Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-28
THE COUNCILS WORK Or
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the new garbage ordinance. SOME
even 20 20 lar ~ to say tina. they viii
nay no attention whatever TO It, and II
the officers sec NJ to arrest therefor,
let the arrests proceed. This is the
same spirit on smaller scale rs that
which actuated the patriots OF 7B
when they dumped load Of
tea into Boston harbor, aud later
ia England caused the people TO
rise up In revolt against the corn
laws - II permits those who are on
trusted with the duty OF making enact
ments to 20 40 far in the matter Of
oppressive legislation and then "callH
hem down." that lie, notifies them In
purely democratic manner that they
are exceeding their authority.
An old aud at times fitting adage IT,
In effect, that resistance 10 tyranny Is
obedience TO Providence. The only
trouble about its application Is
that when people imagine them
selves aggrieved, or permit dema-
gogues to make them believe that
such is the cnse, II they cut loose
from the centripeial restraint oil the
law a. II Ia and rush of at n tangent
they are like anything else that has
departed In like manner-they never
stop until violently encountered by
some opposing force. Such procedure
has been on many occasions resorted to
by organized bands Of communists,
anarchists and others who always yield
to the requirements Of the law by con
straint and under protest; and every
such attemp. has resulted In the needless
destruction Of property, the death Of
many OF the malcontents aud too often
that Of innocent parties. Vastly dii'
ferenl WAS tho revolt Of tho colonists,
for they, In the name Of the law and
by its authority, made appeal after
appeal and protcstation upon protesta'
ton, with but the effect OF receiving
&C. dditional violence ana insult" aud
at last being "spurned with contempt
from the foot OF the throne"
IL hasn't got to be no bad as that,
even In miniature, with US yet, though
we arc free TO confess that many
acts OF the municipal lawmakers do not
bear the impress Of careful considcra'
tion, Investigation OF the subjec, legis'
lated upon, or due regard for tho best
interest OF all classes; perhaps this gar
bage measure Ia one OF that kind.
II 1t ~, the remedy ia not in VIC.
lent or any form Of lswless fesist'
ence, but In dlgnifled appeal 10 the
courts through the peaceablc aud or
DERBY channels OF the law. The higher
philosophy and profounder wis
dom OF those who cit Ia judy.
ment In the courts authorized
to test nll local enactments are
an ample safeguard against AFRO
giant assumption Of power and any In
fiictions which usurpors Of authority
may seek TO impose. Let those who
are aggrieveI, or even those who con-
slider themselves aggrieved, make up u
test case whose object shall be the us
certainment Of the rightfulueas OF
wrongfulness OF this or any other or.
dinance complained OF, but let such
resistance go no further.
This Ia a proper time for defects in
che corporations claws to be pointed
out, as they are now and have been fol
several months undergoing revision
Any assistance which the taxpayer
may be able to render In making tn,
code all that 1t ought to DO is not only
his privilege. but ought TO be hi
pleasure, as II is certainly very much
TO his Interest. The compensation be.
ing paid TO the revisor, M we Rre in
formed by a councilman himself, Il
excessive and gOes on every da,
whether the solons keep him employed
OF not. II Il not for us TO say whetho
1t could have been done MS vol and
for less money or not, bu
while 1t Is under way 4
would be as well II nj
bNch'iuhh itnAlhANi ipiA NhbaN wiz
pay the bills were put In, so that In tn,
fiual footings the work done and thu
amount paid for 1t will not show "A dls
crepancy beyond all reason, thu
giving other grounds for complaint.
We don't like the way some peopl
have Of continually "nagging" th'
City Council and that, too, very ire
quently regarding measures Of whici
they know but very little and do no
understand atall. That kind Of thin
is productive Of no good result
and IL custom more honore
In the breach than In the observance
But 1t is different thing altogether {
complain OF enac,ments, tho entoTc,
ment OF which would result In needles
hardships to some without correspond
ing benefits to any. Above all hav
those who foot the bills n right to d.
mand that no moro be paid out for al
scheme or purpose than 10 actual!
necessary; they can stop this in III
manner suggested II they feel dispose
to do 20, but generally they are not +
disposed as long as the outlsys CON
anywhere near reason. As TO III
garbage ordinance first referred {,