The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-30
A MASTERLY ADDRESS.


stronger government and that he
was glad of it.
Hamilton is the patron saint of the
Republican party. As 1 shall show
iyou, all their legislation has been
lalong the lines which he laid down.
Let us, therefore. ascertain what kind
lof government Hamilton desired Let
me call Mr.. Hamilton as a witness.
May 30 1887, while the convention
was in session which framed the con-
istitution of the United States, Charles
iPickney, of South Carolina, submit
ted the draft of one very similar in
lmany respects to that which was
iadopted. Mr.. Madison, in his report
iof the debate on this occasion, says:
'On the 18th of June, Alexander Ham
Hilton, of New York, who had hitherto
remained silent on the business before
1.-THE convention, made vigorous
Ispeech against the popular features of
the plan proposed, and advocated.
among other things. the election of
lone branch of the legislature and the
Executive for life. Mr.. Hamilton ar
Igued as follows: 4 believe the Brit
lish government furnishes the best
model the world has ever produced.
And such has been its pro-
gress, in the minds of many.
that this truth gradually gains
IT'S
object public strength and individual
security. 1t is said with us to be un-
attainable. If 1t was once formed. il
would maintain itself. All communities
divide themselves into the few and the
many; the first are the rich and well
porn; and the others the mass of the
people. Can democratic
lassembly, congress elected by the
| people, who resolve annually in the
1 1Na
lly TO pursue the public good? Nothing
I put a permanent body can check the
independence OF democracy. Their
| turbulent and uncomfortable DISPOSE
! ton requires check. Let one
body of the legislature be constituted
Tor life, or during good behavior Let
one executive be appointed for life
! who dares execute his powers.
Let an officer be appointed for
each state to have a negative, or veto,
on all state laws; all state militia and
the appointment of these officers to be
under the national government. The
people are gradually ripening in their
opinions of government. They begin
to tire of an excess of democracy
REPUBLICANISM TENDING TO I'M
PERIALISM.
Such Were Hamilton's views. and he
Is today the highest authority upon
| republican doctrine They have fol-
lowed his ideas in all their legislation.
! Ihey have constantly catered to 'the
rlch ana well born" l shall show you
that they have disregarded the rights
AND the interests of the masses. A
land, the most fruitful. was turned into
thelr keeping and they have so con-
! troIled it that men walk the streets
Valniy looking for work and throwing
aside pride, humbly beg for bread.
when you criticize their record during
the war, they refer to their patriotism
and hide themselves within the folds
OF our glorious. flag. During the war
the constitution was in many instances
forgotten. 1t was a great struggle for
union. SO long as the union of states
was preserved, people at the north
cared but little what means were used.
during those perilous times, the man
who criticized the administration was
by the majority party, declared to be a
TRAITOR to the government. The admin
lstration grew in the popular mind to
be considered the government itself.
and, as the administration was Repub-
hcan, the Republican party soon sin
cerely believed that it owned the gov
eminent. 1t has never rid itself of
that belief. In thes utterances. of its
public men. in its legislation. in its man
agement Of party politics and in its exc
cution of the laws, the Republican
party has given ample evidence of its
warm affection for an imperial govern
ment
DANGEROUS LEGISLATION
shall refer you to some of its legis-
lation, that you may judge for your
selves. Republicans put the control of
our finances in the keeping of three
thousand national banks. Great. and
10 me 10
were given to the federal courts and
federal marshals, and their deputies
have become almost as numerous and
as familiar to our view as the county
sheriffs. These same federal marshals.
until the last Congress- were given
power to manage and control our cleo
tons. In every city of 10000 people the
federal marshals were given power to
appoint deputies, who were charged TO
keep the peace at the polls. They
each served for ten days at s. per day.
They had extraordinary powers They
could arrest without a warrant any
voter they chose. Then again. while
the constitution provides that our
troops may be used to suppress domes- |
tie violence, our Republican leaders
have used the troops Ito keep the
peace at the polls" contrary to the
constitution and contrary to the will
of the states where they were sta
toned.
We all remember how in 1876. while
the great conspiracy against a free
ballot was being consummated, the
troops were msssed at Washington, in
order that Tiiden. who was elected.
might not take his office. and that
Hayes, who was not elected, might be |
installed into office as the first fraudu-
lent president of the republic. Danger |
Gus indeed became the drift towards
Imperialism under Republican con-
troll
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FAVORS
MONOPOLIES.
1t is a fact as true as history, that |
the Republican party, in state and ma /
tional legislation. has constantly ia !
vored and built up monopolies. 1t has |
granted charters containing imperial |
powers which are today bearing fruit. |
The public lands. which should have |
been granted in small holdings to the |
people, have been lavishly given to |
railroad corporations. Prior to 1860, |
and under Democratic rule. not one |
acre of the public land was donated to !!
railroads. Since then more than two |
hundred and ninety-six million acres of |
land; or one-twentieth of the entire |
area Of our country, has been thus
sQuandered. Naluing those lands at |
$3.50 per acre and you have S7S7, 900, 900
thus disposed Of Not only this. but |
immense subsidies have been voted.
To the Pacific railroads, a sum per
mie in addition TO vast land grants, |
was given, large enough to build the
road. Townships and cities, under Re
publican legislation. have been encour-
aged to vote bonds to an enormous /
amount in aid of railroads. While. do
ing this, the Republican PARTY has Diled