The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-18

tiODary must be granted be. then the con-
cluslon seems clear that il would be both
sacriiigious and -irreIigious not ~ aid BY
/ legislation the evolutionary process SC
wisely and SO recently discovered.
Change Is Needed.
SIR. there is hope for the republic as
! long as il continues 10 move forward IL
! the tried ways Of the old world. fiIvorcing
| itself from outgrowE American land
| marks That We are moving and 0INOrc-
| ing there IL no doubt. Standing how in
the dawn of the twentieth centurE- having
/ forbidden the reading of the Declaration
/ CT Independence in part Of the country $
/ domain with courts ready 10 decide thar
! the constitution is not a written letter
/ to be read and obeyed- but a dancing
panorama changing itself TO suit chang
/ ing conditions, having put cur foot
down. wisely and firmly. upon freedom of
speech and freedom of assembly and free
dom Of the press in Colorado and those
| ppendag es. whore free
dom of speech. press and assembly might
he awkward for Us; having joined the
holy alliance Of land grabbing rationale
ties: having discovered that God COM
mand against robbery ana theft Goes not
apply to men in the aggregate. -actin1z as
nationalitieS. when rObbing communities
of their independence OF 'benevolentiy as
Stimulating their resources-sInid al these
reversals of historical biuncers OF our
past. I boldly aver that we reed not
despair Of the republic
True. there are those who say with
"
did not exist always, that everyone OF
its schedules is not Interchangeable toe De
worshiped. that the Republican party IL
self was not born until a compare tiVcIy
recent date and that yet the country on
the whole has always pTospered- They
say that its prosperity was owing TO
new and cheap lands. inviting ne Drawn
and muscle Of the white men OF the WoTtu
to their cultivation. skimming from the
surface Of the human ocean its wave
crests of courage and enterprise. They
~rrns~ ~na rHa EHrafrra
area of free trade. first between the
colonies and then between the states-dl
area that has grown, by Democrat tic
American expansion of homes, 1nStittt-
tons and industry. and not by RepUbli-
can British Crown colony conquest IN
til it early became larger than any area
Of untramelled free trade which exists,
or has ever existed on the earth They
say that it was due also 10 our freedom
from the tax-burdens OF militsriSm and
the consequent ability TO devote our re
sources. thus saved. to the education Of
the people and to their betterment in
home and industrial life. They point to
the fact that, even. during the period OF
our existence as colonies. that constant
movement Of labOrng men from the old
world to our shores which still COntin-
Des was going on; that this movement
was accelerated after we became sep
2rate sovereignty on the earth and that
It was still more accelerated after the
mOoted question of the possibility of a
dissolution of the Union had been fin
=
movement to America Of workingmen
UNDER both high tariffs and low tariffs
after we became a federal republic. and
under no tariffs at all. as in colonial
days, was proof of the fact that higher
wages have been paid. at every stage
OF our history. to white men working in
fields and factories and mines and for.
estS in the United States than were
being paid to the same white men work
ing IN similar pursuits IN the old cou1-
try They say. that the currents 81
he
rivers. towards the highest leveI-toward
the place where the rate OF wages and
the standard of living are highest They
say-theSe foolish people-nearly AL Dem
Ocrats-that taxes are necessary evils
and never IN themselves q blessing to
be sought for, that there is some element
OF common sense in the old aphorism OF
having as little governmental interfer-
Cnce with the affairs of men as IS POSI-
Die. constantly with the protection OF life
and and liberty and property. All OF which
absurdity sO-called intelligence can
climb.
Gibe at Senator Lodge.
Another error of our grandfathers in
connection with our foreign affairs has
e eGmS oyer me lately Iy with weighing down
ever. was nothing but a plain virginia
farmer, sort Of hiEh-class farmer and
therefore. one Of the 'basest SCI. not to be
thought Of il the same breath with such
platform makers as the senator from
Massachusetts. or such virile history
makers as our fellow citizen IN the White
Hous-thcught-and possibly his secretary
of state. Thomas Jefferson. had a great
oea. 10 do with inspiring him 10 think
that our wisest and best and most patriot
lc foreign policy consisted in AMIGA bic re-
lations with all the other nations of the
world and eutangling alliances with none
OF them; in other words. that our chief
with the notion in our stupid minds that
the sum total Of Of the rightful purpose
or all Just government is the freedom and
happiness OF man How wonderful il IS
that we prosoered with that sort Of a
foreign policy and maintained WithaI the
respect and good viii Of the world-Won-
derful indeed when We consider what We
now know to be accepted sound axioms
OF International policy We know now.
from our fellow citizen in the White
House. that the peoples who may ex-
pect our tolerance and friendship are
these who maintain order and prosperity
those who govern themselves we'll those
who pay their financial obligations and
that IL may become a duty which
western hemisphere TO Intervene
in some way. more or less indefinite, in
ia the domestic affairs Of those who do
no. do all these things nor behave with
decgncy in political and Industrial mat
tiers. whatever in the world they may
mean. but who by the omission of the
doing Of all these things. do loosen the
ties which bind together civilized society
which ties Of course God has appointed
US his mundane vice-regent-n1 TO
tighten up again With these new ideas
of our duty a. a nation militant Il may
not be long before we are firing off can
non TO celebrate the glorious use of the
United States army and navy somewhere
in South America as cOnstaDularE. u
collect the debts due from South American
governments. or individuals to European
governments concessioEartes or traders
Let US live in the hope of that great day.
ana when We see il. let Us close our eyes.
gradually but triumphantly cease 20
breathe and as our hearts grow weaker
and weaker surrender our souls at last
to the God who gave them. with the
grateful exclamation, Now, Lord, Ihy
servant hath seen Il
Advice to Mr.. Davis.
What a queer. old time. childish idea
was that of our ancestors. that the pres
ident of the United States IS simply q
chief executive and that MS duty con
sists in executing the laws as they were
written / need not tell you. sir. THAI
if YOU should be elected vice president II
would be one Of your duties s sort OF
self and TO influence your chief-Judge
ParkeT-in the way Of usuTping the Other
departments of the government Your
opportunity win not be as great as tha-
OF the senate. you may have some %
pOrtunity: the opportunity OF changing
The senate rules on your own motion. or
doing some other revolutionary thing.
which as q play TO the galleries Will
make your good old Welsh Eame ia
nous as that of one Of the most spec
tacular and strenuous OF men. Men. sir,
are not responsible for the size Of their
opportunities They are responsible fO~
taking advantage Of them-sometimes for
not making them-as in re Panama re-
public -or instance.
1T will he your duty. as a part Of the
executive branch Of the government TO
look down with contempt upon the leg
islative branch. You win soon learn thai
the cattle who iuhabit the senate
chamber and the other wing of the capi-