The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-25
THE NEW ENGLAND IDEA.

bones. This is what Marc Antony said
over the dead body of Julius Cesar; a,
least, it was what Shakespeare caused
him to say, and so pregnant with that
simple yet far-reachins philosophy
with which the words OF the immortal
bard abounds was it that the sentence
has become immortal, and finds 8 fit
ting place every day in our lives. It
means merely that what We do that is
wrong, or is demonstrated by the law of
success to be not on the winning side,
IS imperishahle and will continue on
and Oh its existence when eur voices
are hGshed forever; but the good we
may have performed, unless stamped
indsIibly upon some great work or
SONS grand acs, generally goes to rest
with us and is heard of no more. In
tbs face of all tais, those who live but
for what they can accomplish and &C
cum ilate in the present become.
usually, nard GLASS OF p5ople to
deal with, their very selfishness
and utter disregard of everything I'M
come ,ted with mere personal gain
causing them to be heartless. cunning
and cruel. Of this class might. be
named q great many men in public
life, men who have retained all that
was vicious and vile in the composition
of their ancestry, and sought not to
either blunt it or make it companion
for some corresponding or compsnsat-
ing good-such, for instance, as many |
of the descendants of the stock that |
srst lit the fires of civilization upon |
this continent and inaugurated the
race conflict which has progressed
steadily and with increased power from.
generation to generation, striking
down the natural rights of the natives
and depriving them piece by piece of
their lands, habitaIions and means Of
subsistence until now they have moth
ing but what the invaders see fl to
give them, and are generally cheated
with respect to that. Well, ths people 10
whom We particularly refer ars the
offspring Of those who were and have
since been con 4picuous iii the matter
OF deprivation without compensation,
and looked upo2 tle peaceful and pros
porous lot Of oshers as just subject Of
attack. TIE Indian had not and has
no right to have lands which We
wanted, or want according, to that
gentry'5 Gods, and the question as to
how he was or is to be disposSessed
figures not in the computation of the
question. Ali OF the Pilgrim fore
fathers were no. thus d!spoei :ioned by
any means; perhaps the majority were
not and nearly all their posterity are
not, but il is certain tn st too maOy,
having found a country in which lands
and forests were practically b0undtesJ,
whose resources were endless ami ;
whose possessors were not making such {
use of their advantages as accorded !
with the invaders idea, not only trans {
planted at once the system prevailing
in the narrow aad contracted LAM {
from which they came, but
must all at once hav9 become I
inflated with an idea Of their'oxa grand I
consequence because of the certainty OF I
their uprooting the savages' title and J
becoming themselves the lords of the e
soil, And, having come here to esnape
cruel and unjust laws, they failed TO 2
nroye themselves superior II the ty- t
rants they had left bs1ind WHOM it g
came to making rules for their own b
guidance, and some enactm onts,
! tranger, more absurd and more tyran- t.
meal than those of Albion were placed &
npon the statute books of the time. (,
Burning at ths stake, the stocks, tie v
xnout and the ducking stool were f,
among the punishments pro Iidei, Il
and such radically wrong conduct and Il
conditions as being an old woman WITH r
nointsd nose and chin, wife sc1ld- "
no her husband, singing secular songs q
vhile divine services were in pr ogress, il
md kissing ones wits ons5unday, were i!
,ioher high crimes or misdemeanors. A
rh.s condition of things, permit us to
ov never crossed he boundary lire. a
,onarating from tn rest what has stree Q
can known as the New England di- "
,Ision of the United States, and happily t
:. smallest one. The systems spoken Fl
9 have bsen broken down, but the in v
t;ncts inculcated and the principles u
= oandered have not disappeared and b
: snifest them selves every new and "
han in public and private places, in the f
'resg the pulpit and our legislatures. C
Look. for instance. at Senator Hosr, s
3 massachusetts,. He is, more than r
nv public man we can think OF at
' '-ssent the incarnation of the old-time '
Tsw England idea. intellectually t
mong the brightest, he is bigoied, T
';ased, Puritanicsl, cunning and crafty I
r. hates the people of tas so1th with b
=, onsuming hatred, for n9 other reasons q