The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-20
REFoRSIER, Nor CRUSADER.

The Republican party has behind it
a history of uninterrupted successes.
OF these it might properly boast, but
there is no special virtue in boasting.
Our delightful task is achieving glo-
riously for the welfare OF the nation.
Deeds. glorious deeds. rather than
words. is our motto. Republicans are
not crusaders. Republicans are re-
formers. They believe in lettering
every possible condition until the
largest possible good shall come to the
greatest possible number of people.
Liberty, but not license, is the heri-
tage of all, and the Republican party
has ever stood for liberty in its very
broadest meaning. And that ideal
liberty might be realized the party
has stood for the reform rather than
the crusade spirit.
The spirit Of the crusader may be
right, but his method of reaching his
desired end is wrong. The crusader
is destructive in reaching his desired
goal He VIII blow up buildings. de-
sroy life and lay waste a whole cOun-
try in promoting his cause. The re-
former seeks to reach the same end,
but by a different method. He seeks
TO preserve life and property while
eliminating the evil, though the evil
must yield He possesses his soul
and his mind in patience. but con-
tinues to push his cause. The illus
triOus example of reformers of the
Republican party is Abraham Lincoln.
sistency of the true reformer that he
was He never went so far ahead OF
the public conscience as to endanger
the cause that he had espOused. He
did not free the slaves until this coun-
try and. indeed. the world. was ready
10 approve his action. The true and
the safe reformer cannot march very
much faster than the common people,
and the common people desire TO
think and to act right. Therefore, the
refOrmer has a duty. grave and re-
sponsible. He must teach and lead the
people out and into the larger and
better things OF life.
The Republican party is the great
teacher of the common people III mat
ters that pertain to the best example Of
free government. Its principles are
constructive and conservative and
progressive. It does not believe in
putting planks into its platforms sim
ply TO attract the attention or to gain
the vote OF either political, social or
ideal iconoclasts. There is nothing
/ permanently gained by the crusade
spirit The method of forcing cOndi-
tions upon a people will not. But
when a people has become educated
as a result of public agitation and dis
cussion, then the Republican party
stands ready to mould the desired SEN
timent into a law. because then, and
only then, will the law be obeyed.
Our state platform this year does
not reveal the spirit OF the crusader,
but it fairly bulges with the spirit and
the activity OF the reformer. We dare
not undertake to coerce public senti-
ment, but we do even dare to under
take to develop and to foster senti-
ments in favor of righteous matters
and measures. and 10 throw about
those sentiments the protection and
the safeguards that will guarantee the
largest possible good TO the greatest
number Of people.
Our principle is not TO override nor
70 overturn, but to foster and TO
build. And with this supreme object
in view we feel justified in asking the
people of the state to approve and
support the Republican platform and
ticket. and this will be done.
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