The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

lateS nave been suppressed, and the
guarantees of the liberty of the sub
Ject nave been swept away The free
institutions of Spain, far more republi-
can in the beginning of the fifteenth
century than those of England today.
have nearly all successfully disap-
peared. Richelieu, Mazarin, Louis XIV.
the revolution and the Bonapartes have
succeeded in degrading France from a
Tree, constitutional state to an unIim-
tied monarchy, where all depends on
the will or caprice of single man. In
Italy and Germany the old free insti-
tutlons, operating as so many guaran-
ties of the rights of the subject, have
nearly all disappeared, as they have
in Russia, while Poland has been
struck from the list of nations. Do
not then mock me with your senseless
babble about the progress of lib
erty. I would to God that l could
see some signs of such progress
You forget that the republican
movement of 1S4S in France had no
more unrelenting opponent than your
self, Dick
Il forget nothing of the sort 1 urged
on my friends in France the import
ance of sustaining the republic, and
never have you or any one else heard
one word from me in favor
of the change from the re-
instance was it republicanism that
1 opposed. What 1 opposed was revolu-
tionism, socialism, anarchy, infidelity
and irreligion. 1 opposed your party,
not because you were in favor of re
publican institutions, or because you
were the party of liberty, but because
your movement, if successful, would
have led to anarchy and barbarism; if
unsuccessful, would result, as we see
1t has resulted, in strengthening the
hands of the sovereigns and rendering
their power more absolute. In your
wild dreams. or in the whirlwind of
your revolutionary madness, you for
get the necessities of European socie-
ties and the indispensable conditions
of good government"
AT any rate you forget your own
country Can you deny that there has
been here a gain for liberty, Dick?"
"As the result of national progress,
1 deny it, for the liberty we enjoy has
not been obtained by a development
and growth of anterior institutions,
nor by political and social changes in
our own original constitution. Under
stand me well. l deny not the lib
erty of my country as a fact, 1 deny
it only as the result of the progress.
We were free from the beginning, and
we have at best only maintained our
freedom. Tyranny never f1ourished on
our soil, and when a transatlantic
power undertook to plant it here, we,
though but handful, flew to arms and
heroically and successfully resisted as
I trust in God we shall always resist.
do not believe a 1.-THE of what you
and your party say against the Euro
Dean governments, but I do not like
hose governments any better than you
10, and if I could see any honest and
practical way of charging their free
lom, or lessening the burdens of the
European populations, without causing
hem a greater evil than that which |
hey now suffer, L would willingly sac |
'ifice my life for them. But in our
there is no question of con-
luering liberty or of introducing it; for |
liberty is here, as large a liberty so |
ar as the constitution and laws are |
as is compatible with the |
existence of necessary and wholesome |
The question here is not |
IS to introducing liberty. but as to pre- |
erving it. Understand this, and you |
will understand my position, and that |
S anything but hostile to liberty or the |
Institutions of my country, which I |
owe and honor far more than you de-"
(To be continued.)