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Show ! : tin Reign of (be orie$ .ii : : ;. BY JUDGE OGDEN HILES. H ii (From the Salt Lake Herald.) ' Whether the Americans ehall have a j sold or a silver standard or a bimetallic bimetal-lic currency, or whether the volume of the paper money of the country shall ; be determined by the government or by the banking order; whether we phall have a prohibitory or a protective or a . revenue tjriff, or free trade, or what we hall do respecting the hurJred and . one other economical and social mat-; mat-; ters about which we argue so much and perhaps-- think but little, are each of ; them interesting questions, and on their decision will depend to some extent the j welfare c all the people. ) All thet'e mattens. however, whether j tr.kcn severally or 'together, are of lit-j lit-j tic wripht. i'6 compared to whether we ; are poing to have jn unchallenged reign ! ".f Enenfh toryism in the United j SlKtPP. Toryism, simply defined, is the doc-! doc-! trine that in directing the policy of a r.:iti-n, considerations of wealth and jHiwcr mus-t go before honor and jus- 'lice. To the eye of the tory. honor and . justice are atetracticnf which are to be observed in the particular case in h-inrl if iirtirtiMhlp hut if in h iVs iudff- nient observance of such sentiments be inconvenient, they are to be disregarded, disregard-ed, or at a Fit subordinated and postponed post-poned to the more tangible considerations' considera-tions' of matt rial wealth and power. More than 100 years ago the great orator or-ator of our language otood in the parliament par-liament of Great Britain to plead the cau-e of oppreswd nations. He and those whom he rcpres-cniled were presenting pre-senting a cae f governmental cruelty, cruel-ty, rapacity, bribery, peculation, extortion extor-tion and mass ere. unexampled in civilized civ-ilized times, outside the dominion of the Turk. In presenting this cate, this great man. among other things, said: "My lords, the commons of Gi?at Britain ask that by the judgment here it shall be proved that thi. illustrious kingdom is as unstained in honor, as unimpeach-ed unimpeach-ed in justice as it is great in power." A tory hout?e of lords' took this great cause under advisement.-and thereafter returned a judgment wherein, it was decided that inasmuch as Warren Hastings Has-tings had by his conduct of public affairs af-fairs in India brought to Great Britain much boodle and power, that they, considering con-sidering the manifold difficulties' under which he had labored, would not judge his conduct from the standpoint of honor and justice, and therefore would not find him guilty. That inasmuch inas-much as Hastings had only amplified and unified a system which he already found '.' his hand when he became governor gov-ernor general, and as- his trial had well exposed the wrongs of the people of India under that system, the government govern-ment :f Great Britain could now proceed pro-ceed to the correction of such abuses, and the establishment of a just and "beneficent government in India. Thtin did the tory find a ?oul of goodness good-ness in things evil. .nd justify to mankind man-kind the instruments of cruelty ajid oppression, because they had brought wealth and potver. ' V h:iv had hpr in Amprira at all timew in it? history, an influential and powerful cabal of tories. who have tried without ceasing- to tiring our government gov-ernment into harmony with the policy cf the English tnries. They opposed our fathers in the great struggle for independence They were die loyal to the country in th- war of IS 12. w heiv they hung out blue lights along the New lngland . ' ; coas-iis. to let the British know that I they were more English than American. Ameri-can. They condoned and apologized for the offenses cf the British government when it. during our civil war. with full knowledge of the facts, allowed war cruis-vrs armed with British cannon and nvnnned by British seamen, to tail from British ports, under a rebel Hag. to destroy de-stroy American commerce on the sea. Only a few years ago, w'nen Pecre- ' tary Olncy penned the raos splendid . American slate paper which ever went ' out from the American foreign office, I in resrcr.e to Great Britain's attempt to bulldoze Venezuela respecting the delimitation of the British Guiana i boundary line, thes 'American tories, with their British coadjutors, with one accord lifted up their voices to condemn j and. berate what they eha-e tc call Ol ncy s sniri-sjceves oipiomacj. In our current politics the hand and spirit of these tories seem to be manifest mani-fest in divers ways. Let us glance at t'hf evidence. Fcr example, two Afrikander republics repub-lics are now threatened with destruction destruc-tion by British tories. As compared with Great Britain, or America they are indeed but petty states. But they I are composed of free men. They are defending their country vith an ardor and resolution which .".othing but death J can conquer.- The ancestors of these republicans were those who 300 years ago, against dismaying odds, were following fol-lowing the banner of William the Silent, in the greatest struggle for civil and religious . liberty recorded in the I history of man. f Some of them are the descendants of those poor but glorious men. who ex patriated themselves from their be-loved be-loved France, because of the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Now a resolution is introduced into both the senate and house of represen- ! tatives at Washington, expressive of the sympathy of the American people . with these struggling republicans, and -forthwith, the resolutions are pigeon- i holed and smothered, at the instigation of a few American tories, who have craw led unobserved, into some of the high seats of influence and iiower. These little fellows avail themselves of every opportunity to spread and repeat re-peat the falsehoods of British tories, concerning the South African Dutch, and to assert the righteousness of tory aggression. They will some time get their reward, ... for it is writte' in the economy of nature, as well as in the Bible, that: "He who saith unto the wicked thou ait righteous, him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him." Senator Mason has announced in the senate that he does not intend to let that resolution sleep. For that every m; American will b'ss him. Vhat objection can an American congress have to expressing sympathy with a brave people struggling to maintain a government of their own , choice. - For congress to stifle such resolutions, resolu-tions, is. it seems to me. to disavow the principles, and to deride the feelings, for which oir an(e-tois shed their Moid. Moreer, the I'nited States had. at l'retoria a consul, a Mr. Charles E. Macrum, who at his own request was relieved from further serv- !ice there. There is evidence tending to prove that our foreign office wished Mr. Macrum to act, if not in the capacity of a British stool pigeon, at bavt to assume the British attitude ! respecting the status of the Transvaal ' republic as a sovereign state, and Mr. j Macrum not being: in accord with his stipeiiois in that lespect, was relieved, ar.d Secretary Hay appointed h.s son I to Mr. Macrum's place. This new appointee, before going to his post, stopped at London and called at Downing itr-rel, the diplomatic home of Lhe torice. Our pec-ret ary of st ;te has near him r:n intellectual shortboy, who in some 1 way i.s connected with the Associated ! Press of the country, j The business of this creature at times seems to be. to send out com-' com-' ments on" the current diplomatic events, - ai d relations between th;s and foreign . j nations. " When the secretary mediates the pursuing of a certain course respecting some particular matter of foreign Policy, and is not sure of how it may be received, uy the public, he inspires t . , his factotum, and causes his lucubra- lions to be spread broadcast over the country through the agency of the Associated As-sociated Press, as a sort of feeler of the public pulse. if he ln:d pubiic sentiment dull or inattentive in-attentive to the matter in hand, he know.i that he can purrue his course without molestation and proceeds accordingly. ac-cordingly. If he hndis public opinion alert and resolutely opposed, he can ostensibly recede and tae counsel as to how he shall carry out the meditated meditat-ed policy, by hidden and devious ways. After the retirement of Mr. Macrum, thin Associated Press servitor of the secretary of state caused it to be telegraphed tele-graphed in the press disinatchea that if Mr. Macrum had -asked to be relieved i from his pest at Pretoria on the ground ihat in his capacity of an American j consul at the capital oi the Transvaal j republic, he insisted on recognizing it as a sovereign state, and not in any sense as a feudatory of the British empire, em-pire, that then Mr. Macrum would no longer be retained in the coreulnr or diplomatic service of the United States. The last heard from Mr. Macrum was that he i.s now returning to the I'nited States, wearing in the lapel of his coat a miniature Hag of the South African republic. This will no doubt settle Mr. Ma-crum's Ma-crum's tenure, far as offieeholdinsr . under this administration goes, but although al-though he belongs to the administration administra-tion party, he has shown himself to be a true American, a man. of good sense and no tory, which is more honor to him. and a prouder memento for his children than the holding of any oflice under the sun. Secretary Hay seems to have adopted the lino tory distinr tjun w hich acknowledges acknowl-edges the South African republic as an independent nation, but denies that it if . a sovereign state, because it is claimed that flie queen of England is its suzerain. If, under such circumstances. President Presi-dent Kruger were to cancel young Mr. Hay's exequatur, it would be perfectly proper, but it would greatly rejoice the tories, because they would hold that up to the American people as an example ex-ample of Boer swagger and insolence, which justify the antipathy of the tories and their warfare agairast the Dutch. It is gratifying to note that the popular pop-ular good sens-e in the United States is challenging this unfriendly attitude of the state department, and that in sev- I eral public me-etinga resolutions have been adopted demanding in the strongest strong-est terms that the sovereignty of the South African republic be recognized by our government. There is no man of sense but knows, that the object of the war is the destruction of these republics. re-publics. The war is not, as some affect to believe, be-lieve, for the amelioration of the condition con-dition of Outlanders in the Transvaal. It is being waged by Great Britain on grounds so false and atrocious as that the great apostle of the human understanding, under-standing, for the first lime in his life, has been compelled to come forth from the seclusion of his study and make public protest to his country asainst such criminal aggression. When the malpractice of tories can thus disturb the philosophic calm of Herbert Spencer, we mav be sure that humanity is being deeply wronged by the power of a nation from which mankind man-kind is wont to look for better things, i For there is an England of which all ! thinking men are justly proud. j It is a people with a noble record. Their achievements in science, in art, I in jurisprudence, in philosophy, as well as in material wealth and power, is an imperishable heritage of glory to the htfrn-an race. It is the England of Milton, Mil-ton, of Chatham,, of Burke and of Bright. It is such as these who have won for England her proud record in the glorious days which are gone, and they will win for her still greater fame, in her glorious days yet to come. Moreover, More-over, the spirit of toryism is asserting it?elf in shaping our policy with Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. This is evidenced by the recent speech I of Senator Peveridge in the senate. Mr. Beveridge is yet a young man, but he has considerable ability of a certain sort. In his speech he adopted the tory doctrine without qualification. U it had come from him, as his own independent in-dependent view, it might be dismissed as the deliverance of a voune man. I I who has so far paid more attention to his rhetoric than to statesmanship or sound philosophy, but it is said that before it was delivered, it was revised and approved by the president, as expressing ex-pressing the principles, aims and purposes pur-poses of the administration in the con- duc-t of affairs in the Philippines. No one supposed that the president j is a man of tory feelings or purposes, j He is, how ever, so much of an opportunist oppor-tunist in politics that he is not very j strong in any direction,- and therefore, j he is likely to be led about by the I strong men who now surround him. However that may be, one looks in vain throughout this Beveridge speech for that elevation of sentiment and tone, that high comprehension of duty, w hich ought to shape the conduct of a great republic in dealing with such a responsible respon-sible and difficult question. Its tone is distinctly sordid and tory. There is in it some cant about the American people being the people chosen of God. a kind of language which in all apes has been the manifesto of snifflers and public robbers alike, when they are about doing something mean and outrageous. Senator Wclcott. himself r:n expansionist, expan-sionist, and in favor of retention of the Philippines, made short work of his speech. His quick intellect laid bare to the Kaze of all men. the hypocrisy, the low-tone, low-tone, the sordid spirit, and bad moral stimulus which pervaded the utterances utter-ances of the senator from Indiana, The senator from Colorado saw at once tnat expansionists could not afford to proceed pro-ceed on any such principles as were avowed by Senator Beveridge, and therefore Mr. Woloott repudiated Mr. Beveridge's sentiments, as being against that honor and justice which -holds the moral elements of the world together." I There is evidence also, that the American Amer-ican tories will take sides- with the British in obstructing the elimination I of that part of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which neutralizes the dominion of the United States, over the American Ameri-can Isthmian canal, .when America shall build it. Whilst we are bound to observe the faith of treaties, we ought not lo be bound by -a treaty made two generations genera-tions ago. on a matter which affeqts so profoundly American interest. in such case, we are bound to modify or repeal it, on the simple ground and principle that the men of one generation genera-tion have no right, ir just power to make any statute, treaty or ordinance of any kind, which shall irrevocably bind future gencratiens. It will be a good thing for the United States- of thes3 tory influences shall succeed in developing to the full their purposes ar.d powers, so that the people . can get a complete view- of them, and when that time shall come there will j be an uplifting r,f the flap, as it has never been uplifted before. OODEX HILES. ! 1 |