| Show ONE orre OF or THE grievances SOME of the complain complaints ouid and charges preferred against the pepie of this thim region by their enemies enerle A aie ale very peculiar very ridiculous very childish veny very silly in fact one prominent charge is that the majority elect such officers as are chosen bytho by tho the local vote and the the majority of votes is invariably in favor of those who mho belong to or are supposed to bo be in harmony with the majority maj rity of the people this thi s is most indignantly 0 bantly and bitterly complained of an and d strenuously urged as one reason why special proscriptive prescriptive congressional leisla le legislation t isla isia should bo be ef effected acted against utah could there be a more ridiculous charge than thib this in tile tiie first place the majority vote rules through throughout out tile the union collectively and in every state and territory ther thereof thereon eor separately so far as voting is allowed Is it to be expected that the majority will select candidates for office from the ranks of their opponents the minority and so far as this territory is concerned from the cliques and coteries ies les and rings of their and avowed and malignant enemies such a thing is preposterous the only way in which the minority can hope to elect one of their numb number to coffle office is by the adoption of the method of cumulative voting in g a method which is complex compi PI e in working is not in operation here is in operation in very few loc localities cities in the union and is yet but an experiment anywhere individually dividu aly and collectively men would be considered natural fools if they elected to rule over them men who were their openly declared enemies whose energies were devoted to the destruction of their dearest and most sacred rights and privileges and uhe the reduction of themselves the fool foolish voters tens to a condition of or abject slavery politically and religiously it so happened that the people who ventured into tile the heart of the continent into the desert a thousand miles beyond the tile confines of the white mans settlements and settled these arld arid inhospitable and supposedly perfectly barren valleys proved them capable of self sustaining settlement made the pacific railroad a possibility gitya a century earlier than otherwise it would have been helped largely to build it when it was run across the continent emigrated scores of thousands of people from the old oid world filled these valleys with a hundred cities towns and settlement settlements fed the neighboring territories and caused two hundred thousand people to consider this region their home horne we say it so happened that these heroic people believed in one religion instead of a hundred this has been their chief of fence in the eyes of their enemies J from the beginning until the present prese arese nt momen tand the bitterest opposition and enmity have been engendered in the hearts ol 01 the latter towards the tiie former in consequence yet Yett hoso those niall malignant nant enemies wolf like actually charge the people with not electing P them those to office such a failure deserves condign punishment such as penitentiary imprisonment disfranchisement exemplary fine and even a hempen necklace ein eln in the opinion of those enemy candidates I 1 if ever over a people deserved the right of local self government it is the people who settled and developed this region if ever a peo people had abundant cause to vote for nor their frien friends dg and not for their enemies as rulers it is I 1 s the people who have made these valleys habitable and desirable if ever there were men yaen who did not deserve the suf fi frages ages of this community it is cheso very enemies who ft grunt and whine about not being the choice of the people whose liberties they are eternally endeavoring to destroy there is no just ground of complaint plaint because the vote voto of the majority rules that method is accepted elsewhere without question and as a matter of course in all other communities where they have lived the people composing this community have patiently and uncomplainingly and cheerfully submitted to this acknowledged ledged d method of government and even here where they are an undoubted majority they submit to the rule of a few officials who are not of their choice nor ever would be but bilt are sent bent here hero because it is in accordance with th will of the majority in the whole union uldon chat that t lat they should be tho the enemies enerle of the people here therefore have no ground of complaint because being in the minority also they are not elected by the community to local public office |
