The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-03
APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE.

For the past six weeks the Democrats
and the Republicans have been appeal
ing to the people for their suffrages.
These appeals have been made on en-
tirely different grounds. The Democrats
have appealed 10 the intelligence of the
people; the Republicans have appealed
to their prejudices and cupidity. The
Democrats offer the people those true
principles of government that recognize
the equality of all men and that accord
to all the same rights and privileges
They do not offer them the privilege of
plundering the public treasury under
the pretense of protection that infant
industries may be encouraged. They do
not offer this because they deem it not
only unconstitutional, but also because
it is robbery pure and simple. No part
of the community has any right to prey
upon the other, and the Republican
party, through its so-called system of
protection and bounties, seeks to make
such preying legal. The legalizing of
such things by the government makes
them none the less a wrong. The Demo-
cratic party always has been and al
ways will be opposed to such things be-
cause they violate its foundation prin-
ciple of Equal and exact justice to all;
special privileges to none" On this
principle they stand; on this principle
they make their appeal; on this princi-
pie they expect to march to victory.
The Republican party makes Its APP
peal to the cupidity and selfishness of
men; it panders to the savage in mans
nature rather than addressing itself to
his intellect that raises him out of the
ranks of the savage. It says to him,
"Give US your support at the polls and
we will give you the power to plumber
the people" It is the creed of greed
and gain, wherein the baseness of man
kind is played upon.
That which raises mankind above the
moral sense. It is on these that the
Democrats rely for the support of the
people. It is sometimes said that Demo-
Gratis are optimists in politics. If they
are it is because they have an abiding
faith in man and his innate capacity for
self government. They believe in him,
they trust him.
Not so with the Republicans. They
mistrust him and prefer to put their
faith in a strong government whose eff
ficiency comes rather from the power
of its officers than the strength of the
people Republicanism is based on those
traditions of the past that have placed
trammels On the people and to throw off
which revolutions have been inaugural
ed The English revolutions Of 164S and
1888 were to break these trammels
placed upon the people by conservatism
and kingly power. This was the aim Of
the American reuvlotion, that made this
country free and these United States in
dependent. In Thomas Jefferson was
embodied this spirit of revolution and
freedom, this cry of the people for liber-
ty and their rights. In Alexander Ham
ilton was embodied that old spirit of
and kingly power, modi-
fed by time, and which he desired should
find expression in the Constitution and
institutions of the newly created United
States of America. That spirit has
breathed through the Federal party, the
Wing party, and it breathes in the Re
publican party of today. The spirit of
Democracy is the spirit of progress and
and it is the same spirit in
which they are now appealing to the
people.