The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-11
AN ABLE ADDRESS.
Delivered by Bert Thurman
on Democracy.
A Sample of the Material of Which the
Democratic Sons of our Glorious Terri
tory is Constituted.

II KNOWS no DaS6neSS. 1t !
to no danger; it Expresses no |
weakness. Fearless, generous and hui
name, it rebukeS the arrogant, cher |
ishes honor and sympathises with the /
humble. 1t asks nothing but what it |
it comedies nothing but what |
it demands. Destructive only OF des-
pOtiSm, it is the sole conSeryator of
property, LABOR, and LIBERTY. 1t is |
d noble, a sublime sentiment, which
expands our affections, enlargeS the
circle OF our SympathieS, and eleyates
the soul of man until claiming an
equality with the best, 1t rejects as
OF its dignity and political
innumities over tile humblest of his
fellows. Yes, it is an enobling princi
pie; and may that spirit which ami
mated our revolutionary fathers in
their contest for its establishment con-
tinue to animate us, their sons, in the
impending struggle for its prtserva-
ton.
Old, eternal, Democracy is founded
on the living law of political affairs
that the Largest liberty should be
every mans heritage, consistent with
law and order. Therefore, II is that the
Democratic party stands for the indlvi-
dual against the entertainments of the
state, for the rights OF the states against
the enernpnhments II tho federal gov
eminent, for home rule against foreign
interference and aggression.
The Democratic PARTY dates, there
fore. from every attempt to Interfere
with liberty; it is the resistance to that
liberty which means Democracy, 1t
dated IN our own government from the
difference of opinion, which those great
leaders, Jefferson and Hamilton, enter
tanned with regard to the scope
duty of civil government. Hamilton
was the regulating, ordaining, and con-
trolling mind OF the one side, and on
the other was Jefferson, yhe phlloSo-
phical statesmen, who never attempted
to regulate nor control, but who with
great quiet energy of infusing princi
pies, enabled popular rights to take
care of themselves, From these two
great statesmen arose two great parties,
the JetferSOnianS and the HamlIt0nl-
ans, and to-day they stand in conflict
with each other as completely as at the
time when Mr.. jefferson was elected.
The parties have both changed their
names several times but the funda-
montal principles have alwaYS re-
mained the same Gentlemen, look at
the father OF our country. What was he
but Democrat, when Alexander
Hamilton exclaimed, We will have
I Washington fof our klng7 What was
that noble mans reply? No, said he,
after lighting for these long years are
we again to have to submit to the rules
of a sovereign, or in other words to sub
NIT to the cowardice rulings OF Il strong
central government? Never. We will
have Il free country, that Is what we
have been aiming for, and the power
shall not be invested in one individual
only, Then, fellow Democrats, what have
we TO say of Washington, was he Re-
publican9 No, he advocated the prin-
cipleS of that great cause from which
springs life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness. Look at the father OF the
Declaration. What was he but a DemO-
crat? On him. the noble Jefferson we -;
stow that honor. Democrats believes
full 4nequivoGal support OF The Constl-
tuition; in strict construction OF 1t, an /
in the spirit and the purpose for which
it was formed And in Madison also,
who took such deep interest in its for
nation as to be called the father OF the
| Constitution ihey have another eXr
ponent of sound Democratic principles.
Thus the three great fathers are the
three great founders OF our country,
and all that make it what We love to
claim it is.
The Republicans, by whatever name
3 - l., n ~, r
down to the present time, have always
/ been in favor of a strong central gov
eminent, while the Democrats have
! favored local self-goyernment and in
diyidual liberty. The Republicans de-
sire a strong National government,
even if the States are deprived OF some
of their local rights; while the Demo-
Gratis are in favor OF the States holding
/ the great residue of governmental
powers, because it brings the Govern
ment and the responsibility of the Coy
eminent nearer home to the citizens
who are to be governed. The Repub-
/ licans believe in what they call pro
/ lection" to home production: That is
/ in order to encourage the building and
establishing of home manufactures.
They believe in permitting the Govern
ment to compel foreign manufacturers
I to pay tariff upon all their goods i'm
ported into our country for the privl-
/ lege of doing so. You can readily see
! if the foreign manufacturers have to
pay a large bonus to our Government
/ for the privilege of trading or selling
heir goods to us, it cQmpels our home
manufacturers to raise the price of
] = % =,
pay the advance.
/ The Democrats claim that no more
/ tariff should be collected than just
enough to economically carry on the
| Government. Than more than that is
robbery. That the system established
by the Republicans tends to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer, and
that the time has come when home
manufactures reed no more protection
| than that which is incidentally
afforded III making foreign mall
utactWers pay the expenses
! of administering our Government. In
short, the Democrats contend that
in as much as we have the longest riv-
ers. the finest forests, the richest soil.
the greatest variety Of climate and pro-
ductlOn and the most ingenious and On
/ terprising people on the globe, we
ought to be ashamed to ask our govern
ment to protect US against an inferior
people, especially when we ourselves
have to pay the so-called protection.
The Democrats are unable to see what
protection it is to you to take money
out of your pocket if you are farmer
and give it to me because | am manu-
! facturer.
Democracy seeks t9 give all classes
an equal voice in the affairs of govern
ment. 1t binds them down to no prop
ertv qualification. 1t is fact that if
wealth and so-called responsibility
were permitted to govern a country the
lower classes of society would soon de-
scend to be their slaves. 1t is the bal
| lot which eieyates the masses. Because
of the sympathy with the struggle OF
the laboring classes; because it has at
tracted the toiling millions to its ban
nefs, are these reasons why men should
not be Democrats? rather should it be
stronger reason, why they should
early in life espouse the cause and unite
their fortInes with the party of
those grand old principles which have
made America what it is to-day, the
home of happy millions of lahoring men
who have fed from the oppression of
the eoeaHhy, respectable, dristOcratic,
! c1occ which pnvaIDc FurODa I0Stpa n