| Show 77 0 11 sl A i 1 t kit tit i 0 o f virgila Vir gima aima has recently been anad inaugurated under i the reconstruction act but I 1 before he could take tako his seat hei hel beirad bei had to take noless than five oaths we INO baye have heard ome some of our ot racers officers complain of afi what they called the bussing cussing cus sing in I 1 process to which they had bad to submit but what would they think if they had bad the dose repeated five times governor walker had to take an oath fidelity to the state constitution another to the united states slates constitution another against duelling buelling du elling another that he was not concerned in tho the rebellion and another that ha he would properly perform the duties of his office it becomes a somewhat interi intent esting question que estfon where so many bath 0 thy have to he be administered whether such extensive swearing helps a man to be a better or more faithful officer if it dohs does governor walker on ought to be a model officer but in reading about such proceedings it strikes us tha that E there must either bo considerable efficacy in the swearing in process in the minds of the body which prescribes so many oaths or their officers are a hard set and they have very little confidence in them and wish to put them in apposition that thab i they ey violate their oaths thay will ba be well ivell and properly properly damned politicians Poli ticla ticia ns are not easily daunter daun daunted tes they have elastic consciences but to take five oaths before getting possession of one office is an amount ot 0 swearing which we WO scarcely thought they were prepared to ta do after this we wa shall think them then capable of anything any thing 1 i r A nl enne of two hundred miles for a purse of 1100 and the champion medal of cali fr forma n i ant took ok place last sunday on a course near san francisco ahe nhe contestants names were win walsh and kei kel mowry both of whom had made astonishing rides and claimed the tho championship each machad man had twenty horses with a reserve c t f five which were to be called into requisition only in case eager adyth anything ng s should 0 d happen tappen to any one of the twenty during ur the i i first two hours the pros prospect ecta bt bf walsh were decidedly favorable he e rode with ease easa and grace and his anlin animals als ais appeared p to have more speed than those of hi his antagonist mr air mowry however was he ho brought out his bis poor ani mals mais first and reserved his best for the guinal al contest ire he toos took too was a graceful rider sitting a harse with as much faseas ease as if be he lad ad a been born in the saddle at the end of f the fortieth mile while chan changing ng horses walsh fell injuring himself sightly slightly and NV using causing a delay of about wo minutes d during which time mowry rode nearly a in mile and closed the gap that had albeen in made walsh still kept considerably ahead but during durin the latter part of the ride mowry used his besl best horses and rapidly brid bridged ed the he distance between his antagonist ana and ina himself and came in on the homestretch nearly a mile ahead making the entire two hundred miles in eight hours fifty eight 1 minutes and forty five secona seconds secondi 1 beat beating i I 1 walsh one minute and thirty meo seconds ads T the bes single mile was made mado by Wals walsh bin hin in two minutes and ten seconds rhel rhee ht san francisco Tihes has haa beba merged into the A alad ltd california the proprietors of the alta alia have bought out the times the bulletin believes at hat a price between 20 and the was an excellent paper and bf belate late we have noticed considerable bid sid erable improvement in bitsi columns which we accepted as asan so evidence of increased prosperity 7 THE omaha in speaking of affairs in utah says i it is our opinion based upon upon no na inconsiderable sid id observation af the momon hurch church and people that it will prove a mistake ke to assume that there are as yet any ery mery flattering signs of theu them immediate lown iown fall of or brigham youngs hierarchy ahat hatwill will be bethe bothe the work op much time timo and ange which can be best measured byl hobe hoje feho bo are best informed as to the power of religious gil gli ons ong fanaticism over the human mind an md d who are also best acquainted with the system under which the pen men if f utah wield that power buh But ut Doctor how can cad earith carith atho ose oae e who mhd ar are ebest west lest unformed aa as to the power of r religious anat prism succeed in measuring a system buchas chichis heaven revealed beve teve aled alea truth i r i A FASHION it bew pew York ta a leading western paper r says aw jr milre momen romen om en of fashion ih fir tha ve aft to ape tho the anners banners w dress dres and pretensions of women frank afrank and title in other countries and other times u was noverto never as ilow tiow now hen fashion itself 4 has haa revl revived ted ved in so somei i measure which belong to a 9 ast last credit ted alike with the 1 folly of reck ess esa extravagance extra of udis guised immorality Vaux han haU ara j reproduced bt their glory ir shame mi in abe abo he false wk ibur the powdered powdered heads tig tho the painted cheeks the exposed bos bosgra gra bra the iha bunched up skirts the affected alac arack the monstrous rou 3 hirs airs and affectations which are a re part and parcel of every large fashionable assem biage hage we dut out H herod erod erad herod nothing like it was ever seen in paris or any ather ther I 1 uty city in the world The great thoroughfares gh fares W from ia ta aee eeg morning tuut a beautifully dressed women womer Oi nearly obearl earl eari allaf all ail yf them young most of them unmarried who seem to have no abbi object act in iu life but to to pulton elaborate attire and grout and the spectacle ona on a clear bright I 1 day is brilliant in iri the thie extreme but to me it dak dat aadland aad aa dand and sickening sight therl there is little I 1 more trace of A gentleness ot or womanliness about these theae daily promenades aders than among the painted but less lesa bedizened bedizen ed creatures who walk there at night they are bold in look lond loud in speech obtrusive in manner mannera and measure every woman they meet by the cost of the material of other her dress or the number of yarda of trimming that she wears less preparation and care expended on the street and more upon lipon the details of home which are now given over wholly to bridget would be infinitely more creditable togs to us A IN ix a speech made recently by charles dickens before the members and officers of bf the Al idland midland institute a somewhat high order or of mechanics institute a at birmingham england angland he hg said som something e th ing to the effect that in anthe the people governing his faith was wag very limit ed but inthe people governor it was 11 limitable these words of the great noy LOY loy lot i oy elish have hive called forth many comments eom com ments menta from the press of this thia country some of which are not not very flattering to the author insinuating or accusing him directly of an intention to reflect unfavorably favorably favo rabi y upon the ma masses ases and of pandering a to the higher classes some profess to believe tb th at atthe te remarks of mr dickens were incorrectly reported and that thai he did not no sayi say anything bode sode oga roga tory to the intelligence and ability of the tho people as to doubt their power to govern themselves yes tes correctly and well comments of this kind from front the press of this country are nothing ho nothing thing to be surprised at for we that Is t the he people of the united states are arb are ate great kleis for individual sovereignty and profess to believe that the intelligence of the people ia Is equal to every emergency emerged they only need the power and their thein voice on all matters is infallible being in fact fallt the thi voice of god there is a vast amount of folly in this very popular notion and in no department of human affairs has it been more clearly and forcibly demonstrated than in the efforts to establish a good sound and equitable qui table tabie system of and loday boday oday o day even with alf its enlightenment ind nd science this great la is still unsolved in solved all forms of human OP or man afu made maae governments heen been tried adv at various rious portions of the worlds history mo baich teai teal lc alboth both limited and despotic and republican I 1 rub lican but all have failed t to 0 answer thel thet great ends nor for which governments in in their earliest inception designed namely to secure preserve and perpetuate happiness harmony and prosperity among the people universally it is unquestionably true that under some forms forma of government there have been een more mote and I 1 equitable laws and liberty consequently the blessings of life and liberty and the pursuit of happi happl happiness ness have been more generally diffused than under others but nevertheless so far as securing anything like general happiness iness and prosperity to all classes all forms of government hitherto attempted have signally failed political reformers reformer siu sin in various countries have spent th the evest ebest best years of their lives fives and Imm bahse fehse sums of money ln in an fn propagating ropa gatino gating their peculiar views and in se securing curlue reforms and tha thy passage of certain lawsl laws which athey would prove a panacea fo for every ill there are few I 1 now ow living who have r reached maturity but allut what ban can b ber ter er or baab have read of the struggles that have taken place in i mod odi rn times in lif europe europi la in great britain there herd havu hive beed tr tremendous rn eldous political crises binca sinca commencement the ue t of the p present resent century oyer catholic tin tiani ehfe th repeal b of fabe corn I 1 laws jaws a s the extension of odthe franchised franchisee franch iset isee aha dha il lithe jbf A a bi but with etli all the accussio access abbe io 0 af power gained by eople iu iri thein their various atud it la i ben ber the aggregate bf hap whIt hiess fiess and morality is greater kow eow acan hran bemore before any bueb BUch heir their rulers in fran france thene there b have aap teben many ny changed borz or go ment feht within ithe has I 1 beera monarch cai cat limited add absolute and ind p power iker waa was wag in all ah their ent athe the golu tion of the problem seems coffas ever I 1 I 1 tha thi great cry dik diw a m g tbell beral agitators of ddlly am siu and arld frau Fran frances eels cels give tha th people power 0 we r give tt them em tb the privilege 0 mak inythe D the law laws 8 by aw which aich P they g are ire to tobe tobb bei ber go governed V er n ed a and nd this thi agitation W wil wll 1 I be continued tj u d until guiv universal 1 e suffrage is en r ill joyia dy he popl popi 5 That continent which we ute ure ata tuf told will moat poat mont moat isu assuredly realy adaway away with t the he ivies evils ofa ota ote a apolitical oi serial character now bow kesig xi sing but how far does human experience confirm the truth of sueha sucha notion le at our oun own I 1 experiment has been most since the foundation olour of our oar government by the patriots oty of the revolution the power has been baell strictly in intha tha hands of tbt the people Wha are the results of tb the exercise of that power have we Q any less corruption among legislators ana and government officials of all grades than exists in other countries where the people have less say in making thear their laws and in the election of all their pub lie officers than la in this country let the press of the country answer this question ies tes tion tiou tand la land and it lias has dond done and Is 1 continually linua 1 ly doing it IC and we are told that it is to t 0 say the least doub doul doulou efful fu whether cor eor corruption exists to sueh such ari art extent extant I 1 uk any government aa on the faick sc of the tb earth as in our own if the possession of power by the tha people were thin thing required requited tp to secure 4 just and equi b I 1 L system of government anid annd add arid purity iii iri its a verj very ert wrt ferent state of things might have wv looked forlai this country today to day than we pow be holo hoid hold political br radicals a la in give th the people popie power powen and a system i of legislation will soba soonbo be inaugurated chatwill tb th atwill establish just and equitable equi fable relations between capital t aud and labor and do away with the pauperism and distress neyr naw so fearfully prevalent j among the working classes birtal but although the power ia Is in the hands handa of the people aogle in this country we i 4 do not mee see sueh such sue suc happy results follow the exercise of that power for inthe in the principal cities of the unton there la 14 amount of bf poverty and pauperism ekls ekis existing and ancl were it not for he be almost boundless op porta port unities the people possess posses s of making themselves independent of cattalii Capt CapItal alii aill iq the unsettled or thinly gatti gattl d af pf f the country labor would be as coq coy completely overs laughed by capital in this country as in europe with these results following tho the eier exercise of power by the people who can wonder at the sentiment uttered utter edby by ml 1 dickens or who can caa doubt that he meant just y said sald namely that inthe people governing he be had bad but a small smal amount of ot faith falth but atit in the people governed that is governed on correct prin principles caples his faith was illimitable mr air dickens is a great reader of human nature he has observed it in all its oases phases and has beyond bayon d all doubt long since since come conclusion the masses of the people ari are not wisa enough to use power for the promotion of their best interests and that increase of power while it leads to an increase of liberty also leads to increased license and lawlessness if all mankind vire nire wise and good different dif dlf results would follow the use of power by them lut tut time arrives the people need peed to be governed governa d this is A a truth that human e experience la id all pt shea ikea gea as well as in our own times demonstrates beyond all cavil even amongst those tose most smitten wyth with the individual sovereignty 1 doctrine the problem of human government has however been left for tu people of hod tb the e latter day saints m to to solve and they are solving thet as wel well as RS other problems of the tho th greatest grea test tesi import ance fo to the he whole faw family 1 ay of man after i thousands of y years ears 0 of r ebern iett with very form forn of government dom ls Is capable to rot f deV devising qoria la showing his crea creatures ures that his system government is the only one that will ansen answer an anser sper tbt the wants of olin bojin in WD beings gs d lol lul tbt gap pap act ty communities in uin lin aties under tem established among erday ojay oisy oa V t ip 10 het roa roi 4 y k f t j g r A at i 1 ar ruei rued I 1 guari guar jated to wao who accept it lt dd t to the kf ot si n the fullest se thi word heyl hayi are bugli taught t I 1 printhe praet practice u ice cief of which wil wll en surg sure I 1 t bero bere int inn the e shot shod tuat that has slaps elapsed eo amen ort ott of this new experiment rg be sq I 1 le greater tea I 1 or bavo nave been heen a t in 41 ta morality oia ola it nya are 3 j th aa ven ver Were ngy nev under any ady man naab dayd I 1 ty d y 8 te I 1 IT ghisi b Is wili will cont dhe Ahe the tha goell goo results result of the re gen geu tare are qc t fa A ai ibata thaia thatA thatah lh reflect rug rog mi come p 6 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