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Show INDUSTRIALISM, The fact that the Carter industrials are now in the county and that they will be In this city m a d-iy or so at moet, makes the above an appropriate theme Indeed. We have no desire to wound or wrong anyone in the treatment treat-ment of this subject, but we believe that the time to drive right theofiea home to the people.is the moment when certain principles are applied to the circumstances of every day life. The theory of this government, so far as the powers of tne people are concerned in the government, Is, "the largest measure of liberty to the individual citizen consistent with the safety of the whole." So far may he go but- no farther, and the eworn officers aided and guided by the law.determine when the safety limit has been reached. It is a constitutional right to petition congress, the senate as well as the president upon any question as to the afety of the people or their interests, or even their preferences or prejudices, but in presenting these petitions the petitioners are not allowed to distress others, assemble in large bodies to the distressing and alarming of the people or the destruction, detention or the ; ha zand of the property of the citizens. The claim that the industrial armies haye the right to appropriate the engines, en-gines, trains and tracks ot the railroads, rail-roads, or that there is any justification in their so doing, is a monstrous one. It wont hold 'water for a moment. We know that the panic so long prevailing pre-vailing has worked infinite hardship for the laboring classes, but even this does not warrant them in breaking the law. Neither is it right for them to expect ex-pect that in times of stress such as now prevail, the government will furnish them food or work, or rather that it is a nursing mother for those who, from any cause, fall by the Way-Bide. Way-Bide. ThtB is a republican goverment before which one citizen ia as good as another, bo long as he obeys the law, lie only loses caste, loses his rank in the citizenshi p of the country, when he infracts the law. The assembling of large masses of the people together in implied threat of the public tranquility is an offense, and while the law is disposed to deal leniently with such offenses as this, yet there is a line beyond which thete "petitioners" will not be suffered to go. There seems to be revolution in the air, The public mind is in a state of chronic chron-ic irritation and surely now is not a fitting time for patriots and law-abiding citizens to pursue a course which may add to the unrest prevailing in the public mind. Judged by this rule the patriotism of these "armies" is not on'y questionable, but their respect and reverence for the authority of law is by the tact of their banding, altogether, alto-gether, questionable. Not all the unemployed un-employed in the country can prevail, or accomplish anything ot consequence for themselves or their fellows outeide the law. There are legal lines which they cannot pass in safety. The "army" now here dares not maltreat, threaten or abuse, in any way, the people of Utah county, and hope to go scot free; neither will they be suffered to put in jeopardy the property of the railroads or the citizens. It is a long weary way to Washington, Washing-ton, and a few miles after leaving this city on their way east, the "army" will encounter the desert through which they, without a commissary train, an excellent quartermaster's outfit, cannot hope to make their way. This being true, they can only hope either to steal a train and go on, or to quarter themselves upon this county. They can do neither. The railroad is resolved not to permit the first, and as to the latter, the people have barely enough for their own subsistence atd will not giye the food provided for their helpless families to those as able to work as they are, and who have no sort of claim upon them or the community. |