The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11

Ireland has no such experience as
this. She has representatives in
parliament. She sends twenty
eight peers to the upper house, and
log members, Or about one sixth of
the total number, to the lower
house, nearly double the number
that peaceful and industrious Scot
land sends; not dummies, not mere
voteless delegates, not nominal
members only, but full-fedged mem
bers, each with a vote that counts
as good as any other members vote,
| and they can propose, discuss, and
vote upon any measure they wise
in parliament. 1t is true, the Queen
holds the veto power, but she is not
the almighty governor Of territory
of the United States. She does not
exercise the veto power many times
every session, as the great governors
of Utah do, to prevent the enact
ment of law which the people want.
She does not exercise the veto
power once in each session, nor once
| in each parliament. She has never
exsrcisedrit once during her long
and eventful and comparatively
peaceful and eminently progressive
and prosarous reign of little less
than half a century. Indeed the
royal assent to bills passed by
parliament is scarcely ever with
held. 1t was not once refused by
William w, nor by George ", nor
by George LII, nor by George II, nor
by George I. Not one of the six
monarchs of the Hanoverian or
Brunswick line has exercised the
veto power once. It has not been
exercised since the reign sof Queen
Annie, nearly two hundred years
ago. In fact it has come to be a
principle in the British constitution
| that the Queen has no will but that
of her ministers, and they have no
will but that of parliament, for
when they lose the confidence (the
v0tes) of parliament they go out of
office. So that the veto power of
the Queen of England is virtually
nominal. If she were the imperial
governor of Utah, it would be very
different indeed. Then her veto
power would be truly all potent.
AS it is, and as a rule / might say
invariable, what laws the parlia-
ment sees fit to pass. the monarch
sees fit to approve. SO really Brit
ain is more democratic and republi-
can than America. The people have
more voice in the making of the
laws there than here, especially in
this Territory. The Irish people
have many votes in the making of
laws to govern them, and those
many votes are practically unim-
peded with any veto from any
power. Yet, the Irish are not salts
fed. How would they live in
Utah?
Yes, Notwithstanding all this, the
Irish people, the anarchists, defy
the laws, defy the officers Of the
law, defyIthe government, assassi-
nate peaceable, laW-abiding, rent
requiring landlords, and peaceable,
law-abidiDg, rent-paying tenants.
More than this, they MAIN, torture,
and kill poor dumb domestic ami
mails, and then send cheeky and
lea6ng emissaries over to this
country for sympathy and-mOney!
Would l give them either? Net
much. Such brutal, barbarous,
bleod-thirsty wretehss deserve no
consideration. They are the enc
mics of all law and order, peace and
prosperity. They are the enemies
of their own country and every
other country. They are the enem-
les Of the human race itself. The
policy Of stern coercion and crush
ing repression is the policy for them.
A severe and righteous law should
be rigldly administered toward
them, and their aiders and abettors.
If Ireland were depepulated of such
fends in the shape of men, and
their places were supplied with
better blood, say English or Scotch,
as in the north of Ireland, it would
be one Of the very best things that
could happen to the Emerald Isle.
TARA.