Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-04

but one way, chat is, tire ur,ple dele
gate authority to others 10 make,
execute ami iuterptc, lava without
exaoting subj Client guarantee 10 return
Tor tuch delegation ut has been
found" says the Herg,d "that the
checks and safeguards ordinarily pie.
vailing are often inadequate to prevent
au abuse Of power on the part y, those
70 whom IL IS thus delegated, and the
people are helpless to avert such abuses,
except 70 far as th1ss holding the relna
are responsive 70 public sentiment,
which, however, too ifcque ily does
not assert ilself until irfetriovsble mis-.
chief has been done. The result is
that those who are meant 90 ac' IS the
servants Of tbs people ace too apt to
assume the bsaring AMI authority Of
masters. 10 this prsciioal Irresponsible.
ity Of lawmakers, Is the Widespread
aud deeprootcd legislative oortuptioI
largely attributable"
We who live Ia territoriei have q
much better comprehension Of the
meaning and scope Of our cotompor.
ary's point than Others have. because
we are constantly aud without vari.
alton confronted with an object lesson
Ia onc.sided government We have
nll the form, 20 through all the pro-
ccdute that those cOnmo nwoalths
which are independent Of the general
government 10 through, and - the
casual observer are In the iull enjoy.
mont OF q represent itivc dem icfatic
system; that IL, without the dirociness
and, we may say, immOJis.uness OF
application Of power from the people
tncInaolyc., we are as sovereign a,
Switzerland or auy cantou or city
thereof II. How different II l.! How
greatly buhiui tue advanced p)sition
occupied by other cDmmuni.ics, IN
governmental respects, are Utah, New
Mexico, Aris)ns anl Oaslahoms,
where the officials, instead OF being at
icas, Indirectly accountable u those
whom they represent, have no nc.
count to render whateverl I'm any
OF the states Of this couutry, where ho
other Influence C,n ascend from the
eovcrcigns bsnelth 10 those who pre-.
scribe aud regulate there Is arranged
n more or less short term oil oflice tor
each rad every one, aud then the
time comes for an official or the prin.
ciplos which he upnJlds TO he endorsed
or rejected, AMI thus IL the man sooner
or later confronted 10y his master and
the deeds done IN lice made to pass
In review. Perhaps this IL ~ near TO the
Swiss system'as THIS grest, bulSy, wide.
spread country can ever CONS OF as II
desires 20 come, aud ours l.alonZ way
from being a bal system, especially
when the safeguards are upheld. bl. by
reason OF being alougside OF II, how
much more anomalous does tbs terri
torial arrangement seem!
The fact that VIZ may have no special
fault to lind with those VINO are sont to
govern and regulate has nothing 10 do
! with the case; that, oitener than other.
wise those vino presife over our
political well.being are disposed TO be
fair, TO accomplish Iusiics, 70 Impair.
TALLY administer the laws and be on
favorable terms with those Tor whom
they act, IN our good fortune, not ia
any sense an illustration OF the Wisdom
or CORRECTNESS, OF ths system. That
We are doing quite well rs we are,
do not envy our noighbors who
have been ushefod Into fuil.Or0ed
sovereignty aud arc content to wait
I'LL, from sense OF justice long delayed,
those who oppose viii approve, shows
merely that we take practical view Of
life aud the things therein, without be.
ing ignorant Of the fact that such
treatment 80 extended ~ all wrong
that the system which continued aud
continues II Il the result OF an over.
slight In the trainers Of the great char.
tor; that, IN iact, mn error having been
discovered, It has been deemed III,
cheaper and less annoying plan to con.
tinue II with an occasional substitution
alteration, addition or subtraction, ~
the peculiartios Of tho casB iusy seem
to require. II will oil come cut right Ia
the end, beyond doubt.