The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-21

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\ Republican candidate for president will
| probably be Thomas 3. Reed, of Maine,
with Governor John II. NcGraW, of the
l state of Washington, as yice-preSident:
| at least. this is q great Republican play
now being made. These gentlemen are
both committed and, as [ think, the
whole policy Of the Republican party
now is against another general revision
| Of the tariff either upWardly or down
| wardIy. There viii be no more tariff
| agitation for many years to come, so
| if the former Democrats of this terri
tory are looking for an excuse to leave
their true ana genuine friends they
\ should get better one than tariff tax
alton. Why should not this new state
| be and remain for all time Democratic?
The soil was acquired under a Demo-
cratic administration, through q war
With Mexico. The territory was formed
under Willard Fillmore, who, while
elected as Wing Vice-president, be-
came Democratic president. Then
VINO had been the steady and steadfast
friend of the early people Of this ter
ritory? Wag it the Republican party?
| is 1t now the Republican party? What
delegate IN Congress from Utah has
ever taken his seat on the Republican
side in the House OF Representatives
what president has been the friend of
| the poor and oppressed in the Great
Salt Lake basin? Was it Grant, Hayes.
GARFIELD, Arthur. or Harrison? Or was
1t and is it Grover Cleveland?
Present and Future Issues
The great issue of the present and
the future. aside from the money ques-
ton, which viii soon be settled on
Democratic lines satisfactory to. the
! people of the west, is the question Of
| local government Home rule,
which stands today in America as the
advanced doctrine of state sover-
eighty. and following this and in con-
nection with it, is no sumptuary legiS-
latiOn- Now, on which side of this
question are the people of Utah to
plant themselves? Shall they join in
with their former Republican oppressors
and leSislate in favor Of great CEN
tralized government administered from
Washington city, celebrating county
and state lines, and fastening the
worst form of class and sumptuary leg
islation on the people in every conceiV-
able form and at every opportunity, or
VIII they be found with their former
Democratic friends advocating home
rule, saying, with Samuel J. Tilden,
that the essence Of good government
IS the greatest possible liberty to the
citizen unVeXed by sumptuary laws%
Or will they give way to d great bureau
autocracy and have all their affairs adj
ministered by agents 5000 miles off,
from Washington city? Another great
question that is on us and that we
can't avoid is. whether America is to
be a government Of the people, by the
people. and for the people, or whether
IT is to be a government by usurping
United States judges? Are we
to be governed in our local
affairs by laws made by our
selves administered by agents of our
own selection? Or is this to be a gov
eminent by injunction, and restraining
orders issued to order by United States
judges? Are they to usurp all the
authority Of the land and fasten upon
people without protest the monstrOus
doctrines of constructive contempt?-
the worst thing formulated IN Ameri-
ca, since It was decreed many years
ago, now happily over-thrown, that
because a mans skin was black that
he should be a slave viii the people
of Utah territory help the Republican
party to establish a government by
United States judges and that con-
( Structive contempt is a law paramount
TO al others? l think mott
Judge Lyman Trurnbuu.
Judge Lyman Trumbun, one of the
greatest Jurists America has produced,
forty years ago judge Of the supreme
court OF Illinois, eighteen years a
senator in Congress from that state,
he who with his own right hand draft
ed the thirteenth, fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the constitution.
sounds the key note of alarm in an
address lately delivered in Chicago
from which [ quote the following:
- For ages the money power has con-
trolled legislation the world over, and,
l am sorry to say, has exercised a con-
trolling influence in our land for many
years. Laws which open the door to
large fortunes by devise, by Inherit
ance, or by speculation, have no tend
ency to promote the happiness Of the
people at large, and often not even the
| happiness of those for whose benefit
they are made. If the accumulation Of
vast fortunes goes on for another gen
Grafton with the same accelerated
rapidity as during the present, the
wealth Of this country viii soon be
| consolidated N the hands Of a few cor
porations and individuals to as great
an extent as the landed interests Of
| Great Britain now are. Neither strikes
Of the laboring classes, which array
against them the money power and
! the governmental power which con-
trolls, nor the governmental control Of
the great railroad and other corpora
tons viii remove the existing conflict
| between labor and capital, which has
! its foundation in unjust laws. enabling
| the few to accumulate vast estates and
! live in luxurious ease. While the great
masses are doomed to incessant toll,
! penury and want. What is needed is
| the removal of the cause which per-
| mits the accumulation of the wealth of
the country in few hands and this can
only be peaceably brought about by a
change Of the laws Of property.
"'Of late years United States judges
have assumed jurisdiction they would
not have dared to exercise in the
earlier days of the republic. They now
claim the right to determine the extent
| Of their jurisdiction and enforce such
! orders as they think proper to make
| These federal Judges, like sappers and
| miners, have for years silently and
steadily enlarged their jurisdiction
and unless checked by legislation they
! viii soon undermine the very pillars Of
| the constitution and bury the liberties
| Of the people beneath their ruin. To
vest any man or set of men with
| authority to determine the extent Of
their powers and to enforce their de-
cree is the very essence OF despot-
ism. Federal judges now claim the
| right to take possession of and run the
! railroads Of the country, to issue in
| functions without notice, and to punish
| for contempt by fine and imprisonment
| any one who disputes their authority
| II is TO be hoped that Congress, when
| it meets, viii put some check upon
| federal judges in assuming control of
! railroads and issuing blanket iniunc-
tons and Furnishing people for con-
| tempt Of their assumed authority If
I this Congress does not do it ] trust the
people viii see to it that representa-
| tives are chosen hereafter who viii
David Bennett Hill.