The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-08
BRITISH POLITICS.
The Decline and Decay to
Which They are Tending.
LORD SALISBURY TOTHEFRONT
Disestablishment, Disendowment,
and GladstOne-NOtes by
"Wanderer."
BELFAsr. Octoher 10. 1ss5

The political pot continues TO boil.
and instead of their being any abate-
ment, the interest is. if anything, on the
increase. Notwithstanding the great
efforts, however, that are being made by
both parties to catch the unwary voter,
I observe that trade-strikes continues
resulting either for a decrease in the
wages of the men employees, to which
they are unwilling to submit, or from a
demand for increased remuneration on
the port of workmen to which the en-
ployer refuses to yield. I notice also
that the lack of labor is still a lamen-
table fact, which continues with stub
born and unyielding persistence de-
spite the Utopian promises of dem
agogues who are determined to catch
votes, even if it beat the expense of
brains and veracity. One can see also,
despite the promising accounts which
are given by political orators of the
future, to which they are forever point
ing with the inevitable pride" that
sensation of profound uneasiness per-
vades the ranks of business men, which
becomes the more apparent in CONNER
| cial circles as time advances; and as a
drowning man is said to grasp at a
straw, so the everWise and universally
informed politician, together with his
| journalistic henchman, are convuls-
lively clutching at any circumstance,
which favorable winds may blow within
their reach. All this time decay con-
| tlnues its encrOachments and men and
societies are lured from a contempla-
| ton of the approaching dissolution by
the hourly topics, which degenerate
statesmen are cOnjuring up to attract
and rivet attention. There is, however,
very little interest manifested by the
body of the people. 1t is true, the
daily publications are full of the state
ments of this man or that man, lengthy
and indigeshble editorials are spun out
on the most improbable suppositions.
so as to make the pill which is to do the
cleansing work as palatable as pos
Sible; but after all, the marrow and the
bone remains stubbOnly Indifferent to
the controversy, and as, by English
law votes no longer dare be bought.
the principal incentive to the average
elector has lost its flavor; and he no
longer cares a button how the con-
founded thing goes. Talk about brains
1t is rot Nowhere in the world do the
"good people, exercise their inteIlects
in political matters. They are the |
machines which few trlcksters con-
troll and operate 1t is so in Great /
Britain, it Is so in the United States, !
that great asylum ofintellectual giants; I
and while the ballot has the appear |
ance of being the friend and power of |
the poor-and perhaps might belt is |
the most deceptive thing imaginable, I
as by it all manner of rascality and |
downright blackguardism is sustained |
and operated. The only proof a man
needs of tits to note the character of the /
individuals who are supported and |
grow pecuniarly fat by this "pallad-
ium, " this quint-essence of liberty, the |
ballot. And since the average man /
cannot see beyond his pocket and his
stomach, it is not surprising to witness
the spectacle of a country like the Uni
ted States controlled completely and
under the thumb of demagOgues and /
political scoundrels. Such being the |
case the ballot is simply means by /
which a few unprincipled individuals
carry on practices they dare not other.
wise be guilty of. 1t is the old story
of the bore thrown to the hungry i
watchdog, which the dog grinds at in
silent contentment, while the robber
''goes through the house. the public
being the dog. the ballot the bone and
the politician the thief.
Lord Salisbury has now bounced to
the front, and the papers of an indie
pendent character, as of course, those
of his own way of thinking, refer to the
effort as statesmanlike in every partic-
docs not onraa NTH Mr.
Gladstone, and he is bitterly opposed
to the disestablishment of church and
state. Now, Lord Salisbury is fool if
the Utah patriots are right; and if Lord
Salisbury is right, the inference is that
the Utah patriots are-neverl perish
the thought Never let ID be intimated.
no, nor even insinuated that any one of
those who are lahoring so hard to save
Utah from that rum which % years
has been establishing and which is to
be seen in the most prosperous section
of country, years considered, to be
found in the world, could possibly be
fools. Perhaps a few of the Premieis
ideas on the disestablishment of the
church in England might not be I'M
interesting. He speaks of it, as will be
seen, in no ambiguous language, and
the leading papers of England actually
refer to his utterances as statesmanlike.
1t is to the youthful press in Utah that
we must look, however, for a correct
ANALYSIS of the work of his "Lud-
ships utteranceS on this question and
there is little doubt that very lucid
overthrow OF the position of the Earl
Premier can speedily be accomplished
by the thinkers" of Utah. Referring
to the subject of disestablishment in
Mr.. Gladstones manifesto, Earl Sails
bury SAID:
l confess 1 never believed that
should see Mr.. Gladstone among those
whowould admit the disestablishment
and abandonment of the established
churches of the land as among the pos
sible measures to which he could be in
duced to consent. But deeply as we
may lament this evidence of the power
which party ties possess we must not
the less misinterpret the significance OF
this avowal or the duty that it imposes
upon Us. It means that the time OF
ultimate and supreme conflict IS at
hand. 1t means that the danger which
we have foreseeH for many days is now
close to our doors. It may come upon 4
as even in the new Parliament. The
language that Mr.. Chamberlain has
used-the fact that he has used it with
out rebuke-the fact that he IS being
allowed to assume the position of