| Show TYRANNY by readi reading rAg the ogden papers I 1 learn that there thee exists in that towo town a widespread fear that the carnival will advertise the ra rapacity macit y of certain classes of her ht r denizens more effectively than it will her attractions to investors there beg 4 11 to be apparent for example a move among the barbers looking to an advance in the price of their services during carnival week rhe fhe disastrous effects which would follow the consummation of sueh such a conspiracy were easy to forecast imagine a bloated millionaire tom from an eastern city who has come to ogden on a cheap excursion ticket seating himself in a barbers chair under the expectation of paying fifteen cents for a shive sh ive then imagine the consequences when the tonsorial gently breaks to him the news that the price of a shave in ogden is twenty cents instantly there will fide from the million atres mind all plans and scheme for resuscitating ogdena quiescent iron works no packing house with stock yard attachment in such a place as ogden for him what capitalist can afford to invest his wealth in a city where barbers charge twenty cents for a evidently the prominent real estate men of ogden have reasoned thus and have sought to preserve the reputation of the town fur for cheap shaves by appealing to the city co council u net 1 we are deliberately informed that a committee of that lawmaking law making body took in hand the matter of holding down the barbery prices and that committee are credited with sut su cess in securing the theaS feurance assurance that timber would be cut from the faces of visitors to the carnival at prices in this connection an ogden paper urges that the city council take measures to prevent extortion ilik in the prices of anything it says sas the police officers should be given strict orders to arrest any person caught charging any more than the regular price for anything offered for sale on the streets or in any odthe of the stores I 1 I 1 this is not said jocularly it is a grave editorial utterance and the paper putting it forth claims to be Jeffer jefferson soman lan in politics poetics cs and to hold that a popular form of government is preferable to an autocracy it pretends to believe that there are still vestiges vestige of constitutional limitations remaining in america which local legislative bodies ought to observe yet it urges that the ogden city council shall fix the maximum prices at which food to d and merchandise shall be sold lodgings furnished and personal service rendered in that cuy the police are to be re quiren to learn the regular price of everything offered for sale on the streets or in auy any of the stores and to arrest every person detec detected teu I 1 in n bulling the market on any article whatsoever can absurd absurdity iLy farther go yes shocking as the above proposition is to every sense of law justice or the physically possible its absurdity remains to be capped by the same writer who reasons the city grants all store keepers and venders benders of every description a license and for that reason there can be no doubt of we right of the council to regulate and control in a reasonable manner all classes of business for which licenses are required because a city council corneil grants a license to a restaurant keeper it may prescribe the prices on his denul menu the ci comstance that a municipal government permits for a small cash consideration the proprietor of a livery feed and sale stable to do business it nay specify the price for an hours hour Is use of a horse and ancl budgy for a feed of oats and hay and even name the figure at which a horse shall be sold the fhe doctrine that all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed has been replaced in the colu columns ans of this ogden paper with the proposition that all powers of government are based on a license gro granted by the city the attention of the he selectmen of weber county whose duty it is to look after the indigent and insane is respectfully directed to the editorial stool of the Jeffer soulan newspaper news piper lately established in ogden if its occupant shall be at ad judged harmless find and ps sessel of sufficient intelligence to pick oakum or follow some like employ employment men t ar range ments might pt perhaps reaps be mad fur fr him to earn his food in that wa way to spare the public the irden burden w his support careful inquiry how bow ever may developed dev lope elope the fact that h tu proper sphere is some sequester sequestered asylum for incurable imbeciles imbe ciles J but all al forms of levity aside tb fact that a newspaper in 0 oden den fo the purpose of furthering the ini teresta in which the carnival W wa conceived advocates the exercise everel exer cis by the city government of such un ut t exampled tyranny as would beth be tbt regulation by it of the prices labor services and commodities id it dicatos an extraordinary condi condition conditto tio or of public sentiment to the that such expressions meet with 11 no resentment on the part of the tb people very respectfully constitutionalist |
