Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-10

This is a platform that may do i0r
the millennium, but it will hardly
work under present circumstance
I However, there is no harm in cult
waiting the ideal IN politics as well
as in art, when that ideal looks up
ward and onward.
There ere . number Of SMALLER
political movements all tending In
a refomatory direction. The man
ual training OF children Is taking a
political aspect. IL Is proposed by
som5 10 establish public manual
! training schools, 10 be supported by
a System Of income aud collateral
tax. This income tax system hss a
kind of socialistic look. IL proposes
to tax on n graded plan. Fifty
thousand dollar men will be taxed
moderately, but God help the mill
liouaire, he is 10 be taxed fifty per
cent. In addition there is proposed
n Fystem Of legacy taxation such As
Is in force in England, and in n
mild way in New YORK and Penn
sylvanIa. Money or property be-
queathed In a collateral way, that Is
out Of the line Of direct heirs or des-
cendants, Is TO be taxed rs high in
some cases as ilfty per cent. On this
plan II is claimed that children can
be all made skilled workmen, end
maintained at school until q years
Of age. II is good, PERHAPS too
good, 10 live.
Then there is tire interminable
public school question: The Luz
,herans, Catholics and Baptists are
in the van on .hs onslaught in the
public schools. The trouble is, the
public school is handled by poll
ticians, and made a kind Of Doodle
vineyard by unscrupulous ward
gerrymanders, who could hardly tell
how a U, :. senator is elected.
Teachers are appointed by poll
ticians, the school books are selected
by politicians, the school boards are
entirely composed Of sriming poll
ticians. Then comes that most in
fernal Of all social and economic
agents, the pOliticO-preacher. That
is, one who Is perpetually clamoring
Tor n separation Of Church and
State, and yet in all bis uterances in
the fell Of practical work he wants
the State 10 10 all the Church work.
He wants the Sunday paper sup
pressed, he wants the Eabbath OBJ
served, he wants the public schools
naturaliLed, end yet in Chicago he
votes Sl07, 900 year TO teach Ger
man in these schools.
He talks about patriotism ana
Amerlcanisu, and yet the miserable
traitor would supplant the language
Of Jefferson. Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln, OF Washington, Franklin
and Patrick Henry, Of Webster,
COnkling and Sumner, with that OF
Bismarck, Rudolph and Herr Most.
Yes. this class Of man, TO get
paltry Office by means Of q few votes
among Germans, would WELD the
crUwbar 10 destroy the first stone
laid in the great political ediiiee by
George Washington and Thomas
jefferson. He would murder the
Declaration Of Independence by
depriving it OF its majestic and poet
ical garb, and cut away its kiDship
with the language Of Burke and
Milton, Of Hampton and Sydney, Of
Shakespeare and Dryden. And it Is
this class OF men in Chicago who
have established seven or eight de-
nominational systems Of education
in Utah. That is, they are the men
who helped 10 organize and support
four Of the missionary societies in
Utah fof ibis purpose. These are
the men who now ciRrnor for Fed
eral agency (themselves) to run or
ruin Utah education. They claim
they are Americans; yes, degenerate
ones who By their action in this city
have struck the frat blow at AM
erican integrity when they want 10
the language Of Plymouth
Rock and James River. OF Lord
Baltimore and William Penn, with I
their savage cultural. The man
who would raise n hand 10 removed /
single cobweb in the grand stnIc- |
ture built by the sainted fathers of /
rEIf5 rrSIf1Ufs~r EsscHHt- the unrest pun /
ishment. May the broad earth 4
deny such a man a home. aye, even |
a grave, and may heaven deny him /
its God
Protestants and Catholics are still 1
at war. This VA, too; has taken pol i
itical color. Morgan, the IndIah
is the issue now. The
Catholic Church has taken active
antagOnism to his confirmation by
the United States Senate. The
Protestant Church, or at least that
part Of II which called itself Protest
ant, has espOused Morgan. The
poor Senator is in a fix. He fears
The nod "Of that feeble old man in
The Vatican" and yet he fears the
home politico-preacher. pity poor
Senator Farwell Of Illinois. The
poor wretch has hard time between
he "Afother" and her ''Harlots,,
or they say Rome Is the mother Of
and he can't get n single
yhn-na-Gael man into Office. At
er next year he stands n chance
,fbeiDg returned from Washington,
,ut he can measure ''Caffity'' by
ne "bGcdls' at home.
The Women's Temperance Union
ias become the most pronounced
lind Of q disunion. THE fact is
here are two "Unions'' fighting
The Presbyterians are
n muddle also. They are trying
o find out where their religion Is,
II whether they have any. Africa
nd the Caucasus are at war. The !
reuton and the Celt are at 4. again
lere. The last fight resulted In the
,robable death OF an Irish politi-
ian at the hands OF a Teuton police
nan. Then Chicago and New York
re at war for the Worlds Fair.
'eXas has an able-bodied fight on
and about the lOcatiOn Of county
cats.
On the whole we have lively /
ln'es, but 1t is only live nations that :
ave I'VE Issues Spain has none.
turkey has none They are q
'ortugal showed signs Of life, but
ohm Bull shook his head at her.
ohm Bull himself would die but for
reland. In Florida conservatives
ont get time 10 die because the ,
cas- keep them moving. In Eng
md John Bull would fall into n per-
etual torpor IL Pat did not keen {
unehing him once in n while. We q
ave issues because we are n live
alton, We have race fights because
e have all races. We have relig- :
JUS troubles because We are reiig-
us. Allwill come right yet. Nor o
lonism has no connection with the r
Iother or her harlots, therefore thew
ight to give ii fair play. Mormon-
m is American. Long live Amer v
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