The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-03

on state powers are some times pro
ed or sanctioned by his Theoretical
enemies, who each year piously and
with many prayers render homage tc
his great political foe. Jeffersoniar
in theory. they would carry the cen
tralization of Hamilton to practical
lengths of which he probably never
dreamed.
Hamilton was very little of pol
itician and certainly not a great par
~ leaer. He was too direct and ear
nest; he was no master of intrigue
and IL he could not manage men by
an appeal to reason he could not man
age them at all. He could not cajole
and flatter, not pretend to listen and
sympathize when he did not believe
IIeentirey lacked the pose. He could
not fade into the dim distance VIII ~
the time came for bearing an unpopu
lar responsibility He was ready
| bravely to avow what he did. After
his party, under his leadership, had
accomplished its great work il was
scarcely able to maintain it's organ
cation, but the results of his ideas
survived in the existence and growth
of the nation.
He was a fervent believer in free
government. He would have men
breathe the mountain air of free is
situations and develop by liberal
law as powerful and diversified state
such as alone should occupy our sd
perb domain. He would have Ill
power proceed from the people, but
so proceed that 1t should not reflect
mere impulse and immature opinion
leading to bad government, and thus
make necessary the reaction to les /,
liberal form. The checks and limiat-
tons upon such hasty action as ne
had so often seen the states adopt
he believed were necessary to the
stability and success of a free gov.
eminent.
many sided development. Instead Of
having nation composed only OF
cultivators, he aimed to develop a ma
tion of cultivators and artisans, Of
merchants and traders; he conten,.
plated a borrowing and lending, an
agricultural. manufacturing, and a
commercial state, in which all classes
should contribute to the good of the
whole. He would not have a system
under which the few could Cypress
the many nor the many Cypress the
few, and to that end he advocated rep.
resentative government.
1.-The ancient democracies,' ne
said never possessed one feature Of
good government their very charac
ter was tyranny Under their system
of direct government 1t became a
matter OF contingency whether the
people subjected themselves to b.
led blindly by one tyrant or by an.
, other In the interest of real free
dom and of popular rights he believ.
ed profoundly in the representative
system.
"He easily takes his place among
the greatest statesmen OF history, but
| imagine he would have made an
even more superb apd classical fig
ure II he could at the same time have
been member of one or the other
of our Houses and of Washington $
cabinet and have identified with as
policies his blending of speech and
action there is something wanting
full to season the fame of states.
man to our inherited tastes-tastes
which ! think still lnger in us de.
spite an artificial distribution of the
functions of our government. The
executive thunders a message at con.
gress from one end of the avenue and
Congress roars back its answer in
speeches from the other, and prob.
ably each a little more loudly because
hNiNh'i oi'i'ipo''o III INC
saction, and because the whole event
is not centered in one place where
the leaders on each side contend for
the issue. Such system would have
increased the appeal which Hamilton
makes to the imagination. He un.
doubleday was very great debatel.
His achievement in the New York
convention would alone establish that
II is true that events outside power
fully aided him. State after state
had ratified and while the conver-
tons was still sitting New Hampshire
furnished the decisive vote, and Vir-
ginia, for good measure, was added,
1t was hardly credible that New York
then only the fifth state in popula.