Show THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SPEECH PRESIDENT has cause to remember with the utmost pleasure his one days visit to the territory of utah f in n the course of his bis journey he may have found communities where more ostentatious dew decorations rations and larger crowds of people have appeared to greet him but considering the shortness of his bis stay here and the fact that salt bait lake to is still a comparatively small city we think he be will admit that in the extent and beauty of their decorations and in the sincerity of their friendship and patriotism the good people of utah left nothing zobede to be desired it is needless now to argue whether or not there wip was a studious arrangement of gramme pro to deny the chief magistrate the best beat opportunities tuni ties for seeing the city and the finest works of its citizens we do not know that such was the intention but it if it was wag candor compels the admission that it succeeded completely A notes the difference in this respect between the treatment accorded president grant in 1875 and that just fust given president harrison in the former case cam the desire of all parties was to give the guest the best beat possible opportunities port unities for meeting the people seeing their works and carrying away correct and favorable impressions impre asiona of the city and in the latter case came without baying anything aa to the methods employed or the narrow purpose that may have animated some minds there is nevertheless reason to believe that the impression made upon the distinguished visitor was in the highest degree favorable in lightning tours one may not always be able to learn sufficient clent from personal observation to be able to judge accurately at the same time an active and discriminating mind is seldom at a loss to know what part of hearsay evidence to reject and from a very few actual circumstances such a mind can usually form I a reasonably fair and intelli intelligent 9 ent judgment the remarks of president harrison both at liberty park i ark and at the chamber of commerce go far to prove that he possesses a mind of this character his concluding words upon the beauty of the american home where one woman sits in 81 single agle u uncrowned crowned xi honor the queen of that home were the expression prep sion of a sentiment to which none of his hearers bearers had the right to take exception cep tion Dest desiring ritti to touch upon conditions which have been in existence here the president cluid scarcely have said less than he be did some might have preferred that any reference to an antagonism that has had been obliterated should be omitted altogether the ML present has so much that is interesting that the past requires to be touched but seldom since the latter was alluded to however at lehst by inference president harrison must be praised for the delicacy with which he treated it and for the generous willingness he expressed to sink all discord with men of any creed so long as they obey the law surely such a spirit as this could give no offense ofie nse it had been better for utah if all the government appointees could have cherished and lived by it the part of the presidents liberty park address which deserves de deo nerves erves greatest attention has singularly enough escaped it we refer to his bis remarks about the purity of the american ballot sur bur rounding roun him at the time were mern members of the utah commission whose mighty labors in the managing banagi ng of utah elections have come under repeated notice in these columns not far distant were the members of the present city council on nell of salt bait lake six gix of whom are mccu occupying dying seats to which they were not elected and enjoying honors to which they are not entitled if some of these worthies did not bite their lips at the presidents vigorous words they are indeed past re remorse mor let us quote his words again they are cooj for a free people to listen to the characteristic of our american institution the compact of our government in that the will of the majority expressed by constitutional and legal methods at the ballot box be the supreme law of our community to the territories of the united states slates a measure of local self government has always been given but the supervisory control of the supreme legislative and executive power has been continuously as to the territories held and exercised by the general government at washington the territorial state has always been regarded as a temporary one the government has ha always looked foiw forward EL rd to a division of that vast domain first west and northwest of the ohio then through the louisiana purchase then through these accessions ces upon the pacific coast and the division of this vast domain into suitable sections for the establishment of free and independent states this great progression that has lined the work of creation has gone forward from the ohio to the pacific and now we may journey from maine to puget paget sound through constituted and established states the purification and purity of the ballot box those wise provisions that careful guardianship that shall hall always make the expression expresion of the will of the people fair pure and true is the essential thing in american life P was not this enough to make some of the presidents auditors blush and hang their heads do not their ears yet tingle with the reproof that the words convey and these harpies who flutter around seeking the spoils that are possible under the territorial and temporary natate of which the president speaks do they relish the full import and significance of his words how disappointing too to such per aop must m bet have been his closing sentence at the chamber of commerce 1 I hope you will expel from your mind the jealousies alousias that sometimes sometime ado do arise and go on successful in union of endeavors I on the whole we think the pres denvis dents talk has been by some criticized without due reason and by others applauded where it pierced them most moot of the latter are the tribune and its ito following who lose the sense and substance of the whole in clutching wildly at a single phrase |