The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-05

order provokes suspicion, discomfort, imps
tience, strife: and as arbitrary rulers par
don nothing to the spirit of liberty, and
opposition to arbitrary power only stimu
letes its arrogance and increases its inso
lence and cruelty, oppression is increase,
to the point where at last it becomes uneu-
durable-there is sudden CONFUSION, tn
uprising of a INSTRUMENTATION is afoot-t
hell with allegiance the passions of the
people are afiame-revolution is in the air
anarchy And thus By these degrees tha'
which the Capitalization of power wa:
hoped to check, 1t is found to provoke
One of the most deplorable facts con-
nected with despotism is its ability TO per-
petuate itself. Its minions who feed
upon the crumbs which fall from its
table are legion; those who hope &c
profit from its preferment and who there
fore fiatter its vanity are more still; it may
call to its aid fleets and armies, creatures
Of its own creation, to do its bidding and
enforce its DEGREES. With such resources
at its command it is particularly long lived,
and may hold a people of an entire nation
IN thralldom for ages and has frequently
done it 1t has taken the people of England
a thousand years to wrest from her
crowned monarchs the liberties they now
enjoy, and it is only within the last century
that the people of that land have had any
liberty worthy of the name. Better to
have eleven revolutions within eighty
years, as France did, than be eleven cen
turtles wrenching from the cienched hand
of monarchy, piece-meal, the rights that
inherently belong to man; especially since
this slower method, of which Englishmen
sometimes pride themselves. produces as
much suffering and cruelty as the revolu-
tons of France.
OF the things we have spoken this is the
sum: Granting that the Capitalization OF
power as advocated by Republicans tends
toward despotism. and that de- centraliza-
ton of power and individual liberty as
taught By Democrats tends to anarchy, then
the latter principles are to be preferred be
cause anarchy is an impossible condition for
more than moment; whereas despotism is
not only a possible condition but very
probable one. and once seated on the throne
may hold its own for ages, and laugh at
the futile efforts of patriots to dislodge it.
Incidentally, too, we remark that anarchy
is more directly the offspring of arbitrary
power than of popular institutions under
the control of Democratic principles.
But is there no middle course between
which a people and their government may
steer-a course to pursue by which so
ciety may be free, as much from mobs as
kings, from you as me. Why, certainly.
In the constitution OF our country is divi-
sion of power, some given to the general
government, some given to the states, the
rest reserved to the people. Insist upon
the justice and equity of that divi-
sion, and that il shall not be
disturbed by any act of usurpation, that the
general government shall stay within the
lines prescribed by the constitution, neither
trespassing upon the rights of the states
nor of the people; insist upon constitu tional
morality as the only way to preserve our
institutions and the liberty of man. For
these principles the Democratic party
stands. 1t stands for American govern
ment as defined in the constitution, which
it regards, in connection with the laws
passed in pursuance thereof, as cheek
upon the tyranny of mobs and the oppres-
sion of government.