The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-20

Ties on the side OF e1lStDg govern
ments and opposed TO all agitation
that will endanger the peace Of sociei,
by disturbing the tranquility OF tn,
political seas; who will always be cry
ing peace. even when there Is no peace
only upon the condition OF sIayish sub
mission to tyranny. These az,
the wealthy classes. who are read,
to endure any form Of government
submit TO any amount Of oppression
which does not interfere seriously with
tneir accumulation and enjoyment OF
wealth. such were the classes who sup.
ported the Dictators and EmDerors OF
Rome in all their assumptions Of i'm
periaistic powers which were
employ ed in depressing the Roman SUBJ
Iects. until a. length that siupendous
fabric OF government which had stood
the political tempesis Of centuries be
came no longer the conservator Of the
liberties OF mankind, but mere engine
oil oppression. and gradually crunibled
TO decay: such were the Tories IN the
American Colonies at the
outbreak OF the war of the
Revolution. who cou selei sub
mission 10 he English government,
and employed every argument, and ap
pealed to every superstition aud to
ey ~ interest 10 dissuade the patriots
from their determination OF declaring
themselves an independent nation.
Such are the Conservatives, or Tories OF
England to day. VINO are resi- ting the
granting OF home rule to Ireland with
all their ancient prejudices against the
extension of power to the masses of the
people.
On the other hand is operating that
principle of mans nature which inspires
him with hatred of oppression: which
makes him jealous OF his own and his
rights and liberties; which
leads him to read much. and look right
through the acts of rulers, and study
the secret causes which prompt their |
action, and when even he discovers |
any intention of increasing the powers |
OF the monarch at the expense of the
liberty o: the subject, he at once gives
the ote of warning 10 his fellows. and
stands ready to oppose the assumption
and Capitalization of power both by
and by force. if needs be; nor
has the fear of imprisonment or death.
nor the favors of the king, nor the
norsels Of meat thrown to them by the
Iristocracy been sufici. mt to silence
heir tongues, or quiet their opposition, l
Y corrupting their patriotism. Such S
hen were Tiberius and Caius Gracious g
rho opposed the corrupt senate of |
Rome a hundred years before Christ {
rho sacrificed their lives in the defens. &
4 the oppressed masses, and sought 10 '
french from a rotten aristocracy the G
ands they had usurped and place them c
j the hands OF the people whore OF /
ight they belonged, and to no favored {
lass; such in the thirteenth century /
ERE the Barons of Engl md who COM
elled King John. on the banks Of Run a
ymede, to sign the English Magma :
harta which secured not onlS their C
ghts but the rights of the common '
aople and clergy as well; such were ]
lie Wings and Puritans of England who c
spired the resistance to the assump- y
on of power by the kings OF England :
the middle of the seventeenth CEN "
Iry, which eliminated in the Justly n
LIBERATED English Revolution of 1855 a
Itch brought with it the English Il
III of Rights. securing to the Il
,oFle of that realm those Il
blessirg s of liberty they Ct
I'VE since enjoyed; such were the Pa c.
lots of America who, when they fe
und the king and Parliament dis IL
'sed to Cypress them by denying to b
EN- the rights C nferrei by the laws Al
England. had the boldness to resist OF
e oppression and their efforts in con- oil
nding for liberties were happily b
owned with a success grander than VI
cir most sanguine expectations could al
I them hope to attaIn-for their re- IL
lance led to the founding OF our own Sc
eat nation; such are the Liberals of it
gland to-day; they are struggling to as
tain an enlargement of liberty for the eff
compressed people OF Ireland, ad
,ugh they do it at the expense of J. to
nishing the authority OF the imperial
Ternment. DIT
Veil. then, from these dispositions in tn
N. the one deserving power. and the we
Ter hating oppression arises our A.
itical parties in government. Each oil
} its reasons TO urge why its policy MI
'uld be adopted. The party favoring hu
trong central government lays down do
postulate that the end OF govern an
ut is security, and to ensure security to
uires an effective government, one tho
t can act promptly. and on the SIN
lciple that small bodies are more NV
Idly than large ones, they favor the lies