Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-05

IS has, of course. nobler motives, hut thi
r slnirle tenSeHcy OF man TO do
Il thing simply because some persol
e or some authority has told him h
l. could not do il explains man.
a Fittings i'm the History Of l-In.an pro
n Eress stherNise incomprehensible.
( Having lived and prospercd un
L | dsfa q REPUBLICAN form of govern
t ment for over n hundred years
: Americans naturally think IL the
= bcse Foranintelligent, reasonable
interchangeable, without compro'
: missing precedents, without re
iigious pnejudices, that is probably
the case. But what would the peo-
PIE OF Russia, lnine-tenths Of whom
were seTfs only twenty years ago,
10 with our system? No one pre-
tents to say that for the moment
they are not better Off rs they are.
To give a more fOTcible illustration
What would he the political
condition OF q, the Persians Of
Afghans If every man had the
right of suffrage? Intelligent
Americans believe i'm the right Of
every country 10 choose its own
form of government. There are not
wanting Americans who believe
that Universal suffrage is n mistake.
1t certainly has its disadvantages,
notably i'm large cities, where it is
sometimes in the power Of the idle
and vicious classes, who are ever
ready for two or three francs, or
from mere lgye Of anarchy or dis
order,s 20 cast their votes for any adj
venturer like Boulanger.
In England suffrage is not uni
versal, but nearly 50. The exccp-
ton makes il possible 10 exclude
from political influence the greater
part Of the dangerous ele-
meds Of London and the |
large provincial cities. The |
LayEsiA Cabinet in Spain has been
endeavoring for the last year to rem
der suffrage universal without even
being able to hear the question dis
cussei i'm tho Cortes, owing 20 the
isorderlyIppfasition Of the conser-
Natives The common people Of that
are, by education and tenn
permanent, the least fitted OF all the
continental populations
Of Europe 10 he endowed
with 80 important 4 political
right La Germany the peasant
classes care little for liberty in the
abstract 50 long as they are permit
ted TO drink their lager beer i'm
peace, They are by instinct peace
able and law-abiding. In the cities
il Is different. There the working
classes are more intelligent, more
active and more inpatient under
restraint. They are socialists or an
with ideas for the most
nart subversive Of all government,
md ready, IL they had the power,
% annilliAte authority and get rid
If their rulers, no matter by what
means. This subsection or blotting
,ut ~ the moral sentiment is the
most significant fact in the history
II nihilism and the different forms
4 socialism that are seen i'm all the
Of Europe. IL is the belief
hat the right exists 10 achieve lib
.rty-, no matter by what means. The
.rinciple involves the right TO take
Iuman life, by dynamite il neces-
airy, and by wholesale if a crowd
Innocent persons stand in the
ray.
fortunately principles and opin-
ms such as these are entertained
Y only Small minority in any
)untry, There are in Russia, per-
apps, 1900 or 81. 900 nihilists in
,pulation Of fOO, 200, Goa. In Ger
any few hundred thousand in a
OF i0,OOO,OOO entertain
csc eXtravaCant ideas. In France
e proportion Is about the
me. This j. what makes
e growth Of socialism and
e gospel q dynamite 30 extra
.iinary, fur tits the denial Of the
It principleof democratic govern
right Of the majority 10
le. 'Socialis1n-Or anarchism, as
should Ire called in some cases-
inns the right no; only Of a min
ty' but ~ a scarcely perCCpiihle
nOTity, 10 dictate the laws and q,
icy of the nation Of which the L.,
lue fOrmS part. That j.. the III
stiles VI liberty. the believers in In
greatest possible measure Of il, ~
~ To ugir cOuntrymcn their i'm
st obvious rights, while at the
le time they strike ut the very re
IS OF legitimate authority and NJ
mary morality. ~
he moral world, in which one
RENE is followed invariably
another, has n remedy for
g evils, and In this case not
one that true lovers Of liberty
re. Property and established
.rests, .meBgced with destruction "a
,e for self-defensc. MonarchS
sc lives or whose authority is -
atened combine against the conf
! enemy. There is everywhere ~
Europe tOday-in Russia, in
tria, 10 Italy, in Germany-a 1t
ton against the abuse Of the
~ Of iiberty. There is n general
enry toward absolutism which
ifests Itself not only toward the
ting classes, but aggTavates the
icat situation and renders n
raj war more probable. As the r.
es Of The French Revolution set
whole world against France, 81
OfthesoUialism Of today, result
rom vicious theories Of liberty. In
item the very existence Of the
ON the common people have
such difficulty obtained.
-DR. ED. lsAACSON. r