Show EDUCATION FOR POLITICS We do not belong to the same party as the Journal of Logan nor are its aims our aims our object is not its object but at times we see in it something to be commended and if the suggestions which it makes occasionally were followed by the members of its party there would be a much healthier state of things here politically In the Journal of April 18 there is an excellent article entitled Political Education Edu-cation in which there is some very sound sense The article at the very first frankly admits that the masses of the people of Utah require a better political education than they now have a thing that so far as we can remember has never been admitted before by any paper which was of the Peoples Party Heretofore Here-tofore the Peoples Party has throughout taught that their politics needed no defense de-fense and that any assault upon their policies in the administration of public affairs was a blow aimed at their religious relig-ious freedom When they have gone into the political field where hard work and political acumen had a chance to change majorities when parties were nearly balanced P bal-anced the members ofthc Peoples Party have not known what to do and while waiting to find out they have been beaten by their political enemies The trouble has been that unless a leader was given them they were without one and the individual men have not been accustomed to rely on themselves but on others The leaders 01 the Peoples Party have regretted regret-ted this fact at times and yet never dared to trust their followers fol-lowers to act for themselves In this statement the Journal bears us out as to the part which refers to the leaders of its party We have heard many prominent gentlemen of the class alluded to admit and deplore the fact that their numbers scarcely embraced a sin le man competent to lead out in politico poli-tico and cope in the political field with theiL adversaries Does not this ariseS arise-S from fact that the men of that part h y i B been told what to do we do LoOt < iv that the advice has not been good insuad of doing what they thought ought j to be done And now when they find that they at urn ° must act for themselves they do not 1 lOW how to act There is scarcely a in in the Peoples Party who iii would not scof it I the idea of asking any mans ad 0 to what he should do if i he were in tli inyons and his wagon broke down or ay Hart of his harness broke for there their experience and I common sense have taught them to rely on themselves In material affairs they are abundantly able to take care of themselves Mid why should they not 10 in political affairs which are of greater importance to them t They will one day say to those who have assumed to tell them what to do and what not to do that they are abundantly able to take care of themselves and that like Kip Van Winkles potions they are better without them We believe that this day is fast approaching and thai soon everything will be done in the caucuses cau-cuses and conventions and not before these meet as now When that day I shall come the people may be Democrats I Demo-crats or Republicans or Prohibitionists or what they choose but on that day they can be reached by political arguments ar-guments and whenever men listen to arguments they will weigh them for their worth and support that which to them may seem best When that day comes we have no fear for the ideas of Democracy for they stand on argument and reason and hold that the rights of man are more sacred than all things else Yes let us by all means have political education for rarely under a republican form of government providing for popular pop-ular suffrage has there been so great alack a-lack of popular interest discussion and excitement in political affairs as was and we may say is the case in Utah for many years after its organization as a Territory It is to be hoped that in every town throughout this Territory there will be political clubs formed on whatsoever platforms the people may deem most suited to their welfare and then will the people begin to realize that they are the source and the end of political power in their public affairs and that they owe allegiance to no man and that the State is time whole people and not any part |