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Show In Georgia and in Utah. H In an editorial in his current magazine, Tom H Watson says: 'H "If it be true that the railroads have trampled H the Constitution under foot and established a mo- H nopoly in defiance of law, that fact alone should H damn them. No man, no set of men, no corpora- H tion, no combination of corporations, should be H allowed to make law for themselves in Georgia. H We should compel all persons, natural and arti- ficial, to respect and obey our laws." H Ha3 not that as, much application in Utah as H in Georgia? H We are torn here with contentions, and the H people are filled with apprehension and unrest. H Is it not true that there is a corporation here H that is a law unto itself? Does any law stand in H the way of its decrees? Does it not, to carry its H points, violate with impunity the Constitutions H both of Utah and the United States? Does it not H dictate who shall be nominated for and elected to all the offices in the state and counties? Does it H not pass upon all bills before the legislature and all ordinances before city councils, and decree jH which shall pass, which shall be killed? With one H brief interval has not this been the rule for nine H MHHHHHHHWHHHHHHHiR H ! and ilfty years? And docs not this include the j! slavery of man and the degradation of woman? H' f Is there not one man here, a common, ordinary H' mortal, without education, without one natural at- tribute of mastery, who in all his long life has never revealed one flash of native sovereignty of mind, who assumes that he has a right, a divine right, to rule this people, and does he not exercise that power day after day and year after year, re-gardless re-gardless of state or Federal laws? And is he not backed by twelve other men of like nature with Hj his own? What does it matter that this combine is rich and can support a press of its own to preach In- Hj ; sidious treason to the people, and can by crums H, tossed to them retain newspapers and men who claim to be self-respectful, to gloss over the trea-son trea-son and the lawlessness and to act as puppets in the conventions of the great combine? And when the rightfulness of one of these to hold a seat Hj among the august- lawmakers of the nation is called in question, and he himself admits in sub-stance sub-stance that his first allegiance is not to the Gov-eminent Gov-eminent of the United States, still a Senate com-mittee com-mittee hesitates month after month and year after year over what it should do, and at least two Sen-ators, Sen-ators, apparently oblivious to tho facts, when , called upon to present petitions asking that the ecclesiastic shall be denied a seat, go out of the Hi way to say, so sensitive are they to votes, that they could not do anything that would look like Hjj oppressing a man because of his religion. H, And a hired newspaper cannot refrain from Hij crying out a tearful protest against the spirit that would deny an alien in every instinct from having i a seat in that body so hallowed by the great souls that in life had seats there; a seat to help frame Hl laws for the free people of the United States. Hf There will always be men to protest against this Imperium et Imperio.no matter how fiercely native ; and imported liars may assail them and impugn their motives, and it will go on until the American Hr people will at last realize what the source of the Hv trouble in Utah has always been, and will put it H; down. |