Show IS SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR I I I I The excitement attendant upon the I placing of the flag at halfmast on Saturday I Satur-day has not entirely subsided and prob tlbl will not for some days Few if any r Believe that the placing of the flags 89 was an impromptu affair or that it was 1 first suggested by those whose names now artfmost conspicuous in the affair The actual political power which dictates dic-tates and controls all things in Utah I is like the power which controls and directs the movements of the various Srplariots and all the universeit is i felt and I T realized but not seen In fact it is generally gen-erally quite well understood that the power which we feel in Utah is claimed by those who wield it to be derived from and cop I co-p 6 eternal with that other power One may i safely paraphrase the words of the psalm t i8ta andsay If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts I otlTtah this power is there S Marshal Phillips took a whim on I the Fourth of July to place the flag at half mast on the City I Hall and this in connection with I p like whims on the part of some I of the County Officials and some others I produced considerable excitement and a j great deal of indignation For his action J Marshal Phillips assigned no lofty sentiments I senti-ments about the loss of freedom the incarceration p in-carceration in prison of some of our leading lead-ing men the tyranny and unconstitutional I unconstitu-tional raid of Federal and foreign officials his and his peoples sorrowing and mourning in sack cloth and ashes for these truly terrible and lamentable things but merely a whim From his superiors no doubt I Hmlearned his whims and high flown notions 1W no-tions too Such as fine men adopt and fine men rue Whims like cholera are oft contagious and our gay our Godlike our grave and great City Council took a whim that they would appoint a special committee to investigate in-vestigate the causes of the excitement which prevailed in Salt Lake City 011 I July l 4th 1885 in conseqenco of the national flag at the City Hall having been hoisted at halfmast and also the reasons for the placing of the flag in that I posion and they have submitted a retort < I re-tort that marks this special committee as men among men heroes among heroes gods among gods Great is the Diana of < tho Ephesians but greater is the special committee of the City Council Their greatness like Gods goodness passet understanding Thou art more beautiful than the evening air p L Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars Let the committee speak for they do mouth the voice of the people and the voice of the people is the voico of God Ut is woll known that there is a deep feel ing in the midst of this community in relation rela-tion to the raid that is being made upon the p people because of their religious belie timd praotioes Several of our loading citizens are at the present time in tb t t Penitentiary of this Territory others f hnzn he i mJiatoil and some feeling confident con-fident that they cannot rec ive fair treatment treat-ment or justico in the Federal eourts have absented themselves from their homes There is a general feeling gloom prevailing prevail-ing and instead of Independence Day being as ordinarily a day of rejoicing a day when p tho people could meet together and join in r patriotic exercises orations and other ox VI I precisions of delight because of the liberty bi they enjoy it was felt to be a time of mourn lug infifThe The committee the special committee of tho City Council say that The City Marshal confident of the existence ex-istence of this feeling among the people and without any disrespect to the flag the nation na-tion or the day concluded that bo would be meeting the wishes of tho people who elected him to his office by placing tho flag at the t uCity Hall athalf mast Marshal Phillips said he did it because p of a mere whim To think that tin mourning and feeling of gloom that pervade per-vade the hearts of the people who elected 1 Marshal Phillips to office should be I treated as a mere whim 1 When the tar of Bethlehem was seei h I Arising in thojEast it took three men to announce it to Jerusalem but it took six wise men of the West to find an explanation explana-tion for the whim of the City Marshal If tho mourning and gloom were so prevalent preva-lent in the community it seems strange P ifthai tho City Council should not bo i ifware of it until made manifest by ji 1 whim of the City Marshal There is a variance between the statement of the I i c J1arshahiuid the report of the special f committee Why did not the special I f committee explain away this variance seeing i ing that they have so suddenly come r to a realization of tho terrible gloom and mourning which pervade the community v It is safe to predict that if they were to vouchsafe any reason it would be one of the three with which all are so familiar fxloutiknow dont remember or we decline de-cline to answer Tho special committee say having duly considered the matter I i and heard the statements of the City i Marshal and some others in relation top the susie beg leave to make the following p report It would be intensely interesting t interest-ing and highly instructive toot to-ot know who the others v some were with whom tho committee consulted I Is it possible that they were the same as those who first started the whim for 4 tho Marshal and the others The report has a wonderful similarity to some other documents that have been promulgated in Utah within tho past three months Why was there any need to hold asecret 4 session until past midnight to find out tho occasion and intent of a mere whim of the City Marshals The placing of I the flag at haltmast was a very bad I vren1 and onewhose impolicy was soon Beenand a salvo in the shape of a re I > J yjpon i by a special j committee has been i applied to healjtho wound Tho whim the salve and the committee all came from the same source and that source I the ecclesiastical heads of the Peoples I party |