Show righteousness IN AUTHOR ITY W WHEN lien the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but righteousness in officials the theeart sort of righteousness which makes the people to rejoice must be of a substantial and sturdy kind it must be not only the intention to do a fair thing but the invincible resolution and determination to do it withof fear or favor or hope of u j aist ie ward among the many representatives of the federal government that utah has been favor favored e d or afflicted with there have been some who have desired to act fairly to td all classes in the community and there have been a few who would do that thing please or displease but the tho number of such have been really few some borne have run well for a while but have eventually been overcome by lust just or fear lust just for power and pelf or fear of being thrown out of office and of losing caste with the party and have perverted their official power powe r to the prejudice of many of the people of late years one of the principal causes of official defection in this regard has been the weakness of official elat clat humanity when confronted by the coarse brutal bullying of the ring organ no capital worth boasting ot of has ever been made by such defection but tha poor weak officials do not seem to think of that they are evidently too scared seared to think of the subject in a cool and rational manner and hence their knees totter their backbone weakens their teeth chatter and they succumb after a very brief siege thenceforth they be cometo a greater or less degree servants to those whom they have listed to obey there is a true saying r resist the devil and he will flee from you and if these weak kneed slim nervous officials would only take time to think thinka a little and assert the dignity and 11 integrity of their manhood if they have any they would soon find cut that the ring organ and the ring itself notwithstanding all their indecent brow beating boating and 1 ferocious 4 bullying aie are impotent to inflict permanent injury upon those who righteously fear them not and who will not swerve from the path of duty ito to please them in fact borall people official or nonofficial non official there is only one path of safety and that is the path of duty which is to those who follow it the path of righteousness wr |