The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-30

opinions, in the work Of building up
great nation.
But it is easy to perceive, in the
light of these declarations, that Hapll.-
ton was no pioneer in that broad field
of human liberty wherein jefferson
shines with supernal splendor. Hamil-
ton, however much he may have I'D
vocated yrinciples that are now sup
ported by the Republican party, was
no man of the people, no advocate of
free press and free speech, no
apostle of popular liberty, no eXpound-
er of the rights of man. In his
disputations with Jefferson, il is
clear that the contention of Jeffer-
son was mainly the affirmation of the
eternal principles of the Declaration
Of independence against the aristo-
cratic and monopolistic policies OF
Hamilton. Our financial ills, our mon
etary monopolies, our tendencies to
governmental extravaganza, our I'M
just and pitiless enrichment of the
few and impoverishment of the many,
all these take their rise and find sup
port in the doctrines and policies OF
Hamilton, and to a less extent in the
craftsmanship of Adams. And even if
: this little catechiSm should succeed in
establishing a party pedigree that
originated in Hamilton and Adams, 1
should not envy the political parent
age which it claims for its party.
There are many other blind guides"
in this catechism that avail not except
to mislead, as 1 think, the women of
Utah, and they deserve in like man
ner a note of warning and criticism
as to the bitches into which they
lead, but the foregoing must suffice for
the present, with the following sum-
mary of my points:
l. There. were no political parties"
in the strict partisanship sense in
which we now use the term in the
time and under the administration Of
Washington; neither were such par
ties' and party governments con-
templated in the constitution.
2. The Republican party as a politi-
cal organization has no antecedent
prior to 1856, when it was historically
organized.
8. The fact that a certain party holds
some principle or tenet, which was
also held by some antecedent historic
character, is no reason for setting up
pedigree dating from that charac-
ter; as the same mode of reasoning
would make Christ the founder of the
Spanish inquisition, and the abettor .of
Saint Bartholomew massacre.
4. The establishment of the 'princi-
ples'' of ''free speech and free press"
is an honor that belongs to Jefferson;
and to say that the Republican party
was at prior time founded" upon
those principles" by Hamilton and
others, is not only unjust and unfair,
but it denotes a failure to exercise that
! degree of intelligence that Republi-
cans are wont to claim.
s. We should be on our guard with
| respect to parties which claim a de-
scent from men whose personal SYM
pathies were hostile to a popular gov
eminent, and at the same time ar
IDENTIFY devoted to aristocracy and mon
archism.
g. We should be able to entertain
charity for all shades of political opin-
| ion. however contrary to our most
cherished convictions, for through such
half truths" and lights and shades"
of the woman intelligence we are COM
ing to a larger faith, a truer knowl-
edge and grander outlook for human
government and the progress of our
race, which has yet much to achieve
ere it reaches it's high destiny.
L trust that my humble efforts to
give due honor for the maintenance Of
political principles will meet. the ap-
probation of all earnest women, let
| their party affiliations be what they
may. Truth is one, it is what we are
| all seeking, and our common welfare
| should be the aim of all political
workers. In contributing these
! thoughts to the public, [ hope to in
cite others to an equally free and can
| did expression of opinion.
EMILY S. RICHARDS.