Show GOD AND THE PEOPLE the following from the salt lake tribune the jekyll tide of the journalistic compound is redolent the human interest and philanthropic sympathy for which we are always wont to five dr jekyll full recognition 1 we do not wish to be thought iet but looking out over the whole country it does seem to us that the life of this republic i in more jeopardy than it was alie day before the battle of opened and the day before vicksburg surrendered there would be real cause for solicitude if a few of us were in reality regulators of the world and not like chasselas Has selas who pi his hallucination supposed that be regulated the seasons and that if h should oversleep in tho morning the sun would fail to rise it is all bosh to suppose that the gathering of a hundred thousand hungry men at washington ia going to endanger anything in reality there are at least two eoon ways in which the men could be utilized one would be to put them to building a ship canal t nicaragua another woul 1 be to enlist them in the army fia maintains an army of over a million france nearly a million germany and austria more than half a million eccli the united states can easily tab care of a million for a year or two if necessary to all these tremulous souls who look with fearful foreboding on the present speck of commotion we would commend the sublime though extreme of that grand old patriot thonia jefferson as exhibited in ats letter to colonel smith quoted in hares constitutional law page 13 it being in relation to shays rebellion god forbid that we berer be twenty years without such a rebellion we have bad thirteen state independent for eleven years there has been but one rebellion that comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state what country before existed a century and a ball without a rebellion and aliat country can preserve its liberties if its rulers not warned from time to time that this people reserve the spirit of let them take arms what signifies a few lives lost in a cent uror two the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants it is its natural manure our convention has been too raual impressed by the in in and on the spur of the moment alicy ore up a kite to beep the lieu yard in order without endorsing more than the fearlessness of Jei Tereon and his trustful ne in the ultimate of the action of the popl as a whole we have this to say that the time conr in human pro and the booner the better that when men look out of their heart for the conditions of welfare they must ccase lo 10 ask the plutocrats and alie mon op ollita and 1 political lor the terms on which society shall allowed to exist but rather let lliam put their ear to the heart of humanity and feeliks throbbing for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the truth and justice of god among his children law Is good but the highest law of earth Is the brotherhood of |