The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-25
MORMON POLITICS.
Communicated

| Republicanism comes as natural to
Mormons as a mothers milk. They
lare of necessity Republicans When
they first came here, small in numbers,
they looked around for some means of
encouraging home industries"
| The speaker who uttered the above
sentiments at the Republican rally in
this city on Saturday evening knows
how widely they differ from the real
facts in the case.
| Those men who were known as Re
publicans in the early history of the
territory were as scarce as hens teeth.
The whole Mormon population, with
the exception of few men who had
imbibed Wing doctrines at the family
fireside before coming to Utah were
recognized here and away from here
as Democrats. And they were Demo-
Gratis, because the great principles
enunciated by Jefferson, the right of
individual liberty, of local self govern
ment, of such a construction of the
constitution as should leave to the in
dividual the largest measure of free
dom, were rightly esteemed by them as
being essential to the freedom of re-
| ligious worship. They wanted no in
| reference in local affairs by distant
| unrepresentative officials. They did
not believe in al strong centralized
government. They had no sympathy
with such a viewsof the powers of the
general government as was put forth
by the six Republican members of the
supreme court, who said that the right
to escheat the Mormon church prop
erty was inherent in this govern
ment; were, on the contrary, in full
accord with the opinion expressed by
the three Democratic judges, who, in
ment is one of delegated and not in
herent powers, and that no clause Of
the constitution had been pointed out
which justified the escheat law. and
that it was, therefore, unconstitutional
and void They believed that that
government was the best which gov
erned least; that man was not created
for the benefit of the government, but
that government was instituted for the
benefit of man.
They believed in home industry, yes.
But they were far too just in their
makeup, to believe in the Infamous
robber tariff or robber bounty.
They drew a broad distinction be-
tween supporting home industry from
choice and supporting it from compul-
sion. They were DESTROYS to promote
local industries. So is every citizen Of
this territory today, irrespective of pol
itics or religion; but they believed, be-
cause they were Democrats. that such
support should come through the exer-
else by every man of his inherent
right to use his property as he saw fit
and not through the enforcement of
laws that taxed him to support some
thing he had no interest in. They
believed that taxation has but one OBJ
|ject, the support of the government
economically administered; they would
have spurned the proposition that
EVERY class that may get into power
could tax the people upon any pretext
it sees fit on the plea that it was for
the general welfare. They would have
seen through the thin sophistry of such
a claim and would have pointed the
finger of scorn at the men who.
behind such a gauzy filament, were
lining their Golfers at the sacrifice of
constitutional morality.
They were intelligent enough to see
what some of their sons are blind to,
that scheme which never pays is
ruinous to the individual or to the
and that a scheme which is not lucra-
tive at first but afterwards becomes so,
should not have it's losses paid by a
government which cannot participate
in its gains They could understand
that to admit the constitutionality of
the tariff for protection theory or
the bounty theory, would be to open
the government crib to the spoliations
of every favored class They could not
have been convinced that taxation ere
ates wealth
They were patriotic enough to under
stand that American brains and re-
sources in a fair fight, can meet and
vanquish the world. Had they lived,
all of them, to this day they would
have had penetration enough to see
that the great political contest in this
country is between Democracy repre-
senung freedom OF thought, Of action
and property, the party of the masses
and of the people, and Republicanism
representing the bogus pensioners,
manufacturers seek to dominate COM
petition, the trusts and every fragment
of the people that seeks individual pre-
ferment at the public expense, the
party Of Capitalization and of the
Of
be led astray by the plausible
chaff of protection, by a tinkling
cymbal, but the great bulk will
remain true to the principles held
so justly dear by their forefathers and
Utah will rise and shine as a Demo-
cratic state, asking only justice and a
fair field. but no favors, at the hands
of the general government
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