The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27

country based on the fundamental priu-
clples which have divided parties since
Ine organization OF the government.
ihere VIII be the one party with the old
demand Tor the increase of the Jurisdiction
OF the general government and the cen
trallzatlon OF power, and another which
Will contend as heretofore, for the rights
OF the state, the local community and the
individual. The great extension of com :
merce ann trade, the construction of rail
rIads and telegraphS nave made sectional
polltlcal divisions. almost an impossibil1tv
In the United States. AS TO labor parties
ana farmers ALLIANCE parties, you cam OF
form a lasting political party in this
country based upon tie interests of a
tue alliance party will cut any
hgure IN the presidential campaign.
gu may as well try TO form a political
party composed only of carpenters of law
yers as one composed of farmers. Such an
organization cannot last as d political or
ganlzatlon. AS TO the socialistic question.
l an IN favor of the greatest liberty of
speech on the past Of everyone in this
country under the law, but | do not be-
!leVe that onyone should be permitted to
IEclle others TO the commission of crime.
as some agltatoro have attempted to do. [
thlnk the authorities at Chicago deserve
credlt Tor hanging the Anarchists and that
iNNh lOSS VI lllG anu obstruction OF prom
erty has been averted by that action. | be-
lleve, however, that every man has a right
10 contend that the constitution and
laws OF the United States are wholly
wrong. and 10 advocate any peacable and
constitutional means of changing them.n
lettering TO the Farmers alliance, Sen
ator, what caused it and what lesson
should 1T be TO the Country?"
"Ine Alliance parry" said Senator Car
isle, rs the legi. innate child of the Repub-
lican party. 1t is the offspring OF the Re-
puolcan tariff idea that the government
should take care of all business enter
prlses that cannot take care of themselves
lhis government is not an el~eemosynarv
institution, nor does it pretend to remedy
business failures. Although the farmers
nave Tor some years received low prices
Tor their products, they are far better off
IMAM Their fathers were. was born and
brought up on a farm, and until | was
nineteen l worked on the farm in summer
and went to school in winter. During nv
ooydo2d there was scarcely a buggy or
pleasure carriage in the. country. The
farm products wer3 carried TO market on
wagons drawn by oxen, aud my father
used to haui his wheat and tobacco twenty
one miles to market in this way. Ii took
MIN Two days aud nights for every load.
NOW many of the farmers sons and
daughters in Kentucky hrve their own
horses and ouggies, or carriages, and at
any meeting OF Kentucky farmers you will
see great numbers of handsome turnouts.n
OUR PROSPECTS o A MONARCHY.
How about the perpetuity of our gov
ernment, Senator? Viii. we ever have a
monarchy in the United States?"
II think the Union is stronger today
than 1t has ever been,'' was Senator Car
lisle's reply, land the possibility Of a mon
arc y is 50 remote that 1T is hardly worthy
OF consideration. The people Of the United !
States would assuredly never voluntarily
estabilsh one, and such a thInS could never
become possible unlesS We should have p
great civil war out of which a dictator
shOld arise TO usurp power and create a
throne- Ihe tendency of modern times.
however, is altogether towards Democracy.
Europe becomes more Republican in It's
form OF government year by year. and it
viii be surprising if within one hundred
years from now al the countries of Europe
are not Republican"
PURITY IN PUBLIC LIFE.
How about the purity of our govern
ment to.day, Seuator! Are politicians as
honest as they were in the pastg"
Political morality" said Senator Car
Isle, lis higher today than it has ever
been. Ii you look back over our history
you Will find the records of populations and
fraud. The Yazoo land scheme of the DAYS of
Washington and Jefferson was a greater
JOB than has been before Congress for a
gel. er .tion. The very location of this cap
ltal was the result of a bargain into which
some of the weaker of our ers
were implicated, and ] do not believe that
the average of official honesty has ever
been so high as it is now. NJ matter what
may be said to the contrary, the world is |
growing better every day."
nIyp ~ NrD
Are the public men OF to day equal. in
your opinion, Senator. to those of the
past" said l..
in ability, yes. In comparative ~reputa-
ton for being such, no." was the reply.
'Ihe general average Of craftsmanship
and intelligence has never been so high as
1t is now. l do not know that we have men
who will equal the two or three greatest
men OF our early history, but tie general
average is far HE her. The good old times
of our fathers were days of hero worship.
The iconoclastic pen of the independent
newspaper correspondent has to a large /
extent blotted that element from our ma
tional character, and the press and the gen |,
eral education OF the people nave SO ele- |
waited the masses that the difference be-
tween men is not so apparent. 1t used to
be that no Wing in Kentucky had an opin-
ion on any of the public questions of the
day until Henry Clay came home from
Washington and told them what the issues
were and how they should be treated. Then
a few newspapers controlled and made