Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-06-29
THE MASSES VS.. THE CLASSES

Premier Gladstone addressed over 5000
people in Liverpool yesterday afternoon,
and in the course Of his remarks, he said:
The Liberal party was, as a rule, not sup
ported by dukes squires, clergymen of the
established church, officers of the army, and
so forth. Wherever there was highly
privileged public endowed profession, almost
every member of that profession was an
anti-Lb eral. But from the legal and medi-
cal profes sons which are now open to every
one the Liberals received fair share of
of support. The question was whether the
masses were able, constitutionally, to over
bear the classes, because it had always been
shown that wherever Truth, Justice and
Humanity were concerned, the masses were
in the right and the lasses in the wrong
In these few words, the grand old m an
summed up the whole trouble in Great
Britain. 1t is simply the masses against
the classes, and has been for seven hun
dred years. He aptly tells how earnestly
the men who receive support from public
endowments fight the will of the masses,
of the masses, their sinecures would van
ish and they be forced to work for their
maintenance just like the men OF the
masses. There is similarity in the
positions of the American Democratic
party previous to the last presidential
election, and that OF the Home Rulers in
Great Britain now, that must attract
attention on this side OF the water. The
Republican party in certain sense was
composed OF the self-styled classes, be-
ginning in New England prejudice and
ending in general intolerance, and which
held their membership to be apart from
and above the foreign-born citizen, and
unfit to mate with him only at the polls
where, as now in England, his vote
was begged for the support OF mer
who, after election, religiously broke
their promises and ostracized hin
from the public service, and al
far rs in them lay, from voice in the
government of the country. The in
teryention OF the war with its followin,
decade OF polite measures necessary tC
efface its consequences, gave the Repub
lican party hobby on which they rod,
rough shod over the masses, and taugh
themselves to believe they were of tn,
chosen Of the people, and therefore supe
rior to the common rabble. They were
given rope enough OF this sort, and the.
finally hanged themselves so high tina
no possible revulsion OF feeling or resur
rec ton OF sectional strife can ever reacl
their halter to cut them down again
The American people arose in thei
wrath and their might and foreve
placed a quietus on the I'm
American tendency to class dstinc
tion which the Republican party sough
to saddle on the people OF the country
The occasion is ripe for similar move
ment among the masses in Great Britain
and the indications all point to speed,
public verdict by the British people, tina
will teach class. distinctions and class
born power a lesson in political economy
long needed in that sadly misgoverne,
land. AS it was with the American pee
pie, SO it is with the people of Grea
Britain, the masses against the classes
and the masses have right and universe
sympathy on their side. Who can dout
the outcome?