Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-10
AN ALIENS VIEWS.

1t is always interesting to know the
views of others on Utah affairs, no mat
ter what the views are or from whence
they come. They are generally interest
ing, crude and based upon partial and
partizan knowledge of things. In last
nights Neps there was such a view, from
a relative in England to Mr.. David James
of this city. The writer condemns the
manner in which the law is enforced in
this Territory, at least so we infer from
the tone OF his letter He says:
Turning to your part of the globe, one is
! tempted to ask, What has become OF all
! the line maxims the founders of your coun-
! try put in the Declaration of independence?
! And what has become of constitutional law
! in Utah? d. Recent events Ill Utah seem to
point out that American rulers of to-day
have forgotten all this, or at least only trot
it out on the Fourth of July, when they
serve it up with a lot of Yankee tall talk and
buncombe about freedom, ETC."
The writer has evidently not paid strict
attention to affairs here, or else he would
know what has become OF the cline max
inns" which were put into the Declaration
OF independence. They have gone into
the editorials of the Ne,rs, the Epistle and
the Declaration and Protest, and
are there used to feed the
flame Of persecution. They also find
great, perhaps the greatest, favor with
former subjects Of her Britannia Majesty.
From the reference to the yankee tall
talk, - it is safe to say that the gentleman
is a Tory in politics. and would like to
have settled the Alabama affair by trial
by battle. He is so good as to tell that
the nation is violating the fundamental
principles Of the Constitution. Don't
say anything more to me about the
boasted freedom of your Republic, but
hide your diminished heads and blush
for the nation which violates the funda-
mental principles of its Constitution"
What an accession he would be to the
Supreme Court of the United States
His views as to the constitGtionality
of the laws Of the United States
and the doings of their courts are of the
same value as were the views of those
Americans who sent Roger Pryor to Lon
don to see that the English judges fol-
lowed the law of their country in the
trials of the Irish suspects for the murder
of Carey, the lnformer. 1t is quite evil
dent that the gentleman is prejudiced
against the United States and ali Ameri-
can institutions, and his views as to the
course OF United States officials in Utah
are evidently obtained from church
sources; and, if such be the
case, he could entertain no other
views than those he expresses
to Mr.. James. If it is difficult for men
in Utah to have a just and impartial view
of things in Utah as they are, it is but
natural that those who are thousands of
miles away, and under an entirely differ
ent form of government, should have
ideas of Utah affairs, but it is
quite presumptous for an English gentle
man to say when the United States are
violating the fundamental principles Of |
of the Constitution, especially when the
Supreme Court, provided for by the Con-
has declared the laws against
polygamy and the method of their en-
forcement to be constitutional.