| Show THE privileges WE ENJOY we wonder if anybody ever stops long enough in his regular pursuits to consider how highly favored in sh all respects is the land in which we live gelle generally rally and that portion of it enclosed by the boundary lines of utah particularly it does seem kt at times as 88 though bhough the human animal were so unreasoning and inconsiderate that he be is in almost every case came better off than he thinks think she he is ie being in many ways and the lue road of life made as smooth for him as is with his hie real welfare he only considers cona iders the rough places the uneven surfaces the annoying occurrences the trying sliu HIM attune and wonders scolds and chafes because of them and with some people everything that is is ia wrong other peoples people pa mode of living their practices and beliefs the laws aud and their operation lions tue the seasons the temperature the upon open face of nature aud even the glo ricus light of the sun all are bad or at least defective if 11 they are not cut sad and fitted tu to the peculiar formation or malformation of the corn tits mental menial structure and if it could be otherwise they would then be with something else few are duly appreciative of what real advantages they posers pu saes i sad and it is questionable it i there are any but what think they could improve them there may be a lew not 1 iu the latter class clans burthey but they are not numerous when colonel was asked in what particular he caul I 1 suggest an improvement ou natural things thinas he replied 1 I would have health catching cat cato hing instead of disease there la Is about as much depth in that as in anything else the noted infidel says for he is essentially a shallow man disease being a re suit of if violation of natural laws jaws and health a result of the observance thereof in ingersoll geroll would create anarchy in the midst of perfect order and plunge all created things into chaos in order perhaps that he might get rid of a cold that then troubling hi him hii I in the united states we have a form of govern government which to la the practical application 01 n and realization of the thought the study and the research of inspired men it Is in a form in IB which the strength of particles to is made most effective by being bound together and yet the identity and separate station of each particle is sought to be preserved without infringement or deprivation it strikes out oae cue form of blasphemy in mortal government by having no lords to bow down to and no divine rights accruing to any household by reason of lineage liue liae age but occurring to all through obedience to the author and his man dats its law when squared to the great charter curtails no man of any part of his natural freedom or his acquired property until by his own sot act such are subjected to curtailment always excepting his necessary but proportionate contributions to the state in time of need anere have been many departures from such prin pran caples when partisanship ran high bigotry found expression or sufficient alent consideration was not given but them did not make thra the institutions them solves selves any the less lees right nor the wrongs perpetrated under them any the less lees flagrant and in the long run the wrongs have nearly always been righted in one way or another it is right ano ana proper that there should be divergences of opinion regarding subjects with which we have to deal and that argument and reasoning should follow hence political parties each presumably having the wel are of all in view but holding to ta different views as to the best beat methods by which it can be accomplished thus a politician should be a patriot first making his partisanship a means meane to an end and that end the welfare of his bis people how different from this is the career and practices of the one who engages in politics for poli politics tjoe sake who makes it his practice by day and his dream by night his bis religion arad and his bis guide S aj steeped in the pra practice cLice of the slums does lie he become that to belong to another organization to is considered by him as 88 equivalent to being a criminal and in furthering the welfare of hla his particular organization any trick any departure from law that can be accor accomplished 1 with safety any perversion or of tact act or maneuver whether right or wrong in itself if it but aids aide the carsto Cau cause Sto is either practiced or encouraged more those men and newspapers that decline to enter the slums alums that dont care to handle mud belligerently if at all that do not care to le bound by others opinions as ag to the right and wrong of every question that have their own ideas and their own preferences and will not permit themselves to bell be gently led by the nose as asses are become the special mark for the assaults of the knights knigh ta of the pothouse and no misrepresentation is too wide of the mark no do Ins insinna inua tion too vile and no falte falsehood hood too coo temp tern tible to be employed against such independent citizen or paper the design Is to either torce force them to quit being independent and unconditionally champion one side or the other or give the some little fancied prestige by showing i how little they exercise the small email amount of mental power they fosseen when the bosses out the pace for them we are glad that hat this is a great big free country for notwithstanding uke the bauges Ift la buses which have grown up by rea na son on of its ita freedom and the accessibility of its functions to every tom dick and harry that controls olg a 94 pull here and there one can still be whatever be thinks best for himself or others and be under no obligations to render an account to anybody so ao long as statutory enactments are not infringed upon we appreciate the blessings and the honors pertaining to good citizenship in this favored land and respect the institutions which not only permit a man to belong to any aay party he be chooses or to none at all and protect him if need be in so doing As A a general thing he be does not need protection tec tion but he sometimes lias las to tu turn rn upon big bia annoyers |
