Show WC DEIGX The correspondent of the Beseret News who favors the prohibition movement and who presses it with peculiar pe-culiar logic 1 repeats his proposition that because The Herald believes a large majority of the people in the rural districts would favor the prohibition pro-hibition project if it were presented to them therefore the delegates from those districts must vote for the submission sub-mission of the question to the ballots or the people or they will thwart the wishes of the people and be guilty of tyranny The News by its headings to the article announces that this seems clear enough and wants to know whether The Herald will deign to understand it It is just as clear now as it was when first assumed and we understand it exactly as we did then It is not changed in the least It ism is-m clear as mud in a wine glass The logic of it is remarkable It makes the opinion of The Herald as ton to-n probable contingency the infallible guide to the members of the convention conven-tion It exalts that opinion to the place of the understood wishes of the people Understand It Of course we do We understand it to be the essence of absurdity The correspondent Is kind enough to intimate that The Herald Is heated We are not conscious of any undue warmth except in the choler of that correspondent That appears so fierce as to impair his powers of reasoning It Is so nigh as to prevent his perception percep-tion of the fact that the people whom The Herald believes would favor the prohibition project have not expressed their feelings or views on the matter That the delegates to the convention are bound to take a certain course because be-cause The Herald thinks their constituents constitu-ents would favor it if it was presented to them is a surprising deduction and argues much more heat And haste than reason and reflection The correspondent speaks of the mass meeting at Provo which has a very i different bearing on the question There was an expression of the opinions Oft < t the t people who attended It That should have such weight on the delegates dele-gates from that place as the number of voters present would entitle it to If the people throughout the rural districts dis-tricts had alsa expressed their wishes in that way there might be some logic in a conclusion drawn from such premises But the delegateselect have received re-ceived no such instruction There has been no declaration of the desires of the people The delegates come to the convention uninstructed Therefore if they should not bow to the will of the prohibitionists but should decline to submit anything to the popular vote except the constitution they frame md for which only they were elected they will not be guilty of any of the dreadful dread-ful things which are the result of the heated Imagination of the News correspondent cor-respondent The obligations of legislators and constitution framers to the people who elected them form an open question There is no settled rule in law or custom cus-tom on this matter Some of the very foremost statesmen of this and other countries have token the position that they were chosen to legislate for the best interests of the nation accordIng accord-Ing to their own independent judgment judg-ment They haVa claimed the right to vote for measures which their con stitutents have disapproved And they have subsequently been applauded by the people whom they had thus offended of-fended for their honesty and Independ deuce Now The Herald does not say I whether they were right or wrong I but merely mentions a well known fact In this case It is entirely different The delegates to the convention come I unlnstruoted from their several districts I II I tricts They are asked to submit I something to the votes of the people in addition to the instrument they were elected to frame The Herald states its belief that if submitted the large majority of people in the rural districts would approve It WhOr < lup nona n-ona of the promoters of the project Jumps to the strange conclusion and I sticks to It that The Heralds opinion must be taken as the peoples demand and that if it is not complied with the delegates will be guilty of tyranny and of inconsistency with American institutions I insti-tutions Cannot even the News perceive per-ceive the vacuity of such reasoning and cannot the correspondent bring forth something rational in feV r of the prohibition project |