The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-08

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League, If it means any thing, means that ne
would then resist That is just what the
Irish people felt and the manner in which
they have acted. They have done no more
than SALISBURY implies he would do in case
he was oppressed by government Why
then does he condemn in others what he
would Justify himself in doing, and what
he strongly intimates in his speech he
would Justify the Obstetrics in doing in the
event OF home ruls being given 10 the Irish
people, and in the further event-which he
assumes would be the case-of that local
government being oppressive to the
Protestants of Ulster9 Why should
Lord SALISBURY so loudly con-
denim the opposition of the Irish people
to his arbitrary government, when ne
gives encouragement to the resistance that
Is threatened to the prospective home rule
government! Oh, 1t is the very quackery
OF craftsmanship, this 1t makes mighty
difference whose OK it is that is gored
Resistance by force on the part of the four
htths OF the Irish people to Lord SAILS
BUAY's government is rank rebellion; the
resistance of the Obstetrics to the home
rule government should it be established,
would be, in his neutrality-suspicious. justifi-
aole revolution; for his lordship does not
believe in the doctrine of unqualified en-
durance!
II believe that the title of both kings
and parliaments," said the English premier
on the same occasion, ''to obedience from
their subjects depends upon those kings
and parliaments observing the fundamen-
tai laws and understanding whereby they
rule. Parliament has right to govern
the people with laws, but not right to
sell them into slavery. I do not believe in
the unlimited and unrestricted power of
parliaments any more than in such power
OF kings Parliaments, like kings, may
take a course which, technically within
legal limits, is yet entirely ut variance with
the understandings of the constitution
whereby they rule"
Strange doctrine this, to fall from the
/ lips OF Tory prime minister! and very in
teresting since IL bears witness to the ad-
vancemeDt made in respect to ideas about
government. The prime minister's ex-
preston of belief in the foregoing is vir-
tually q demand for fair constitutional
government, nothing more nothing less.
/ He recognizes tbs fact that government is
a compact and his faith as expressed above
asks that the power that governs shall act
in harmony with the fundamental laws and
understanding whereby they rule; not only
technically but actually. Surely the
''divine right" OF kings or of parfaments
to rule must be forever banished where the
chief and stalwart Tory of England speaks
in that strain.
There is another item in SALIsBURY's
speech of great interest, especially since
it touches q question III which we in Utah
are very much interested-the influence of
churchmen in politics. The Catholic
clergy are almost unanimously in favor of
home rule, and have been accused OF en-
ploying their influence 10 secure it. Allud-
ing to this, the English premier said, that
though he had not condemned the Catholic
church, he had condemned and would al
ways condemn those who, holding high
spiritual authority and heading q great
spiritual organization, used those weapons
for purely secular objects wherein no
spiritual concern exists. OF the correct
ness of these views there can be no two
opinions. The principle OF the separation
of church and state hasscrystalized into a
settled axiom of free government What
the future may develop it is not for US to
say. II the Creator of the earth, in whose
hands is all power, should Gene to our
planet and tske up his abode-as some be-
lieve he willard institute more perfect
government, IN which the spiritual would
dominate the secular, that would be some
thing beyond human control, and doubtless
be brought about in the Lords own way and
by agencies under his immediate control
but under present conditions, with the
world divided ana subdiyided into contend
ing religions and sects of religions; with
the uncertainty existing as 20 Con and his
purposes; with the Likelihood of wrong
use being made of spiritual influence;
with the degradation which would come to
spiritual influence II dragged into the
slough of political strife-it seems clear
that justice to all parties, the best inter
ests of humanity, the dignity of religion
itself, require complete separation of the
affairs of church and state.