Show MORMON POLITICS Communicated Republicanism comes as natural to Mormons as a mothers milk They are of necessity Republicans When they first came here small in numbers they looked around for some means of encouraging home industries The speaker who uttered the above sentiments at the Republican rally in this city on Saturday evening knows how widely they differ from the real facts in the case Those men who were known as Republicans Re-publicans in the early history of the territory were as scarce as hens teeth The whole Mormon population with the exception of a few men who had imbibed Whig doctrines at the family fireside before coming to Utah were recognized here and away from here as Democrats And they were Democrat Demo-crat becaus the great principles enunciated by Jefferson the right of individual liberty of local self government govern-ment of such a construction of the constitution as should leave to the individual in-dividual the largest measure of freedom free-dom were rightly esteemed by them as being essential to the freedom of religious re-ligious worship They wanted no interference in-terference in local affairs by distant unrepresentative officials They did not believe in ai strong centralized government They had no sympathy with such a view pf the powers of the I general government as was put forth by the six Republican members of the supreme court who said that the right to escheat the Mormon church property prop-erty was inherent in this government govern-ment were on the contrary in full accord with the opinion expressed by the three Democratic Judges who in that same case said that this government govern-ment is one of delegated and not inherent in-herent powers and that no clause of the constitution had been pointed out which justified the escheat law and that it was therefore unconstitutional and void They believed that that government was the best which governed gov-erned least that man was not created for the benefit of the government but that government was instituted for the benefit of man They believed in home industry yes But they were far too just in their makeup to believe in the infamous robber tariff or robber bounty They drew a broad distinction between be-tween supporting home industry from choice and supporting it from compulsion compul-sion They were desirous to promote local industries So is every citizen of this territory today irrespective of politics pol-itics or religion but they believed because be-cause they were Democrats that such support should come through the exercise exer-cise by every man of his inherent right to use his property as he saw fit and not through the enforcement of laws l that taxed him to support something some-thing he had no interest in They believed that taxation has but one object ob-ject the support of the government economically administered they would have spurned the proposition that every class that may get into power could lax the people upon any pretext it sees fit on the plea that it was for the general welfare They would have seen through the thin sophistry of such a claim and would have pointed the finger of scorn at the men who behind such a gauzy filament were lining their coffers at the sacrifice of constitutional morality They were intelligent enough to see what some of their sons are blind to that a scheme which never pays is ruinous to the individual or to the government which tries to carry it and that a scheme which is not lucrative lucra-tive at first but afterwards becomes so should not have its losses paid by a gpvernment which cannot participate in its gains They could understand that to admit the constitutionality of the tariff for protection theory or the bounty theory would be toJ open I the government crib to the spoliations of every favored class They could not have been convinced that taxation creates cre-ates wealth They were patriotic enough to understand under-stand that American brains and resources re-sources in a fair fight can meet and yanquish the world Had they lived all of them to this day they would have had penetration enough to see that the great political contest in this country is between Democracy representing repre-senting freedom of thought of action and property the party of the masses and of the people and Republicanism representing the bogus pensioners manufacturers seek to dominate competition com-petition the trusts and every fragment Of the people that seeks Individual preferment pre-ferment at the public expense the party of C Centralization and of the passes Some of their sons maybe may-be led astray by the plausible chaff of protection by a tinkling cymbal but the < great bulk will remain true to the principles held so justly dear by their forefathers and Utah wIll rise and shine as a Democratic Demo-cratic state asking only justice and a fair field but no favors at the hands of the general government Vote for Hall I < f o 1 i i < i 1 > j |