Show considerations the people of utah will demand that the state constitution be framed in fairness and not in partisan narrowness that it grant ednal rights to all with special privileges to none and that means ednal franchise as well that it provide for he proper encouragement coura gement af home industries after the manner and policy of the utah pioneers that it so regulate the term of office that the entire membership of the legislature supreme coart etc do not go out of office at the same time that judges be elected not appointed as some of our wise attorneys suggest the attorneys may make the nominations but the ratification of those nominations must be left to the people the public has some interest in the courts that the jury system be not abolished no blatter if the lawyer may believe the jurors to be nothing more than bolts dolts and ignoramuses ignoramus es that economy be the watchword in the fixing of salaries it is a mis taken idea that good men cannot be secured without big salaries some of Ea glanda highest offices are absolutely sol without salaries and yet the best denof the nation are secured to till those offices that no tangled reforms he instituted to tha isolation of utah from the rest of the nation utah once tried the alphabet a phonetic system of spelling ahead of tha times and had to give op the att imputed reform let no radical reforms be en grafted on the constitution leave them to legislation finally the people of utah will demand that constitution be concise and char in meaning if possible as the inspired constitution of the united states they will ask that there be no disgraceful partisan trades but that the whole work as far as possible be aboe partisanship thia platform may by crude but it will do for a starter and now let us hear from he rest of the press of the territory the constitutional convention meets in one month and public opinion lacks much in being cryltal iced on the constitutional questions involved the press of utah ought to devote more time to these important questions for the building of a foundation for a future state is a great task |