The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-29
DEMOCRACY AND ANARCHY.

Fridays Enquirer vouchsafed
leader upon the above theme and made
out very bungling argument against
democracy and wonderfully inetfec-
tive one for republicanism. As basis |
it uses correspondence of the Deseret
News of Thursday from Philadelphia
anarchist. The burden of the song IS |
that all anarchists are democrats and,
by inference, all democrats are anarch-
lists. Like all accepted republicans
the Enquirer has no faith whatever in |
the people. No man is worthy of poll
tical confidence unless he is republl-
can ofice-holder, or at least has an un-
questioned relation to the &, o. p. This
position is assumed in order to meet
the claim that the democratic party is
the party of the people, while the re-
publican party is the party of the
clioues, combinations and corporations.
Under this theory unless one is rich in
and of himself or is member of lordlY
corporation or combination he is mot
people," or of the people. In this
great republican organization the poor
and the struggling have no Fart or lot,
and if outside of it they are anarchists.
The people of all classes have dropped
upon" this tenet of the republican
party faith and whether it is IAN
archY" or not they, in Utah at least,
are preparing to wipe it out most ef-
fectuslly. Nothing 80 angers or dis
turbs the republican party as popu-
lar effort to redress a wrong or deter
mined effort in favor of the people.
OF course it only requires the asser-
ton of Philadelphia anarchist to con-
vince the Enquirer that Thomas JeffeE-
son, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson
and all the long line Of dead democratic
fathers were double-distilled ansrch-
lists. The very fathers of law and
order In this new world were these
men, these anarchists" AT all
events they were tooth and toe-nail
against centralized power" either in
the government or elsewhere. This
government derives its great powers
only from the consent of the people,"
or, as the Enquirer would say, the
anarchists. The work of drawing
comparison between government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people, and the utter destruction of
law is far too difficult for the En-
quirer. The people have no rights.
1t is only the rich and the powerful,
the benefciaries of centralized
power" that are to be considered, is
the policy of the republican party, and,
per consequence, of the Enquirer.
OF course such q screed as that
of the Enquirer would have been in
complete had it not arraigned the
south as the democratic party, and
in true "bloody shirt" fashion, charged
the war of the rebellion upon the DEM
ocratic party. How long Will republi-
can writers continue to pay their read
ers the poor compliment of supposing
them to be asses upon such scale as
they would have to be if they sWal-
lowed such stuff as that2 All there is
in the southern states view of the
matter is, the constitution, the su-
preme law of the land, guaranteed the
right of property in slaves. This did
not meet the views of the senti-
mental philanthropists of these days,
these true modern anarchists, and they
came down with vast armies and took
the negro property away from the
south.
The Enquirer must do better than
that if it would serve the z. o. p. at
this juncture, or succeed in fastening
the general charge of anarchy upon the
democratic party. The fact is the
democratic party of this nation has
eyer been the law and order force here,
AMI the simple fact that the south pur-
sued the bad policy OF fighting IN de-
tense of her property, is not to be
charged up as anarchy to the demo-
cratic national party of today, either
by that Philadelphia anarchist or the
Provo Enquirer. This is unfair and
disreputable method, and, like the
Tribune, the Enquirer should rather
be calling for clean campaign in
stead.