Show WhAT WILL HARRISON DO President HARBISON has it in his power to do good or harm to Utah The President Presi-dent cannot make laws for the territory In the matter of legislation he can do absolutely abso-lutely nothing Any member of Congress I is more influential than he in this respect Even the recommendations to Congress by i Presidents within late years have had little I weight with the real lawmakers The annual messages which contain the executives I execu-tives suggestions are formally referred to various committees who are supposed to read their respective portions and formulate formu-late bills to carry out the Presidents ideas i But if the messages are ever read that is the end of the matter so far as the committee I commit-tee and Congress are concerned President I HARRISON may proclaim against Utah and request additional and more stringent legislation legis-lation in harmony wit > the wisacs the I radical and unreasonable element and we doubt that any attention would be paid to I his denunciation and request It it not assumed as-sumed that the President will ask more special legislation for this territory or that he even desires more we refer to the mat WI merely to show how powerless modern Presi lents are in legislate matters and of what little real concern to Congicssm n the annual messages ire While there is not the remotest probability proba-bility of furthfi adverse legislation General HARRISON can work much good or much ill by the character of the men he appoints to office in Utah anl bj the instructions which he causes to be given them as to the manner in which they shall perform their duties The new administration comes into power to find a higher degree of peace and I a larger measure of prosperity than have existed here for these many years There is less of the troublesome excitement than we have been accustomed to and we hear very little comparatively of the terrorism which under the previous Republican administration ad-ministration made Utah a veritable hell on earth as a dwelling plac While this better condition of affairs exists there is no slackening of energy on the part of the officers in the performance of their dutes The laws era enforced with as much vigor as ever and the offenders arc as certainly made to suffer the penalties penal-ties prescribed The most determined Affinals could do no more than has been and is being done to make the law forceful and respected in the community If President HARHISON wants this improved im-proved state of affairs to continue he can have it He can permit long disturbed Utah to move along as she is going in com pirative peace and prosperity He can decree that the territory shall aivance at the same swift and steady pace which has marked her progress of the Past two or three yea f or he can change all this and start the motion backward He can overcome and destroy much of the good which has been wrought and return the people to the turbulent and unhappy condition from which the hoped they had escaped for all time largely depends upon the President whether Utah shall have four years of peace and progress or four years of turbulence and retrogression retrogres-sion Bj this we mean that it depends upon the men designated by the President to occupy the local government oftices and minister the laws Judges like the late Chief Justie ZANy who is appealing appeal-ing so earnestly for reinstatement would punish no more violators of the law than are being punished now but they would manifest so much hate and exude so much venom as to again antagonize the entire community and to cause every man to think this great government was his enemy and bent or his persecution and destruction A district attorney who hates with the vigor and unreason which characterized the late Republican occupant of the place could bring about HO more convictions than any fair lawyer but he would rive men and women mad bj his wicked oppression and his malicious harrassment He would inspire in-spire a feeling of terror and revive and cultivate cul-tivate the old spirit of bitterness and hate I which more or less affected the great major itj of the community at one time A marshal mar-shal like the last Republican official with that titlewho is a pleading solicitor for reappointment re-appointment w ould accomplish much less than is being done to bring violators of the law to justice for lie would intagonize those who might help him and bird decent people together to defeat him in his outrageous exercise of power But though he would fail miserably miser-ably as in executive officer he would sue ceed admirably terrifying the community commun-ity and conveying to world that the people of Utah vveie living after the de structiv fashion of the cat and dog If Piesident HVPI iso is wise if he dc sires peace and prosperity in Utah and if he wants to see progress in the solution of the problem with which the federal government gov-ernment has been struggling for a quarter of a century he will be more careful more painstaking nd more certain of his men in the selection of officials for this territory than he is in designating ignating men for places elsewhere lIe will appoint only those who lie conserve tive and who entertain a high sense of justice jus-tice He will avoid radicals ind make certain cer-tain that he docs not give the offices to those whose chief ambition is not to eufoice the law but to make most money out of the positions He will choose men who are as free as possible from prejudice mid whom the performance of then duties will know neither politics sect part oicieed but in whose official eyes all men are equal all entitled to the same rights and all subject to the same statutes He will name men who will enforce the laws faithfully faith-fully and honestly and will not employ their offices for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a leigh 01 terser ill the territory which has longed 1 for peace because be-cause it loves peace rue Htitu hopes Pie ident Hi 11 ox will prove himself so fair and just a man that he cannot be swayed bj the enemies to Utah who are now trying to deceive him into oing that which would bring discredit upon his administration and rev use the wheels of progress in this flourishing de > endencv We hope that such hinges as he shall make in the federal force = will be good ones and that his instructions to his inpointces will be such as he would like gien to officials here if he were bona tide citizen of Utah desiring peace and inter ested in the social political and material welfare of the territory |