Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-31
REV. UTTER'S LECTURE,
Government a Compromise Between
Liberty and Power.
Tue COMMON PATE OF REPUBLICS.
The speaker unalterably Opposed 10
Universal Suffrage.


before Camp of the Patriotic order
Sons Of America last night.
SUFFRAGE AND EDUCATION.
Any government may hs regarded
M a compromise between liberty anu
power. One extreme would give all.
rolute liberty to every individual, and
then there Il and can he no govern
meni, a condition that some Intelligent
people In our time sincerely believe In.
thinking that n higher anu more per.
feet order Of society would ensuc under
the regime Of perfect liberty Of all In.
dividuals than can otherwise be pro-
duced.
The othertx extreme would give con.
troll 20 absolute authority and all posi-.
bic power 10 one man, head or king Of
the nation, and only such liberty 10
individuals a. thc central authority
deemed wise and good. Such would
be- an ideal ".trOug guvetnmonp'-
power nj the maximum, liberty abolish.
cd or forgotten.
between these extremes tn. peudu.
lum " human society has been vibrAt.
ing Tor more yeafr ani centuries thsn
ali history eau count. II a. conceivable
that the p.ndulum will some day
scttie down IN the golden mean Of tho
greatest individual liberty consistent
with due regard Tot the rights Of
Others and the successful carrying out
Of such public enterprises A. require
united action aud promote the general
welfare; hut a. the world N already
very Old, II Il n curious question why
the pendulum still vibrRtcs, why tho
golden mean ~ equilibrium has not
Teen reached long ago. II secms
reasonable 90 think that many nation
would long slnce have reached pericc.
ton, Or drawn near 10 Il, In the way
Of adjusting the opposing claims OF
power aud liberty, hut for the fear Of
neighhofing nations, ur the ambition
of conquest. Mcu do not love tyranny,
and they DO not need much iutelli-
gcnCr 10 know how % throw oil the
yoke, but they love their cpuntry and
they fear other peoples, and they cD-
dufr much oppression rather than to 20
far cripple the power Of their govern
ment IA 90 flsE defeat Ia war. So II
has happened that tho irasst governs
me,its have been those most Isolated
aud beet protected from all outside
foes by such barriers as mountains or
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