Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-14


people Of the land are rulers. Their
investure Of power ia only accom-
panied with the conditions that they
should love their country; they
should jealously guard and protect
its interests and fair fame, and that
all the intelligence with which they
are endowed should be devoted 10
an understanding Of us needs and a
promotion of it, welfare.
alt should never be Grgotten that
the influence which, more than all
other things, has made our people n
safe deposit Of governmental power
and which has furnished the surest
guaranty OF the strength and perpe-
tuity Of the republic has Its source
in
THE AMERICAN HOME
Here our patriotism Is born and en-
twines itself with the growth Of a.
\ lal love, and here cur children are
told the story Of our freedom and in
| dependence, but, above all, here in
the wholesome air Of frugality and
economy, the mental and moral at
tributes % our people have been
firmly united sud invigorated.
Never could it be said OF any coun-
try 50 truly as ours that the perTnan-
ency Of its institutions depends upon
ito homes.
81 have spoken Of frugallty and
economy as important factors in
American life. find no fault with
the accumulation Of wealth and am
glad to see energy and enterprise
receive their fair reward, but be-
lieve our government in its natural
integrity is exactly suited to frugal
and economical people, aud l be-
lieve 1t is safest in the hands OF
those who have been made strong
and self-reliant in their citizenship
by such denial and by the surround
ings Of enforced economy. When,
therefore, men in high places Of
trust, charged with the response
bIlity Of making and executing our
laws. not only condemn but Hip
PANTY define cheRpness and econo-
mr. within the homes Of our people,
and when the expenditures OF gov
err aent are reckless and wasteful,
W. may be sure that something is
.oing wrong with US and that
condition exists which calls for a
vigorous and Teseutful defense OF
Americanism by every man worthy
to be called an American citizen.
Upon the question Of
CHEAPNEss AND ECorONY,
whether 1t relates to individuals or
to operations Of government, the
Democratic party, true to its creed,
will unalterably remain attached to
our plain ami frugal people. Thus,
when the question T. raised whether
our people shall have the necessities
Of life et cheaper rate, we are not
ashamed 10 confess Ourselves in full
symnathy with the demand for
cheaper coats, and We afs not dis
turbed by the hint that this seems
necessarily to involve, a cheagef
man or woman under the coat.
"When the promoter OF n party
measure which invaGes every home
In the land with higher ptiees de-
elares that cheapness and nastiuess
20 together, and the whole system OF
cheap things Is q badge Of poverty,
for cheap merchandise means cheap
men, ami cheap men mean a cheap
country, We Indignantly Tepudiate
such an Interpretation Of American
sentiment, and when another one
high In his party councils, who mas
become Notorious as an advocate OF
a continuance 10 petpetgate partisan
SUPREMACY by outrageous tnterfeT-
enee with the suffrage, announces
that The 'cry for cheapness Is I'M
American; we scorhfully reply that
his speech does not indicate the
siightest conception Of true AmeTi-
canisrn. I will not refer 20 other
utteranees Of Ike import from simis
lar sources. l content myself with
recalling those of most prominent
significancs. The wonder Is that
these things ars addressed by
Americans 10 Americans.
What was the occasion OF these
concentrations. these epithets? IL
il hard to speak patiently as we an
swer. Step by step vast number
of our people have been led on
FOLLOWING BLISDLY
in the path of party. They have
been Hlled with hate and sectional
prejudice; tne5 have been esjoled
with misrepresentation and false
promises; they have been corrGptsd
gtth money, and by appeals TO their
selhsfiuNss. All these things led up
10 their final betrayal TO satisfy the
demands Of those who sdpplied the
fund for their corruption. THIS be-
ira ;al vas palpable and it was i'm
possible to deny or conceal the fact
that pretended relief was rendered
10 the people In fulfillment Of O
promise to tighten the burdens Of
their life, made bya party entrusted
with the government. ltw but q
scheme to pay debts incurred by the
purchase Of party success, while 1t
further increased the impoverish-
ment Of the masses. The people
were at List aroused and denist1ded
an explanation.
"rhe leaders Of the party which
was csught in the act Of robbery,
and whicl was arraigned by the
people for violation Of its trust, were
forced by their sad predicament 70 a
desperate expedient. To attempt 10
reverse the current Of true Amerl-
clnism and TO discredit the most
honorable sentiments belonging to
American manhood were the dis
graceful tasks Of those Who insultei
our people by the announcement oil
the doctrine that 10 desire cheapness
was to love nastiness, and to prac-
tice economy and irugality was un
American.
"rhus do we plainly see that when
the path pointed out by patriotism
and American citizenship is for
sAken by the party in power for
schemes Of selfishness ami scrupu
lOus conspiracles, for partisan sue
cess, its course inevitably leads to
unjust favoritism, neglect Of the
interests OF the masses, perversion
OF the mission Of republican iustitu-
tons, and in some form, to the
most impudent and outrageous insult
TO true American sentiment.
"But this is a time when faith in
our countrymen should be fully es-
tsblished. The noise Of the recent
POLITICAL REVOLUTION
is still heard throughout the land.
The people have just demonstrated
that there is a point beyond which
they cannot be led by blind partis-
anship, and that they are quite
competent to examine and correctly
decide political questions concern
lug their rights and their welfare.
rhey have numerically resented
every attack upon true American
manhood and have taught the party
leaders that, though slow to anger,
they take terrible revenge when be-
trsyed. They permit US TO forgive
our honored guest for all the cheap
coats he has ever worn, for they
have declared them TO be 10 fashion.
They have also decreei that the de-
calogue has place In our politics,
for they have enforced, the CON-
mand, Thou shalt not steal, and
have rendered an emphatic verdict