The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-09
THE "REPURLICAN LANDSLIDE.
ISOSpSOIlulih
]. F. GIBBS

Ali over the United States the big
and little g. 0. p. papers are joining in
tremendous hiplhip!ho-o-r-a ylilover
what they plesse to turn republican
landslide" To the thoughtful; to those
that have studied social science; that
look at social conditions as they really
are, and who are not blinded by selfish
partisanism, the present Landslide"
means the defeat and further enslave-
ment of the people. In order to better
understand what those "landslides"
really meau, it will be necessary TO
examine the quality of the material
that constitutes the social and political
force-the people,-upon whom both
parties depend for victory.
A large proportion OF thes people of
the United States are either foreigners
or the children Of those who were born
in foreign lands. That class of our
citizens, no matter how honest and
worthy they may be, cannot be ex-
pecte0 to fully understand the genius
of the constitution, nor the statutes
that are based on the fundamental law
of the land. Even many native-born
Americans, whose American ancestry
reaches backward during several gen.
eratione, are shamefulIy ignorant of
the genius Uf American institutions.
In addition to the classes just named,
there have recently come to our shores
hordes of the more ignornant class of
foreigners, who have not even become
assimilated with the people. They
flock to the coal. iron and manufactur-
ing districts and form colonies that are
just as foreign in instinct and habits
as can be found on the other side of
the Atlantic. Yet. each one of those
strange tongued and dark visaged for
eigners can become g voter within a
few months after landing from Italy,
Hungary or elsewhere. It will be
readily seen from the foregoing that
the political and social elements OF the |
United states are Lot homogeneous,
and where that quality is lacking in
the body politic, there is a correspond
ing lack Of national solidlty.
The institutions of human govern
ments are in an embryonic state for
the reason that it is only century or
two since portion of mankind emer-
ged from condition of governmental
absolutism. The progress of men is
based on the fund of knowledge thew
possess of the laws of political cause
aud consequence. The laws of nature
ire absolute and inexorable. A given :
Iusnity and quality Of physical force ,
viii produce al absolute quantity and
uality of Consequence. That
aw is as Interchangeable and
ternal as the Great Creator. t
it were not so, the universe would c
ever have had an existence. Could g
be unchaneeable law of cause and eff
,ct be sbrogated, confusion would be :
le result. One by one those magni. +
cent suns apd worlds that sweep on {,
'ard in their vast orbits with such
precision, would be
lotted from the sky, and D
he last glimmer of celestial r =
ght would become extinguished in n
ternal darkness. This beautiful 81
'orld of ours, that now throbs and d
ulsates with conscious life, would ~ ~
ander off into infinite space and in ii
le presence of eternal night would W
ecome passive in death from which Is
lere would be no resurrection. st st
The human family is but portion "
nature. The people are governed OF
by the laws of nature, and W
leir material progress is in an exact -
ito with their knowledge of nat fol
al law. That progress Will be ac. ca
lerated. or retarded in exact propor- "a
n to their knowledge of political and *
ial science or of the great law oF