Show JUSTICE AT LAST our people in idaho have learned by enforced conditions how to be patient and wait whether or not it la in row now a demonstration to them that all things than come to those who wait prom from two to three thousand citizens for several long ion years have taken no other part in the elections in which they were as greatly concerned as anybody than to look wise and be went silent Poss possessing eming every requirement of their more fortunate neighbors except that of belonging to gome other church then than the mormon or to none at all they have been in vid lougy singled mingled out as a special mark for disfranchisement they have not in any me we believe been deprived of tb that at privilege of the ri which the constitution of the united states impliedly sats bays shall not dot be imposed unless the other is sr ir ranted along with it pay paying ing taxes to say that all along they have willingly borne it with a patient shrug for sufferance la Is the badge of all their tribe 10 would not bof be stating the case correctly albeit they have made less leas complaint than we e believe any other class of people similarly situated would have done they have petitioned ined remonstrated and complied with one requirement after al a other as long as there seemed of to he dis hope success only any ny appointed and an denied if not 00 derided in a country like this such a state of arlath cannot last very long in any oae case it is in only a qu stion of how long the spirit of equality and fairness throughout the land and which la Is the best beat guaranty of the perpetuity of the american system will eventually break through or over even such barriers as that enclosing the gem of t the be mountains 0 O seclusion from the outside world and newness not to say may ignorance 1 in n the matter of administering local all that such a relic of the earlier colonial system subsists upon anon under the influence of improved communication with the government itself by means of the boon of statehood with an influx of population fresh from quarters where proscription is unknown and the other and still greater advantage which cornea comes of free schools a free press and free discussion exclusiveness si i and partiality became doomed features of the idaho idabo social system they bad to go and having gone will never return on saturday the legislature of the tate state passed a bill restoring to our people all that had bad been taken from them ine in a political way the rest they do not care for it has been no mercenary or meretricious spirit in which they have conducted their plan of campaign amp sign 0 they wanted the right that other taxpayers and men of intel licence enjoyed of voting and d holding office the letter latter not necessarily an object but rather an incident in the struggle gle they have worked as became upright progressive law abiding people through the courts and other avenues of justice ioe never in any instance breaking into disorder or making any ADY other demonstration with rith each successive disappointment than such as any citizen my may properly make by protesting and remonstrating at last they are rewarded for their tience m persistence and good be 96 a vior at last they are as sovereign within their sphere as any of their neighbors as any citizen anywhere an the president of the united states hini himself gelt it is well and we hasten to congratulate let us now enjoy a realization of the belief all along entertained that the mormon voters of idaho would not only equal the abe others in the matter of intelligent and patriotic political action but go beyond them if possible to hold the right of suffrage in any state of the ibe union onion is the greatest secular privilege which any man can have and because of that it is invested with the gravest greatest and most far reaching consequences it la is not the mere act of voting but the discrimination exercised and the purpose and intelligence accompanying the act which are to be principally considered the clown the dolt the one whose mind to is wholly free from the corruption of books the hireling who willingly or protest probest angly does the will of another all those these may perform the simple act of voting and by so doing neutralize the vote of a philosopher a trained publicist a man of affairs a statesman but which is the lohier loftier position to occupy the freeman armed with a ballot intelligently selected and cast without the influence of intimidation or corruption la Is one of the noblest spectacles this side of divinity and grand as it is consequent i il I 1 as it is few there be that cannot fill it we look to see our friends in idaho fill it to a man and promise those who joined in the act of striking the political fetters which have encumbered the limbs limbo of their neighbors so long that they have made no mistake |