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Show No Waiting Strategy Can Win M IN the Democratic organ here last week a pro- H gram was put out for the fall campaign, which in brief is: "Put out a good platform, noml- H nate a strong ticket, then no campaign speeches, H not a cent to be spent, but on election day go H and vote the ticket and wait until the people be- H come sober enough to contemplate and finally en- H dorse Democratic principles." That carries with it dignity and a stately, far- H off self-respect. The troub'e with it is, if tried, it W will win no cause, establish no principle, make no H progress in a thousand years. It would have W the same effect on Utah that the comet's tail had W on the earth. The atmosphere here is1 too opaque W and too elastic. If a farmer were to treat a patch W of weeds or thistles in his field that way, the re- W suit would be that in a few years he ,would have W nothing1 but weeds or thistles. No wrong was ever W eradicated that way. It is contrary to I the genius M of free institutions; Jefferson would never have W endorsed such a program, while, could the spirit W of Jackson have such a program submitted to it, W out of the ether would come a voice crying: "By W the Eternal, no!" H Let us consider the situation for a moment. mW Utah was original'y settled by a few cunning H leaders, a good many devout and faithful slaves. jH Those leaders determined, simply to be a law H unto themselves. The first generation here grew H up under that rule, most of them being honest jH fanatics. H Then Gentiles began to come in force and to H demand that the laws of the republic should be H enforced. That made trouble, endless heartburn- H ings, and finally culminated in much suffering H to the saints, until at last those leaders cried H out, called for peace; agreed to come in under H the laws and to take their hands off the political H beliefs of their people. They did not mean to H keep their pledges, voluntarily made, but wo all H accepted them as sincere and helped secure state- H hood for Utah. Then followed two years of pro- H found peace and such happiness as Utah had H never known. H Then the cloven hoof began again to" appear, .H and though we all cried out against it, and pointed lil to the perfidy involved, it made no difference H with those chiefs. They made plain again that H the only thing they respected was force, the H only thing they feared was loss of power. H When this became so plain that all men, who M desired, could see it then a few sincere souls M revolted, put out a statement of facts and under JM the name of a new party, called for Utah's re- Wm demption. Some true men gathered around this m new standard, and this city was wrested from vu the un-American control that had covered it 'with shame. The city in a material way responded M as a sail does to a breeze, and the new party M has gained in strength ever since. It is made MM up of men who in national politics have their ' H fixed principles, but here they work side by side, MM Intent only upon redeeming Utah and making It H in truth a real American state. The one thing H that rejoices them more than any other, is that mm every year the sons and daughters of the old wM fanatics are coming into a full realization of what H It is to be a real American, and they are swell- IH ing the ranks of the new party. By and' by this mm H new party will win so far as to compel these mer- M j ciless chiefs to cease to work upon the supersti- M tious -fears of their followers; they will have to M procla'm the final divorce of church and state In M Utah; hy and bye they wl'l have to say to their H people, "Give to God the things that are God's, M but never for one moment tamper with the dlvin- M ity of the free American ballot." They will do M this or all political power in this region will be M stricken from their tyranlcal hands. M When that time comes then Democrats and H Republicans can proclaim their respective prin- M ciples and fight for their success. Until that time H i shall come, to fight for either of the old parties M is but to strengthen the hands of those false M leaders who play this year upon this party, next H year on the other, and all the time have no de- H sire except to continue to defy the laws of the H republic and minister to their own success, and H no fear lest this power shall be stricken from H their merciless hands. |