| Show perpetuation OF THE REPUBLIC editor deseret news in your issue of jan there was an article entitled will our republic last the sev eral respondents to the inter interrogatory rog tory C while giving their views havel have mentioned en several conditions which contribute to imperil our government and nation although they have spoken from several standpoints both religious and political find and from the basis of the labor element yet to my mind they have not touched upon the most vital part of the theme the questions are firpi will our present republican form of government last years longer my answer to that is no the second is if nofa no kahy why not answer simply because We we have got quite off the base upon which the republic was founded third what is the greatest peril answer the removal so far from the base and continuing in the same direction then comes the fourth ques question tiow Is there any danger danged that aliens may so buy up the land etc M mv v R newer is there is s no danger wa w aai t v vr vcr r to be apprehended on that wore when beor rather our fathers commenced to establish our government they were all except a few indians aliens or at least late arrivals what did they complain of they complained of the very kind or form of government with its abuses we their offspring offa pring have returned to in our territorial system with all its evils does any person not an idiot pretend to say that it is to any appreciable extent republican in form any more than the old colonial system w was our revolutionary fathers and ouma of a hundred years ago were willing to suffer to fight and to die in order to emancipate themselves from such a system does any one suppose that whet when our aur fathers framed the constitution by which the people of the then thirteen states should together with those that should come after would return like the sow to the wallowing in the mire they made no provision in the fundamental atal law of the land for such foolish neM and yet for the last half century the congress and executive have assumed to be the home government and we the people of the ferri orles the colonists thereof and this is done on the ground that the constitution in article IV section 3 8 provides that the congress shall sha have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property of the united states etc which simply gives them power to say by enactment whether the lands shall be disposed of for per acre or and to mill mili daiy tai y reservations etc but it gives no power to legislate for the people differently from those in a state capacity such digressions from a republican or representative form of government together with the acknowledged political corruption exhibited in party politics and such departure from christian principles as is made manifest by the lawmaking law making department and carried out by the judiciary and consented to by the silence of the people will work the destruction of any government if a halt is not called it is only a question of lime bime when it will tei terminate minate when congress may pass a law confiscating the property of a church the judiciary carry out that law and the people the sovereigns no not protest against the outrage it itis is one of the best evidences chat can be had that not only religion is at a low ebb but that morality and common honesty are also departing from the natt nati n or at least from the rulers thereof the evils vile spoken of by mr powderly are conditions that constitute at the present time the glaring and false mistakes made in the earlier part of our history there are also other existing conditions condition that will contribute to the final destruction of our government that in and of themselves would not be ot sufficient force to cause such sui h an effect bad we not got so far off our base in an earlier dy day but it may maybe be asked cannot the government yet be saved by reform or retracing of steps of course it could but nations like individuals who have corrupted themselves seldom take the course toward redemption until too late have we kept on the track marked out by our great statesmen emen of a hundred years ago the nature of our government de mands manda that there should be no idle or unpaid men to complain today gov ern ments menis like individuals should assume responsibilities equal lual to their income or resources there here Is now and always has been an abundance of room on our coasts rivers and harbors to employ all our own surplus labor to good advantage we have a broad interior country to develop and y beautify it is not the great amount of money in a country that makes times easy and the people comfortable for table and happy it is the free circulation cu and wise application of what there is there is need of many mil edil lions being expended wisely directed as above indicated at the present time affairs should be conducted on nation al instead of party political linee coupled with better guarantees of civil cirii i and religious liberty these considers eions would go far towards perpetuating perpetuating our ties the best beat and most moat liberal form of earthly government and render it in deed and in truth the asylum of the t oppressed and the home of the free I 1 let us hope for the best S H R j SALT LAKE CITY jan 28 1891 |
