The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06
HANNA's NEW IDEALS.

In referring to party platforms and
the policy Of political parties on con-
quest, the rights of superior civiliza-
ton" and consent of the governed, -
there was a time when the Republican
party occupied very different grounds
from that upon which it stands today.
There was a time when it wanted TO
keep out of Asiatic broils and Euro
pean entanglements, when it dwelt
upon the equality of black and brown
and white men, when it repeated pas
sages from the Declaration of indie
| pendence, and insisted upon the con-
sent of the governed in free republic.
In the Republican platform of 1856
is the following plank:
The maintenance of the principles pro
mulgated in the Declaration of independ-
/ ence and embodied in the federal constr
tuition is essential to the preservation OF
our republican institutions The nigh
/ wayman's plea that might makes right
! is in every respect unworthy OF American
I diplomacy, and would bring shame and
/ dishOnOr upon any government or people
/ that gave it their sanction.
In the national platform of 1868 the
Republican party declared:
{ We recognize the great principles laid
down in the immortal Declaration of in
! dependence as the true foundation of
democratic government. and We hail with
gladness every effort toward making these
principles a living reality on every inch
I of American soil.
| In 1876 the Republican party had not
made up its mind to discriminate
against the brown man of the tropics;
neither had it then repudiated the doc
trine of consent of the governed, as
the following plank from the national
platform Of that year shows:
All men are created equal They are
endowed by their Creator with certain un-
alienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness FOR
the attainment of these ends governments
have been instituted among men. deTiV-
ing their just powers from the consent OF
: the governed. Until these truths are
cheerfuliy Obeyed, or, If need be, Ylgor-
ously enforced, the work of the Republic
an party is unfinished
The only thing which gives us the
right to protest against powers of the
I eastern hemisphere entering this hemi-
sphere is to refrain from entering the
eastern hemisphere. This is the only
way to preserve the Monroe doctrine
as the national convention of the Re
publican party declared in 1884 when
it adopted the following as a part of
it's platform:
The Republican party favors policy
which shall keep US free from eDtansling
/ alliances with foreign nations, and which
! gives us the right to expect that foreign
nations shall refrain from meddling IN
American affairs.
The last platform ever adopted by
J the Wing party before it was swal-
lowed up in the Republican organiza-
ton was as follows:
! Our mission as a. republic is not to prop
! agate our opinions or TO impose apon
1 other countries our forms of government
! by article or force. but TO each by. eX-
annie and show by our success mcdera-
] ton and Justice the blessings of self
government and the advantages Of free in
/ stitutions We have no new principles TO
/ announce. no new platform to establish,
I but are content to broadly rest where our
I fathers rested-upou the constitution OF
! the United States, wishing no safer guide,
/ no higher law
But what a difference today What
a change has been wrought by Hanna!
/ What toboggan slide there is from
/ the lofty purpose of Lincoln to the
syndicate schemes fostered and fur
/ thered by Mckinley