The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-15

are sun great zeal greater, lOl LNtN III
clude the eternal rights OF local and
individual self-gOyernment, under the
MgQBG Cbdrtd WreSted from a tyrannl-
cal King in the Middle Ages and under
the first ten amendments 10 the COnSti-
tuition.
This was eloquently and powerfully
cluCidated t. Il large audience OF Dem
oCrats and others on Thursday night in
the Midway schoolhouse, by VIM. Buys,
Esq, the rising legal star and efficient
prosecuting attorney OF WaSatch coun-
ty. The meeting, called by the Demo-
cratic club, was, in the absence Of
Chairman John Huber, presided over
by Attewal Wootton, II. Upon due
introduction Mr.. Buys, although a
comparative novice on the rOstrum of
the political speaker, at once entered
! into his subject with the noble fearless
ness of Truth. He proposed to show
why he was Democrat, having been
unpTejudIce1 when approaching the
/ comparative study of the two great ma
tional parties. He gave retrOspect-
i've review OF the history OF this cOun-
/ try since the earliest settlements 1905
/ in Virginia, and 1920 in Massachusetts,
t. the Declaration of Independence,
when the Thirteen Colonies dissolved
/ the bonds of their allegiance to the
mother country and after bloody and
destructive war secured their sovereign
( liberty. The Articles OF Confederation
not giving sufficient powers to the new
united government, the constitution of
+ the United States was constructed.
4 The first draft 10y Hamilton at first
/ pleased Jefferson, who had been at the
/ time absent in France. but upon closer
/ examination he discovered defects,
! especially the lack of sufficient guar
antees Tor individual and local rights,
such AS affored by the Magma Charta
of 1918 and subsequent bills of rights
wrung from their deSpOtc rulers by
the people of the Mother Isle. The
speaker showed the parallelism be
tween the struggles for personal rights
and independence in the two great
English speaking peoples, and pointed
out the great, yet fatal danger lurking
in undue strengthening of a central
/ power, be it royal perogatiyes of a .
monarchy or the overwhelming power
of Federal administration in re-
( public. Governments at the head OF
center OF affairs are apt gradually to
/ infringe upon the individual rights
OF the citizens and other cOmpOnentS
of the commonwealth, unless re- .
stricted by such checks rs are fur
niShed bulls of rights, as set up in the
first ten amendments TO the COnStitu-
ton, secured by the Democratic party, |
as safeguards against the inSidiOus en- /
croachmentS of the too ambitious Fed .
eralIstS of the HamiltOnian Democrats.
Then Mr. Buys traced the origin of the
Republican party. in 1851, mainly com .
posed Of heterogeneous elements, in
Guiding some Democrats. The strength .
and magnetic popularity for the time
being came from the yeXalious slavery
question and the secession inklingS OF
the Southern states. Reference was
made to the more Zionist Jackson"
Democrats aud the notification Cal .
hOun' Democrats, whose contentious
eliminated in the attempted disrup-
ton of the Union, in which deploTable
movement South Carolina led, bringing
on that tremendous civil conflict, the
WaI or Tie rebellion, which Forever set
tied the slavery question. The speak
er paid graceful tribute to the Re-
publican party for its share in the pres
ervatiOn of the Union at that perllOuS
epoch; but reserved a due share
-,
who were equally instrumental in
the Union triumphs, as shown by fig
ureS proving that even in some South
ern or frontier States vastly more Dem
Gratis fought for The Union than there
were Republican voters. The pltactum
SdiiyS OF the vast difference between
the two leading parties in national pol
tics lies in the principle of the origin
and source OF governmental power:
whether it rest primarily with the peO-
pie at large Tor the States and thence
return to a common center only as far
or as strong as expressly designated
and delegated by the sources OF power (
or whether such authority rests inher-
emily in a central power and be only
parceled and doled out to the cOmpon-
ent parts Of the commonwealth by ex-
ecutlye or administrative legislative ar ;
bitraTinesS. Mr.. BryS here, with
legal acumen rarely witnessed on a
country stump dWelled on the i'm (
piled powers contained in, or argued
out Of the Constitution, some Of {
very doubtful force OF legitimacy.
He pointed out the possible dire
Of allowing an accumu a
ton OF doubtful central powers by i'm {
plication. What the Democratic party
has always and ever insisted on, as the
one vital flame on the altar of Liberty,
is government not only ''tOT the peo- {
pie (which may be found even in the t
despOtism of Frederick 5
the Great OF Prussia, or in the enlight :
ened limited monarchy OF a Dom Pedro t
but BY the People, which puts a Wig
liant check upon the more or less bold I
Of administrative, legiSla- t
tive and judicial functions and eXecu- |
tive prerOgatiyes by Congress, such as q
by undue ind unauthorized stretching t
Of the extent of implied pow ers, not C
foreseen, or only inferentially admitted t
by the trainers OF our national magma a
charta. This was illustrated by the /
speaker from instances in the
history of our country.
The right OF the Federal government
to grant public lands 10 railroad COM +
panies was implied from the congress II
sional prerogative TO establish post e
offices and postroads." The Civil l.
Rights bill. vetoed by Johnson. and !,
finally declared void by the Supreme u
court, gave another instance Of the 3
way the Republican party stretched $;
.he implied constitutional powers. fl
LHS OOllSI lullOudi Ill OI ldIlu lOE "
is still "debatable" +,
ground. the SAID tariff on imports hay +,
ng originated with a Democratic adj 4
OF 1916, while the FEEDER a
us in that single instance, proved II
strict constitutionalists Further {,
aritf legislation was followed by the n
light of history, after which Mr.. Buys
exploded the Republican bugaboO cry q,
hat the repeal OF the tariff would Il
ring wages down, DaSing his argu- Y,
on the principle of the pur- ir
hasing power of money as measure
# values in the Internationally Of n
upply aud demand. The policy of 81
he 'law-wage' argument against tariff ze
eform, is potent IRON the condition OF /,
lbor in European countries, the free |,
rade countries affording higher wages
han those levying high tariffs. r,
NJ. P. Gilchrist, of st Louis, followed
p on parties. One or the other of the y
reat parties must rule, and it be- /.
doves every citizen to ally himself u
Nth either The speaker punctured
he uclaims Of the Republicans, ("who IS
lain everything love OF the Union. tr
reservation of the Union, intelligent be