going on; and
Gay by day the soberer men are stepping
"utof the ranks Of the thieves and thf
1Epocrites and the feuther-brained
'houterS tor magnetism" and smart
t;eSs' and aggreSSivenesS. DaS by
Gay, IN spite OF all the din and turmoil
clear heads begin to think more clearly
ana 10 see the real nature and propor
IONS o. the contest And every cleai
lead is gain 20 the cause of right
Inc .corruptiOnistS strive still 10 confus,
he TISSUES involved they make despcrat,
Struggles 10 prove-not their rectirude
out Their supremacy. Vermont is viii
4S, they cry: Maine is with Us. An,
.Aey raise louder noise. irving TO checl
nat terrible process OF thinking which
gong on SO steadily But the process
c ~. hot be checked; and thought make
Ear TO men the disgrace that mus
one ona country which would set owe
I'll q corrupt ruler who giories in hi
M. corruption, who sees beauty in al
nc; HeannesS and dishonor that stall
IN, IN IN the eyes OF honest men; VIII
n ,o1aIeS his eallouS baseness before tn
w he ana puts a fine name upon il.