The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-20
IDAHO'S UNCUT GEMS.
Another Glimpse at their
Scintillating Splendor.
THE APEX OF INTELLIGENCE
Brilliant Brains Being Badly Bat
tered at Boise-The Severe Mental
Strain - News Notes.

BOISE, Idaho, January 16.-[Special
correspondence of THE HERALD. i
The bill to naturalist Mormons
who for number of years
have abjured their faith, came up in
the Council to-day. 1t provides, as We
have stated in former letter, that the
class of persons we have named may
become citizens by presenting them
selves before the district court with two
witnesses and proving that they have
concerned with the requirements of the
act. twill be considered tomorrow in
committee of the whole and then re-
ported favorably, after which men pro-
Tossing to be both moral end religious,
who took solemn oath to support the
Constitution of the United States upon
their induction into Office, will, knowing
its provisions that the general govern.
ment only has tbs power to naturalize,
unblushingly vote for this bill. They
will do this and vote to punish the
crime of perjury; do this and
STALK BOLDLY INTO CHURCH
and partake of the sacrament of the
Lords Supper. Why are legislators re-
CURED to take the oath to support the
Constitution OF the United States unless
it be intended to apply to matters con-
nected with the discharge of their
duties as sucnP The oath can mean
nothing more-nothir e less. 1t means
that they shall not do violence to its
provisions in matters OF legislation. So
they understand it and SO the world
interpretS IL. and when there is pro-
vision of the national organic law so
plain as the one reserving all rights of
naturalization to itself-so plain that
there is scarce school boy in the
nation over the age of Is years who does
not understand it, what shall we say of
full grown men-those protesting to be
representative men-who will ambush
ingly mingle with their fellow citizens
and seek applause after the commission
of such an act.
WHAT RIGHT HAVE THEY
to claim to be truthful men? Why
should courts and jurors believe their
Does the fact that many did the same
thing lessen the degree of moral turpi.
tude attaching to the Individual? Have
these men brought themselves TO that
degree of fanaticism characteristic of
those who in the dark ages applied the
fagot, flame and rack to such as dis.
agreed with them in opinion and justi
fed their atrocities by declaring that
the end justified the means2 If the
masses of the people will sustain such
men in their acts of infamy it were
better that the race relapse into the
bsrbarism from whence it sprung, for
if civilization applauds and upholds
crime, then indeed, it is a failure.
Crime stalks in capitols. It finds its
home beneath the dome of a palace
not less frequently than under the roof
of the matched cottage. A clerk of the
House of Assembly remarked in the
Overland hotel this evening: The
bill will pass and it will take them four
years
BEFORE THEY CAN GET A DECISION
upon it." The same animus directs
the menker5. They know they are
violating the Constitution of their
country, but do so for the mere pur-
pose of obtaining by dastardIy trickery,
perty advantages, and for that pur-
pose will strain their consciences 10
to their utmost tension. After time,
however, no strain is required.
"Vice iss monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft-familiar with its face.
We first endure, then pity, them embrace.'
The Territorial University bill has
been again revived. AS introduced two
years ago, it was to have been located
at Eagle Rock. Segregation, being con-
sidered as dead, the psonle OF the south
feel like dong something for North
Idaho. There is one thing, however,
that stands in the way, and that is the
law of Congress passed two years ago.
limiting the territorial indebtedness to
per cent. of the valuation of prop
erty, Very little of Idaho lands have
been surveyed by the general govern
ment, and the property of the Terri
tory generally has been undervalued.
It is certain that the assessment is not
one-haf the &C usi value.
THE EDUCATION BILL
has just been printed and no decisive
action taken upon it.. indicating what
will be its fate. It would be useless to
give its provisions unless there are in
dications of its passage, It is rivaled
in its length by an irrigation bill not
vet out of the hands of the printer.
A bill has been introduced into the
House prohibiting the carrying CT con-
cealsd weapons. Thisi is the first time
an attempt has been made to pass such
z law here. Many say that the mem
beers want their cons 'ituents. disarmed
before meeting them. The bill should
be entitled IAN Act to Provide for the
Safety of Burglars ard Road Agents.
The days Of the latter have not cloaed
in Idaho as yet. While the better class
of society will conform to all laws, the
desperadoes will carry their tool" in
defiance thereof. and this tends to place
the former at the mercy of the latter:
The day is not come yet when the bill
should be passed. This afternoon it
came up in the House for consideration
and an amendment was adopted author
iZlng the sheriff to grant permits to
such as he should deem proper persons