| Show inauguration day it is a thing for the pao pla of utah to participate in the in oa of officers of their own choice for more than a generation officers have been sent to the territory ot utah whom the people governed no voice in choosing M my came here with prejudices artud davd acted more as baak alers than aa of afa their sentiments have been foreign to the feelings of the men and women who made utah and while here as of ficera they have been actuated more by the love of gain than from pare motives of patriotism true thare have been exceptions and of late years we have had men appointed more in accord with the people ant they were not appointed until there was a rift in the clouds that made utalia dark past the great majority of the territorial officers have bean carpet badgere pure and simple men who were sent here as a reward for some party ser vica in came with carpet bags to maki as much as poa biblo out 0 their positions and then to leave the territory after their terms never 0 o retura territorial government under those conditions was truly territorial vassalage it was more like a monarchical form of government that was planted on the soil of a free and gaea to think of that abominable absolute veto of the governor made him like a czar when he ni idica idi cl to b id enough to make h ID I 1 in all lovern of freedom taia was udd by tyrannical governors as a cudgel which was held over thu heads of the representatives of the people they had either to agree to the autocrats terms or have just measures vetoed if the people de aired to sand their money for certain laud ables purpose it might be the governors fancy to say the money should not be so spent and im avato w to the voice of tho with these past records plain to every one there are still parsimonious who insist that is not worth the price that freedom is not worth the paltry sum that it coats the people happily those persons are few in the new state as the email vote against the constitution proved but still aney are to be met they are sighing beranse a few hundred thousand dollars tufit used to acme from the naton to defray our miserable tern tori il government ern ment is now cut off sac a people it seems to w might pursue that line of logic a little fart herand say to young men they ought not to marry bacasse ba canse forsooth it would cost them more thau living with their fathers that it is better to be dependent on their sires for happart than to be free in the world and act as fellow men no we take it that all patriotic people are rejoicing at the inauguration of their officers anly chosen and fairly elected on a tree ballot it ia such a boon aa only faw nations 0 oven this the enlightened progressive nineteenth century en jov it is a blessing for which our forefathers bled and died and what was worth life to them to establish ought to be worth at least as much to us Tr nethe boon has come to us by the mere asking for it but it has really cost to those who first in rated it ought not to ba lost sight of by the citizens of the young state |
