The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-11
TO MARSHAL SPRY.

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holding commission from your coun-
try as it's chief executive representa-
tive in n commonwealth Can you real
ize that, when this country bestows
its confidence and its authority, into it's
officer should enter the dignity and
splendor which are the achievement and
tho hopo Of the glowing past and the
radiant future OF the Repubhcf
A few years ago you and all of us
were among the politically lowly of the
land. We had no voice in the Nation g
affairs, and the mass Of the people with
whom you belong had but little author
ity Of government within the Terri
tory. Out OF that helplessness and that
despond the Nation lifted US; and some
there were who felt yearning to show
through all their lives gratitude for
gifts bestowed and an appreciation of
opportunity gained. 1t should have
come to even your realization that the
mighty object for which humanity had
struggled in countless ages was yours
for the acceptance; that in receiving
what the millions Of the past fought
and suffered that you might enjoy, your
whole life time should be consecrated
to reverential duty toward the Nation,
You were made marshal of the Repub
ic-a dignity which should have made
a bigger and better man of you. The
least you could do was to keep your
authority unsuIlied. Here in this State
where there is SO much contempt ex-
pressed, in secret speech and in action,
for the Governmental was upon you
to 80 hold and so administer the power
Of your place that all the people Of
your class might learn from your ex-
ample to pay their reverent duty to
the Nation.
Was it the best esteem which you
could show of the place which you
hold and of the Government which
entrusted it to your keeping, for you
to drag the United States Marshalship
to such degradation as the Nation
has never before permitted to 60 un-
rebuked and unpunished7 When you
visited district judge Of this State
and sought to coerce his judicial decis-
ion, SO that an offender against the
law might be protected and upheld in
q position where he could perpetrate
further injustice upon the community,
did you feel that this WAS a fair re-
turn to the Republic for the trust it
had reposed in youf
cho cIo l,,a
law, but particularly is 1T incumbent
upon tho executive authority Of Gov
| ernment to stand as an exemplar Of
! Difference to the enactments made by
free people and toward the courts
elected to adJudicate the law without
favor and without fear. You may be
a common man in your personal capac-
ity, or even less than common man;
but in your Office you are uncommon,
because you have the ono place here
of executive authority which represents
the will Of more than eighty millions
, Of citizens.
Your friends are insolent to the Gov
ernment when they say for you that
! you divested yourself Of your position
before you invaded the sanctity Of the
judicial authority in this State. That
argument may pass current for apos-
ties who represent Christ in the taber-
nacle and throw off His name when
they desire to do the things Of the
devil; but the United States Govern
ment is a nearer and more concrete
power than you and your compeers
assume Divinity to be. This Nation
holds that you are the United States
marshal during tho entire time that
you hold it's commission and receive
its pay. There is no hour of the
| twenty-four when, like an apostle, you
can doff your official robes and be an
irresponsible individual AS a mere
man you would have had no influence,
nor would you have been expected to
have any influence with district
Judge Of this State; but representa-
the majesty OF the general Government
you might sway weakling judge to his
own dishonor and the injury of the
public right.
No one expects you to resign, and yet
that is what you ought to do. 1t would