Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-03

more, II has ever timely maintained on
| such occasions, ior instance, as that re.
cent emergency when the plague stood
/ at our gates, and the Government inn
mcdiatcly placed It's officers in charge Of
| local parts, is a party with principle 81
which II may well be proud. Its birth
| too was an heroic one, amid the painful
| ihfocs Of noble cause maintained but
by the most unsclfish sacrifices Of pros
pcrity and service, and even OF life it.
/ self. And II was wonder child. Its
/ young thought aud energy raised de-
vastatcd and impoverished country from
a state Of almost total wreckage to a
| proud position OF pro pcrity and credit
that IS scarce second to that ol any other
/ nation IN the world. Aud yet against
this party the polls have declared with
an emphasis that prccludcs the usual as
| cription TO irregular methods and that Is
TO be explained only IN the free and
! wholesome exercise OF that sole saving
power OF Our repubiic--thc ireeman's
! voc, and though the result be against
my own Affiliations I ana still thankful
iof IL. | fear not for the principles.
They are American and are In America
bound to triumph. II is not they that
have suffered defeat. There Is not a
| State, not a locality, but what demands
and petitions the national defense Of rs
! special interests over against the in.
cursive foreigner, and II each thus wants
the governmental safeguard for its in
| dividual resources, all will sooner or
later recognize tie necessity OF like
and prOportionate defense OF this nature
for all. In the theory ofthis lam unable
TO detect any flaw, and that which is
| right IN theory must be so too in prac.
I fl'ftta ..tfH1tI stFsFafAV.4 10
foster native industry, Increase the de.
mand Tor labor, enhance the laborer's
emolumen,s, make money more current
and by thus cheapening II over against
farm products bring to the farmer, who
Is the Atlas Of civilization, ever larger
returns for his heroic sweat. That Il
practically fails OF such working can not
be due TO some inherent error, but Is
| applicable 10 certain evils that have
grown up simultaneously with 1t from
! special tendencies Of this agc-iowards
gigantic corporations and towards more
aud more extensive speculation. IL Is
herein where the party OF correct theory
has failed OF proper practice. IL was
not energetic and sincere enough In its
legislation against their evils aud partly
for this derehction II has been so severely
rcbuked. The country which on n
square issue, but four years ago declared
Overwhelmingly In favor OF It's principle,
has not now vacillaiingly so soon
rcpudiated that principle, has but scofed
a class OF concomitant evils which It's
one Trustee having failed to seize the
offered opportunity 10 correct them, 1t
nov commissions for correction to an
other. Il is thus that our franchise cor.
reefs the inequiiablencss OF our
institutions and enactments, and secures
our material progress. which il promotes
IN q spirit OF true Republicanisn. APPLY
Is prominent Chicago journalist ia
Mciday's dispatches quoted as attfibu-
ting the result OF the late election to a
growing tendency towards socialism.
But the socialism Is not OF the rapid and
distinctive nature. II is merely such n
socialism which is ever Jealous OF
equitable conditions such as republic
must ever preserve, and which even in
a republic are in danger OF becoming
unbalanced when few wax unduly
| mighty IN wealth. The rich man party
has been defeated; the poor mans party
, has triumphed, aud though the result
! imperil the immediate growth of prin.
, ciples which seem to me righteous and
T. urgent, still hail the accomplished fact
a. an evidence OF our national health
= and OF our American manhood.
/ In another respect, too, my party dis
, appointment yields TO national congra.
, tula,on. Though righteous are il.
, tcnets, this party's alliances have beer
4 strangely unnoly. It lent itself to preju
4 dice. II appealed to memories OF pas.
. sion. It Kept perpe;ually tanning lie
I into the dying embegs OF war even
b. whose ashes should have long ago beer
e buried to ieriilize a rcjuvenaling land
. II made chiefly soldiers its candidate.
b, and aspersed as citizens opposing
5 candidates who CHANGED not TO b,
c soldiers, as II even In war the citizci
c who furnishes the service is not equalll
Il as necessary as the soldier who directs
Y the blows. To keep the embers burn
c ing for pyroiechnic effect, this part
4 employed men at the bellows and pait
c them IN the form OF pensions. which be
l. ing public disbursements arc IN the enc
n but private burdens. Our pension lis
which, ran these two decades after tn,
q. war should commence 20 grow less anS
4 less, appears however bu, steadily I,
;. increase, and the suspicion seems war
, ranted that much oil this is but bid 10
r patronage.
o But even this imposition with basil
y anu lAAl lfRAA AAA pfhh'AAi EANlhAAAI ~ Ntl
Is very innocent when compared will
Is other abuses this party has been guilt,
!. Of. II has time and again identified
a. itself with church politics. In som,
4 states It has been out and out prohbi
d ton party, and just from those state,
IS and movements where and with which /
IA has so dehased itself has come the i'm
n peus to the third party which in IN
n late campaign contributed so largely 4
II add gall and compassion TO lis defeat
rs Il will not do for a government to be
u. come a moral mentor. The free spirit O
Or man even Ia monarchy will rebe
K against such governmental assumption
'e which when Tor a time successful In
ic republic can tend best to undermine res
Sc pect for the law and can breed bu
4 pictism, hypocrisy mud prejudice. Tht
,r party thar has just been overwhelmet
70 has only too strongly verified all this
ii Not content with prohibition, II has II
Il many impalpable ways ever NOR
m closely allied itself with the church. |
~ took special pride by thousand lttl
tricks OF advertisement to inform tn
IS country Of the exact denominations
rs complexion OF It's leading candidates
az It is currently thought that one or tw,
NJ OF its most brilliant leaders have iailel
el Of nomination and election TO III
highest Office within It's giit becaus
I'd ethr they themselves or some one L
Sc their families were not religiously 81
he Ciblc. II is the common obseTva,io
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