The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-16

home, erect a lightning rod over his
mousse to protect guilty conscience
from the just anger of an offended
THE friends of Mr.. Thatcher have
more cause to rejoice than they who
were victorious. After the joint sess-
ION, succeeding the day of the sena-
torial election, the sena tor-elect, to-
gether with the defeated candidates,
addressed the assembly, and, after
witnessing the reception given TO each,
l was led to observe that under some
circumstances it is better to live in a
cottage than TO dwell in a palace: that
under certain conditions it is better
70 work in the field and wear coarse
linen tnan to sit upon the throne clad
IN royal purple. Three thousand years
ago 400 Spartan soldiers were left to
guard a mountain pass. At eventide
they received a message that a mighty
most OF Persians We're to pass through
lnat same canyon on the morrow.
There was law of Sparta which for
Dade a soldier to flee from an enemy
without permission of his superior Of
hcer. That officer was far away. They
might have escaped to the mountains
during the night and concealed them
selves in the Businesses, but upon the
morrow, when the roll was called, each
one answered Present
The Persian army swept down and
over the SPOT, and when it was done
there was nothing left but the scene of
the contest but 400 dead and wounded
Spartan soldiers. Yes, there was some
thing left, and that something has
leaped the chasm of 5000 years and
shines as brightly as then. The pure
example; the devotion to country; the
Offering of life that Sparta might be
free. 4 monument has been erected
upon the spot and the tourist may
read the following epitaph:
That here, obedient to her laws. we fell
EGO, stranger, to Lacaedemonae tell
ITO you it might seem sacrilege to
compare those men and women who
stood true to the cause of Mr.. Thatcher
and principle, but they offered all that
was required of them, and if the muse
of history shall write, let me dictate
the epitaph:
Go, stranger. to the people of Utah tell
That here true to their convictions, they
fell
Fell, fighting for that liberty which
dwells in the hearts and homes of the
poor and oppressed, and not in the
homes of the rich and the great. That
liberty which throbs in the heart of the
Gagged bird. And that liberty which
has gone with the martyr to the stake
and kissed his Darched lips while his
spirit winged us night TO Goa.
The sentiment is obtaining in Utah
that the man who will be swaved in
casting his vote by ecclesiastical au-
thoritv is an enemy to the state. and
thai he who shall seek to dictate such
vote IS menace to the expanding
fabric of our free Institutions. You
might as well seek to charge the ele-
plant in the jungle with a rope of
sand, or TO stay the great Niagara'S
flow with a dam of straw, as to try
to check the tidal wave of such senti- !
ment that is sweeping over Utah. The |
liberty which we enjoy today is a |
sacred heritage bequeathed by our
fathers We should guard it jealousy |
and transmit 1t to our children and to |
our children's children as pure and I'M
1efiled as we received it. When every |
man in Utah shall cast his vote as his |
conscience dictates; when the vote of |
the pauper shall tip the scale with that |
Of the millionaire then, and not till |
then, shall it be said that America. the |
Doasted land of freedom, is herself free.
Let the action of our legislative bodies /
De free and untrammeled; let the voter /
be free from every influence which |
shall tend to lead him from the plain
oath of duty so that when our children
shall visit these halls and speak in
legislative assemblages, perhaps con-
7ened here. they may be led to ex-
claim in fervent words: Thank God,
am an American
THE VOTE.
No one else spoke and the vote was
aiken. The resolution failed.
Ayes-Harbour, Monson, Nebeker,
2ideout, Whitaker-5.
Nays-Allred. Game, Cannon, Cham
,ers, Evans, -Hauier Shuruiff, Smoot,
snow, Wright Mr.. President-11.
Absent-Johnson. Robson.