The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-25
REASONS WHY
/ Democratic Government is
o.. For, and By the Poop e.

10. 3r, ana ~ Tle pe0p e.
4saoe. acTi is Born cfaLove ofthe People,
an5 Eepublicani II Of a Desire to Hold
and Exercise Power.
R.GARFIELD,JUST
before his untimely
~ death, said that TIE
- Z influence Of Jefferson
r. - vi upon the politics OF
,a ( -5g.z~n> this country was rap
~, - x idly waning, while
that Of Hamilton was
rapidly Increasing. Nor was the remark
unnatural He was accustomed 10 see and
admire the government only iu its most ire
mendous exhibitions Of strength during an
exceptional period Its enormous drafts
upon the lives and property Of the people,
It's vast fiscal and military operations, its
imperial endowments OF corporations, its
ruthless determinations, in favor Of the few
as against the many IN It's tax laws, and, IN
deed, its whole legislation and administrs-
tiou, from the hour In which he entered
Congress to the hour in which he became
President, seemed to show thai the limited
federal agency which our forofathers es-
tablished mad at length developed into that
strong, masterful government which was
Hamlltons ideal. But even when Presi-
dent Garfield spoke, the tide that had been
30 strongly was near its turn.
THE DREAD OF DIsUNIoN.
For twenty years the overmastering
dread Of this people was that which arose
from the mad attempt to destroy the Union;
and their attention was fixed upon the one
point of danger. They poured out blood
and money without stint to preserve the
Union; but these were not the whole, nor,
perhaps, the greatest of their sacrifices.
They tamely suffered the states to be
robbed of power st every possible point OF
attritiou between them and the federal
government, and at some points where
there was not even the excuse of attrition.
They permitted the manufacturers who
supplied our armies and those who fur
nished the munitions Of war-the fortunate
rGEsessors Of the furnaces, FORCES, mills,
saops and looms, who were able to render
private prolific got themselves up ss q
class apart and under the war tariff to levy
enormous tribute upon the industry of the
people long after the peace. Tho allowed
the capitalists who took the national loans,
ct shaves each more ruinous than the last,
not merely to roll up great fortunes and
acquire exclusive privileges, but to erect
themselves into permanent power, able to
control the operations ef the treasury, to
bind and loose the business OF the country,
and to exercise a NEST dangerous power in
political contests. They saw the railway
corporation, whose inestimable service to
the cause of the Union was doublypaid for,
turn into its Golfers rich streams of subsidy
from the proceeds Of common taxation; sp-
propriate the public domain, which was So
CURED by the frs: Democratic sdmInIEtra-
ton, ana wnlcn MT Jefferson IOndly De-
/ lieved would remain al ample basis of pub
/ lie credit forever; lift itself into an impsr-
FUN in impe,fO, levy taxes, extort tribute,
invade Congress, buy legislatures, corrupt
the political morals, and we'll nigh strangle
! the liberties Of the nation. And in 1877 they
Eaw all these classes and powers unite in
the imposition of a chief magistrate, not
merely unchosen but Overwhelmingly re-
. pudiated al q regular and orderly election.
All this they submitted to because they
were toe much preoccupied TO resist. While
the war lasted, while the federal relations
of the seeding states remained in debate,
an appeal to the supreme passion OF union
was all that was necessary to divert atten-
ton from any question less grave than thai
Of national preservation.
Bow TEB FEDKsALIsTs UsED THE SANE
FEELING.
The same passion was played upon In the
same way by Hamilton and the mono
crats,m who undertook TO revolutionize the
new government by the assumption Of i'm
I piled powers al the close of the last century
The pressure OF British force was hardl J
withdrawn until the conteuding nations Of
Europe began to rival each other In the De
Struction of American commerce. and the
young republic for years trembled on the
verge OF conflict wherein the trmestuuioI
of the states would have been as importanI
as during the revolution. Secession ut thai
time meant simple ruin 10 tue states which
should go as well as 10 the states whict
should remain. The very word was terri
bic in the ears Of men " DO had just achieved
political and commercial independence, anC
s
! feed by ACKNOWLEDGMENT. IN 1851, the
l United States and the Confederate Statei
would each have constituted great nation
but in 1900 no respectable power could have
been formed by any subdivision OF tht
whole. Upon this dread Hamilton and hi!
political {, associates laid hold ae the lever
with which TO pFy ono rib after another
from the constitution. When the fundiul
bill was TO be passed, LDder circumstance
which enriched class OF favored specul9
! tors and 70 med & treasury party III Con
gress, the Upion was said TO be in danger
When the state debts were to be assumed
ii was insisted that the project of separa-
. ton had already taken form; and when tht
, National bank, the parent OF "the monster
Of Jackson's time, was proposed, it wa!
urged that II alone WAS capable Of nursin,
strong Confedersoy, and contenting IL
several member in the same family. Blu
this could not continue; the practice ceased
. with toe prete1t; and the people realEet
] the niBchief which had been aGcomplishe,
in lhe meantime. AZ the close OF tht
Adams administration, with its extrRva
. gauoe and corruption, its British sympa
THEA. !is alien and soditoa laws, it's tudicis
outrEEes, It's whippings of editors, its pris
ons nlled with the victims Of political per
seCutious. the revolution came, and the eve
y infamous attempt, 50 ike that OF 1915, L
. seat President against the will Of the pso
pie completed the good work. To rea!is
the fierce and stubborn spirit with whicl
t those old federRiists resisted the grand 70
r!am@tiou OF popular rights, as proposed b,
bAe Republicans under Jster5on, enc mus
. turn over many mUsty psge which In thC
= light OF events possesses none but C painful
/ interest The noblest men that ever liveC
T. IN ali the tide of time were denounced SIS tn,
Z common enemies of religion aud OF society
The people demanding Gully faithful 90
scTvanCe Of the constitution were the rab
bic preparing in the secrecy of the Demo
Il cratic societies all the horrors OF the Frsno
e revolution, and Jefferson, Madison, Gala
tin, and their eompstriots wers Jao0bin
Anl lIamninnisLs