Show A STIRRING SPEECH last Saturday At the mass meeting Ogden urday Judge R K Williams made a stirring speech Just what the speech waswe are unable to say as the accounts are quite meagre But suffice it to say it was stirring Tlib most remarkable part of it is that the call for mass meetings meet-ings which was signed by Hon John T Caine as chairman and by Bishop John Q Cannon as secretary was addressed H To the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in the Several Stakes of Zion This being the case it is presumable that Mr Williams is a member of the church in the Ogden stake especially as he is the city attorney for Ogden Mr Williams saw in the Declaration a world of truth and perhaps he pees the city attorney ship for Fait Lake City in it as we are very wont to bring our attorneys from Ogden and then send them to Washington Wash-ington to lobby all the winter It must have been against the importation of our city attorney from Ogden that the Declaration Decla-ration aimed when it declared that it has been the undeviating policy to send II strangers into our midst as governors judges prosecuting attorneys and marshals mar-shals men who with honorable excep tions had no interest in me common welfare There seems to be some analogy between the appointment of strangers as Governors for the Territory and the appointment ap-pointment of strangers from Ogden to be our City Attorney But our city is fully justified in the selection from Ogden as the church has recognized his constitutional constitu-tional learning and pays him one thousand thou-sand dollars in addition to the two thousand thou-sand five hundred dollars which the city pays him It is a favorite doctrine in Utah that Hye cannot serve two masters nor can ye serve both God and Mammon Now who is the City Attorney serving If he is serving God let some one else serve Mammon and if he is serving Mammon let some one else serve God It is no more than just But to return to Judge Williams speech A great part was such as to minister min-ister flattery to the souls of the majority of his listeners whether it was intentional inten-tional or not but some parts were very good and should be adopted by the Government Gov-ernment not merely in Utah but in all the Territories Are refer to that part of the speech which says that the composition composi-tion of our Supreme Court is wrong in 5 I being made up of the District Judges j No natlcr how able the men who sit on the bench as District Judges they are not competent to review their own decisions for them to do so is to make them judges in their own case a thing which no man should be Judges like other men are but human after all and it is natural for those who associate together to-gether in any particular capacity to entertain en-tertain for their fellow associates kindly feelings or hostile feelings and in either case it prevents them looking with impartiality impar-tiality upon the decisions of their con ferrces There must necessarily be present to the mind the fact that in reversing the ruling of one of the judges constituting the Supreme Court those who do so arc liable to have their own decisions reversed re-versed and no man likes to have his judgment impugned not even a judge What we need is a Supieme Court 1 composed of men who do not have to review their own work but who are there to review the work of others and whose decision shall be final Their work should be that of deciding upon the work of others with which they have nothing to do save declare whether it has been property or improperly done The community com-munity at large and the bar also would have much more confidence in a court thus constituted than in one as now constituted con-stituted The complaint is not against the gentlemen who now sit as District Judges and also Judges of the Supreme Court but against the system Doubtless the Judges themselves would prefer it to be otherwise as it would give them a much better chance to put themselves on record The questions which arise in our Territory arc of a strange character at times and such as call for the best of ability and to at all times secure this the Government should raise I ho salaries of the judges and make an entirely new Supreme Court composed of judges who never have any other duties to perform than those of an appellate court It is strange that none of our Delegates have ever tried to scenic the passage of a bill through Congress securing to us hiichan arrangement of our judiciary This could be done without any extra expense to the I Government from what it now has to bear to run the Territorial government by i abolishing abol-ishing the Ut UtahCoinmission taking the amount which is paid them as salaries which is twentylive thousand dollars per year and let the t Governor and Secretary Sec-retary do the work of the Commission Add to the present salaries of the Governor Gov-ernor and Secretary two thousand dollars per year each to tile salaries of the District Dis-trict Judges one thousand dollars per I year and with the remainder eighteen thousand dollars give to the Territory a I Supreme Court consisting throe judge with salaries of six thousand r dollars 1 per year i The plan is feasible and would give to I the Territory much better arrangement I of affairs than it now has Certainly a j Supreme Court composed of the ablest lawyers would be of far greater benefit to the Territory and lo the General Government Govern-ment than the Utah Commission is Vith such an arrangement not even the most jealous patriot could have any fear for the authority of the Government in Utah and all would have l more faith in r1 our local courts and their business would be greatly facilitated Is not such a plan worthy of agitation at least |