The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-06
FIGHT THE INSURGENTS"

1t appears from the dispatches that
Senator Aldrich is out cunning for in
surgcnts. eight the Insurgents! - Is
the slogan. But it is n dangerous
hunting; for. first of Hll the insurgents
can fight back; they arc the genuine,
consistent Republicans who act in good
faith and in all party integrity They
are holding to the National Republican
platform and TO the campaign doclara'
tons and promises of President Tatt.
They are better Republicans, better
party men. more candid and consistent
partisans, they are truer TO Republican
principles and pledges, than the Al
drich. Cannon piratical majority.
Under these circumstances, for the
pledge breakers, the dcserters from
party principle, the repudiators Of cam
dor and good faith, to undertake to
hound better Republicans than them
selves out of the party, in the interest
of dishonest faction of the party,
even though that faction may be tenn
porarily in the majority in Congress,
is a reversal of right, an inquity that
is both evil in itself and is sure to
bring on disastrous consequences
Bearing in mind the undoubted fact
that the Republican insurgents are the
truer Republicans, the men who hold
honestly and candidly TO the party
pledges as against the dominant fac
tion which repudiatcs those pledges.
the situation is something akin TO that
which arose between Ananias the high
priest, and Paul the apostle, An ac-
count of il is found in the 25rd chap
ter OF the Acts. Paul, defending him
self from the majority faction, the
fanatical element of his time in Jeru-
SALEM said 10 the assembled council:
''Men and brethren, | have lived IN
all good conscience before God until
this day Upon this the high priest,
Auauias, commanded those who stood
by to smite Paul on the mouth. But
Paul rejoined. saying, "God shall smltc
thee. thou whited wall; for sittest thou
to Judge me after the law, and com.
mandest me TO be smittcn contrary TO
the law?'
The two situations arc parallel. The
high priest, Ananias, represented the
persecution, Paul represented Christian
fealtv and the right of conscience. Even
according to the law under which An
anias pretended TO be acting, Paul was
justified; and yet Auanias would have
had him smitten on the mouth and
silenced. For the purpose of this COM
parisou. the insurgents may fairly stand
in Paul S stead while Aldrich stands
precisely in the position of the perse'
cutting high priest, Ananias. His meth
DDS are the same, his animus the same,
his Reputation of party loyalty, party
principle and party rights is the same
as that which Ananias put into practice
so far as he was able to against Paul,
in contravening the very law under
which he was assuming to act.
The world knows the outcome. There
is not the least doubt throughout the
Christian world today as TO which was
night. Paul in his conscientious battle
for freedom and the right and In his
appeal to the law, or Ananias IN his
overriding Of the law, his contempt
for the conscientious action Of the in
dividual, and his cruel, unrighteous, and
unlawful command TO silence Paul by
shifting him on the mouth.
The history Of the ages has deter
mined the case as between Ananlas and
Paul The political history of this
country, and especially the history Of
the Republican party within the next
few years, will determine the case as
between Aldrich and the honest, con-
scientious Republicans, whom and whose
cause he seeks unjustly and in perver-
sion Of party rights, unlawfully TO strike
down.