The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-16
THE FOURTH.
SALT LAKE CITY, June IA. 81.

Editors Herald:
1t was a little funny to hear that
a committee representing the citi-
zens of Ogden had applied to his ex-
cellency the Governor for permits
sion to have company Of militia
to join in the parade in that city on
the glorious Fourth. Of course, no
body was surprised at the refusal of
the Governor to grant the permits
sion. That was just like him. The
surprise would have come in if he
had not refused, but had granted the
modest request. All you have to do
to get no out of some people is to
ask them for anything. Our worthy
Governor is that sort of a man
when the people want anything.
Just give him half a chance, and
the way he eXcretes vetOes is a eau
ton. Moreover, he has ever mani
tested an eagerness to ostenta-
tiously display his supercilious and
contemptuoUs opposition to the
wishes Of the people. He does not
4SAO4O OppO4 VI OO1lIS CudO.
As to the militia business, the Con-
stitution says the right of the peo-
pie to keep and bear arms as militia
shall not be infringed. But the
Governor says that right shall be
infringed, in Utah any way, and,
the Governor being a much bigger
man than the Constitution, that
right is infringed accordingly.
Now | come to think of it, it may
be, as the Tribune Of New Y ork sug-
gested some time ago, that the gov
ernOr came here pledged to direct his
utmost efforts to opposition to Nor
monism, and, many of the citizens
Of Ogden being Mormons, he could
not grant any request of theirs, be-
cause such a man of principle as he
is, such a conscientious man as he is,
could not do less than redeem his
pledged Aha! Is that it? Anyway,
it looks as if the Ogden people gra-
tuitOusly sought a snubbing at his
hands, which they met with as a
matter Of course. [ say looks, but
the reality may not have been what
it seems. Mischievous boys will
sometimes poke and plague testy
and spiteful animal purposely to
draw out an exhibition of its testi-
ness and spite, just for the fun Of
the thing. So it may have been with
the Ogden people and their commit
tee. Knowing the nature of his
handsomenesS, they may have
popped the question to him upon a
delicate subject just to enjoy the fun
of seeing him display his ugliness.
For governor, even such q speci-
men Of the order as the Governor of
Utah, ought not to be needlessly de-
prived of his opportunities of de-
monstrating, as often as he chooses,
what is in him. This is free
country. A man and an Official can
display his perVerSe characteristics
if he wishes to do so. But he writes
his own record.
But, before / would ask our small
souled governor, or his equally in
tolerant band of partisans anything
in the shape. color, or nature of a
favor, unless duty required it of me,
1 would see him and his little band
ten thousand leagues in Tophet, and
then I would not, for 1 trust I
should be ten thousand leagues
away from them, and be an outsider
too.
AS regards that mass meeting last
night, the proposal of Hon. Geo. @.
Cannon TO have grand public pic
mic celebration at the Mill Farm
Park on the 4th is good. very good.
Professions and parades through the
dry and dusty streets are all very
well for those who like them. But
some people don't like to go swell |
tering along the middle of the streets
in holiday attire and in stiff for
mality on a sultry July day, the
hottest in the year, with the mercury
at 950 in the shade and away out of |
sight in the sun. Monday, the 5th
Of July last year, was about as hot |
as any day Of that year, and the
4th Of July this year may be hot |
enough for anybody to desire the
shade rather than the glazing sun. |
So l say the picnic in the Locust
Grove will be good thing. I go in
for that. o.