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AS TO POLITICAL PASTIES It is1 an inauspicious time to interest ordinary political matters fore for-e is Interested in the war and vill pay little or no attention to anything any-thing else Hence when a long article on politics appears in a paper at this time people naturally wonder what the object is especially If it appears in a paper that never deals in politics save for a purpose The Deseret News of last evening devoted de-voted nearly a column to a discussion of As To Political Parties It is precisely pre-cisely such an article as our contemporary contem-porary turned out day after day during dur-ing the municipal campaign last fall when it was advocating nonpartisanship nonpartisan-ship Political parties are classified into three kinds two of which are condemned condemn-ed out and out and the third gIven faint praise because practically it isnt a party The News says I There are not a few but the fewer the better in this and every other political I po-litical division of the country who go so far in their blind ignorant partisan zeal as to put loyalty to their party I ahead of loyalty to their country These I I we perhaps will always have with us but it behooves all good citizens to see Ito I-to it that the number is kept as low as possible by means of education and example coercion in all of its I forms is a thing to be shunned and despised I de-spised There is another class who are zealous in the maintenance of their I I I partys tenets and organization but yetI 1 yet-I take a more rational view of its proper j I place in the national structure these I too however are more or less I intolerant in individual cases and Icok upon withdrawal or even sharp opposition to the party mandates as a modified form of treason This and all forms of conduct and control looking to the subjugation of mental irdependence should also be frowned down Then there is the other better bet-ter higher type of party man he who belongs to an organization in no sense of ownership and to use the language of Colonel Ingersoll goes with his party because his party happens to be I going the way he is going That Is the I cart does not precede the horse the cabal < loes not dominate the caput but vice versa Such a man may be and i often is as clearcut in his views and as determined in support of his partys tenets as the most unprincipled and I mindless swashbuckler in the gang I but the party is his means to certain I ends not the ends themselves it is his creature he is no creature to it I When by means of unfair practices I improper methods or perversions of I conclusions properly expressed the I rowdy the tough the unrepresentative I unrepresenta-tive element obtain sway and the voice of the better class Is thereby stifled such person does not as in the other I two cases cited give up supinely and say that nothing more can properly be done because the majority have decided i the matter definitely he first protests I then warns then acts He appeals to the people and if they are not swayed I by some extraneous influerce his appeal I ap-peal is likely to be effective In this he holds the welfare of the great majority ma-jority to be superior to that of a minority and it the worst of alla minorIty which after all is not really looking out or caring for the welfare of I I the party as a whole but for themselves I them-selves and in doing so the party is i oftener than otherwise but their cats pawWhat What dees all this mean Doesnt It mean People of Utah let your party ties sit so loosely upon you that ther can be thrown off whenever it shall be I deemed wise by those who are not slaves to party and who have the welfare wel-fare of the people at heart before all things to throw them off It looks very like a tentative move in the interest in-terest of that most supreme of all political po-litical humbugs fusion in which it is detired to use the Democratic party for the purpose of pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for those who are not of the party The article Js intended to be a covert lick at the Democrats I The warrant for this statement is the I closing paragraph It is as follows In a Democratic territorial convention I conven-tion held at Ogden several years ago all Mormon delegates were promptly excluded by the majority The chairman I chair-man took occasion to deliver to these an impressive lecture saying among other I things that a mans first duty was to his country and his next to his party I Where does the Almighty come in on that asked an outoforder expelled one Nowhere was the reply He has nothing to do with a olitcal party Did the chairman build wiser than he knew or was it merely a lapsus linguae The sole aim and purpose of that paragraph is to arouse urejudice against the Democratic party and do it injury That convention was held not merely several years ago but it was held several years before what Is known as the division movement Less than two months ago our contemporary denounced as Bourbonism of the very worst type denounced as worse than original sin any and all reference to anything political that transpired previous pre-vious to the division movement The denunciation was nothing more than a display of venom and ill temper but if it was so malicious and wicked two months ago to refer to anything that transpired in the political world of Utah before the division movement thy isnt it malicious and wicked to refer re-fer to such matters today The question ques-tion is merely asked that there be light and not that there may be wry faces The News article unless all sis fail and all experience goes for nothing noth-ing is nothing more nor less than a casting of bread upon the waters in the hope that after not too many days it will return in the shape of fusion and the obliteration of party lines Adroit and covert as the entire article is the last paragraph makes as plain as day the whole scheme Surely in vain the net Isspreadin the sight of any bird I spirit thatrrules over them today There the church and the state for th2 chI ch has ever had precedence over the state rave been and are one and indissoluble Rome has recognized and acted on this fact but Rome today sees plainly that the old order of things in the Philippines Philip-pines is fast coming to an end and that a new order Is about to be inaugurated inaug-urated The people there are Catholic and it will be Romes desire to keep them such it will not necessarily be her desire to keep them Spanish in allegiance al-legiance or In thought or ways though they will continue to be this for long years to come With the establishment of the new order of things there it will be very desirable to eradicate false ideas of the Americans from the minds of the people So long as the primate is hostile to America and Americans the pe ple will have fajse ideas of this country If the Catholic hierarchy in the United States would exert its influence influ-ence with Rome and have sent to Ma nilaas primate such u man as Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland or Archbishop Riordan false ideas of America and Americans would gradually be dispelled The lesser clergy would take their key from the palace and things would rapidly improve The people are far more attached at-tached to Rome than to Spain and so soon as they realized that the United States were not going to interfere with their religion their superstitious antipathies an-tipathies would soon disappear The idea that the church could exist and prosper independently of the state would seize upon their minds and dispose dis-pose them to cheerfully accept the changed conditions A man like Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland or Archbishop Riordan in the palace at Manila would be a tower of strength for American institutions insti-tutions in the Philippines |
