Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-12
THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES
AGAIN.

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WE give place today TO an article
by Professor Paul in relation to thu
two great parties OF the country
We do this that lac may have th,
desired opportunity 70 draw tn,
distinction which ne sees between
them. However, we 10 not per
osive that he has shown any great
difference from our position in the
facts he cites.
Ire revenue question turns, Just
rs We said, on the point Of how the
necessary reform shall be effected.
Both parties claim they want to re-
ducs the revenue. One may talk
about tariff Tor revenue,a and the other
about tariff for protection, but the
truth is, both parties want to raise
revenue by a tariff, and both want
20 protect certain industries, direct
or indirectly. The Democrats do
not want free trade 10 It's full sense,
the Republicans do rot want every
thing protected by duties.
We do not wish u defend or at
tack either the Mills bill or the Me
kinney bill. That is not the ques-
ton. Both have defects as well as
differences. But, as Professor Paul
has admitted, the Mckinley bill,
like the Mills bill, WAS framed As a
measure tto reduce the revenue"
This Is evidence tina; what We
stated IS correct, AMI has virtually
the effect Of sustaining the point he
attacks.
- with many other remarks in
the article. Mos. II them seem to
show the thiuness Of the line be-
ween the two parties. or course,
there are measures devised by either
party which the other unitedly OPP
poses. They are party schemes and
known to be such. II the balance Of
power were shifted. the Democratic
members would he just Is likely as
moi TO take up and advocate mea-
sIres almost identical with those
they now onstruct, and their adver-
saries wouli be found On the opposi-
ton.
Ground has been shifted by 10th
parties during the past half century,
and many essential differences be-
tween them have been watered or
washed out. That is what We have
claimed, and the article We print in
another column, in the main helps to
establish cur claim.
As 10 state Rights we said moth
ing. What We stated was in rela-
ton 10 the Territories. The su-
p.eme power Of Congress over the
IerritoEies-a Republican notion,
has been inhibited 10y the Democrat
ia party, and It's Congressman and
JUICES have reCeded from the old
position Of the party advocated by
SUCH stalwart champions Is Judge |
Je5c Black.
The old Democratic doctrine de- /
clared the powers Of Congress to be /
limited by the Constitution strictly I
construed. There is not 4 linci init. !
strictly construed. which gives /
Congress the absolute sovereignty |
over tae Territories which Dem
ocra1s have conceded as belonging /
90 &C.. That power has To be implied. /
Il is not given in terms, aud when |
a Democratic Supreme Judge said: !
1T is too late in the day to dispute
this power" he paved the way to !!
the near destruction Of the Demo- /
cratic defense Of the right Of local
self government in the Territories.
We said the Democratic party has
gone back on lis doctrine Of local
self government so far as it relates
to the Territories, and We repeat the
D
statement. Il has gone over TO the
Republican notion on this subject.
aud that is another evidence OF the /
thInnsss Of the line which actually
divides the twain.
We nave not said there was any
identity between the two PARTIES, -
nor that there is no diff renee be-
tween the two parties" 1t is well
10 b. exact when one attempts to
criticize. We only claim that the
line Of demarcation between them
has become, in some respects.
rather indefinite, aud that each has
absorbed theories held formerly by
the other.
We 10 not want'tO raise any party
issues ia our columns at present.
When Utah obtains some political
influence and cIts some figure in
national issues, +. will be time
enough 10 divide, anu then every
party win, no doubt, have its advo-
Gates, aud political opposition will
move into legitimate and defined
channels.
Oar remarks should not be con-
s;rued a either for or against Re-
7u2iicanism or Democracy. We
merely called attention t. a fact.
and that fact, If disputed, has not
pcen Jisproved.