The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-28
ROBERTS ON IMPERIALIsM.
Eloquent Address at Spanish Fork
Last Night.
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Spanish Fork, March PA large and
enthusiastic audience greeted Hon. b.
Fl. Roberts upon his appearance at
spanish Fork tonight He held his au-
dience bound by the spell of his elo-
quence for two hours and a quarter,
ana at times appreciation was mani
rested by hearty applause. He COM
inencec his speech by emphasizing the
Importance OF this special election. The
so-called Republican platform was an
alyzed, and MIR. Roberts said:
You cannot ascertain what the Re
publican faith is with reference to any
or the public questions. I challenge
contradiction. / say that you cannot
determine from the Republican plat
form adopted by our Republican friends
OF this sta, what the Republican faith
is on the subject of national finance,
on trusts, on the election of senators,
on the question Of the Philippine ISL
ands: He took up the Republican finan-
clal Dill and proved that the bill placed
power in the hands of the national
banks, which power should belong to
she government.
de referred to Mr.. Hammond's speech
at the theatre last night on imperial
ism, and in conclusion, said:
Better than all the glory that comes
from the success Of arms, better than
all the infiuepce that can be exerted
upon international affairs, and which
would inevitably involve us in en-
tagling alliances with some nations and
embroil US in war with others, better
than all this, is the security of peace,
Justice. prosperity and enduring liberty
for our own people. Nor in pursuing
suen 3 course, can 10 nix We would be
abandoning our destiny in the world s
affairs. On the contrary, we would be
more directly moving toward it's fulfill
ment. If 1T be assumed that it is our
high destiny to redeem mankind from
oppressive government, and for on,A l
am willing to grant it, then let us
maintain here in this splendid land of
ours an absolutely Just government,
one wise and frugal in its administra.-
tion where labor is lightly burdened
and property amply protected, a gov
eminent that restraints men from in
Juring each others rights. but otherwise
leaves them free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and happiness, a
government where the people are equal
ly free from the tyranny of rulers and
the violence of mobs, a government
wherein the people are sovereign and
the office-holderS their servants. Let
I IL be our task to maintain such a gov
eminent as that. and we shall present
such an object lesson to the world as
viii shake tyrRny in every nation.
Put all people in the highway Of free
dom and redeem the world in time from
oppression, net by conquest of arms
but by the conquest of example, a con-
quest, il is needless to say, that shall
be more glorious than all the conquests
purchased by the clash of arms since
the world began. 1 repeat, then, that
in the midst of this wild desire with
which so many people of late are i'm
bUed for national fame, glory and ir-
fiuence in the worlds affairs, it is well
for us to be more anxious in looking to
! those safeguards that will ensure a
perpetuity of our own liberty, and ar
honest, frugal government"
Mr.. Roberts was applauued loudly
and long at the conclusion of his
peech-