The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-10
Senator Caffery's Impassioned Plea
For Free Government.
EVILS OF IMPERIALISM
THREATENS THE DESTRUCTION
OF THE REPUBLIC.
Consent of the Governed Is the
Corner Stone of Our Free Govern
ment-Tyrrany and Aggression
Clothed In the Cast-of Garments
of Asiatic Fatalism.

Boston, March 9.-The members of the
Massachusetts Reform club had as their
guest at the regular monthly banquet to-
night Doneson Caffery, senator from
Louisiana. The meeting was well at
tended. Moorefield Story presided. Many
portions OF Senator Caffery'S speech were
loudly applauded.
Senator Gallery spoke to the toast, 1.-The
Duty of a Public Manic Himself, to his
District or State and to His Country"
Our simple-minded ancestors left the
shores of the old world with the set pur-
pose of living in a new world of freedom.
They builded in the course of time, a gov
eminent whose cornerstone rests upon
the consent of the governed They have
into every state government erected be-
meath the folds of their starry banner.
Incorporated this living principle of self
government. They have widened their
borders so as to embrace vast extent of
practically coterminouS territory and
erected it into sovereign states, where
this self-governing principle is recognized
and enforced.
Not until the fires of liberty cease to
burn; not until our race forgets its in
eternal vigilance, which is its price,
sleeps on its post, bedrugged with imper-
ialism and expansion and all the parasites
and crawling things of tyranny and en-
pire, will this energizing, essential. vital
principle leave our breasts and cease to be
governing principle of our republic.
When that times comes, Mr.. Chairman.
let the destiny that oyertakes the de-
generate, the power-loving, the Worship
ers of Mammon, the followers of Moloch
overtake us, as surely 1t will overtake US
The principle of selg-government is our
coliseum-Ghile it stands our republic
shall stand-when it falls, liberty shall
perish from the earth.
lit is left, sir, in the closing hours of
the nineteenth century, to close the tryan-
ny and criminal aggression in the cast-off
clothes of Asiatic and Egyptian fatallsm
Are we to take for the guide of our ma
tional life the enlightened factor of Nv
ing human conscience, or the dark coun-
sci of a dead fatalism? Shall nature and
free will both be bound in the chain of
'destiny?' Ah sir, the star of empire has
lured conquerors and states to ruin.
1T is not too late to repair the wrong
of the treaty of Paris. The better sense
of the people, not the promoters: the JOB
bers, the franchise-hunters, the place
men, the searchers after glory, may come
to the rescue of our imperiied institutions.
God grant they may come soon.
THE duty of the legislator to his state
and to his country consists, first in squar-
ing every act and vote with the constltu-
ton which he is sworn to support. Sec
ond. in performing every act, ana giving
every vote, in all constitutional legisla-
ton under the sanction and approval OF
an honest conviction of right. Neither
flattery nor threats. nor censure must
sway him from the right. His party may
condemn; conventions and meetings may
censure; friends and enemies alike may
try to persuade, but conscience and 1udg-
ment may rule.
same vein.
A number of other members of the club
discussed the future policy of the gov
eminent.