| Show FAILED railed As a matter of fact the modem movement nt to obtain special legislation against utah failed in the dic forty second congress not withstand tile thle frantic efforts made in each of its sessions but especially in the last to drive through such sueh legislation upon tile tite effecting of legislative action of that kind the hopes of the ring here were based after the blow to their expectations by the decision of the supreme court of the united states a few months back the hopes of the wicked frequently fail and sometimes at the vory very moment of long expected triumph such was the case in the tile present in instance stanco and it is certain that though man proposes god disposes and overrules for good no 0 o special legislation of the tile kind urged was needed if it had been accomplished I 1 it would have been purely a w work ork of supererogation though not one to m redound to the tile credit of the workers if the officials of this terri territory tory would endeavor to do their plain duty honestly ili in accordance with the tile law and the constitution and in the true spirit of american liberty there would be found little need of any very material change in tho the laws of the territory or or of the tile laws applicable to the oile territory so far as they are strictly in accordance with the spirit of the tile time lio iio honored nored charter of american government but sorry we are to have cause to say it the tiie legislation that is so eagerly sought for and so rampantly pushed lipon congress is of a diametrically opposite character depriving the people of their rights and an d thrusting almost all power into the hands of a very few persons who are not in union unior harmony or sympathy with the people p le not chosen by them but imposed upon them in opposition to their well known and plainly enough manifested desires this is not republicanism it is imperialism it is despotism it is at deadly enmity with both republicanism a and rid democracy therefore do we consider that congress and the tile country have cause for congratulation that this desired but disastrous kind of legislation was not brought C about ili in the forty second congress that the tile efforts of the originators gina tors and find promoters of such if legislation gi proved conspicuously futile it may maybe be yet that thata a special session will be called and that some kind of a proscriptive prescriptive atall bill will be passed therein be that as it may 1 1 it t will be all right but of th this is til thing ing we are well enough assured if congress knew the situation and tile tiie character of the tile utah ning ring as well as we do no sueh such legislation at 0 11 would ever be dreamed oey of by tile tiie solons who wilo assemble ili in washington iii lri ton |
