Show POLITICAL SOCIETIES In Utah Territory there is no political education in Utah Territory there are no politics in the sense in which the term is used elsewhere The position of both the parties heretofore occupying the political arena of the Territory is well accurately and tersely defined by the famous Irish reply to the question II What are your politics 1 I am against the government The Peoples party has always been against the National Government Gov-ernment and the Liberal party has always al-ways been against the Territorial government govern-ment Both parties have had platforms based upon principles that to each were dear that each knew ii carried out would encompass the whole situation and cure all evils past present and to come To have seen the full working out of these principles between these parties would have made Mill think as he never thought before from Darwin it would have drawn new and still more startling and world disturbing theories while French dreamers and doctrinaires would have shouted gloria in cxcelsis But what are these principles which were to do such wondrous things Were they founded upon the new gospel which i arose with the rising of the Star of Bethlehem Beth-lehem No for they arose in the West and were the very antipodes of the doctrines doc-trines of the East To sum them up in a single word they were HATRED The evils the people and the principles are still here everything remains unchanged un-changed but not unchangeable There are now brought into the field new hopes and old principles hopes for reform and freedom the principles of Democracy and the rights of man The people of the dominant party in Utah Territory have said to paraphrase there is no Government but our Government Govern-ment no God but our God my people shall be thy people my God thy God The answer of Democracy to this is To thee thy God to me my God The Peoples Party says our powers are from God the Liberal Party says our powers are from the general government the Democratic party says our powers are from the people The Peoples Party says in the domination of our church is the safety of religious freedom the Liberal party says in a strong government is the safety of religious re-ligious freedom the Democratic party says in the preservation of civil liberty and our government as founded is the safety of religious and all freedom Which of those solutions is the best and most consonant with the theory that in American commonwealths the Church and the State are and must be forever separate and distinct and that the claims and rights of all denominations are equal before and must be so deemed and held by the civil power We invite the voters of the Territory to the formation of political societies for the discuseion of all affairs pertaining to State polity and for the propogation of whatsoever political principles to them may seem best In doing so and when adopting platforms dont forget to discuss them and the situations to which they will be applied It will be found that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy Remember you bear the burdens of government and it is hour right and duty to control them A friend recommends the following The right of each citizen to his free voice and vote must be upheld Officeholders must not control the suffrage The oflice should seckthc man and not the man the office Public service in business positions should depend solely on fitness and good behavior The crimes of bribery and corruption must be relentlessly punished Local issues should be independent of national I na-tional parties Coins made unlimited legal tender must possess their face value as metal in the markets of the world Sound currency muSt have metal basis and all paper money must be convertible on demand de-mand Labor has a right to the highest wages it can earn unhindered by public or private tyranny jl Trade has a right to the freest scope unfettered unfet-tered by taxes except for government cx poises Corporations must be restricted from abuse of privilege Neither the public money nor the peoples land must be used to subsidize private cut er prise A public opinion wholesome and active unhampered un-hampered by machine control is the true safeguard safe-guard of popular institutions n |