Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-19
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TO Inv nreyious letter / nave ,rni,ed
In sorsrnment of the ohl'es
how the - created by agitation ana
how s,S at last succeeded II, m ~, '
ana ,",, what she lost in the war ., ,,,,n
ganlns .,"r THAT letter was closed WIN
Revo'u .,as TO whether our repupiici''
aques'iVn q. oo,ld be redeemed i con-
,nuc the subject ,.,,, doubtful.
VI" redemption is extremely ,nrn,,sn
a,dltions can onlycome throus"
B'''p ,,,rt Of better men. American
. n have become SO corru l",o 90
p0aa . matter of bargain ana sa'e' 80
mu'n motter of favoritism, SO mucn
nun a,,er OF procuring the Endorsement
n.,oiaps for the advancement Oh
.,I,Ielans, that any arrest OF ,ne u. ~.
Characterization on whi,n W.
10 Gar advanced, seems very douo'
ful. or 4, this decadence
,,ordice of the church and or
y v" zee Christianity, so-calied. now
sne ne success in pandering to pop
i've ,oraencles that 1t may receive the
u'a' .'ans nj the wealthy. The press
great extent on precisely the
- regimen. An honest man rs a.
sai a,scouft. An honest man III Poii
~ has no show for eiectioii.
n.y whom believe to be an nV ,.,a
hy..ainded man, has. in my opinioh'
hlsli show for the presidency OF the
20 ino states. in 1900, than has any
uni' NNa,, in salt Lake. Our government
neW,,aiIv in the hands of the most
w9rany selfish element of the ma
seouNu pnii,ics that, rightly used, would
uon. oandescend to consider any prop
hs ,.1t ,,ot FOR the highest good or the
eluy ' In. become very largely the
Fvps u.hereby designing men work
IT. way into place and power. rms
u has spread, TO very great
v.art through the medium or the Re-
rnSllcan party. That party TOOK FORM
ann the greatest moral agltatlon inc
W, crusade. That party. In Its early
~, ~ was the grandest political party
!.a. Known on the continent OF North
,sarjco II [ criticlse 1t now II is be-
n, was an abolitionist before the
at. .,rty was born and have been voting
IN II for many years. Had the cleo
,,on N Lincoln not precipitated the
as,,i ,rar the Republican party would
sara continued to be moral party.
pn, the rebellion brought with It the
,srrlble upheaval that smashed political
morals 10 smthereens ana plunged
.ha rnnre ambitious and selfish people
y. tho North into a mad rush to make
money out Of the nations necessity.
Ths California craze Of 40. the Klon-
diEe craze OF today. was and Is of the
same character as the craze OF the
North in the war years.
II grew out of the nations neces-
s,,les When Lincoln entered upon his
duties the South had been In control
n the government long enough to
bankrupt 1t. There was no money, there
mas no army, there We're no NUM-
lions Of war Everything was needed,
and the necessity created n craze that
me country had never known. God
vas forgotten by everybody but the
BOYS in Blue" In the field. at the
front. and the wives, mothers and
sweethearts in the blues at home. To
the selfish there was but one object
the accumulating of riches. They be-
lleyed the North would win, and on
that faith themselves won thousands of
dollars where, without the rebellion,
they would have plodded on In the old
way, making money slowly and giving
everybody chance. But OF the bru-
tality developed by the war, that which
outsthpprd all competitors, was the sell