The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-17
Mr.. PEERY'S ADDRESS
To the Democrats Of the Second Ward Monday
Evening.

Wherever Democracy has received recog-
milton there civilization has advanced the
highest and the most rapidly. Look at
Greece. For years there was a continual
warfare among her petty tribes. Sepa-
rated as they were by mountain ranges,
they continually followed the dictates of
their chiefs In battling against each other.
The people as whole were not recognized
in government. The oligarchs, or the
privileged classes, were the rulers, both in
state and in church; the demos, or common
people, were treated contemptuously.
Athens ruled by tyrants was stunted and
unknown, but when the reforms of Scion
and klesthenes were brought about when
the voice OF the people was heard in the
public councils. the Athenians progressed
until they became the greatest power on
earth. What were the hosts of Asia TO the
intelligence, the zeal, the patriotism of the
Athenians when the people as a whole
were recognized. When democracy pre-
vailed In Athens, then the works of art
and science were seen: then ii was that
The spirit of thought and literary activity
exceeded any previous record. Also in
Rome. When the naughty 2strIcians die
tated in everything, when the people were
ground down by class distinction.
Rome was not known. However, when
the plebeians were given right of marriage
with the elevated class and received polit-
iCal equality, then IL was that Rome went
on and conquered the world.
Likewise, when the people merged from
the dark ages in England, they were bound
10 the ground by the claims of the Feudal
system, and their idea of government was
to cringe before the despotic mandate of
king with his lords and barons. But when
the people realized their strength, when
the Magma Charta, 1.-The bulwark of Eng
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liberty" was wrung from the tyrannical
Norman sovereign, England earnestly
started on in winning the successful issues
that have placed her tie Mistress of the
Seas"
In America our revolutionary fathers
came forth from the violent struggle for
freedom ana independence with determi
nation that the people should rule. They
were the foes to despotism, and were the
lovers of liberty and labor. Accordingly,
the Virginia delegation to the convention
framed the constitution, and Jefferson
added the ten amendments, and Democracy
was firmly established in the land. This was
not achieved without difficulty. Hamilton,
the able advocate of privileged classes,
came forth with strong support of his
idea of government. His model was the
English-both in government and customs.
He believed in removing state lines-in
having all power emanate from the central
seat. His idea was for the President and
Senate TO be given Office for life time or
for good behavior, and for these officers to
be selected from the ''rich and well born"
With him the people could not be trusted;
they are turbulent and changeable, they
are easily moved and dc not act with good
sound judgment But the people did not
support Hamilton with his idea. They
had determined that the government
should be near to them. The magnificent
l.
and his apelng etiquette was distasteful to
them. Their idea was expressed by plain
but solid Jefferson when he dismounted
from his horse and walked up to the presi-
Dental house as an American citizen and
not as a would DC foreign potentate. Not
withstanding the ten strong Democratic
sentiments appended TO the constitution
this effort started by Hamilton has
continually been made TO benefit
the privileged few and not the
people as a whole, and to-day this
effort has succeeded in achieving
e more powerful grasp than ever before.
To-day the privileged classes are stronger
than in any previous time in American his
tory. ana the government has fostered
them aud made them the giants that they
are Money is a great power and serious
evils are approaching when the wealth
OF a nation Is accommodating in the hands
OF a few. Abraham Lincoln, realizing the
danger of the accumulation of wealth, said
81 see Ia the near future crisis approach
ing that unnerves me and causes me to
trembe for the safety Of my country.
CORPORATIONS have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places will fol- |
low, and the money power Of the country |
viii endeavor to prolong its reign by work |
ing upon the prejudices of the people until !
ali wealth is aggregated in a few hands and |
the republic is destroyed. / feel at this |
moment more anxiety for the safety of my I
country than ever before, even in the midst |
of war. God grant that my suspicious may |
prove groundless. 1t is the high protective |
tariff advocated by the Republican party |
that is the principal cause of this creation |
of money bugs. The wall for their protec-
ton starting at eight feet has been grad
ually increasing in height, until to-
dred years ago the appeal was, ''We are in
fants, we need protection. Protect US and |
we will soon be able TO stand alonen Now
they have grown strong with age: now
they do not beg but they buy. To the per-
son who says the tariff does not build up
these money giants, refer to the copper |
industry. From 81 500, 900 invested in Am
erican copper plants, $50, Co., 900 sixty
IN dividends have been taken out |
during nineteen years. This means $50 /
per cent year. The sales for twenty or
thirty years show that the prices received
were lust what the copper was worth
abroad with the tariff added.
Let him look also to the window glass
industry In foreign countries plain win.
dow glass that sold in 1867 for 81 90 now |.
sells for acc. In this country the same
-indnw glass that sold in that year for