| Show TILE GOVERNOR FAILS Governor THOMAS seems to bo having his trouble for his pains in making personal appeals to Gentiles to erase their names from the protest against the passage of the CCLLOXI bill for the disfranchisement of Mormons So far as we can learn his excellency ex-cellency has been able to intiuce just one man t take his name from the formidable list of Salt Xake nonMormons who were manly enough to say over their own signatures signa-tures that they did not think the bill was proper or that its enactment would have a beneficial effect As necessarily would be the case the man who recanted belonged to the weakkneed class and the presence of his name gave no strength M the protest Men of strength and who wield an influence influ-ence in the community are not in the habit of changing front to please every fellow who comes along They take a position and stand by it Nor was THOMAS more successful in Ogden Og-den than in Salt Lake I we have been correctly informed the men of the Junction city gave his excellency to understand that they were twentyone years of ago and of sound mind and that when they protested against the CULLOM bill they knew what they were doing I must have been 1 revelation rev-elation to him when his authority as dictator dicta-tor to the Gentiles of Utah was flatly defied by men upon whom ho had looked a willing will-ing slaves eager to do his bidding The Gentiles of Ogden including most of the old residents signed the protest They did so without solicitation on the part of Mormons Mor-mons because they knew that the bill was unrepublican and unj ust and they realized fully that its passage and enforcement would undo much that had been accom pushed in the territory towards an adjustment adjust-ment of the local problem and would delay for years the settlement which all are eager r bring about Thcj also fet that besides the harm that the measure would do socially and politically it would tend to destroy business and bring disorder dis-order and ruin r commerce The disfranchised franchised would lose interest and heart in industrial affairs and could not labor with the same degree of for the degre energy development develop-ment and progress of the territory De privcd of all rights as citizens made to feel that they were outiasts whose very presence was undesirable and lorded over jn person and property by pronounced enemies the disfranchised would bo more than human i they could be good and < use iul members of the community Th Ogden Gentiles reasoned wisely and it signing the protest were guided by com I mon sense a well as by humane Instincts I I 1 therefore not surprising that Governor Tnoaus signally failed In his efforts to induce them to stultify themselves them-selves and play the part of weak minded children The Ogden men arc 4to be honored for the manly course they have pursued But what of the governor Well who L could THOMAS expect anything else from ARTHUR |
