The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-16
Silver on Official Conduct
SALT LAKE CITY. June 10, 80.

SAIL LAKE CIIf, June 10, 80.
Editors Herald:
1t you please, ga government iol
the people AID by the people" should
read thus when applied 10 territories:
a governor fOF the people by whom
the people are 10 be governed. Think
me not a lawyer nor a very great
student Of either English or American
laa Tor making such a declaration.
You may, however, give me some
credit for having studied common
sense just little. II did not own a
tIihs more OF the aforesaid sense Than
soDe do who are away up in point of
position l think that l should feel
sick. There is found in some men
and women toe, who have never
made law literature or any other
literature matter OF much study,
some OF that element, and which GER
tslnly Is not tad thing to possess.
Such very readily see that the people
OF q territory have not the privilege
OF e!ec;ing their own officers, such as
governor, judges, etc; and conse.
quentiy are not st icIiy speaking 8
tree people, but IN a certain sense
are wards of The government under
WHICH they i've, and as a consequence
subject to the tutelsge of such
government Now, Sirs. l maintain
that as tee peopls OF a territory have
no choice In The selection Of governor,
United States judges and other United
States officers, but such being nomi-
mated and confirmed by be President
and Senate OF the United States, such
powers should be exceedingly careful
TO appoint the right sort Of men
men made OF the right sort OF stuff Of
it is possible to get such to accept);
/. e.: men Of unblemi5hed character
If such ere 10 be found-to guard
the interest of not the lew, but of the
entire people. And those officers on
arriving and taking the required
oath, giving tonds, etc., should enter
upon the discharge of their duties,
few or many, entirely free from pre-.
judice, determined upon equal justice
to oil, without respect TO religion or
politics. Especially should this be
the Gaze with the governor; and IN all
his acts and intercourse with his
people, religious belief, more especi-
ally should not he allowed to enter
int his composition prgudlclal TO
the interest Of tne people. 1t may,
hoWeseT, be quite proper for COVER
nor, should he fad the people ID
general, whom he had been appointed
to govern, holding doctrines or prinoi-
PIES which he may consider not
conducive to good order and good
morals, should be think that he him
sslf possesses a more righteous faith,
doctrines and principles more in &C
cord with good order and good
morale, to seek by kind acts and
words to bIing such up to that higher
standard Such q governor, puTsu-
ing such a course would likely be
esteemed as a father and friend and
live on in the affection of his people.
L Is TO be lameGtsd, however, that
governors and others holding high
positions generally, do not possess
4uy too much of the Christ qualities,
though protesting to be bis followers;
aua hence the most that such can do
in such . direction Is 70 say, Ike a
Sporting clergyman Of the years gone
by IS ssid to have said, on a particu-
lar occasion to his parishioners, do
not as | 60, but do as | say" Some
vi ! doubtless say of me, writing as |
have dons and as l shall still prob
ably do, "a change has come Ger the
spirit of his dream " Yes, and a
still greater change may get come
hereafter. Experience in, and with
the world's people, etc. is g splendid
schoolmasler. Observations have
convinced me that it is not ''slI gold
that glitter" or this, however, 1
may have more to say hereafter.
I STIvFP