The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-09
UTAH AND IRELAND.


I'm a parliament of 65S members
Great Britain has $50 and Ireland los.
and except with the consent of that
parliament, Ireland cannot organize a
gas company, or ferry over stream.
or do the slightest thing that implies
legislative power."-James g. Blaine.
Why "Jim." that is nothing to co -
plain Of. Out here in Utah the people
choose thirty-six men to represent
them in our Territorial Legislature and
without the consent Of one man, who is
not in any manner responsible to the
people for his official acts. that Legisla-
ture cannot make a law authorizing
men to organize a gas company. or
bridge a stream. or improve a road, or
appropriate their own money to sup
port an institution of learning. or for
paying the public officers for
services rendered to the people
in the suppression OF crimes
and misdemeanors and for the protec-
ton of society. During the last ses-
sion of the Legislature. that one man
became :imperious and withheld his
sanction to measures of the above char
acter. because forsooth, the Legislature
would not bow to the dictum OF his
imperial majesty, Eli II. Murray, Re
publican Governor of UTAH and the
Legislature viii have to be reconvened
especially for the purpose of doing
what his mighty highness Eli The 1,
(pray heaven he be the last, too y would
not permit him to do, because they
failed to leeislate to suit his own pecu-
liar tastes. And now notwithstanding
the infamous bondage the people Of this
Territory are suffering, measures are
proposed before the Congress Of this
great republic which will further take
the management Of their own affairs
out of the hands Of the people,
and place it in the hands
of their avowed enemies. whose deligh;
will be to rob the people In the admin
istration of the several public trusts
II that un- American infamy, the new
Edmunds bill, as amended by the
House judiciary committee, should be-
come law, the people of Utah will not
be able to elect justice Of the peace.
a constable or the assessor or collector
of taxes. In verify and truth. ey.ry
semblence of home rule will be
wrenched away from the people, unless
they will do violence to their con-
and make an oath never to
do that which their religion enioins
upon them 20 do-which they believe
God has commanded them to perform.
This oppression Of Utah IS less ex-
cusable in the United States than the
OF CIR at Britain is OF Ire
land. Cor the re son that the
chief corner stone of the Ameri-
can system of government is
this principle of local self-governmen'
or home-rule. When the United States
withholds that blessing from any por-
ton of her citizens, she violates the
principles of her adopted
system of government. and is guilty of
O serious breach Of Constitutional NOR
atty, and must needs repent if she
would escape the rock upon which
other governments similar in form have
bern wrecked. Let this government
ndtbe too SECURE in the belief that il
will endure forever. Other nations
equally as powerful, as extensive, as
wealthy. as proud, have crumbled into
decay; and this nation will only be per-
petnated by remaining true to the basic
principles upon which the fathers built
the government bequeathed to us.
There is one thing that should slways
be present to the eyes OF American
statesmen, and that is,
"a thousand years scarce serve to form
An hour may lay it in'ihe DUST