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Show The Paper That Dares Tb Ho take A Stand ' ' t 1 J j 1 ) ) I M I i I t I I ? M, I October 21, 1976 The Utah Independent Page IR1IB2D-SLILiIL- C I 11 BOSTON PORT ACT i terms of this those who have been their best The ignominious benefactors. But the inhabitants of ?,C Pc',under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for barbarous edict defined certain this town must and will look to purposes and for a limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their Thats how Samuel Adams des- their own safety, which they see cribed the Boston 'Port Act, does not consist in a servile comwishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will be RECALLED. George Washington Parliaments answer to the Tea pliance with the ignominious terms THE GREAT PROLOGUE by Mark f. Petersen Party Delaying the effective date of this barbarous edict. Though the means of their the edict from the end of March (when it was signed) to the beginning of June, the British hoped the Americans would change their attitude. This was not the result, however, as one can see in this Adams letter to Arthur Lee, a patriot working for the American cause in London. of WHY DO SO MANY WANT RECALL? Because we, the voters, have grown weaiy'of politicians and bureaucrats who ignore their oaths of office, vote away our constitutional rights, ignore their campaign promises and continually raise our taxes. Boston, May 18, 1774 WHAT WILL IT DO? It will give you an opportunity to remove appointed and elected officials from office when they ignore the constitutional principles they promised to uphold when voted into office. HARASSMENT UNLIKELY Recall cannot be used frivolously because of the work involved, but when a public official offends the body politic sufficiently, recall will provide the means for the citizens to make a correction My Dear Sir The edict of the British Parliament, commonly called the Boston Port Act, came safely to my hand. For flagrant and barbarity, one might search in vain among the archives of Constantinople to find a match for it. But what eke could have been expected from a Parliament too long under the dictates and in-just- ice control of an Administration which seems to be totally lost to all sense and feeling of morality, and and replace him with an acceptable substitute. governed by passion, cruelty and revenge? CONSTITUTIONAL The Utah Constitution specifically says that all rights belong to the people except for those which they surrender to government. Therefore, the right of the people to recall imprudent officers is legal and constitutional. IntiUHre Proposal B UTAH RECALL AND ADVISORY RECALL ACT Should a law be adopted, the purpose of which shall be:' - 1. To authorize the recall of any public officer whether elected or appointed, for any reason whatsoever, including political reasons, by tiie registered voters of the electoral district from which said officer is elected or appointed, and 2. To authorize a special election to replace any officer as a result of a recall petition signed by registered voters of at least 10 for state officers, 12 for county officers, and 15 for local officers. AGAINST I I For us to reason against such an Act would be idleness. Our business is to find means to evade its .malignant The design. inhabitants view it not with astonishment, but with indignation. They discover the utmost contempt of the framers of it; while they are yet disposed to consider the body of the nation (though represented by such a Parliament) in the character they have sustained heretofore, humane and generous. They resent the behaviour of the merchants in London those, I mean, who receive their bread from them in infamously deserting their cause at the time of extremity. They can easily believe that the industrious manufacturers, whose time is wholly spent in their various employments, are misled and imposed upon by such miscreants as devoted have ungratefully themselves to an abandoned Ministry, not regarding the ruin of Gerald Ford promises but fails to deliver. He promised to cut the mushrooming federal bureaucracy by 40,000 employees Instead, in his first 11 months, federal employees increased to 2,930,819, a growth of 63,945 new bureaucrats costing the taxpayers an additional $780 million a year. Under Ford, ten of the 11Mr. cabinet-lev- el departments have increased the number of employees this year. Since Ford took office, the White House staff has increased by 75 to a total of 6l7 Like most politicians, President Ford has approved $1 million in aid for Mozambique, where a Soviet-trainattacks on the white-rulguerrJVin arav of 12.000 is based for hit-and-r- un ed ed Rhodesia. government which has hundreds of This United States aid is going to a without charges and has banned all infant baptisms 1a the political prisoners jailed country as its first move to stamp out religion. pro-Sov- iet i There are more than 1.300 federal Advisory Boards. Committees. Commissions, and Councils. An estimated 22,700 public and private citizens sit on these creations, which are run by more than 1,000 federal employees. They cost the taxpayers $U2 minion a year. Solution: Kill 'em. national Science Foundation; which is But worse, if possible, is the two-year a study on 'the population ecology spending $5,000 of your tax dollars for " newt. ed and genetics of the And another $25,000 for a study on primate teeth, $112,000 to examine the African climate during the last Ice Age, $81,000 to study the social behavior of the Alaskan Brown Bear, and $8, 000 on why people fall in love. And all this is after spending $15,000 on a study of hitchhiking. Well, you haven't heard anything yet. How about these figures. $53,000 for a $23,000 to study the flora and fauna of the Fiji Island dictionary of the Galla language, area, $3,500 to train Good Humor men, $5,000 to study the difference between native American and Indian whistling ducks and $5,500 for a poem "lighght" - that's the whole tax-eati- ng red-spott- poem not just the The title. old cliche' that Congressmen spend sailors. SMrs spend their own money. And money like the drunken drunken sailors, is unfair to Congressmen spend yours. preserving liberties should distress and even ruin the British manufacturers, they are resolved (but with reluctance) to try the experiment. To this they are impelled by motives of They feel humanely for those who must suffer, but, being innocent, are not the objects of their revenge. They have already called upon their sister Colonies, who not only feel s, but for them as look upon them as suffering the stroke of Ministerial vengeance in the common cause of America; that cause which the Colonists have pledged themselves to each other not to give up. In the meantime, I trust in God this devoted town will sustain the shock with dignity; and, supported by their brethren, will gloriously defeat the designs of their common enemies. Calmness, courage and unanimity prevail. While they are resolved not tamely to submit, they will, by refraining from any acts of violence, avoid the snare that they discover to be laid for them by posting regiments so near them. I heartily thank you for your spirited exertions. Use means for the preservation of your health. Our warmest gratitude is due to Lords Camden and Shelburne. Our dependence is upon the wisdom of the few of the British nobility. We suspect studied insult in the appointment of the person who is Commander-in-chiof the in America our be to troops Govemour; and I think there appears to be in it more than a design to insult upon any specious pretence. We will endeavour, by fellow-citizen- ef sound frustrate the diabolical designs of our enemies. Reprinted from Pitney Bowes circumspection prudence, to and How Letters Helped the States of America ". Unite brochure, "Mind Your Own Business" Henry David Thoreau was on the right path when he said: uIf I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Your life is your own, yours to succeed or to fail with, yours to live as decide. Your you obligation is to yourself: to the only person whose life does in fact depend on you. It will, in reality, be your actions that make your life what it is. Why feel guilty about making the best you can of your own efforts -and why not allow others the same chance? Let Mind Your Own Business be the political slogan of free men in a free land. The Freeman Opportunities are like millstones, they may drown a man or they may grind his corn. i |