The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-24

and is being done to make the law forceful
and respected in the community.
If President HARRISON wants this i'm
proved state of affairs to continue, he can
have it. He can permit long-disturbed
Utah to move along as she is going, in com
parative peace and prosperity. He can
decree that the territory shall
advance at the same swift and
steady pace which has marked her
progress of the past two or three yeaB; OF
he can change all this and start the motion
backward. He can overcome and destroy
much of the good which has been wrought,
and return the people to the turbulent and
unhappy condition from which they hoped
they had escaped for all time. 1t largely
depends upon the President whether Utah
shall have four years of peace and progress
or four years of turbulence and retrOgres
sion. BY this we mean that 1t depends
upon the men designated by the President
to occupy the local government offices
and administer the laws Judges like
the late Chief Justice ZANE, who is appeal
ing so earnestly for reinstatement, would
are being punished now, but they would
manifest so much hate, and eXude so much
venom as to again antagonize the entire
community and to cause every man to think
this great government was his enemy and
bent or his persecution and destruction. A
district attorney who hates with the vigor
and unreason which characterized the late
Republican occupant of the place. could
bring about 40 more convictions than any
fair lawyer, but he would drive men and
women mad by his wicked oppression and
his malicious harraSsment. He would in
spire feeling of terror and revive and cul-
tivate the old spirit of bitterness and hate
which more or less affected the great major
ity of the community at one time. a mar
shall like the last Republican official with
that title-who is pleading solicitor for re
appointment-woulda accomplish much less
than is being done to bring violators of the
law to justice, for he would antagonize
those who might help him, and band
decent people together to defeat
him in his outrageous exercise of
power. But though he would fail miser
ably as an executive officer, he would sue
coed admirably in terrifying the commun-
ity and conveying to the world that the
people Of Utah were living after the de-
structive fashion of the cat and dog.
If President HARRISON is wise. if he de
sires peace and prosperity in Utah, and if
he wants to see progress in the solution of
the problem with which the federal gov
elnment has been struggling for a quarter
of century, he will be more careful,
more painstalling, and more certain
of his men in the selection Of
officials for this territory than he is in des
ignating men for places elsewhere. He
will appoint only those VINO are conserva-
tive and who entertain a high sense of jus
tice. He viii avoid radicals and make GER
tain that he does not give the offices to
those whose chief ambition is not to enforce
the law, but TO make most money out Of
the positions He will choose men who
are as free as possible from prejudice, and
whom the performance of their duties Will
know neither politics, sect, party nor creed,
but in whose official eyes all men
are equal, all entitled to the same rights and
all subject to the same statutes. He will
name men who will enforce the laws faith
fully and honestly, and will not employ
their offices for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining reign OF terror in the
territory which has longed FOR peace be
cause it loves peace.
The HERALD hopes President HARRISON
viii prove himself so fair and just man
that he cannot be swayed by the enemies to
Utah who are now trying to deceive him
ntodoing that which would bring discredit
upon his administration, and reverse the
wheels Of progress in this fOurishing de
tendency. We hope that such changes as
he shall make in the federal force will be
good ones, and that his Instructions 10 his
appointees will be such as he would like
given to officials here if he were a bona tide
citizen of Utah, desiring peace and inter
ested in the social, political and material
welfare of the territory.