| Show encroachments ENCROACH MENTS UPON POPULAR RIGHTS we divic space today to day to an intemperate letter from some young men who have started the practice of law in logan and who appear very anxious to have terms of court of the fourth judicial district newly erected held in the beautiful capital of cache county we have suppressed a few vulgar expressions in the letter but have made no change or omission in their argument careful reading of the letter and of the article which they appear to think gave occasion for it and which we now reproduce will show that they have been too ready to take offense ense that they h have magnified the brief reference of this paper to their youth the only remark of the kind being these young men and that they have not met the objections offered by the NEWS to their endeavor through the bitterest and most persistent enemy utah has in congress to endow the governor of this territory with extra powers the fact that these powers were only petitioned for as temporary mp does not alter the question quee tion involved the governor has been trying with all his might and cunning to obtain autocratic authority to curtail the powers of the legislature and to enlarge his own prerogatives at the expense of popular rights and the sacrifice of republican principles the petition sent to senator edmunds by these young men benj there is nothing in that phrase oat that should excite the ire of any sane person was in favor of a step in tho the same direction it also assumed with judicial diction and manner maliner to decide a question as to the constitutional powers of the legislative assembly of utah it reflected upon the course of that body it assumed to speak for the people of cache among whom we venture to say my there are not more maro than one in a 4 hundred who want courts to sit and draw the kind of people they attract in tap he favored and peaceful city of logan and further in addressing this petition for something that an immense majority of the people do not want to the man of all congressmen who is most inimical to citizens these young menly men passed by the delegate from utah who is ever ready to advance anything that is far the true interest of the territory and thus exposed themselves to the just jua criticism of the friends of the people but there was no 9 abuse of any person found in the company of mr edmunds and no attack upon them as can be seen by reading the article As to the true I 1 linward inwardness neall of the matter Is ia it not in the over anxiety of these young lawyers to have the district court Courts sit itin in logan and thus increase the prospects for legal business and is it it not a fact that they did not seek the aig aid of delegate a friend to to the people but invoked the help of the peoples enemy because they knew that the powers they wished to be con ferrea upon the governor were in hostility to the work done by friend and in the line of the assaults made by foe we call attention to those sentences in their communication to mr ed munds which we have italicized and we think without any ank further comment they will of themselves prove that our remarks were strictly just and we think that examination of the whole matter will show that instead of abu abusing singly these young men we treated their action with great forbearance the only vituperation that appears in the controversy is contained in the letter over their signatures which we print today and in the viler expressions we have omitted As to the duty of editors in watching to the minutest details the rights of the people defending them and resist ing all encroachments encroach ments upon them we think the public will agree w wi 1 uh h us it is better to err if at all on tile the aide of vigilance than by way of apathy and sloth herbert spencer says A patriot loves liberty as a miser loves levea gold for its own sake and at once resents the smallest invasion of the peoples peopled rights if they wha stand up for popular rights against autocratic power are grumblers grumbl ers then such men as jeffer son madison mill and spencer whom we have quoted are among the grumblers grumbl ers and we are in excel excellent leiA company utah has been aller encroached cached upon continually and it has become necessary to protest repeatedly against attempted invasions of her liberties Po posterity will recognize the gallant fight wit that has bien been made here for fundamental da republican principles and will honor the grumblers grumbl ers 1 I who have resisted wrong and contended for the right it will not redound to the credit of any of sons gone be they youthful or matu mature that they have joined to in any degree or for any motive with those who sought to curtail the rights of uie people and enlarge the powers of an ambitious federal appointee nor will it bring them either honor or profit to fly by into boyish petulance at fair criticism of their rash conduct and claim to be abused when they are only mild mildly ly corrected to those of oar our readers who are sufficiently interested n this matter to red the whole controversy tr tro versy overy we cheerfully leave its determination mi nation or and have no fears of the result |
