| Show JToaquin Miller talks about the Hawaiian Ha-waiian government in a way that we fear will excite the fierce enemies of the dusky wench and the admirers of the bogus republic set up on the ruins of her throne We believe there is I some truth at the bottom of his well of flowing statements but still we make allowances for the exaggerations exagger-ations of his poeiic nature Miller likes a grist of sensations and we are irt dined to take what he grinds out with a few pinches of salt But we doubt whether all is as plain sailing with the Dole government as its supporters sup-porters try to i ake appear i 11 j po j po < In retWenco to the metric system which some foUcs are trying to force into the Constitution we are inclined to copy a few sentences from our evening eve-ning contemporary the News although they were not intended we presume to apply to that attempt because our contemporary con-temporary published as an editorial recently a Ions but selfrefuting ar frument for the insertion of that I l hobby in the organic law of the State The News says on the folly of such things in general and of thrusting them the-m ter of the union of the University and Agricultural college into the Constitution Con-stitution in particular We cannot therefore be accused of unfriendliness to the plan Itself when we insist that Its discussion in the Convention Con-vention now in session is illtimed injudicious in-judicious and wrong The proposition is one of legislation not of fundamental funda-mental doctrine and when the people of the Territory or State need legislation J legisla-tion they will send legislators not constitution makers to the seat of government gov-ernment As has been already lout l-out there is an inclination on the part of many who are not members of the Convention as well as of some who are to lumber up the document now in progress of preparation with all manner of whims and hobbles and plans which even if proper at any Ume could only be made so by the regularlychosen lawmaking body The yielding to such inclination will surely imperil the Constitution itself for the people want and they have the right to demand not a code of all the laws we have ever had or ever expect I to have but a plain square honest i definition of rights and powers and abroad a-broad basis for future legislation Apply that to the metric hobby and I we endorse it every word And it is just I as pertinent to that as to the particular question to which it is directed We I hope the conventjon will leave both matters to the legislature and not lumber up the Constitution with either scheme The action of the City Council in I reference to University Square should settle the question of toe removal of the University from this city in the negative It is a magnificent gift and I i will be equally available whether the I permanent buildings are on that square or on the Fort Douglass grant by Congress Con-gress It cannot be rejected or dIf d-If the people of Utah remain In their senses I But this does not necessitate the removal re-moval or the crippling of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College by any means Ample I provisions of land are made for all the educational institutions of the state and if the constitutionmakers do not tie up the legislature on the questions Which will take time to solve satisfactorily satisfac-torily they will all be settled in away a-way to be of the best permanent benefit ben-efit to the cause of education r Whims hobbies and personal plans and schemes ought to be sat down upon severely and fundamental principles with a few wholesome re strlctions on the powers of the several departments of the local government should constitute the supreme law of the State Simplicity perspicacity and directness should be the principal characteristics of that most important instrument |
