The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-05
PRINCIPLE BEFORE
NDTVDUALISNI.

LIsl-NSlL LIZ OAAA O1~A
INDIVIDUALISM.
In the United States the means OF
operating the political government
has been by the method of party or
ganization. The men to whom official
power is entrusted are subject TO the
expressed will or policy of the polit-
icaI party whose united vote put them
in position. If they refuse to be SO
subject. and instead thereof launch
nut on a contrary policy that is the
expression of their own judgment,
rather than that of a majority Of their
party, their action is regarded us a
betrayal of the trust reposed in them
Sy the party Thus, there is estab-
nshed the principle of party suprera-
acy instead of individual domination
In the control of governmental affairs
Ia principle which insures the
broadest form of popular government,
inasmuch as in party organization the
expressed will Of the majority is &C
uuiesced in by the minority members
Df the party
Tt is this submission to and acquies-
cence in the decision of the majority
that has made popular government a
success in this nation. Without it, the
government instituted by the fathers
OF the republic would have passed
away long since.
With some Central and South
American governments it has been
different. The question of party feal-
ty has cut but little figure By the
rise of a man to prominence, his fol-
lowing was such under prevailing
methods that he could create a revo-
luton almost any time, and thus open
an avenue to national or state con-
trol
This latter method OF government
does away with the party method of
operation 1t is individualism in gov
eminent, and not the popular will.
The line Of demarcation here indi-
Gated is the vital distinction between
popular government as it has been
carried on in the United States. and
the popular government prevailing in
the disturbed Latin republics of Cen
traI and South America The latter
is not republican government at all,
from our point of view; it is nothing
but insurgent individualism.
The Democratic party in this ma
ton has been almost wrecked upon
the rock of individualism, not insur-
rectionary in its case, but neverthe-
less individualism. This feature has
been most strongly exalted in the
man-worship that has exalted William
J. Bryan, and in turn has exalted
other leading Democrats in lesser
degree. 1t has pushed the man and
his claims of. superior righteousness
above the principle of party control,
which makes methods of more impOr-
lance than the men who follow him
In this respect, the Democracy has
felt the full force Of the old scrip
turaI anathema: Cursed is he that
patteth his trust in man. and maketh
flesh his arm" Possibly, the lesson
has been salutary, but this does not
yet clearly appear
The effort of an insurgent move-
Inent in the Republican ranks. there
by to dictate the party policy by a
minority, is nothing less than an at
tempt to put the Republican party in
the same chaotic condition with the
Democratic party. The insurgents
against the party are sailing on the
pretended superior righteousness of
their individualism, and thus break
beyond the bounds of that party feal-
y and control which abides the will
OF the majority regularly expressed;
hence the Il am holier than thou"
legend that glistens in their utter
ances and claims
+ But the thoughtful people of this
nation are awakening to the situa-
ton. They are not bowling down to
the insurgent individualism of La
Toilette or a Cummins in this country,
or Madriz or a Lopez in Latin re-
public. They prefer the steady, pop
uiar responsibility by party which has
prevailed in this nation to the revo-
l9tionary individualism of Central and
South America. They recognize the
principle before the man.
And when the thoughtful voters of
this country get a grasp on the stu
alton, the party insurgent viii be
made TO walk the plank as a hypo-
critic and deceiver who uses the cloak
OF party afhliation TO profnote his in
dividual and selfish ambitions.
JAPAN REACHING OUT.
Melville f Stone may not have been
fer wrong in what he said about the
chances Of the United States for trade
Ia the Orient. Japan certainly is COM
ing to the front as a manufacturing