Show correspondence THOUGHTS ON THE SITUATION MESA CITY arizona jan 1886 editor deseret news the poet burns says 0 ye wha are wise sue sae pious and sae holy yeve belve nought to do but mat mak and tell your neigh neighbors borle faults and folly this might be appropriately appropriately appropriate lK applied to the assembled wisdom of t the e nation now at washington particularly since they have shot their last and final shaft haft into the heart of a free and prosperous community of united states citizens living in the territory of utah could the judicial adi cial committee that drafted the pinal penal act against the people of utah bad as ever disgraced the legal pages of the most absolute monarchy the world ever saw foresee the consequences of such a violation 0 of f mans inherent right to freedom and protection on the future of this great nation they would have paused aused in dismay at their own reckless reck reckless folly had past generations in this nation witnessed the driving of that wedge which has lately entered into our free institutions it would finally have stranded us upon the shores of despotism and a handful of monopolists would today to day sway the destinies of fifty millions of people happily however for the nation at large this judiciary committee cannot ru rule le 16 forever rever the masses ye yet t have the power and the will to right such unwarranted breaches of that glorious document known as the constitution it is well said mat history repeats itself it has so done in every age and every clime it will do so again on this continent and that too within a decade of years and the obliterating year by br year of every guaranty ot of freedom lil in our constitution shall once more be rectified through the real source of power the mighty thunders of an intelligent tell igent people eo e I 1 would as ask these wise lawgivers law givers what has russia gained by her imperious labb how fares it with austria and turkey and finally what has fj england by ner years of cruelty to ireland gained answers the questions ions truthfully land and you must a acknowledge gest now ledge the fact naught but murder and rapine ne a and nd turbulence if as you bay a handful adf u of people in utah have defied the laws of the union by religious observances not in accordance with your moral code are you yon surely so devoid of intelligence as not to know that a great people will soon frown down such errors have you not intelligence enough to see that if they so far err in morality that the good and intelligent of their will doubly rectify the error and that too gentlemen of the judiciary without dishonoring such great names on lib artys roll as washington adams and jefferson mesa is quiet and peaceful its people are busily engaged in vineyard and orchard in wheatfield wheat field and garden we have had a splendid rain which was much needed and had boon been long desired our rivers are up and our canals booming a blessing to us all THOS S REILLY |