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Show The Hera'd should not fcrget th" lesson read to old England once upon a time by the "diealiected" in hjr North American Colonies. Is is ihe business of the convention to consider the will of the people, even in m?kin? a consti tation. The right of petition is a vert Jcacred one and is provided far and guarded very solemnly in our fuud.-. mental law. Taen jisttnwthe Herald Her-ald can coldly and calmly commotio the conventloi tor passing on wi.h-out wi.h-out regard to them is beyond our ken. There are a good mauypeople who art ( not pleased with the new constitutioL and they but exercise an iuaiienabk rght when they speak their olje :tions To call all this "bluff" and the rantiii of soreheads is as far from the truth at it is from good sense or good tastt either. It is not fair to denominate I U no dislike th constitution, haters 3t statehood. The New S:ar has soue excellent deason supporting home industrie?. The Utonian why is ashamed to be een In any company anywhere on this iarth in home made clothing, should aioya at once over into Nevada. TLis is no country for him. Now that prohibition pro-hibition is laid to rest we may remark that our home-niido beer isn t bad and t home distillery where one could get good, plain, unadulterated homemade home-made whisky wouldn't be a very bad ,hing for those who wi 1 drink it anyhow, any-how, and our farmers who raite corn, re and wheat wouldn't be set back to any remarkable degree, to say nothiDg jfour orchaid men. A bit of a nip ot iood peach or apple braniiy along about Christmas, say, ia found o e a pro-uylaciie pro-uylaciie of no mean LHrcier. Au. the papers oi Utah are saying rhat prohibition has been deh-aud, This is inaccurate. It has only failed Co force itsolf into the constitution. It a just as vital a question aad as taeily Utained as ever. There is no reason why a futura legislature may not sub uiit an amendment and brinac the whole question up attain when it ould ba fully diecuaBed and a more cunect appreheDB'on of the question result. Li would have been far batter to have submitted woman's suffrage to the same process. The Odeu Press asks this question: 4tIs the arrest of John Beck on the charge of unlawful cohabitation a part of a program agreed upon by certain persons to bring the people of Utah into disrepute for the purpose, if possible, pos-sible, of defeating statehood?" Doi't know, 'm sure, but Sam Jones' recipe would con e in here nicely. Let John Beck and all other offenders "quit their meanntss." We cannot believe that such a crasade as the Press indicates was ever contemplated by any sane man for any such purpose. JoaN Beck isn't the only sinner in Utah, and not all the sinners belong to the Mormon church either. Back ib bad enough, perhaps, but he is no worse than many others, even in New York or Bainted New England. The future marble cutters will be called upon to add the legend on their tombstones to the list ot their patron's virtues, "He was not a member of the constitutional convention." Logan's tears are coursing down ever smiling faces. Her blessed agricultural agri-cultural college is safe. Good for Logan. Tm democratic party is for silver. It must ever remain the silver party. It is no longer the Cleveland party. The trice Advocate must get after its roller boy. |