The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-12

ike the ability OF the founders of this
RannhIic 10 nrovide for the advanced
con d;t;ons and wants of the people cen
fnrv after their time, but we must re-
collect the nroy;sions they made were
the result Of two centuries of garnered
w;sdom obtained in the school of most
hitter experience. and l venture the
assertion that more than two centuries
Succeeding them will not exhaust the
wisdom thus gathered nor its appl-
cahilitvito our changed condition, plead
rs we NAV the unprecedented advances
that we have made since that time, and
reason as we may analogically, that we
shall continue to improve IN the future
in the same ratio. . -
The code of laws that Moses gave was
never improved by the Babylonlan, the
Persian. the Grecian or the Roman; yet,
who will question their learning and
their greatness? Nay, these laws have
outIiyed all these nations and many
others. and form the basis OF the laws
nv which the nations of Christendom are
governed to-day. The Constitution Of
the United States may be altered and
amended, but never can be improved.
70 vary from or alter its provisions IS
dangerous III the extreme, involving, as
it will. complications in every instance
that will be all the harder to disentangle
as we shall insist upon their adoption
and enforcement. The Constitution
will live when the ignoble men who
have sought to trample it in the dust
shall have passed away and be remem-
bered only for their wiekedness; Tor
its principles are imperlshable. having
originated with the heavens and are I'M
questionable (though unknown to the
world), the result of heavenly lnsplr-
alton. The perpetuity III our govern
ment can only be assured by strict
and loyal adherence constitutional
principles, for, singular as 1t may ap'
pear, il is nevertheless a TACT that there
never has Deen any difficulty in adj
ministering laws that were in keeping
| with 1T. neither will there be in the
future. But when laws are sought to
be enforced that are ia direct opposition
to it, we shall always meet with diff
culties that will only vanish when We
return to Constitutional principles. SIcf
| departures as are being made to-day II
our treatment OF the Mormons must re
suit il disaster to our government
| because there can always be foun(
willing tools to carry out Oppressive
measures; men who glory in MAKING
merchandise of office for the sake of thu
spoils, and when one field ceases t.
yield good harvest they will hun
other rich pastures and ply their yoca
ton at the expense no. only of liberty
but of life itself to satisfy their voraciou
appetites. and it viii be found very har'
to cali off the dogs when they hav
once tasted blood. ..,..-..
1t may be the foster child only 9TH
people of Territory who is the victim
to-day but as sure as the sun shines, s
sure is it that the full grown sons 9TH
people of the States) will have to defen
themselves against similar onslaught
| for the onslaught Will be made unles
the rights of the foster child is pre-
served and defended against every in
vading foe. The truly loyal man is b
who will maintain inyiolate every. con
stitutional principle upon, which GU
4 government is founded, while the DIS
i loyal would trample in the dustsit
1 every provision, and glory in the wrec
they had made. Isl1 RI = c
/ { s. BROTH EN- oNATHAN