The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-20
WHAT DEMOCRACY Is.

The question of the hour as far as
we are concerned here in Utah is
what is Democracy, anyhow, and what
is Republicanism? The best detini-
tion of Democracy that we have seen
for many day is that contained
in the following argument which is
clipped from the DeS Moines Leader.
We commend it to the close attention
of our intelligent readers, fully salts
fed that the principles therein con-
tanned are the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the TRUTH" and the
basis of popular government: De-
mocracy means, in substance, a gov
ernment by the people and for the peo-
pies good. This kind of government has
always come to the front when the
people had the right to rule. In other
words, it is natural government. The
enjoyment of life, the right to own
property, the pursuit of happiness, the
full enjoyment of liberty by each,
bounded only by the same liberty to
all. Democracy is founded on these
principles, and we should never lose
sight of'them when conditions change
and new issues arise. Whenever a
true statesman, student, political
economist delves into the philosophy
Of just government, he generally comes
out a Democrat. This is why the
brains of the country are Democratic.
The moment man takes up the study
of politics for the purpose of arriving
at the true political doctrine, he can
not help becoming a Democrat. The
common people are Democrats because
Democracy is natural, and simple for
them to understand. The intelligent
man is Democrat because the
thunders from Sinai, the reason of the
ages, and the pen of JEFFERSON, all
tell him that Democracy is political
truth.
The Caucasians are the highest type
of the human family, and, given the
grand advantages offered in America.
they readily absorb Democratic ideas.
The result is that 5 500, 900 out of s.
000,0 voters, are Democrats. Young
men who read, who study-.the flower
of the land-are coming to the Demo-
cratic party by the hundreds and thou
sands. They recognize in it the friend
of liberty, of education and of good
government, and they are not slow in
casting their lot with the party of pro-
gress. We are glad to see it; glad to
welcome the young men to the great
party that was here at the nations
birth, and was baptized in the nations
blood; glad to secure the aid of the
young in the battle for natural law; in
banishing corruption from high places
andin sweeping every vestige of Ham
iltonian Capitalization from the land
In the Republican party may be
found the witch-burners, the puritans.
the ignorant negroes and nearly all
those schemers whose only creed is
greed, whose principle is pelf
1t is gratifying to note even in this
the number of Republicans who are
flocking to the Democratic fold after
having studied the principles of Dem
ocracy. Believing that the State and
nation must be freed from the CLARK
SON and QUAY despotism, some thirty
or forty thousand of them have desert
ed the pirate craft of Republicanism
during the past three or four years,
with the determination of placing this
government where MOSES placed the
Israelites after the destruction of
AARoN's golden calf.
We need the cooperation of the
young men. To them Democracy
means enlightenment; to the enemies
of liberty and equality this stampede
of the young men to the Democratic |
army means destruction and death.
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