Show SIGHT IS UPPERMOST a the OGDEN HERALD congratulates the law abiding and law loving lovig I 1 e citizens of Brig brigham liam city upon the success of their struggle for honest and d popular local self governa government vt yesterday the beautiful little capital of box elder has done dohe her elf self proud and the adders and abt ten term we use the pronouns pro advisedly of spoliation and a rule or ruin loucy have hake receive received ed a stinging defeat and undoubtedly they are correspondingly despondingly ly eore sore the sum and sub stance of all the oppress oppressive lue leg le gisia lion tion against the majority of citizens is an au abnormal desire on the part ofa few political tricksters to obtain control of the local off offices icee and to achieve this object they are willing to subi erve very every human right and trample upon justice and 6 freedom cwm of action the windy verbiage and maudlin thread i f i s of ok a few demagogues and the crafty of the ring organs have hive not deterred deferred the ilie people from froni standing up fur for their and ind honestly ho lo dest nestly y contesti contesting Dg the e ir orts in men e n to rob them of all that they possess the ti chimers for plunder and pelf peir reck boned without their host while they have been vociferating whom alif they T have berated have califia calmly y awaited the contest and when it came met it fairly and squarely equa rely we mention this not because lieuie we glory in the discomfit ure of in any 4 person but because I 1 I 1 it is gratifying to every one toncie to note that demagogy has received a re rie jouke buke and the gren greatest amount of ag goodgo good to the greatest num berof people will be preserved pres erred several points fur for contest have been pre preserved and it will now be on order to force these atle questions s eions to an issue to see just where the mati ter blands the latest piece of le legislation gl altIon for the op pedal ecial benefit of f utah is we arc are satisfied e tut ut ional and will nut not bold hold water to secure a raviel review of the obnoxious provisions orthis of this measure should be the next move and when ja 1 decision V has bu been obtained we are satisfied the members of f the peoples party avill abide by it and suffer the consequences if any there be we are well aware that the hypothesis upon which the petty ri ejof schemers against the best goodof the people of utah work is that the mormons have bave no right to radean objection to ja a subservience vience of their rights tights a As aj citi iti zenic K J and in individual divi duil members of a great the thi charge I 1 of of afe loyalty is easy tobe pie preferred ferrO but there isa it ques iq P of 1 precedent and princ principle I 1 i ale in evolved which the howlers europ fur op Uj Jk ermion eion generally lose 1 sight ig fit of As A well might aman aiman who being mulct led id fur for an infringement of any municipal or territorial law takes an appeal to a higher 1 court be accused of being a wilful law breaker an and one who has no r respect especto ur r afi the e corn com moa moo rule rules that exist fur for the breser of law jaw and order in every coul community in such a case case we take it this course ie is pursued because of a suspicion that absolute estice justice hrs bra not been done and his rigus agae have been abridged it would be as consistent to charge dislow disloyalty alty in in one case as in the other no man is denied the right of appeal from any decision or construction of law awrich he considers unjust and if 7 1 in 1 12 tao the 0 o opinion of a majority of toe the people of utah any 11 a statute is a migrant fin grant violation of coniti tuti ozal es of itu human ai liberty b they aey certainly y have v t th e coolest it on li fegal al 9 ground rou ads V the cra van d bouts shouts of trea treason tion from a digap pointed set of hungry office seekers to th the contrary the ribald threats of prosecution for perjury and mother bombast boni baet of a similar nature are in a line with liberek 1 rules of procedure re the defeat that has met the effort si if the schemers for place and drogt ie 18 railing galling indeed but wo we suppose the they y must endure it yet fur for a season the wry faces that accompany the swallowing of their medicine recite mingled I 1 feelings oc or commiseration and aud contempt but their experience is that which must alway always follow a course which 1 8 not attended with ho honette bon eity netty but which is jut intended nf edal a short route to power aided by bi a disregard of the rigby of indi individuals riidu alsandor alsan and dof of a combined community |