The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11
UTAH AND IRELA AND.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 10, 81.

1OttOIo AOSNSWs
Some people compare Utah under
territorial vassoalage with Ireland
under British rule. But c0mparl-
sons are odious, and not a little SO
in this instance. This territory is
an incipient state of this great dem
ocratic republic, the chief corner
stone of which is civil and religious
freedom, with local selfgovernment'
Utah has a right to have q state
government now. But that right
is Arbitrarily denied her, and for NO
constitutional or otherwise sound
and sufficient reason. In plain
terms, she is robbed of the right, the
sacred birthright, Of statehood.
Those who deny this Territory the
right to become state are guilty OF
political feticide, political pre-
natal murder, for she is to all in
tents and purposes a state In
embryo, and far enough advanced
in that condition to be entitled to
the national outcome thereof with
out delay, for delays are dangerous,
and in that relation doubly danger
Gus, being dangerous to the health
and well being Of both mother and
child, and are in fact sin against
nature.
AS Minerva sprang from the head
of the Olympian Jove, armed cap-a-
pie, so the government of the United
States was born free. It leaped at
once into vigorous life, from the
body of it's British mother, an ab-
normal life of full f1edged freedom.
The liberty Of European govern
ments is a growth, then and there
little, and now and here a little
more. Having attained to the
meridian at the first bound, it may
be, and upon natural principles, that
American liberty will decrease. But
British liberty is on the increase. 1t
Is still growing, and, in accordance
with the natural law, it must and
will increase, though that increase
to be natural should be gradual,
peaceable, and legitimately effected,
not lawlessly, violently, spasmodi-
eally, as seems to suit the seditious
and savage Irish people.
In Ireland the imperial author
tiles are conciliatory, peaceful, and
law abiding, but the people, many
of them, are lawless, murderous,
defiant, seditiOUs, and anarchial.
Here Che people are peaeeable, in
dHstrious, orderly, and law abiding,
but the federal authorities, some of
them, are persecutive, lawless, and
unprincipled, ever intriguing and
cGnspiriRg to Cypress the people
and rab them of their eonstitu-
tional and even their legal rights.
The tendency Of British Legislation
towards Ireland for q hundred
years has been steadily in the direc-
ton of a larger degree Of liberty,
and lastly of privileges unknown
elsewhere. The tendency of federal
legislation towards Utah is steadily
in the direction Of curtailmeHt eft
liberties enjoyed. No people in the
Union are more peaceable, orderly,
and lawabiding than the people of
this Territory are to-day and every
day. Yet federal officers, editors,
perSsns and politicians, religious
and irreligious people are endeavor-
ing to se5 up a hue and a cry, a
fierce and passionate and inf1am-
crusade, against the people
of this Territory; are endeavoring
to stir up Congress to extirpative
against them. What for?
knows, unless it comes as
the expression OF wicked, devilish
genius to Cypress, rob, mob, and
murder inOffensive fellow citizens
in the name Of American liberty.
The people Of this Territory pay
federal taxes, have revenue officers
always among them, but have no
representation, no voice, in the i'm,
position of those taxes. This was
one Of the original colonial griey-
ances against the mother country.
But the complaining daughter
country inconsistency and relent-
lessly perpetrates the very same in
justice towards her own territorial
citizens in this the second century
after her own vigorous protests
were made. Utah is governed by
federal laws, but her people have
no voice in the making of those
laws. Yet we live in a land of
liberty, SO called, par excellence. It
is true, Utah has local legislature,
but every law passed thereby runs
the gauntlet Of two absolute Yetos.
The legislature, chosen by the peo-
pie as the representatives, may pass
a most excellent and much needed
law, but poor, miserable, drunken,
dishonest, intriguing, conspiring,
unprincipled thing Of a governor
can veto it, either actively or pass
lively. His solitary vote is more
potent than all the votes of all the
representatives of the people and of
all the people combined. No legis-
lativeEsessiO nwithout the veto of the
governor quashing many of the acts
passed by the legislature, insomuch
that the members are sometimes
to think that it is a sheer
waste Of time for them to pass any
bills that the people want. Ifa bill,
by good fortune, escapes the COVER
ner's veto and receives his approval, ]
the federal legislature has power to |
interpose another absolute veto,
and no representative of the Terri
tory. or of the people thereof, has SO
much as one vote in the congress
that has the power to pass that veto.