The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-03


Parliament is not a congress Of am
oaSSadorS from different and hostile in
terestS; which interests each must main
tam, as an agent and advocate. against
other agents and advocates; but parlia-
ment is a deliberative assembly of ona
nation. with one interest. that OF the
Whoie: where. not local purposes. not To-
cal preJudiceS ought to guide, but the
general good, resulting from the general
reason OF the whole. You choose a mem
per indeed; but when you have chosen
aim ne IS not a member of Bristol, but
ne is member OF parliament If the
local constituent should have an interest
or should form an hasty opinion. evident
~ opposite to the real good OF the rest OF
the community, the member for that
place ought TO be as far as any other
from any endeavor to give ii effect. I
peg pardon for saying so much on this
SUBJECT 1 have been unwillingly drawn
into it, but shall ever use a respectful
Irankness or communication with YOU.
Your faithful friend your devoted SER
want I shall be to the end of my life A
hatterer you do not wish for"
Hybrids in Politics.
The peculiar ideas pertaining to the
duties of representatives of the people
held by some have reduced our Con-
gress, our legislative assemblies. to a
most degraded condition. It is the
idea advanced upon the floor by this
gentleman that has brought into ex-
istence those hybrids in politics,
bounty-paying. high-tariff Democrats.
and free trade Republicans, until.
when Congress meets, you find men
struggling for the advantage Of their
own particular district and your repre-
sentatives become mere politicians
fawning at the feet of their eonstitu-
ents, without the courage TO look over
the whole land and like men declare
what would be the general good and
legislate in its interest. Craftsmanship
is being sunk into the pool OF mere
political clap trap.
Not the Weber Delegation.
Evans, of Weber-You would not ap-
ply that to the gentlemen from Ogden,
1 suppose?
R0berts-No. sir
Evans, of Weber-There you say
two-thirds of the people want woman's
suffrage?
Roberts, am speaking upon the
general principle in this connection
and 1 have done so for the reason that
l wish to call attention to members
Variants it not true that in Eng
land candidates for parliament make
their own platforms and announce
themselves to the electors OF the re-
spective districts as willing to stand
on the platforms they have written,
and is it not also true that our system
of nominating candidates and direct
ing party policies is entirely different?
Men with Courage Needed.
Mr. Roberts, grant the gentleman
that the custom is as he has declared
it. but in addition to that also, there
exist parties in England, which also
have platforms, and if not written, are
none the less real on that account, and
both the individual platform and the
&c., hi
a member belongs influences his con-
duct Now, sir, upon this point it Oc-
CURED to me to say that what we need
is men who shall have the courage TO
stay the headlong force Of their con-
stituents If they see that it is running
into danger. I grant you that mem
berS are elected TO Congress upon Wei
settled principles. net novelties, not
fads. and when these fads and novel
ties find their way into political plat
forms. and members become convinced
that it would work mischief to the
constituency, we want men that shall
have the courage even to offend their
constituents and TO arrest the progress
of the evil.
The TWO Platforms.
I wish now, briefly TO refer TO the
manner in which suffrage came into
the platforms of the parties. In my
first speech I charged that there had
been no anterior agitation 81 this ores
tfon of suffrage. 1t was based upon
the idea, supposed generally to pre-
vail, that it was a pet subject uni
versally accepted in this territory.
When the Republican party met in
convention, it was confronted by this
fact-and if I speak of BIornons or
Gentiles, I want it understood that
there is nothing opprobrious either in
the one name or in the other TO me;
I use them simply for diStinction-but
the Republicans were met with this
condition. that the great majority OF
their members were also members OF
the old Liberal party. They were anx-
ious, OF course. to increase their mem
bership and gave a welcome to all
their Mormon friends to come into their
party. which. of course. was strictly
right and proper. One OF the means To
attain that end was the consideration
and final adoption of that plank on sur
No Denial.
No one has stood upon this floor with
the exception Of one man (and he told