The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-01
WAKE UPi
Ye Peoples Party Voters in
Summit County.
READ WHAT "BRUIUs" SAYS.
. Your Past is Laughed At; Your
Present Almost Lost Y ur
Future EDcumbsrod."

en- ugh to cope with the enemy In the
coming battle. that the importance Of
the coming struggle demands Of you
the utmost circumspectioD. I take the
liberty. my dear People, of addressing
you again. 1t is historical fact that
when q contemplated mutation IN any
government. or in its administrative
officials. is proposed, sectional lines are
Immediately develope and an inces
SAINT fire from the batteries begins. 1t
certainly is an inherent right nay q
duty-which every intelligent citizen
has. to sorutiniEe ngidly and calmly
the essential principles of the govern
ment of the nation in which he exists,
and to exercise his individual judgment
and discretion as to the expediency Of
any proposed change. Had this always
been done. the pages of history would
not record such trains Of horrors. such
SUGGESTIONS Of crueIties, such 3 series of
appalling and deadly national struggles.
You are living. my dear People, in
one # the greatest republics in the uni
verse; in q nation, the very name of
which is synonym OF justice, equity,
| equality. and freedom From the time
Of the discovery of this country De
mocracy has been implanted in its fer
tile soil, and its fundamental principles
have expanded and evolved. until every
American citizen now worships At its
shrine. You, among others, cherish
the principles Of political, civil. and re-
hgious liberty and universal suffrage.
/
ally urging, petiloning, and Emporium
ing Congress to recall your grant Of suf-
frage; 70 deprive you OF every right,
privilege, and liberty which the Con-
stitution and laws of your country
guarantee to you. They desire to see
you reduced to the debased condition of
serfdom and vassalage. and to acquire
for themselves the arlstocratic preroga-
tives of the feudal lords and barons OF
old, in order to demand of you fealty
and homage. No more solemn warn
ing or admonition need be given you
than the public utterances, the tactics,
Does il require the soul-stirring elo-
quence of q Demosthenes, q Cicero, or
Webster to induce you to take cour-
age in the coming campaign? When
you see their indefatigable efforts for
your ultimate overthrow; when they
openly declare themselves in favor OF
abrogating every vestige OF Democracy
} or Republicanism, aud contend for the
. position of an elevated body of aristo-
Gratis, your energy and zeal in resistine
them should be more apparent. WLeT
you know that their object is to erect
!, artificial barriers between man anC
! man: TO disregard and subvert the
, principles of brotherly love and Ameri-
can equality; can not UGH undoubteC
truths allure you to. at least. make :
) decided exerti0n in a voiceless anC
noiseless battle at the ballot box!
] IL is too true that they have a certain
. amount Of influence in their unremit
) ting endeavors 20 place you under lega
and political disabilities. And il is still
) further true. that if they were elected
20 ill the Offices OF this country, the in
huence they could then WELD would b.
vastly more effectual. By virtue o
their official capacity they would be en-
titled to more prompt recognition, anC
their plans could be more adeQuatell
and successfully matured. Now, il yoI
are remiss and apathetic, you will, il
: default of exercising your vested rights
5 place an additional and more poten
. weapon in their hands, and your rank
, viii be exposed to 3 more disastrou
! and deadly FIRE. Official influence Is
] powerful tool. and to contribute TO th,
mechanism of the tool which is to N
, jure you would be ruinous politica
suicide. Nothing could be more indis
! Greet and iniudicious.
When your opponents are eIeriing
: themselves to secure the subversion o
the principles of local self-goyernment
il becomes your duty to yourselves and
: to your posterity to protest against the
establishment Of such = precedent, and
. 20 oppose IL by every legitimate mean:
you have at your command. You have
enjoyed the essential principles of re-
: publicanism for more than q century
and the person or party that dares C
! advocate their abrogatiOn is your Oper
and avowed enemy. Democracy has
! been growing and expanding for cen
turtles It began 70 thrive when ths
! letters ensiaving the mind of man dur
! ing the dark ages were rent asunder
and the intellectual dEarfs awOke from
their long sium-er. Il has Deen Z
powerful factor in the civilization o
Europe. The people began 10 vearn fol
the liberty which rational beings should
enjoy, for participation in the affair,
. Of government; and for the overthrow
2 OF tyranny and oppression. This demo
cratic element, this inOrdiaate lODginl
, for liberty and freedom, became 50 go
gent, 50 intense, nat = could not b;
J restrained. Il burst Ike a Oomb-shef
, upon moRarchial Europe, and its reEer
i bsraiious extended 10 the remOses
quarters of the globe The Daich, cls
British. the French. and the American
: Revolutions teach u that the trium Oh
. a. march OF democracy cannot be r.
tarded- Heu surely are not 50 cold
sluggish, and lukewarR as 70 rernair
inactive when they declare tksnlselgs,
E the votaries Of such an RneNamPie.
E and unprecedented policy.
Z You. my dear people, have be, n n
Z elcted, tired, and convietsd by YOU
opponents, Of the most heinous crime,
ever defined IN any crim.nll code. a-nC
you were precludsd from interpO ini
any defense Their method Of puAish
nlent is also . prodigy. They ie1Or
D and contemn the legitimate province D
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