Show THE ORIGIN OF government notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather a goodly number of per sons gone among whom were many ladies assembled at the salt lake theatre last night to bear mr charles ellie ellia lecture on government the lecture was wall well delivered and full of interest and instruction mr ellis commenced with the origin of man and entered briefly into the theological and scientific theories relating to that subject the former theory represented man as a special creation the latter represented him as a development from lower life the lecturer lei did not pretend to say which theory was correct but inasmuch as created man fell and developed man ascended both harmonized in one respect viz that man at one time occupied a plane comparatively akin to I 1 total depravity the lecturer then went into the principles of political government saying that there was wac no record of any perfect government having ever existed if god created ran man perfect there was no need of a government for a perfect man would be law and government unto himself if according am to the scientific theory man was a development from lower stages then the source of government must be looked for in primitive savagery the savage represents individualism he Is at enmity with every living thing even with himself but in time necessity and the et struggle ruggle for life compel even individual savages to combine and form the tribe later tribes are forced by the sante necessity to combine thus is formed the federation trie mode of selecting chiefs was illustrated by reference to the country school of half a century ago when there were no school baams and the master had bad to flog the biggest and worst boy in school in order to assert his power to be the chief or ruler of that company ft reference was made to the remarkable part that belief in spirits has played in the gradual formation of human government the spirit chief still ruled his tribe through his hie successor the speaker touched briefly upon the apparent evolution of belief to in gods as shown among lower savage tribes first fetich laix secondly a plane of animalism so lao to speak and thirdly savage man had obtained a conception that goj was like himself perhaps through his bis belief in his spirit chief when savage man ba hai 1 reached a conception that as there was a chief supreme over the tribe there must be a supreme spirit chief overall over all chiefs he had laid the foundation for the proclamation that god was lord of lords when the time arrived monarchy became possible on the earth as a man made government ern ment the belief in a supreme god produced the priesthood as the medium of communication D between b e tweed heaven and earth when chiefs became kings over men they were subject to the priests and through them obtained from god a divine right to rule abe lecturer next glanced at greece and rome borne and passed to the feudal system of europe this system h he e explained very clearly and showed how it still existed even in england but the wheel of progress was in motion and the last vestiges of the old feudal system the house of lords and hereditary monarchy will have to go and a republic will take their tb air place the rhe american Amb rican republic was next touched anthe on the speaker contending that it was not the offspring of the english system but on the contrary the direct opposite the lecture was a comprehensive lucid and well arranged digest of the origin and growth of general government on next sunday night the subject of society in its relation to government will be taken up and no doubt will be handled in the same able and instructive manner mr ellis ellia said at the close of his bis lecture that he be had promise of good music as an embroidery so to speak to his plain homespun logic of facts he also said to a NEWS representative that hat he be regarded his bis lecture on society and government ment 1 9 as the best he has ever produced in utah he also expressed himself as being gratified that on mob a night so many people came to hear bear him the attention was excellent the audience following the speaker with an interest that was at times intense |