The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-05
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From Sun laws Daily.

day is one of principle. 1t is the same
under modified aspect that has aei-
tated the mind of man since the first
organization Of society. The Demo
cratic principle at all times and in all
ages has been virtually the same. All
it demands is Equal rights, ''just laws,
no discrimination, no favoritism. 1t
repels The idea of class or caste. 1t
says that ''all men are created equal,
and that each member of society has
certain inalienable rights: that among
these are life, liberty and the pursui tot
happiness, and that to secure these
rights governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just power
from the consent Of the gorerned." The
word equal is the great corner stone
in the foundation of our freedom, and is
the pivot upon which the argument
turns; the words "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happ ness" follow from it;
they are amplifications of the same gen
eral ideal For" as Justice D. D.
Field says, ''if two are equal in rights
neither can Justly interfere with the
other by taking away his life or re-
straining him of his liberty, or OBJ
structing his pursuit of happiness, so
long as such pursuit does not interfere
with the equal rights OF another But
equality is not an end, it is only a
means. Equality of itself
will not insure happiness,
that is obtained only by pursuit"
The government can not, OF rather
ought not, to promise happiness to any
one, this he must pursue for himself.
In the race of life the government
protects every individual and allows
him ample scope for the development
of all his powers. That one individual
is capable to make more rapid strides
than another, counts for nothing
in a political sense-the government
was not instituted TO strengthen the
strong at the expense of the weak.
This is tyranny. Government is q po-
litical machine, not charitable insti-
tution." And when it is said that
laws are to be enacted for the common
good it is not meant that there is a COM
mon store of good, distinct from the
separate share of each individual. "If
measure were certain. said an able
] i,,t.icf HGfn oil I,lf in
! diViduai members of the state five
times richer than they are, and the
other half poorer by one fifth of their
substance, the sum total would be
nearly SiX-fOld what it now is, but the
measure after all would be robbery Of
! half the people to enrich the other half"
From the first struggle of the rival
chieftains on the plains Of Asia to the
raids of Balmaceda in the fastness OF the
Andes, Democracy learns its lessons;
from the dungeons that have resounded
with the cries Of imprisoned patriots,
from the gTOaning rack, the bloody
1 gibbet and CORY block come the COM
/ mand, Take care of your liberties.
Even in our own country cautionary
signals are given. GOD allowed them
TO he placed on high as fearful warn
ings. There is HAMILTON and RUTH
ERFoRD and LODGE-a trinity of ty-
rants, who, had they the power, would
have reduced the republic to a mon
archy by taking from the free born and
adopted sons of this country their SOW
ereign rights and conSumate their ideal
hv establishing a central government
absolute, supreme and accountable to
none.
Democracy believes in equal rights,
: and is St.rerotore soPposvzivtv7--priyile
| because it is oppression, and oppres-
sion of the worst form. Privilege is
the greatest enemy freedom has. II
| has manacled untold millions of Rus
sian serfs, divided into castles the hosts
of India. ransacked the coasts Of
Guinea for human slaves, and built
arjStoclacies in every land. 1t has
created monStrous monopolies in on
own land, fostered trusts and com
binations for the purpose OF
grinding the poor, and has
been one of the principal factors
at last in the overthrow of the most
powerful government the world ever
saw.
Democracy is the natural birthright
of every man. 1t teaches peace and
progress, love and union. 1t places
man on an equality with his fell ow
1t procaims equality of right, absolut
equality of right, absolute equality and
exact justice to all men.
~
Some of the Republican orators anG
papers have denounced the Democratic
party, and one of the chief arguments
against it is that the poor class as gen.
eral thing are the members. And an
! other argument of theirs is that they are
uneducated and hence ignorant.
These orators ~ and papers have
! never learned this fact that from among
the humble classes of poor have arisen
e loftiest geniuses, the greatest dis.
coveIers, the mightiest inventors, the
most invincible warriors, the best lights
of literature, art, science and religion.
Instance CINCINNATUs leaving his
plow in the furrow TO sway the sceptre
of an empire and guide her through
the storm; SHAKESPEARE, the son of a
Door tradesman, rise to surpass every
competitor in the matchless oroduc-
tons of his genius; BENJAMIN FRANK
LIN, sending his kite into the cracking
! skies and compelling the lightnlngS O1
! heaven to yield to his untut0red phile
osophy; shoemaker from Natick be-
! coming leading spirit in the Ameri-
can Senate; "a rail-splitter laying sue
cessfully lis potent hands upon the
doctrines of the Republic and hurting
back the hosts rebellion; JOHN ERICK-
SON. the Swedish inventor, arising out
of obscurity and constructing the Me-
rimac, that cleared the sea of the foe
and helped to save the Union. What
has birth, or place or party to do with
the man? If he Is possessed OF native
wers, andFo he develops them accord
ING to the law of life and in the line of
progress, he viii fill the measure Of his
creation, even if he is a Republican.
J. A. r.
The census bulletins for the whole
country show an enrolment IN the pub