The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-20
RESURRECTION DOESN'T PAY.

After all is said and done, the
strongest argument against a wrong
course is that It doesn't pay. Utility,
profitableness, has much to do with
fixing standards of conduct. And IN
SURRECTION DOESN'T PAY.
It is a beautiful thing to decIaim
about independence. And independence
is to be desired-and even acclaimed
about. But that course which destroys
values without getting independence,
or any other desirable thing in compen-
sation-simply doesn't pay. Therefore.
it should not be Endorsed as a course to
follow.
Some good Republicans down in
Washington, and some equally good
but no better-throughout the nation,
applaud the labors of the insurgents
in Congress; the men who would rather
defeat the Republican party than fol-
low the party leaders. They have
dashed themselves into a rage against
the Organization. But the country
wouldn't get better service from those
opposed to the organization. There is
no reason to believe the country could
be so well served. Because the coun-
try thought these men forming the ma
tional organization could best serve
the interests CT all the people of all the
+ country-those men were placed in
. command.
The responsibility is laid upon them,
and they cannot escape it. The beauty
about it is. they do not try to escape 1t.
They know what is their duty, and
; they are doing 1t. And all the fervid
( periods of all the insurgents from
Sandy Hook TO the Golden Gate cannot
make them Yield the truth the people
have reposed in them until such time
as the people shall take that trust
away from them. AND THAT TIME
HAS NOT YET CONE.
Insurrection never did pay. Repub-
Hcans ought TO know that. They do
know it. They didn't make anything
in seventy-six, and the two years pre-
ceding; two years in which leaders of
the Republican party were being at
tackled by their party brethren. 1t
wasn't any advantage to so strengthen
the opposition to the Republican party
as to make the election of Mr.. Hayes
uncertain. 1t isn't good for the coun-
try TO remember by what devices Mr..
Tilden was prevented from winning to
6 the seat he desired. Insurrection didn't
pay then.
It didn't pay in eighty-four-when
Harper's Weekly and Puck and all the
brood Of yellow magazines were laud-
ing Cleveland and berating Blaine and
other prominent men of the Republican
party. 1t lost the country to the Re-
publicans-and it didn't do the coun-
try any good. No one will even pre-
tend that the work of the Democratic
party in power for those four years
was benefit to the nation
In didn't pay again In ninety-two,
when President Harrison was assailed
as an '1cicle." and his advisers were
lampooned by beneficiaries of Repub-
lican policy from one end Of the coun-
try to the other.
And it win not pay now. The effect
of the disturbance by Cummins and his
friends In and out of the House may
cause the loss of some Congressional
seats. They may even cause the loss
OF the House to the Republicans. But
that would be daring Republican who
would say, knowing the effects Of his
insurrection, that he would regard the
national overthrow Of his party ben
eft to the nation.
Instruction doesn't pay-there nor
here, nor anywhere else.