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Show OTT'tW.'gJWW''lWW'''fc'"'''l-''lll, - ' ' ! m """ "" " I-.., " "I! " provoWleyT: I Democracy lieing Expouiidud j ' to tlie lVopIe. I Wm. Buys, the Rising- L.egs.1 Light of the Wasatch, Deals Out Some Good, Hard, Sensible Doctrine There. i . . j i Editor Mornixu DisrATCii Our place in geography and history is small, ' but our iaith is great and oar principles i are still a great deal greater, tot they include in-clude the. eternal rights of i'K.ai and i individual self-government, under the i Miiijhu Clinrtu wrested from a tyrannical tyranni-cal King in the Mid-lie Ages. and under ; the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Consti-tution. This was eloquently and powerfully elucidated t a large audience of Democrats Dem-ocrats and others on Thursday nignt in the Midway schoolhouse, by Win. i'uns, Ls.p, the rising legal star and ellicient , prosecuting attorney of Wasatch county. coun-ty. The meeting, called by the Demo-! Demo-! cratic club, was, in the absence of Chairman John Huber, j resided over ; by Attewall Wootton, Sr. Upon due ; introduction Mr. Duys, although a i comparative novice on the rostrum of the political speaker, at once entered j into his subject v it ii the noble fearless- 1 I ness of Truth. lie proposed to show ! why he was a Democrat, having been unprejudiced when approaching the ! comparative study of the two great national na-tional parties. He gave a relrospect- tve review of the history of this cotin-! cotin-! try since the earliest settlements ( luud in Virginia, and H'.UO in Massachusetts) to the Declaration of Independence,, I when the Tltirteen Colonies dissolved the bonds of their allegiance to the j mother country and after a bloody and i destructive war secured their sovereign liberty. The Articles of Confederation not giving sufficient powers to the new ' united government, the constitution of i the United Slates was constructed. I The lirst draft by Hamilton at lirst! pleased Jefferson, who had been at the time absent in France, but upon closer examination he discovered defects, especially the lack of sufficient guarantees guar-antees lor individual and local rights, ' ; such as affored by the Magna Charta ! of 1:215 and subsequent "liills of rights" j wrung from their despotic rulers by the people of the Mother hie. The 'speaker showed the parallelism be-j be-j tween the struggles for persona! rights and independence in the two great ! Fnelish speaking peoples, and pointed i out the great, yet fatal danger lurking i in undue strengthening of a central j power, be it royal perogalives of a monarchy or the overwhelming power of a Federal administration in a re-I re-I public. Coverniiients at the head or j center of affairs are apt gradually tu j infringe upon the individual rights ! of the citizens and oi her components j of the commonwealth, unless re-stricle.l re-stricle.l by such checks as are fur-' fur-' niched bills of rights, as set up in the lirst ten amendments to the Constitution, Constitu-tion, secured by the Democratic party, as safeguards against the insidious encroachments en-croachments of the too ambitious Federalists Fed-eralists of the Ilamillonian Democrats, j Then Mr. lluys traced the origin of the j Kepubliean party, in 1804, mainly com I posed of heteieigenuuus elements, in-I in-I eluding some Democrats. The strength and magnetic popularity for the lime being came from the vexatious slavery I question and the secession inklings of the Southern states. Reference was made to the more Unionist "Jackson" Democrats and the nullification "Calhoun" "Cal-houn" Democrats, whose contentions culminated in the attempted disruption disrup-tion of the Union, in which deplorable movement South Carolina led, bringing I on that tremendous civil conflict, the ' in or i ne leueliioti, witicli forever settled set-tled the slavery question. The speaker speak-er paid a graceful tribute to the Kepubliean Ke-publiean party for its share in the preservation pres-ervation of the Union at that perilous epoch; but reserved a due share of commendation for the Democrats, who vvere equally instrumental in the Union triumphs, as shown by figures fig-ures proving that even in some Southern South-ern or frontier States vastly more Dein-: crats fought for the Union than there ; vvere Kepubliean voters. The punctum srilius of the vast difference between ! the two leading parties in national pol-; itics lies in the principle of the origin1 and source of governmental power: whether it rest primarily with the people peo-ple at large (or the Suites) and thence: return to a common center only as far or as strong as expressly designated and delegated by the sources of power or whether such authority rests inher- j entlv in a central power and be onlv ! parceled and doled tint to the compon-! compon-! cut parts of the commonwealth by cx-I cx-I ecutive or administrative legislative ar-J ar-J bitrariness. Mr. Jlrys here, with a legal acumen rarely witnessed on a -' country stump." dwelled on the "im-1 "im-1 piled" powers contained in, or argue-d "out of" the Constitution, some of very doubtful force or legitimacy. He pointed out the possible dire consequences of all owing an accumu a-tion a-tion of doubtful central powers by implication." im-plication." What the Di nmcratic party lias always and ever insisted on, as the one vital flame on the altar of Liberty, is government not only 'fm " the people peo-ple (which may be found even in the enlightened despotism of a Frederick the Creat of 1'russia, or in the enlightened enlight-ened limited monarchy of a Dom I'elroj Out "ltv" the I'eople, which puts a vigilant vig-ilant check upon the more or less bold usurpation of administrative, legislative legisla-tive and judicial functions and executive execu-tive prerogatives by Congress, such as by undue und unauthorized stretching of the extent of "implied" powers, not ' fore-seen, or only infereiitially admitted j by the trainer of our national magna ', charta. This was illustrated by the speaker from instances in the 'constitutional history id' our country. The right of the Feder.il government to grant public lands to railroad companies com-panies was implied from the congressional congres-sional prerogative to establish "post-otlices "post-otlices and postroads." The Civil Kights bill, vetoed by Johnson, and finally declared void by the Supreme court, gave another instance of the way the Republican party stretched the ''implied'' constitutional powers. The const tutiona ity of a "tariff for protection'' is still "debatable" ground, the said tariff on imports having hav-ing originated with a Democratic administration ad-ministration ol 1S10, while the Federals Feder-als in that single instance, proved 'strict constitutionalists." Further tariff legislation was followed by the light of history, after which Mr. lltiys exploded the Republican bugaboo cry that the repeal of the tariff would bring wages down, basing his argumentation argu-mentation on the principle of the purchasing pur-chasing power of money as a measure of values in the inter-relationship of supply and demand. The policy of the "law-wage" argument against tariff reform, is potent from the condition of labor in Kuropean countries, the fret-trade fret-trade countries affording higher wa es than those levving high tariffs. M. P. Cilchrist, of St Louis, followed up on parties. One or the other of the great parties must rule, and it behooves be-hooves every citizen to allv himself with either. The speaker punctured, the ce-laitns of the Republicans, ("who ! claim everything") love of the Union, ! preservation of the Union, intelligent predominance, etc. The great question I at issue will again be the tariff. It is j a great and burdensome tax on the ; pe iple, all the people, pay that : tax. not the foreign countries. All political economists, the educational leaders of the country are unanimously opposed to the Republican doctrine on this point. The Republican tariff doctrine doc-trine is not friendly to the laborer. Labor La-bor is sold on the market like wheat and com. as exemplified by Carnegie's demand for heavy duty on iron 5m-! 5m-! ports, so as to make bis money contract jwoith $J.ooo,oon more, all to be paid 1 1 y the people. The country has prospered pros-pered not through, but, :n spite of the i evil eilbrts of Republican tariff legislation, legis-lation, as is illusttated by the South .American trade condition. In conclusion Mr. Gilchrist, who (level (le-vel 'ped a much appreciated vein of humor hu-mor and sarcasm, s irresistible that he dumbfounded and paralyzed the pseudo I Republicans completely, and under mined the Republican party for their constant apjeais to popular passions and prejudices lor their lack of progres-j progres-j siveness, and for the Jdisingenious way i in which "they borrow the livery of i heaven, to serve, the devil in," as in the ; ease of Blaine's rcciprotity principles, j which are 1 od ly stolen from D.-mo-i cr.it ic origin, and are Fit e Trade in a i measure, though in cunning disguise, j .V hearty vote of thanks was tendered ! the two gentlemen who so ably etiter- tained. strengthened and enlightened ! the citizens,Jall of whom will b pleased to see them call again. As James 15. Ihun-' Ihun-' il on resigned, Geo. C. Van Wagener j was elected permanent secre tary and ; the meeting adjourned. : .Midway. Wasatch Co.. Utah. July 13, Is'al. hKO H.EKELl. 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