The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
THE PEOPLE ARE MA,rRRs.

Slowly but surely the aristocracy of
England, if not losing its special privileges
by direct enactment of parliament, is
nevertheless being shorn OF great deal of
its old time arrogance by the constantly in
crvasing recognition of the rights of the
people The monarch of England dares no
longer resist the will of the people as ex-
pressed in The acts ottheir parliament or at
the polling booths. For over two hundred
years the royal veto vested in the crown OF
England has remained unused. Though
VICTORIA hates GLADSTONE intensely. the
recent elections viii compel her majesty to
dismiss her wellIoved SALISBURY and call
the great commoner to be her chief adviser
in the affairs of state. Adviser? Nay,
rather her master, who will direct her
course in respect to the moves TO be made
on the chess board of state policy. In
every controversy between the house Of
peers and the house of commons, the former
bows to the latter, fearful that il it opposes
further than to enter its protest, its re-
fusal to comply with the demands of the
people expressed through their representa-
tives in the house Of commons will more
than likely be sufficient to raise an issue
involving the very existence Of the house
of peers together with all the gilt-edge
privileges Of the sristocracy.
New evidence was given only the other
day OF the enlarged recognition of the
rights Of the people as against the assumed
special privileges of the nobility. Not long
since the game keeper on the estate Of the
Duke of Rutland stopped traffic on the
public highway while he and his fellows
were driving grouse. A workiDgman al
tempting to pass along the public road was
knocked down by the burly game-keeper
Appealing TO the son Of the duke-Lord
EDWARD MANNERs-sgainst the outrage
the assaulted man was told to go to the
devil. and if he was shot his life would be
on his own head. Finding that no redress
could be obtained from the pompons lord
lings, the workingman took his case into
the courts, and with characteristic fairness
the latter have done him justice. In Hender-
ing his decision il favor of the abused man
Lord Chief Justice CoLERIDeE said that
the DAYS of high handed interference with
the rights Of the people had passed, and
that the conduct of the duke's game-keeper
and Lord EDWARD MANNERS could not be
tolerated from any person. That was a
worthy judge. and it speaks the more both
for the man and the Judge in that he gave
that decision against one of his own class
against his fellow peer of the realm.
We rejoicein this growing disposition in
the Old World to recognize the rights OF
the people, this tendency to recognize all
men as equal before the law. Ard in the
same proportion that we rejoice to see the
growth of liberty and equality in the Old
World, we regret to see the rise OF class
distinction and special privileged classes in
this country; distinctions and classes
based upon and only made possible Dy
wealth, the accumulation OF wealth
made possible by unwise and iniquitious
legislation which takes money from the
masses and puts it into the pockets Of the
favored few. That kind Of legislation is