Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-05

cauccalment and jockeying with public
affairs always should be.
Party fealty is a nice thing in limited
sense. but what does it grow from
Simply from certain men acting together.
Does anybody suppose it grows entirely
out OF the convictions OF those indIvidu-
ais ON questions OF fright and wrong Ii
50 how does it happen that the same set
of men think alike on al the new ques-
tons that arise and the rest of the world
think otherwise How does it happen
that substantially the same men who
acted in party concert when all the ma
tiunal questions were questions of free
| dom aud humanity. are stu acting in
concert when the issues are entirely
different aud of a different nature, being
now almost entirely questions OF polt-
cal economy. 1t is SAID that party z-al
in the one scale balances party zeal III The
other This may be, but can only he
when the weights are uniform and the
scales properly adjusted.
! What can be said when the question
what can be done in Congress to secure
Utah in the future to either pol teal
party is openly discussed
What may be said when one party adj
minislration instead of taking the results
ct another administration AID reforming
them if need be, and developing them into
the best results for the peace and happi-
ness of the nation, it by secret cm'sslr,oS
undertakes to entirely destroy that work
which has become an integral part OF the
administration of the country,
Suppose an extreme and perhaps I'M
probable case. In this suggestions case
the Wilson bill passes. Manufactures
continue to dc. The currents of trade
become stagnlnt. The deficit in the
treasury increases from seventy to two
hundred millions Needy and deserving
pensioners are denied their means of liv-
ing. The poor go about the streets
yoiuIy asking for work and for bread.
UordcS ofnow juStihablc tramps swarm
into villages and towns asking mostly
for employment but begging rehct rom
starvation The mails to Washington
,,.;,l : hat
now the mistake il demonstrated the
legislators will lay aside party AMI res
cue a suffering country. The pelitionces
are startled with the sudden gloomy
conditions OF the country which fol.
lowed so soon after the Democratic vic
tory as to create some slight suspicion in
their own minds that they might he the
results it. but now hracing up with
party loyalty they cooly ask is it so
nominated in the (bond) Chicago plat
form :"
Suppose further that conditions have
become so intolcrablc that when elections
occur enough of the opposition are
elected to give them a majority in Con
grcss. They pass bill for the relief OF
the suffering country. That bill must be
in direct opposition 20 the creed OF the
Presidents party. The very lite OF the
country is in one scale and that Of the
party in the other as well.
Now apply that creed which maintains
the omnipotcncc of party and the hnalty
of it's acts, and the bill is vetoed and tn,
party triumphant.
Many men have died for party and
many politicians i'll as high order as they
stand have sacrificed their best friend ior
the same cause.
To contemplate condition Of thing
in which the absolute control of the cX
ccutvc and legislative branches of on,
government would be in the hands o
, one man is no pleasant paStimc; and We
it is not an impossible condition. And i
it does come Heaven grant that patriot
. ism may prevail over blind fanatiCism o
party zeal, and thai our land ma,
speedily be relieved from the actual suffer
ing she is enduring, and from gloom.
: apprehensions of the future; for we hav
, no sympathy with one who wishes tn
VI continuance OF the suffering of his brother
father, or his family simply for the pur
= pose of demonstrating who is rcsponabl
desire the delay of our country's rcstora
- ton moved by contcmptiblc, ambitious
paltry schemes or party rancor.