The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-23
THE WORK BEFORE us.

THE WORK BEFORE Us.
IL must be evident to every one who will
Just think of it, that there is considerable
political work to be done in this territory
IN Inc immediate future. A campaign of
polltlcal education is much needed; it must
be lnaugurated and carried to every county
In Utah between now and next August. A
new era Is dawning on our people and they
must be made acquainted with the portents
OF IL and the new issues it will thrust upon
their attention. Owing to Utah's political
Isolation which has been forced upon her in
consequence of her too long continued ter
rltorlal vassalage, our young men have not
peen brought in contact with those issues
which Will now claim their consideration.
1t Will make but little difference whether
the rotten Liberal party whose carcass
talnts the pure air of our mountain
wales will permit Republicans to be Repub-
means or not, the Democratic party has or
gained and entered Utah to stay. With
an aggressiveness becoming the party
winch came into existence with the gov
eminent and which since that time has best
reflected the spirit of those princip les m
DERIVING itssinstitutions, it has taken the
held and stands ready to meet all Corners.
il IT'S traditional opponents, the Republi-
cans, snail fail to wrench themselves free
from the octopus Shiny clutch of the diving
Liberal party and organize, then it will be
confronted by the Liberal party and the
issue Will be the Acknowledgement of the
majority OF the citizens of this territory.
That is very simple issue and one that
may soe as easily decided as it
was last November. If the Republicans
shall succeed in effecting an organization
then the Democratic party will at least have
foeman more worthy of its steel, and the
issues will be more complicated. But
whether the Republicans organize now or
not 1t Is for the Democra tic party to pursue
It's work of organizing Democratic clubs
circulating Democratic literature, and send
ing the best teachers of its doctrines into
the public forum to teach its principles. In
this work there is ample room for other
writers and speakers, and whosoever will
thrust IN his sickle and reap the same ia
called to the labor. Those who engage in
this cause should remember that the
suspicious time has come when the
materials so long collecting in our
grand old valleys are soon to be fashioned |
into the commonwealth which hope hath so
long prophesied would come There is To |
be great awakening into new, and we |
oeileve, into better and more active polit-
lcal HE. In the new conditions that will |
arise, men who have been found opposed to
each other on issues that have existed in
the past will find themselves standing side
by side applauding each others efforts in
establishing the new order of things. The
people must be educated to lay aside the
anlmosltles that have ranked in their
breasts, and which have existed in conse-
quence OF the bitter struggle that has been
gong on In our unhappy territory DURING
the past few years. The brave man
who has acted from conviction and
Is conscious of his own honeatv
"hlcnever side OF controversy he has
STOOD upon, has nothing to upbraid himself
Tor, nothing OF which he need be ashamed
nothlng to regret if he acted on his best
judgment and according to the dictates os
his conscience; and when the CONTROVERSY
mas ended, or reached a point where il
must De RELOCATED to powers beyond and
greater than man or his governments
former opponents need not hesitate to stand
side by side on new issues that shall he
fraught with common good to all. To edu-
cate the people to bury the animosities that
have too long separated those who ought to
have been friends long ago, is of as much
Importance as 1t is TO teach the Democratic
IDEAS on local government and the
tariff. Every one should take this into ac-
count. The man who opposes a prin.
'lple may be just as honest in
his opposition as another is in his advocacv ,
'r practice of the principle, and rice persa
out when conclusions have been tried and '
point reached beyond which the con-
,roVersy may not be pushed, it is then he :
coming in honest and brave men-vet so !
hat factors in each party may do so in +
honor, and preserving their self-respect- i
o cease the strife and await that higher
'rbitrament which which will come sooner
n later to all questions that divide men IN
heir opinions. -' Al"
Let the past then be buried with all II.
and bitterness; and az the
moke of the battle shall be swept awav
lpon the cleared field let US seek those
hlngs which concern our welfare and the
uture good of our Territory-our much
'eloyed but tempest-tossed Utah.