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


ave are here, senator, to receive from you
all the wisdom that you are willing to impart
TO the world on public affairs in general, and
I'm order that you may have no reason to
complain of the inaccuracy of the reporter
- arc prepared to give you the benefit of all
that stenogEaphy and photography combined
can do 10 represent you fairly"
az cannot say, gentlemen, that have ever
had much occasion to complain of the mac
curacy of newspaper interviewers,n said Mr.
ingalls,. ''The newspaper interviewer gen
orally makes pretty accurate report. Like
other men in public life, 1 have at times been
misrepresented in the newspapers, but these
Misrepresentation do not as q rule originate
in the interviewers' department 1t is the
editorial writer and political commentator
that public men have most reason to COM
plain of. But everything considered, we
haven't much reason to complain at ALL
''In the pictorial branch of the interview,
at ell events, senator, we could not misrepre-
sent you if we would; the apparatus, you
know, cannot lie"
swell, Pm very glad to have your word
for that For the rest OF it l can only place
myself in your hands. l am at your mercy
If you do not treat me fairly you will only
forfeit my good opinion. And now, gentle
men, may l ask on what subject you desire
me to express my viewsq"
is not the government, senator, interfer-
ing now more than it formerly did with what
are usually regarded as the private affairs of
individualsTn
THE GOVERNMENTS DISREGARD OF THE IN
DIvDUAL.
YES said the senator, sit begins to ap-
pear as if individuals had no rights or no
private business which the government was
bound TO respect The injustice of society
and the inequality of conditions have given
an enormous impulse to the idea of national
ism, the control of all economic agencies by
the direct interposition of the government
This Is the logical reaction from individualisln,
on which our system was founded. The hope
that political equality would result in the de-
struction of poverty and in social fraternity
has not been realized. There are larger pri-
vate fortunes, there is greater political power
In fewer hands; in ether words, there is more
tyranny in the republic than in q monarchy.
The strongest succeeds more rapidly and more
readily here because, liberty being common
- 81, there arc no restraints end limitations
tc overcome. The demand now is therefore,
not that all shall be free, but that all shall be
restrained from the full exercise of their fac
ulties and from the enjoyment of their &C
QUESTIONS"
"Will the supply be equal to the demand,
senatorin
There have been some marked concessions
in this direction during the last decade, and
the success of the experiments has been SO
notable that future movement in the same
direction IS not improbable When the gov
eminent takes control Of all the agencies of
caaio+- chall x-i-t,,o-,c
happy-iust as we row all have gilt edged
butter under the oleomargarine law, reduced
freight and passenger rates under the inter-
state commerce law, and pure and non-parti-
san politics under the civil service law"
Talking about purity in politics, senator,
! suppose you hold that whatever political
purity may exist belongs exclusively to the
Republican partyP
with The possible exception of the two
terms of Washington the senator replied,
there has not been an absolutely fair. free
ard impartial expression of the deliberate will
of the people il any presidential election since
the foundation of the government. doubt
il there ever viii be- Patronage will allure
the ambitious, force will coerce the timid,
6emagoglsm win gull the credulous, fraud
will rob the weak, money will buy the mer
cenaIy."
as it 10 be ever thus, senatorgn
1.-The publication of politics is an iridescent
dream Government is force Politics is
battle for supremacy. Parties are the ar
mics The decalogue and the golden rule
have no place in political campaign. The
object is success. To defeat the antagonist
and expel tie party in power is the purpose.
The Republicans and Democrats are as irrec-
oncilably opposed to each other aswere Grant
and Lee in the Wilderness They use ballots
instead of guns. but the struggle is as unre-
ie.lting and desperate and the result sought
for the same. In war it is lawful to deceive