The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-16

ment OF partisan purposes. Everything
having tendency toward equality and
fairness has, piece by piece, been cut of
and cast away, not that the body polite
might be improved but that the political
party putting forward such measures
might acquire additional advantages. The
latest scheme, however, is one that ought
to strike the average reader elsewhere as
peculiar. We say ''elsewhere'' for the
reason that here we are more or less ac-
customed to it and great many if not all
of US are familiarized to the habit of look
ing upon such things as matters OF course. 1t
is peculiar to those who are not so accus
toned, for the reason that it strikes at the
most profound and liberty preserving prin-
ciple in all those enunciated-the right to
the Cegitimate) pursuit of happiness.
If man, for example, finds that his sur
roundings in general, the climate, the soil,
the water, the usual disposition Of nature,
the business facilities and opportunities or
the society are not in accordance with
what he considers his best estate nor con-
ducive to his immediate or prospective
welfare, he has right to ''change, alter or
abolish'' such conditions by going some
where else and establishing for himself
and those who depend upon him distinct
and separate maintenance. For instance,
if the sagebrush- carpeted, the sheep
infested and the dust-laden Sanpete val
leys become distasteful to the residents
there or any one of them, such residents
or any one of them need only offer that as
an excuse or they need offer no excuse at
all. for going elsewhere in quest of a local
habitation and a name
Here is where the rub begins: If any of
the persons actuated as previously herein
set forth happen to drift this way and de-
sire to remain, in quest of that happiness
which only comes of a satisfactory resi-
dence, such migration is all wrong, in con-
temptation of our would-be rulers, for the
reason that there is a municipal election to
take place here in a few months and such
persons being residents by that time might
vote Well, suppose they did. If they
have d right to do so under the law, who
has any right to complain! And if they
have not, everybody here from
the age of fifteen years up,
knows that they will be excluded.
Where then is the danger! And yet, to
read their prints and hear their speeches,
you would be tempted to believe that every |
stranger of Mormon proclivities within our
gates had previously equipped himself with |
a ballot which he intended to cast under
any and all circumstances. The facts that
Salt Lake is growing very rapidly and
there is greater demand for work here !
with ready cash payments than exists else
where in the territory do not seem to
occur to those whose daily occupation, like
one of the diversions of SANCHo PANZA, is /
fitting at a windmill.
In order to demonstrate how correct is |
the position which the anti-Republican and |
ti-Democratic party of Utah take, they |
have struck upon a bran new scheme |
They have opened an employment bureau. |
whose object is the furnishing of
all who are unemployed with plenty |
of work. 1t is claimed that there is no
partisan scheme in this; in quiet, un-
selfish way they desire to show that men
can be found right here for all the work !
there is to do. The fact that they never |
thought of such a thing until municipal
campaign was on hand, is nothing, of
COURSE Iney are pu'laHIuTOpIC, JuSI Iue
same Their only object is to secure work |
for those who need it, and if they don't
want to vote the Liberal ticket they need !
not, In view of the fact that there is no
law to compel any one to vote contrary to
his wishes, or to vote at all, such conde- |
scension is most extraordinary.
THE HERALD hopes that those in any
other part of the territory who have de- |
sire to come here and live will not be dc
tered from doing so by the talk, the brag
and the buster of the Tray, Blanche and |
Sweetheart of the Liberal ring. If they |
prefer to live here, that is their right |
Those who are already here and would |
rather live elsewhere, should not be de
tanned for moment after having satisfied |
themselves that that is what they want and |
ought TO do. This is a great big, bounding, |
booming world; it is sufficiently variable in /
its characteristics and vast in its extent to
accommodate all the people that now live |
upon it and ten times as many more. In !
the contemplation of your mundane career,
you can emulate the leopard-if one spot |
doesn't suit you, you can change your spots. |