Show A 1 lEfT < BY EXTREMES The Uctiew of Tfarfeirs for February contains con-tains a manuscript copy of a postal card from WALT WHITMAN bearing the date of January 0 1S91 I am totally pirnlyzad from tho old secession war timo ovratraln only my brain volition and right arm power left This great bulk of seventy varied millions of people called America lis now having a good season of intestinal I agitation Of ccuraa sometimes the bad elements l so called get momentary role But it is all right I am sure and tho long run will provo it namely Democracy rightWALT WALT WHITMAN may be paralyzed and helpless but there could be no batter evidence evi-dence that his brain is all right than tha conclusion ho reaches in this card which amounts to thi Though even the bad elements ele-ments among the Jl plo may at times get momentary control in the long run Democracy Demo-cracy the rule of the peeple will prove itself right The people may not always adopt the most genteel way of arriving at conclusions but In matters nffeatinj their own interests the people will at the last adopt whatever will bo brst and they will sooner arrive at it bj leaving them freo to pursue whatever courss events may surcest than i any other way WALT WDITMAX paralyzed gives evidence of better nUB tbm many men untouched by that withering bat In Utah amen some of our nowfiodcot Republican convarts we hear thorn apaak of the rule of the people as tho rule ef the mob and they grew strangely elequon about the danger of mob rule and neb law Democrats nosd have no fears of these cries they are empty sounds signifying nothing We accept the issue that such arguments thrust upon us that is to have Democracy tested in its extremes and are quite willing that the ex trcme should bo contrasted with the extreme of Republican party prlu ciples The aforesaid newfledged Republicans Repub-licans claim that Democracy insists upon the docentralization of power and run tits t-its extreme it means anarchy uncontrolled uncon-trolled individualism A bad thing that truly und if itt lone continuants was pea alblo wo tronU be ready to rite it dewn tho worst oeM that could exist But ih long continuance is not possible It can exist but for a moment and when it passe away it leaves behind it a bettor state of things than that which in its moment of temporary power it overthrew The greatest extreme which anarchy over reaches is the revolutionary stage and to revolutions this wora owes well nigh all its advancement It was revolution which made the British government what it is today a monarchy so limited that the voice of the people is far more potent than the voice of the monarch and in consequence of that fat the liberty of the people is secure as are their persons and their property It was a brief period of anarchy the great revolution which laid the foundation of the present greatness ness liberty and happiness of Franco it was Democracy running in the direction direc-tion ot its extreme and arriving at the point of revolution that brought into existence the American government So wo might so on ad fitfn asia In enumerating the great b nefits that have accrued to mankind through Democracy far advanced towards its extreme ex-treme As to its farthest extreme anarchy anar-chy as a permanent condition it can never reach it is simply out of the question and the history of our race gives abundant evidence of it I Now as to the extreme of Republican party principles The tendency of Republicanism Re-publicanism especially as understood and taught by some of our now sprigs of tbat faith is to the centralization of power The extreme is despotism and after deliberate i consideration wo soy of the two despotism I despot-ism or anarchy give us anarchy every I time This Is our reason Anarchy as a i permanent condition is simply impossible society will recover from it immediately i and the unvarying rule in tho expo I neuco of mankind is that it arises from that temporary condition with its govern I mont much improved Not so with despotism des-potism But little removed from being as bad as anarchy when anarchy is at its worst it has in it the power to make tacit a permanent condition a fact which makes it infinitely worso than anarchy The i i French nation recovered from the very i worst case of anarchy that this world has I ever seen in a few years it took England n number of centuries to wrest from the hands of her despot kings tho few liberties her people ware psrmitttd to enjoy And then tho obtaining of thoso liberties from despotism was not without bloodshed If I the disasters the wars and sorrows and crimes which despotism hall caused bs compared com-pared wth the same things caused by anarchy an-archy the wars and bloodshed produced by the former will bury out of sight those produced pro-duced by the latter So look at it from any point you will test Democracy and Republicanism in their extremes and from that prucial ordeal Democracy will arise vindicated as superior to Republicanism It is the universal experience of our raco that men when once clothed with a little authority as they suppose they begin to i exercise unrighteous dominion over their I I fellow men They seek to augment their power constantly they find out new ox i I cuses for exercising and Increasing it It I I gets entrenched behind the forms of law calls armies to its assIstance pardons nothing I noth-ing to tho spirit of liberty and under the I plea of preserving the general public peace I providing > for the welfare maintaining i the government keeping morals end elision pure and a hundred I thor excuses with which despotism justifies the oppression they sweep away I the liberty of man and bind upon him conditions ditions which make him a thing instead of II mana poor cringing crawling servile wretch afraid to look upa slave Demo craoy opposed this tendency of human nature aa exhibited in human governments It looks upon gorornment as the agent ol the people not their master and when it usurps power not mmed in the constitution they cry halt and call upon the agent to COil fine himself within the lines specified by tho constitution That is tho view that Democracy takas of government and it may be depended upon as being right |