The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-11
THE MESSAGE.

The Governor read his message to III,
Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, aHC
the pap r appears in full in this issue o
THE HERALD The law makers havt
heard 1t read, hence We commend it t.
the perusal of the public that all may
become familiar with the literary stylt
Of His Excellency. 1t is worth the time
t will take to read the document tc
slearn just how a Governor writes, tc
say nothing OF the value Of knowing
What are a Governors ideas as to mat.
.ers and things. We lhink we may
I With absolute safety give Governor
West all the credit there is due to the
sne who wrote and constructed the
Message. 1t is his, beyond the posi-
sJiiity of doubt. Other Governors
Tho might be named, lacking conf
ence in their own ability, and realizing
heir shortcomings in the matter of
EDUCATION and literary requirements,
ave "farmed out" as it were, their
aessagSs; but West has heroically
Tielded the goose-quil for himself, as
.ne will readily understand before he
as read twenty lines of the paper.
Ehakever doubts other executives may
Save entertained as to their ability and
: erary attachments, His ExcelIency
eide tly has meme as to his.
AS to what the Governor says,
~ little of it is important here;
deed, only a small portion OF
Ae message was intended for
me consumption, as the econ omists
~, fully three-fourths of the document
wing been prepared for the foreign
arket The Governor certainly never
signed that all those ancient, musty
ID worm-eaten chestnuts with which
stuffs the first part of his. paper
: )uld be consumed here where the
arscter Of the stale fruit is so we'll
Town. all these are His Excellency's
lerous contribution to the outside
= rid, the United States Congressman
ng preferred. Perhaps his victims
swallow the kernels without OBJ
wing the flavor, and perhaps there
8 be reputation of the nauseatlng
il which has been dished up in 30
n nv shapes and DISCUSSES within the
dozen years.
/ is not the intention of The HERALD
lnalyze the message and point out
inconsistencies. Most of these are
glaring that the most ohtuse reader
81 discover them st once. For in
ice, the Governor starts out with |
assertion that to the utmost will he |
deavor to secure the unity neces-
for the enactment of wholesome |
b. and then proceeds to say as
;h as he can to destroy the unity. |
berates the members as if they !
2 scrubs and frauds, almost charging |
a With the purpose of practlcing de-
ion and dishonesty. He asks a
81 gnition of the minority, declaring
the minority has not and does not
to control, and then proceeds TO
and legislation that will reIegate
majority to the rear, while the mi
~ will be supreme and absolute in
ontrol. He even goes so far as to
m" the Assembly that woe will
! the community unless the Leg:s-
g viii by enactment convert this
tory into Monarchy, and pro-
him King, confirming in him the
to appoint to those Offices which
been ano are elective. He declares
he is anxious to serve the people
snd do them good, in the face of
otorious fact that he has been in
lington as The agent of an infa-
}, uArepublican organization, beg
aud lobbying for the passage of
hat would have deprived the peo-
all rights save those to air and
Even now he brazenly asks the
nbly to pass the bill which Con- {
emphatically refused to pass, sug-
lg that to do so would I
It the attention of the coun- j
and receive its commentator {
pproyal." 1t certainly would at
the attention of the country, and 4,
)untry would say that the Assem- i
as made up Of greater asses than i
3oyernor would indicate by por-
of his message that he believes I
to be.
as remarked, three-fourths of 8
essage were written for use else s
Only 10 this manner could the t
,aor make himself heard, an he I
advantage of the opportunity to c
" ings which add confirmation to L
lief that he continues the bitter i
to The Territory, and is the tool g
same men who sent him to do t
work in Washington a year ago. C
. portion OF the message intended I
Legislature solely contains some t
good recommendation and ex- s
suggestions. The Assembly wi l