Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-18

Officers Must Remember that IN
Represent Not this country men are
Rule the People. elected to Office 10
carry out the viii OF
the people and not to lead them, Tue
American people are their own leaders,
and the theory that a man Is sent TO
Congress or elected to any other high
Office for the purpose of deciding the
policy Of the government ana the s1s
of laws that ought TO be enacted, sole
ly In the exercise Of his own wisdom
and without instruction from the peo-
pie, is contrary to the spirit of IRE"
representative government. There arc
many officials who regard Themselves
as having been selected by the people
because of their own superiority to tho
people, to prescribe public policies
which must depend FOR their success
upon the, support of the people. They
think it is their task to decide what
the people ought to have aud that they
need trouble not themselves to asce:-
tain what the people want This Is a
mistake and every such official shouiu
be made to understand by direct COM
municatlon from his constituents thht
he has been elected to carry out the
wish OF the people rather than to gov
ern them in the exercise of his super
Tor wisdom. that he is the servant and
not the master. 1t Is not well to take
it. for granted that every Official VIII
govern himself by this consideration.
II IL worth while to instruct him from
time to time, lest he forget The
Square Deal.
Can See no Reu- Aside from consider
son for James, atoms OF an HStot-
town Exposition. ical ana sentimental
nature, the grounds
of justification for the celebration OF
the jamestown ter-centenary IN the
location chosen are beyond human un-
Outstanding. Even from the senu-
mental point of vicW the site selected
has little or no significance, being
thirty-five miles removed from the
spot where Newport and his adventure
ers landed IN the spring of 1907. For
the rest, its lack OF terminal and local
transportation facilities and adequate
hotel accommodations, and its remote
ness from tine great centers of popula-
tioll--all these deficiencies would, in the
eyes of most practical men. have made
it almost the last place to be selected
for the holding of great national eX-
position. The celebration began on
time with nothing ready but the presi-
dent, the army and navy--and they are
always ready; the arts of peace We're
represented by unfinished state build
ings, fine display of ungraded streets.
and "a nice arrangement" of land
visitors found an exposition with moth
ing exposed except the poor judgment
of those who fixed upon the site and
the inefticiency of those who undertook
to carry out the plans. This Ia the sit
uaton at present, and it Is freely pre-
dlCted that the show will prove one OF
the most calamitous failures In the his
tory of expositions In this country. For
the sake of our national pride 1t is to
be hoped that such doleful forecasts
may not be ustified.-Leslie's Weekly.
Endeayoring to Emanuel church, in
Strengthen Souls Boston. is carrying
That are Weak. on an interesting
work In an interest
ing way, and while it is yet too early
to know Just how effective 1t will be,
It at least points possible method of
dealing with a very prevalent evil, Life
is becoming more and more complex,
and the burden or adjusting oneself
to conditions is breaking many a spirit
and leaving many a straggler on the
march. whose courage has failed. and