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Show WHAT DEMOCRACY IS. The question of the hour as far as we are concerned here in Utah is what is Democracy, anyhow, and what is Republicanism? The best definition defini-tion of Democracy that we have seen for many a day is that contained in the following argument which is clipped from the Des Moines Leader. We commend it to the close attention of our intelligent readers, fully satisfied satis-fied that the principles therein contained con-tained are the "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," and the basis of a popular government: Democracy De-mocracy means, in substance, a government gov-ernment by the people and for the people's peo-ple's good. This kind of government has always come to the front when the people had the right to rule. In other words, it is natural government. The enjoyment of life, the right to own property, the pursuit of happiness, the full enjoyment of liberty by each, bounded only by the same liberty to all. Democracy is founded on these principles, and we should never lose sight of them when conditions change and new issues arise. Whenever a true statesman, a student, a political economist delves into the philosophy of just government, he generally comes out a Democrat. This is why the brains of the country are Democratic. The moment a man takes up the study of politics for the purpose of arriving at tLe true political doctrine, he cun-not cun-not help becoming a Democrat. The common people are Democrats because Democracy is natural, and simple for them to understand. The intelligent man is a Democrat because the thunders from Sinai, the reason of the ages, and the pen of Jefferson, all tell him that Democracy is political truth. The Caucasians are the highest type of the human family, and, given the grand advantages offered in America, they readily absorb Democratic ideas. The result is that 5,500,000 out of 8,-000,000 8,-000,000 voters, are Democrats. Young men who read, who study the flower of the land are coming to the Democratic Demo-cratic party by the hundreds and thousands. thou-sands. They recognize in it the friend of liberty, of education and of good government, and they are not slow in casting their lot with the party of progress. pro-gress. We are glad to see it; glad to welcome the young men to the great party that was here at the nation's birth, and was baptized in the nation's blood; glad to secure the aid ot the young in the battle for natural law; in banishing corruption from high places, and in sweeping eyery vestige of Ilam-iltonian Ilam-iltonian centralization from the land. In the Republican party may be found the witch-burners, the puritans, the ignorant negroes and nearly all those schemers whose only creed is greed, whose principle is pelf. It is gratifying to note even in this the number of Republicans who are flocking to the Democratic fold after having studied the principles of Dem ocracy. Believing that the State and nation must be freed from the Clark-son Clark-son and Quay despotism, some thirty or forty thousand of them have deserted desert-ed the pirate craft of Republicanism during the past three or four years, with the determination of placing this government where Moses placed the Israelites after the destruction of Aaron's golden calf. We ned the co-operation of the young men. To them Democracy means enlightenment; to the enemies of liberty and equality this stampede of the young men to the Democratic army means destruction and death. |
