The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-28

Does 1t ever occur to the RAM
pant blatherskites,who are eteYnally
croaking for a changed order OF
TIN e. in Utah, that the people who
founded and compose the majority
of the population of the Territory
have very fair staying qualities and
can endure any amount of vlcissi-
tudes, old or new, as long as those
who produce them can? Do they
ever take into consideration the fact
that measures having al tendency
to produce political or social disa-
bilities will, if enforced against the
community as a Whole, press with
as great severity upon them IS the
others? Have they ever stopped long
enough to consider that under a
legislative commission their inter-
esrs, as well as those of the Nor
mohs, would be paralyzed :?
Do they ever permit their minds to
wander far enough into the subject
to zee that they are persistently and
all the time standing in their own
light when they advocate spch
lame, halt and blind measures as
the Hoar and Cassidy bills? What
has been the general effect Of all the
special legislation SO far enacted for
Utah? The class against which
1t was aimed iseem to have lost
nothing, not even in votes, for, like
the hydra, as soon as head was
stricken off, there appeared another
which could not be so easily disposed
of, in its place. At the same time
the disfranchised have gained
something, and, so far: as numer-
ical support is concerned, have
certainly, as above shown, lost
nothing.
Seriously considered, is it not a |
piece Of the most consummate folly
for the sgitstors to further continue
this barbarous brawl-to prolong a |
struggle which bodies them no good |
and brings to their coffersI not a |
fraction Of what would be the case
were the senseless agitation which |
they keep alive discontinued?
1t 10 not a question of whether
the laws shall prevail and be
enforced here or not; MT ques-
ton of whether Tom, Dick or Harry
shall be elected to THE, that or the
other position; but question OF
whether or not faction, in it's blind
partisanship. shall be allowed to
wreck the substantial interests of a
whole community. It is not to be
supposed that principle should be
or will be sacrificed for the sake of
mere gain, but it is to be supposed,
in a community where law prevails
and the national government has
full sway, that there are those In
control who will look after Offend
ers, and that, under such clrcum.
stances, we can trust to the attrition
of conflicting opinions to accomplish
the rest, if anything more is needed.
Utah does not need commission.
1t is plentifully supplied with law
and lawyers, and they all work, in
accordance with common stan-
dard, one that was designed in |
other ages aud places aad has re-
ceived the approval Of the civil zsd |
world. To destroy local legislation
entirely would re not merely |
the overthrow of all that
has been accomplished in this di-
rection here, but the subversion of
those grand fundamental principles
which are at once the basis and the
bulwark of the system which incul>
Gates progress and reform. In other
words, to destroy existing things is
to take US back several years; il the
fabric is to 60, it will 60 In
it's entirety, not piecemeal;
that which is good will share the
fate of that which is bad; confusion
thrice COMPOUNDED will result; and
out of this confusion, with the GER
tainty OF a conflict more perplexsd
than ever before, is it at all likely
that substantial gains will grow for
either party to the local contest :
We think not.
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