The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-17
UTAH POLITICS.
utah Born" a Little On, and
a Great Way Off.
The Difference Between Ger
tain Things.
BEAVER, April 14ih 1884.

1
Editors Herald:
In attempting to express som'
ideas on the subject to which, l wish
to refer, / feel | am running a very
considerable risk, for I not only refel
Ito NATIVE Born" in his remarks or
young men in politics in Utah. but
am constrained also to, sllude to your
editorial on the same subject. There
are many truths in what NATIVE
Born' states, and none truer than
that some have been given Office. moi
because of personal capacity or merit
bat for the reason that q potent inhu.
ence such as arises fiom a father or a
friend powerful because OF wealth.
has secured for him that which his
Inherent excellence or capacity, or
Integrity would never have won. He
ls also right when be declares it is
within the power of young men. by
q demonstration Of united strength,
and an exhibition of united effort,
arising from strong individuality, to
largely contribute to the bringing
about OF happier condition of sf1airs.
msy agree with him iii some other
points, but for the purposes here in
tended the concessions made above
are sufficient. II | know anything
about politics-aad admit I am not
as thoroughly posted as I might te-
but if I know anything about politics
that knowledge teaches me the evil.
complained of by "NstiYe Born" in
Utah, are common to political par
ties the whole world over. For the
life of me therefore, / cannot see
where any advantage in this respect
is to be gained by the organization OF
a new party. The object for which
he contends. is not the correc ion OF
abuses go much as the organization
of this new party; and it is in this re-
gard that your editorial does not, in
any sense whatever. apply to the po-
sition assumed by "Native Born"
His object is manifeetly the destruc-
ten OF an existing body; lyour stric-
lures apply to the correction OF exist
ling abuses; and feel confident you
will readily and willingly admit that
the difference between the two is
heaven.wide. If the parties that
exist today have outgrown the con-
ditions to which their birth was due;
if they linger on not because of any
real benefits contributed by them TO-
man in an organized political cspac-,
ity; if they are tolerated simply be.
cause they are old, and because of q
foolish and unwsrranted notion of
reverence; then say, by all means
destroy, demolish and bury them as
fast as possible. but to demand 8 rev.
olution simply because of desire for
change, or on account OF dissatisfao-
ton is different matter entirely. II
"Native Born" knows anything, he
knows that political parties, TO be
durable, must necessarily be Of slow
development, for the reason that
durability in such directions is begot-
ten OF confidence only and confidence
is plant of slow growth There is
an object for political psrti5s; they
are necessary creation, and an indi-
vidual should be thoroughly and in
diligently grounded in the belief that
their day of usefulness is past, before
he demands their burial,
The question of utility, or of use
fulness of parties involves a discus
sion considerably wide of the imme-
date purposes OF this paper; but for
the satisfaction Of "Native Born" II
will tell him that another or g new
party is impossible as an outgrowth of
the Peoples party, while the conc J.
tions remain IS they are in Utah to-
day, or as they have been for the last
twenty years.
NoW,I am young man, interested
in politics, and profess sufficient indi.
viduality 10 tell any man on earth
what 7 think about public matters.
There is not q sentiment uttered in
your editorial that do not thoroughly
endorse, but there are many senti-
ments that I object to in "NatiYs
Born's" communication, and GER
tainly there are many conclusions, l
untenable for the reason that the
premises upon which the conclusions
are based are unsound. I agree with
Native Born" that young men are
q power; that the reason their power
is no. felt is due to their lack of euer-
getic assertion, but I am unable to
see why they cannot make the power
within them as manifest inside the
ranks of the Peoples party as out of
thes q ranks. It is the duty Of every
young man who belongs to a party,
no less than to an old man, to see
that the morality Ct his pa e. ia pre-
served. If be does less than this, he
is dist o lest to himself and unworthy
the noble privilege which citizenship
confers upon him; and unsuited for
the high duties the right OF ballot
IMPOSES. II the principles of q party
are wrong; if its effect is wholly bad,
or in the main has an injurious effect
when its principles are strictly fol-
lowed, then / am in favor of an aban-
Comment; but / shall never blame
my Larty. nor desire to create a new