The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-14
WHAT WILL Be DEMOCRACY'S BATTLE CRY?|

in almost everything that is used. The
milk trust reaches the infant as he
enters the world, the ice trust cools
him in the summer, the coal trust keeps
him warm in the winter, while the
coffin trust waits to receive him when
life's fitful dream is over. The people
are beginning to see what the principle
of monopoly really means, and yet the
principle of monopoly SO plainly illus
trated by the Industrial trusts does not
differ at all from the principle of mo-
nopoly which underlies both the gold
standard and the paper money trust.
The Democratic party is prepared to
face the future and meet new issues
without abandoning the old. The Re
publican party has demanded that the
standing army be increased to 100000
men. If citizens born in the United
States are ignorant of the burdens of a
standing army they can receive instruc-
tions from those born in European
countries. Many Europeans who are
worthy citizens of this great republic
left their European homes because of
the burdens imposed by the enormous
military establishments. a great army
may be a good thing for the railroad
companies which viii carry the men
from place TO place, and for the large
contractors who will furnish food and
raiment for the soldiers, but it is a
distressing burden upon the plain peo-
pie of the country, and especially upon
the laboring men and the farmers, upon
whom an unfair share of the load has
fallen.
when I was a boy, [ remember visit
ing wheat field which had been at
tackled by the army worms. 1t occurs
to me that this tendency towards a
large army establishment-this new
army worm-will prove more destrue-
tive to the crops of the farmer than
the army worm with which the farmers
are now familiar. Upon the subject Of
Imperialism, 1 need only add a word.
IN IMITATION OF MONARCHIES.
'The idea of forcible conquest and of
colonization, after the plan adopted by
European countries, cannot receive the
support of the people of this country
when the principles involved are clearly
understood. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln
was invited to attend a jefferson ban
quet given by the Republicans of Bos-
ton. Those whose memories run back
to ante-bellum days remember that the
Declaration OF Independence formed a
large part of Republican speeches in
the early days. 1t was made q, part OF
the first platform on which Abraham
Lincoln ran. That Lincoln was welded
to the fundamental doctrines set forth
in that declaration no one Will dispute.
In expressing regret that he could not
attend the Boston banquet, Mr.. Lincoln
used these words in regard to Jefferson:
"'All honor to Jefferson; to a man
who IL the concrete pressure OF a
struggle for national Independence by "a
single people, had the coolness, forecast
and capacity to introduce into merely
revolutionary document an abstract
truth applicable to all men and all
times. and so to embalm it there that
today and in all coming days it shall
be a rebuke and a stumbling block to
the harbingers. Of tyranny and oppres-
SION
And yet the leaders of the Repub-
lican party are attempting to deny these
truths, written for all men and for all
time. They are attempting to repudI-
ate the doctrine ef equal rights and
self-government given to us by our
forefathers. Not only are they imi-
tating the monarchies If the old world
in their policies, but they are copying
the language of monarchies in carrying
out their policy. In the proclamation
recently issued to the FilipinoS we ind
these words:
The commission desires to assure
the people of the Philippines of the
cordial good viii and fraternal feeling
which is entertained for them by the
president of the United States and by
the American people. The aim and OBJ
ject of the American government, apart
from the fulfillment of the solemn OBJ
it has assumed toward the
family of nations by its acceptance of
over the Philippine islands,
is the well being. prosperity and pro
lection of the Philippine people and
their elevation and advancement to q
position among the civilized people of
the world.
LIKE QUEENS PROCLAMATION.
Compare this language with the Ian
guage used by the queen in her proc
lamation to the people of India in 1856.
when she said:
I'VE hold ourselves bound to the ma
tives of our Indian territory by the
same obligations of duty which bind us
to our other subjects" and In their
prosperity viii be our strength. in
their contentment our security, and in
their gratitude our best reward"
1T will be noticed that benevolence
hreathes through both these declara-
tons And then as to their participa-
ton in government, the proclamation
to the Filipinos says:
There shall be guaranteed to the
civil Service, in which, to the fullest
extent to which it slpracticable, ma
-ives shall be employed
The queens proclamation reads:
And il is our further will that, so
sar as may be, our subjects, of what
over race. or creed. be freely and i'm
partially admitted to offices in our
service and duties of which they may
be qualified by their education. ability
Ill Il
And yet, in spite of these promises
made TO the people of India forty years
ago. the people OF India today COM
1ain that the offices are filled by the
sons of English aristocracY,
while the taxes are paid by the people
II India.
The policy Of Imperialism is always
defended on the ground that it is for
he good Of the people governed. but
We have never recognized the right of
any nation To benevolently assimilate
mother nation"
Ex- Senator John L. Mitchell of Wis
,onsin, whose theme was Thomas JEFF
'erson,' devoted his entire address to
IN eulogy of the founder of Democracy. !
John Z. Doherty of La Crosse, an |
5wered 10 the sentiment, "The Young
Democracy; Thomas L. Cleary of
2ainville. on Party Honesty Is Party |
Duty; Carter H. Harrison of Chicago, !
'esponded TO Corruption In Politics"
ON YOUNG DEMOCRATS.
Mayor Harrison said in part:
1T lies in the power of the young |
Democracy of the nation. if it will but
et to work in the first trenches. to |
AIRY forward the crusade Of purity in |
,olitics until corruption shall have !
,een driven from high places, until !
honesty shall control in every depart |
nent of the municipal, the state and |
he national government. Stalwart |
-oung Democracy need not look for an !
incentive. The example is set for it in !
he uerson of our national leader TWO !
ears ago the party made its fight J
lnder a leader with private life so !
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