Show THE SUDDEN SHUT UP it must be confessed that tho first official stroke oi marshal parsons has bad a dazing caffi tt it found alie weak spot without trouble and touched it in no gentle way Ift iose were to be called now the victory would be accorded him question for the one blow has apparently knocked the antagonist entirely out of wind and resistance there is some writhing and blustering but no real evidence that the prostrate party intends to force the fighting further so tar it is well and the result meets general commendation if local strength cannat or will not step forward to protect the public peace and secure public safety then some other agency must be accepted for these things must be preserved if the city would live we ought to be thankful that ogden has so willing and powerful a friend within such convenient reach but there are crie numerous and various as to the despotic interference with municipal aal aire by the united states government as to alie invalidity of the laws and ordinances which it is proposed to enforce as to the boive a aich promoted the summary attempt of ft salt lake citizen by his aids and deputies to linage certain domestic of the city of ogden it may be broadly and truth folly stated that these cries emanate solely from members of the liberal party well the liberal party is at last getting a taste of its on n medicine their hobbyists lobbyists and friends were the ones who advocated and welcomed the passage of the law under which the has acted T e peoples party did not want it they believe in self government they argued that to give united states marshals and commissioners alie right to exer chae the same power as constables sheriffs she riffa justices of the peace and city peace officers all elected by the voters of the respective precincts was un ue publican democratic undemocratic un and un american but it was liberal Lib and so it became the law fur utah 11 a territorial law or a municipal ordinance which declares against gambling against prostitution against saloons all night and on the sabbath day is invalid because unconstitutional it has been reserved tor some of the liberal lighta biake the discovery we take it that such laws and ordinances combine sense with good intentions if this is the case no matter aliat te may retard or weaken them they ought to be endorsed by all good citizens and they ought to be enforced whoever attacks them or as an officer sworn to execute them fails to do his duty is an enemy to the public welfare it is true eliat the motive of any action must ba considered before the full measure 0 credit or blame can be accorded in the present instance it has been intimated that the desire is to drive away from 0 den and invite to salt lake a class of floating voters who have shown themselves handy at election time we love salt lako too dearly to rejoice in any lucli gain to ourselves at euch a loss to liar moreover we do not believe any euch motive can have prompted the order although the result suggested may really appear but the liberals of ogden who have entertained and expressed the idea ought to remember that disfranchise dis franchis ment disqualification for holding office and other peculiarities 0 american statesmanship exhibited toward aub have bad their foundation in a desire to help the minjo rity far more in aristi to make those privileges he penalty tor disobeying certain lawa take the beautiful idaho test oath for instance there was a motive for yon at hand precedents are abundant even if marshal Par motive were as bad as suggested coming down to the solemn facts in the case alio order lias had a wonderfully der fully purifying there is a wholesome poring in quarters anil of countenance on faces which lately wora a mot mo t prosperous smile the change we think n ill be ap landed by the beat elements of the party in power as well ao by the peoples party all may havo preferred that the cites own ulli fiala had paved her from this unenviable advertising but in the relief which is afforded we can endeavor to lone aih tol foreign intervention technicalities in good laws and questionable tio motives of eiery description has perpetrated a scoop forondo fo ronco it informs ite readers of a that has just occurred in the sandwich islands the is the only paper in the west that knows of such an incident |