| Show prohibition AGAIN A correction the very seasonable article by H D johnson to in thursday a paper la is based upon an entire mistake as to what la is advocated by the friends of prohibition in utah he closes the arbole with these worde the attempt to forestall legislation by an article in tue ane constitution might and probably would result in the defeat of statehood s exactly wei the opposite to la true the article of the constitution the submission of which to a vote of the people to la now being advocated has as its it very first clause these bordt oro robe be submitted to a separate vote of the people as provided by the schedule aud and ordinance S tt the emen men who are leading inabin in abia matter are not novices novice they foresaw the objection and saw also the justice of not linking inseparably two lunda cental propositions upon which men could honestly differ As they arranged the matter it the liquor power could marshal manhal every vote voie in the territory against the article and for its traffic this fact could not affect we the rest of the constitution a particle the vote on each will be as separate and independent is as that for the different candidates on ordinary tic ticketed kete thin fact effectually clears away the main difficulty ot or mr johnson johnsons John sous communication muni cation but another point or two swo should be noticed he further says in substance that since prohibition has not I 1 been sen under the 1130 occasion of formal ot the delegates to the convention they are under no obligation sto to regard the present or fluture wishes of their condi kuenle fuents in submitting the desired article for the constitution the berald lately voiced a similar sentiment editorially MU much ch to the astonishment and disgust of thinking people abt us examine the idea fant aby do we have delegates at all why did not congress appoint a committee in washington or new york to frame our constitution for fir us entirely to ask the question is to answer it kauch a constitution would not be bekurs cure and chuld not fit us how ever abstractly perfect it might be no government of the people by be people and for the people as linw id could possibly be either dished pr conducted on that hat basis it would be like our present territorial government in the very things which make every territory wish to become a state because it is their right and because no one else can do their civil business for them so go well this much is clear to all but it if the delegates are free to disregard the will of their constituents the people are left without representation in their own governmental affairs lairs af and their dearest civil interests are in the bands of a committee less lesa responsible than would bb that at washington or new york popular government is in at an abd if such principles are to be al lowee and we might as well end the farce now as to togi give voil il a form for only such it would beat be at best beat second this idea strikes at the very root of free government the numan human source of such government la Is the people the government itself in 18 ideally their will given tangible form in harmony the will of god tale proposition to la that their will be denied any chance to express itself in tangible form at alt ahl it smacks or of despotism it smells like a whiff from the bark a ark atee it reads read like a chapter from kenhans Ken nans s tales of we the russians it makes the blood of a son of revolutionary heroes boll with indignation it la is fraught with direst danger to our dearest in ID terest te reat lut us out upon it one and iiii it if the convention were to be composed of men each angelic in character and wisdom the he results would even then be bad but when we know that the entire liquor power oi of the whole united states staten la Is bandeu bandau in a lift laiu and drain death alliance against restrictive logia latin and la is utterly conscience lessin in its ita methods met bodi and more than human in its ita resources and when all 11 experience the fallibility 0 of man we have need to re member t oat Al eternal vigilance la Is the price of liberty 02 there are only two safeguards official corruption one to la personal character in officials and the other is to hold each representative ta closest strictest and most moat instant responsibility to his bis constituents the dinani unanimous opinion of we the many prominent men whom the writer has lately consulted to is that if id the prohibitory hibi tory article will be heartily adopted it if that is true the one point which we have to fear Is in that it will not be submitted and it il it be withheld it will then be because bause the do delegates legates are not true to their constituents and this probably because corrupt influences have been the liquor traffic always wants the question thrown into the legislature because then it will always be unsettled and the op ro for corruption always open i the constitution it will be settled let every friend of the glorious utah that is to be inform himself help to arouse others and insist that aile one gla glorious clous opportunity be not given over to the terrible evil of drink drans JOHN D NUTTING |
