Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-06

and by which your sister in the south
will be free. There are narrow
minded men. There are corrupt men.
There are traitors. They may be
here as they are elsewhere. Do not
let them turn Idaho from her proud
place as the hand maiden of Liberty
and the standard bearer of Freedom.
They are not, they cannot be patri
OTIS who live in country and do not
yield ready obedience to her laws.
They are not patriots, and yet more
dangerous class who conspire with the
former to repeal good laws, or who in
the face of a common enemy force
party lines in order to obtain person
al ascendancy. appeal to the me I,
Of Idaho to continue the good work
YOU have begun.
To strike for the right.
Turn on the light.
Shrink from task.
Look meath the mask.
And whatever comes or goes,
Btsnd in line and snite the foes
OF your country
and her laws.
We are Americans. The cause OF
Americans in Utah is your cause, and
that cause is just. Idaho is not safe
unit! Utah is free. On this occasion
and on this day, and to you desire
to state, and here charge before the
country, that the grievances of the
colonists of America, as set forth in
the Declaration Of Independence
against the King of Great Brit4in.
were not greater than the grievances
of Americans in Utah, as shown in tn
history of repeated injuries and usur
patons for years, by self constituted
and alien rulers, all having in direct
inject the establish lent of an abso-
Lutte theocracy over them.
Toprove this let the facts be submit
ted to candid country. The theocrat-
ic rulers, in and of themselves, and by
md through different Legislatures as
sembled under form of national law,
but chosen by them, have refused their
assent to laws the most wholesom,
and necessary to the public good.
They have forbidden Governors TO I'D.
prove and pass laws of immediate and
pressing Importance til! their assent
should be obtained.
They have refused to pass other
laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, with view of
having those people relinquish the
right of representation in the Legis.
lature-a right inestimabIe to them
and formidable to tyrants only.
They have called together election
Judges at places unusual, uncomforta-
BILE and distant from the homes of
Americans, for the sole purpose Of
atiguing them into compliance with
their measures.
They have caused the removal of
Governors, repeatedly, for opposing
with.manly frmness their invasions on
the rights of the people.
They have refused, for long time,
to support Others that have been APP
pointed whereby the executive pow
ers, incapable of humiliation, have
returned to the people at large for
their exercise under orders from them;
the Territory in the meantime ex.
posed to all the dangers of invasions
from without and convul ions from
within.
They have endeavored to prevent
the population of this Territory, by
Americans; have prostituted the laws
for the naturalization of foreigners;
have refused to pass others to encour-
age the migration hither of Ameri-
cans, and have engaged in. gigantic
frauds in the appropriation of public
lands.
They have made Judges dependent
upon their will alone, for the tenure
of their Offices and payment of their
salaries.
They have erected q multitude of
unnecessary Offices and filed them
with swarms of officers to harass
Americans and eat out their sub
stance.
They have kept among US a mill
tary. force, and have msrshalled them
in hostile campaigns against the
troops of the United States.
They have affected to render the
military power of the Territory inde-
pendent of and superior to the civil
power of the Nation.
They have combined with Others to
subject citizens of the United States
to jurisdiction foreign to our con-
stitution, and unacknowledged by our
laws, giving their consent to