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Show I A Little Chapter on Loyalty. We are awfully glad that the boys ,o the I High School are going to see the fleet. Glad on ! every account. Admiral Evans was named a I cadet from this Territory, and then the boys of Utah need lessons In loyalty more than those of S any other State. In a current magazine there Is jl an article on the theme that two sovereigns can-jl can-jl not exist in one realm. Thl&Vsame thought is II given in Henry IV, when Harry Monmouth tells M Hotspur: "Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere." B All the trouble that there is in Utah, all there B over has been, has been due to the fact that there ,'B is a government here which is determined not to submit to the government of the United B States. There" have been endless prevarications; B there have been false charges of persecution; B there have been anathemas against malicious B people vho would persecute a non-resisting peo-B peo-B pie for their religion's sake. Those charges B have had their Influence here and abroad, but B here has never been the slightest truth in them; B never the slightest honesty In them. They have B been deceptions from the beginning, because all B that has been demanded from the power that B claims to be sovereign here is that it shall come B under the laws which every good citizen of the B United States obeys as a matter of course. B Hence we are exceedingly glad to see""the B boyfs jo. They will see the sovereignty of the B United States as represented on the sea, pano- B plied with all its power and splendor, ajid on B their plastic hearts an impression will be made B of the majesty and the glory and the beneficence B of that government above them which offers B every opportunity to Its children, and which B holds Its sovereign power always in readiness to B defend their rights, to protect them, and to keep B them the freest people on all this earth. B The election Is coming on. We shall see this B power professing its loyalty and its devotion to B the country. We shall see Jack Mormons loud In B their praise of the loyalty which exists here, and B we and they will know all the time that it is only through "the hope of getting a little help from H this despotism which rules here that makes them H cringe to It and utter praises in its behalf, which H they know are not true. But these boys that are H going to see the fleet are going to see more than H tho fleet. They are going to see the west coast H manifest Its loyalty to the flag of the navy and H the army as tho Instruments through which the H government in time of stross works out Its de-H de-H crees and holds its place In the forfcfront of the H nations. H The old world nations have been growing for H a thousand years. They have beat down one H barbarism after another. They have wrested H from the tyranny of priests and kings one right H after another. In, tho last fifty years they have H learned to talk about the rights of the people. H They are growing toward liberty, but our nation H came to the world as Minerva came frpm the brain of Jove, fully equipped, and In a trifle over H a century it has wrought more than any nation in the old world wrought in a thousand years, H simply because it opened this continent to tho B endeavor of the Individual luan.. They said to JB him, Here are all of these opportunities open to l you; here is every honor open to your children ff they liave iihe bralnsand the strength and tho tenacity to go in d win. And the boys will get the refleotlorrsof 'gi&t work of a hundred years that will be reflected in the great fleet and its sullen guns, in the great city that out of wreck and dfSJjt in two years haa almost restored itself; it-self; ia the enthusiasm of the thousands that will congregate to do honor to the flag; and they will neyer be again quite such boys as they were when they went awtiy. Their visions will be broadened, their hearts will be expanded, and to them will come full realization of what it Is to be a full American citizen and to hold an even place with all the other boys of all this great Republic. |