The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-15

Che adversary, 20 hire Hesslans, to purchase
merceparies, to mutilate, TO kill, to DESTROY
The commander who lost a battle through
the activity Of his moral nature would be the
derision and jest of history This modern
cant about the corruption of politics is IA
tiguing in the extreme It proceeds from the
tea custard and syllabub dilettanteisrn. the
frivolous and desultory sentimentalism of
ericenes lil1en-
Like whom, seIator?"
''ohl yea can ell in the names yourself-or
else fyom tho cheap and brazen hypocrites
nAe fhingimnny, the greatest confidence man
and bunco steerer of modern Democracy"
And who is Tkingimmy, senator!n
oh, fancy the readers of The World can
guess
'On the whole, You haven't very good
opinion OF modern Democracy, senetorYn
A cAusTiC OPINION OF THE DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic party, having neither
Conscience, convictions nor defined principles.
inevitably allies itself with discomfort and is
ar.ayct against social order 1t Is strongest
waer: apuhlicard private morality is weakest.
It's '.ftatlels are il the south, where society is
'iintiac5ly feudal, and in great cities, where
ia4 Ignorant and criminal elements are most
energetic. 1t has no beliefs, maxims or for
niulas. it, creed is the instruction of Jeffer-
sen-that in popular government wealth,
intelligence and morality are ultimately no
match foT numbers. For twenty-five years
its only policy has been to complain, to OPP
pose, u deny, TO protest, and ultimately to
-, ianr . la
done. So when Cleveland came IN, being
without plans, purpose or policy, his admin
istradon floundered pitiably both in domestic
and foreign affairs, was contemplate in
many things and feeble in all, and left abso-
lntely no impression whatever upon history
except in the matter of vetoing bills for pen
sions and public buildings It followed Re.
publican methods and carried on Republican
ideas, SO that when Harrison was inaugu-
, rated it was as If q stitch had been dropped
merely, and we have kept right along with
our work"
do you imagine, senator, that Mr. Cleve-
land will be nominated again by the Demo
Gratis for the presidency?n
THE SENATOR SAYS CLEVELAND WILL BE
RENolINATED.
sob, yes. Cleveland will be the nominee
in 1892 even if New York should be divided
or against him This is inevitable 1t is
written. He will be first and the rest no
where. Democracy never had such an ideal
exponent and representative Ills dull, heavy,
ponderous wooden platitudes, laboriously
written out and committed to memory; his
stolid and shallow conceit; his affectation of
wisdom, purity and patriotism, and what he
calls his solemn sense Of duty impress the
average Democrat with feeling of reverence
like that which the Chinese laundryman feels
for his Joss"
Senator, you have said that the Demo-
cratic administration left no impression on
history. What impression have recent Re
publican administrations left?"
WE HAVE MADE NO HISTORY FOR TWELVE
YEARS.
81 admit" the senator replied, 'tthat we
are nation which for the past dozen years
has had no history. In fact, we have never
had defined, aggressive American policy.
The whole career Of our country as a nation
has been one OF drifting. There have been
no vigorous or distinctive exhibitions of orig
inal statecraft. We have been going through
an age of material development. The ma
| tional energy, instead of being shown in the
direction of public affairs, has confined itself
to the colonization of desert spaces and the
building up of new states in the wilderness
The public service and public men, as a rule,
have not kept pace with the material develop
ment of the country. do not mean to say
that we have no great men, but the public
service does not command the greatest, be
cause the highest rewards of intellectual nc
tivity and more satisfactory equivalents are
found in other avocations Public life ha.
! deseneratcd into q species Of servitude, anc
the inevitable tendency in popular govern
ments is towards mediocrity and pusillanim
| ity.n
What is your idea, senator, of deiinit,
American policy"
A CONTINENT FOR THE REpUBLCl
/ "The American policy should have for it
object the unification of the continent. Tht
Polar sea should be the northern boundary
of the republic, and the southern boundary
should be the Interoceanic canal Look al
the existing conditions. We have practically
reached the limit of our agricultural domain
We have but 100000 acres of arabic land
left. We are approaching that period Spoken
of by Macaulay IS dangerous to republican
institutions, when the vast migrations t.
these undeveloped regions will have ceased
and when the artisans and toiling masses con
centrated in the large cities will have no out
let for their surplus numbers and no demand
for their labor. | might say the American
ide3 is hemispherical rather than continental
| We have now a continuous line of railway