Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-15
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THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.

and brigandage than 1t does Of
thoughtful, honorable citizenship and
that civilization which lauds itself as
being on the lead and destined to pre-
vail. Might makes right" is relic
Of savage and barbarous conditions
and is in no way congenial with that
liberty which Is great deal talked
about and so little comprehended or
understood. A so-called business man
was once heard to say in this city,
that when n customer entered his
store he always got all he could out of
him, FOR he never expected TO see him
again" Now this might answer in |
New York where there Is a teemlns |
transient population, yet even there
such Il course had limits as it surely |
had in the smaller place.
1t has been suggested elsewhere |
that men in political positions should |
be retained because an incomer or
new conner always had to Feather his
nest;" therefore 1t was really less OK
| pensive to continue in public service
the one who had already done so. But
| there may be less in all these asser-
tons or assumptions than their con-
tiuued reiteration would imply. Sure
ly there Is some honor ana PATRIOTISM
in the ranks OF citizenship! surrey
there are those whose love OF eouh-
| try, state, county or city Is not
bounded by what they can make out of
one or the other! Surely position is
not always sought FOR ITS emoiumeht5
or because OF possible pickihsS ana
| l.. ia 70, tIan+
stcalings' Or has 1t come TO TINS that
into the so-called "flthy pool oil pom
tics" clean men, honest men, VIII not
| enter. lest they be denied! Hus there
not been shrinkage from otilclai
position and responsibility rather thah
submit to the domination ana eNac-
tons of the ward heller and those
whose only thought Is that TO the
victor belong the spoils?' Have not
some been pressed into office irrespec-
tive of character or qualification and
have they not paid for political support
through dispensing that patronage
which Injured to position? Without
wishing to disparage conventions
Onrge or smalD where nominations arc
made, have they not often been con-
trolled by those who had everything
to gain and nothing to lose" and that
these have been the most vociferous
and aggressive even to the carrying Of
the nominee who was without the
qualifications which make elected men
conservative. and as careful and vigil
liant in the manipulation Of public
funds as they would be in the service
of Il private Individual. whore NAL
feasance or extravaganza would sub
iect them to unceremonious discharge?
II these queries are not to the point,
why seek 20 disturb tho old or present
conditions2 II honor. honesty, econ
omy, and all standard business prin-
ciples have been in the ascendancy.
why desire a change? If political
parties Gas sucfD have not been tried
In the balance and found wantlng.why
not continue the old routine? II con-
ditlons in New York and elsewhere
ARE not the protest Of a longsuifering
and plundered people, what on earth
= does this uprising mean? If in our
loved city there is not "somethlng
rotten" why discard the old parties
- and inaugurate new one, party Of
y, self defense. goaded TO this unwonteo
:, action by the realization Of "burthen,
too heavy TO he borne p"
Years ago we argued that politics
# Gas SUCH We're Of comparatively Nc
~, moment in a municipality; that NJ
., evidence was readable which de
:, termlned that mayor, councilman
Justice, policeman, or school trustee
was necessarily better fitted for thes'