The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-19
A PATRIOTIC MISSION.

Representative WILLIAM L. Wilson, Of
West Virginia, will deliver a lecture in the
Exposition building this evening, and all
are cordially invited to attend. Mr. Wilson
is chairman of the executive committee of
the National Association of Democratic
clubs, and is now on patriotic mission to
the great west and northwest He is
travelling through this vast region, getting
the people together, teaching them
Democracy and encouraging them to
organize for the work before them, the
work OF establishing good government and
saving this country from the monopolists
and the representatives of Capitalization in
government whose cunning and vicious
efforts are manifest. Mr.. WILSON is 9
scholar. for years was a professor in
Columbian College, District of Columbia.
and was afterwards elected president of
the West Virginia University. He is a
brilliant orator and is recognized as one of
tne readlest and most clever debaters in
Congress. His speech on Gear REED was
one OF the features of the late Congress, II
oelng the one attack which penetrated the
cuhcle OF the Maine bulldozer The New
York World last weak paid this editorial
tribute to the gentleman and the work he
performing:
congressman WILLIAM L. WILSON, of West
virginia, chairman of the executive committee
OF Inc National Association of Democratic
CUBS, is doing good work in his tour through
the northwestern states and territories.
In the broad regions acquired by the enlight-
ened and liberal policy of JEFFERSON he finds a
fertile soil in which to SOW the seeds of Jeffer-
sonian Democracy. He urges the people of the
new states to guard well their inheritance of
free government and home rule, and to put
themselves, Immediately, in a posture of de-
tense against the aggre CATION of monopolies
winch, under the protection of the Republican
party are draining and proposing still further
10 drain the produce of the cattle ranches and
the gram fields to the pockets of a favored few.
10 this end he advises them to combine
IN city and coun try in every school district and
election precinct, in those Democratic So
cietes-open parliaments of the people
which swept the Hamiltonian Federalists from
power. which elected and seated JEFFERSON
and which ushered in the golden age of the re-
public, from 1900 to 1880. The Democratic So
cieties, Free popular assemblies, disseminate
ing everlasting Democratic truths. insisting
only upon pure and constitutional government,
resisting only monopoly and Capitalization, Mr..
WILSON contends will readily, as of right they
should, gather the people whose rights and in
terests have been sacrificed by the party In
power, from ephemeral Farmers Alliances and
labor lodges into mighty array for their own
relief By political action in the only way which
remains open to them. The earlier and the
more thorough the organization, the more GER
tain and complete will be the victory
Mr.. WILSON closed his speech at Helena
Mont, with single paragraph which, in few
sentences, presents the whole creed and pur-
pose Of the National Association of Democratic
clubs: We are banded, first, against the CEN
trallzation Of the power in the federal govern
ment in Washington; second, against the cen
tralization Of the wealth of this country into the
hands of the favored bene6ciaries of the partv
that controls the government. This is some
thing more than dollars and cents 1t is the
fight for liberty, for freedom, which our fathers
transmitted 10 US, and which we should leave
uninpaired to those who come after u.s."