The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-09

owes well nigh all its advancement. 1t
was revolution which made the British
government what it is to-day-a monarchy
SO limited that the voice of the people is far
more potent than the voice of the monarch,
and in consequence of that fact the liberty
OF the people is secure, as are their persons
and their property. 1t was brief period
OF anarchy, the great revolution, which
laid the foundation of the present great
ness, liberty and happiness of France; IL
was Democracy running in the direc-
llon OF Its extreme and arriving
at the point OF revolution that
brought into existence the American
government. So we might go on dd min
itum IN enumsrating the great nefits
that have accrued to mankind through
Democracy far advanced towards its ex-
IRENE. AS to its farthest extreme-anar-
chy-as permanent condition, it can never
reach; it is simply out of the question, and.
the history of our race gives abundant
evidence of it.
Now as to the extreme of Republican
party principles The tendency of Re
publicanism, especially as understood and
taught by some Of our new sprigs of that
faith, is TO the GENERALIZATION of power. The
extreme is despotism, and after deliberate
consideration we say, of the two, despot-
ism or anarchy, give US anarchy every
time This is our reason: Anarchy as
permanent condition is simply impossible;
society will recover from it Immediately,
and the unvarying rule in the expe-
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that temporary condition with its govern
ment much improved. Not so with des-
potism. But little removed from being as
bad as anarchy, when anarchy is at its
worst, it has in it the power to make itself
permanent condition, fact which makes
1t infinitely worse than anarchy. The
French nation recovered from the very
worst case of anarchy that this world has
ever seen in a few years; it took England
a number of centuries 10 wrest from the
hands Of her despot kings the fow liberties
her people were permitted to enjoy. And
then, the obtaining of those liberties from
despotism was not without bloodshed If
the disasters, the wars and sorrows and
crimes which despotism has caused be com.
pared with the same things caused by an
archy, the wars and blocdshed produced by
the former will bury out of sight those pro
duced by the latter
So, look at it from any point you will,
test Democracy and Repubhcanism in their
extremes and from that crucial ordea
Democracy will arise indicated as
superior TO Republicanism. 1t i.
the universal experience of our ract
that men when once clothed with q little
authority as they suppose they begin Il
exercise unrighteous dominion over thei1
fellow men. They seek to augment theil
power; constantly thsy find out new ex
cuses for exercising and increasing it. I
gets entrenched behind the forms of law
calls armies TO its assistance, pardons moth
ing to the spirit of liberty, and under tn
plea Of preserving the general public peace
providing for the welfare, maintaining
the government, keeping morals ant
religion pure, and hundret
other excuses with which despotisr
iustities the oppression, they sweep ava,
the liberty of man and bind upon him con
ditions which make HIM a thing instead 0
mana poor, cringing, crawling, servil
wretch, afraid to look up-a slave Demo
craoy opposed this tendency OF human
nature "a exhibited ia human governments
1t looks upon government as the agent 0
the people, not their master; and when
usurps power not named in the constitution
they cry "haltr' and call upon the agent t
ceRfine himself within the lines specific
! by the constitution. That is the visw tia
t Democracy takes of government and
, may be depended upon as bong right.