The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-04
70 OUR SOLONS.
President Cleveland'S
Compliments
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
He Adheres to His Tariff.
Platform.
REFERENCE TO UTAH.
POlygamy is Virtually at an
End-.-Church Suits.
REFERENCE TO UTAH.
POlygamy is Virtually at an
End-.-Church Suits.
AS TO SILVER COINAGE.
Our Foreign ReIations-PensiOnM Mat
ters-PubIic Lands-IndIRn Man
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Review.

To the Congress of the United States:
AS you assemble for the discharge oil
the duties you have assumed as the
Representatives of free and generous
people, your meeting is marked by an
interesting and impressive incident.
With the expiration of the present
4 session of the Congress the first CEN
lry of our constitutional existence as
8 nation will be completed. Our sur
Vival for one hundred years is not suf-
fcient to assure US that we no longer
have
DANGERS TO FEAR
in the maintenance with all its prom
ised blessings of a governmentfounded
upon the freedom of the people. The
time rather admonishes US to soberly
inqlEire whether in the past
we@nave always closely kept in the
course of safety and whether we
have before US a way plain and clear
which leads to happiness ana perpe-
tu7ty.
When the experiment of our gov
: eminent was undertaken the charter
adopted for our guidance was the con-
stitution, and departure from the lines
there laid down is failure. 1t is only
by a strict adherence to the direction
they indicated and by restraint within
the limitations they fixed that we can
furnish proof to the world of
the fitness of the American peo-
pie for elf-government. The
equal and exact justice of which
we boast as the underlying principle
of our institutions should not be con-
fined to the relations of our citizens to
each other. The government itself
is UNDER BOND
to the American people that in the
exercise of it's functions and powers
it will deal with the body of our citi-
zens in a manner scrupulously honest
and fair, and absolutely just. 1t has
agreed that American citizenship shall
be the only credential necessary to
justify the claim of equality before the
law, and that no condition in life shall
give rise to discrimination in the
treatment OF the people by this gov
eminent.
The citizen of our republic in its early
Nays rigidly insisted upon full compli-
asance with the letter of this bond and
Saw stretching out before him clear
field for individual endeavor. His
tribute to the support of his govern
ment was measured by the cost of it's
economical maintenance, and he was
secure in the enjoyment of the remain
ing recompense of his steady and con-
tented aid to it. In these days the
frugality of the people was stamped
forced by the free, thoughtful and in
telligent suffrage of the citizens.
COMBINATIONS, MoNoPoLIEs
and aggregations of capital were thus
avoided or sternly regulated and re-
strained. The pomp and glitter of
government less free offered no temp
tation and presented no delusion to
the plain people who side by side in |
friendly competition wrought for the |
ennoblement and dignity of man for
the solution of the problem of free
government and for the achievement |
of the grand destiny awaiting the land |
which God had given them. A century |
has passed; our cities are the abiding |
places of wealth and luxury; our man
ufactureS yield fortunes never
dreamed of by the fathers of the Re
public; our business men are madly
striving in the race for riches, and i'm
mense aggregations of capital outrun
imagination in the magnitude of their
undertakings.
We view with pride and satisfaction
this bright picture of our country's
growth and prosperity, while only a
closer scrutiny develops a somber
shading. Upon more careful inspec-
tion we find the wealth and luxury of
our cities mingled with poverty and
wretchedness and
UNREMUNERATIVE TOLL.
A crowded and constantly increasing
urban population suggests the i'm
of rural sections and
discomfort with agricultural pursuits.
The farnerIS SON. not satisfied with