Show 4 i PASSES v 1 1 t Mr Traill says that Sterne has no style Mr Traill is right but Sterne has more than style he has an irresistible charm and place in the hearts of all who have t I read him Who that ever knew Uncle f Toby forgot him And will not Corporal t 1 Trim be famous when the heroes of many I and great battles are not known even byname by-name They will have to be content to have their names in the register of God while Trims will be found in the annals of man The campaigns of my Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim will be studied when Jomini and his art shall be lost to the memory of man Very properly it is asked what has thatto do with the subject you have chosen for your topic today Merely f this that Tristram Shandy is preliminary to the Sentimental Journey through France and Italy and in that famous journey travellers were fully and accurately accu-rately classified the whole circle of travellers being reduced to the following I heads simple travellers being divided as follows I Idle Travellers Inquisitive Travellers Lying Travellers Proud Travellers Splenetic Travellers then follow r The Travellers of Necessity I The Delinquent and Felonious Travel I ler TJieUnfortunate and Innocent Traveller The Simple Traveller U And last of allif you please The Sentimental Sen-timental Traveller This is the classification of an hundred hund-red years ago the classification of Sterne in 1768 But things have changed since then and while the above list needs no special changing there may be added to it another class of travellersthe official pass class a numerous and persistent crowd who deem favors rights and rights favors The official passtravellers can be divided into as many classes as Sterne divided the travellers of his day into Let us make the attempt They are cx officio pass lers with passes divided as follows 5 3 Passes forwarded annually the first of each year These follow the office and not the man If the pass does not follow the office the official follows the pass 2 Passes which are originally for i 1 trips only with a usual length of sixty days Evolution aided by requests re-quests and importuning develops these into annuals of doubtful duration 3 Passes usually granted upon request the request being recommended The recommend always brings the pass The recommend brings other things to pass S also 4 I asses granted because he may do us somn good at least hell be our frici hoy exist during good be hay ti 5 3 ibies granted after much importuning impor-tuning and a full course of logic in which the wondr nil foat of making black appear ap-pear whit is p > rformed 6 Pas < iS ibt gad biennially for trips only 7 AIUIJI i j < 4 v secondary passes This class takes 1 a larger number than all others being ti pa yes what the sundry sun-dry items are to busmen Class one includes ° The Governor of Utah Territory The Secretary of Utah Territory The Judge of the Irst Judicial District The Judge of the Second Judicial District Dis-trict The Judge of the Third Judicial District The United States Marshal for Utah The United States Attorney for Utah Class two includes The Delegate from Utah Territory sometimes found in class one on various roads Assistant District Attorneys Clerks of the District Courts Sheriffs of various counties Various army officers Class three includes Deputy Marshals Postmasters United States Land Office officials Probate Judges who are occasionally found in class two County Commissioners Class four includes Assessors and Collectors School Trustees Trus-tees and those who are in with the various officers Class five includes Lesser county and city officers Class six includes Members of the Legislature and visiting statesmen Class eight contains too many to describe de-scribe all but it includes the families of those found in class one visiting friends and such in fact it includes all who have no special reason to advance save the universal one you do so for this or that one and why not for me It is a long list and shows many things in a very bad light In the list will be found no Cazots Does any living person suppose that these passes are issued on any other ground than that they are bread cast upon the water and aftermany days it will return The general impression impres-sion is that all the prejudice created is in favor of the railroads This is not sO for many officials knowing the suspicion which is apt to come front riding on passes are often induced to cater to the popular prejudice and dare not be just Here is the great harm and evil that the acceptance of a pass unfits a man to be fair and impartial and fairness and impartiality im-partiality in officials who execute or administer ad-minister tho laws are the safe guards of all laws and of the public at large If a juror in a suit by or against railroad company is approached by either party during the trial a suspicion immediately attaches to him and he never outlives it be the verdict what it may Why should not the same suspicion attach to the judge who sits on the case and lias an annual pass in his pocket over the line of the very road which is suing or being sued The whole system is wrong and should be stopped As the day of civil service reform has dawned would it not be well for all officials here Federal ana Territorial who are seeking to retain their offices to follow the example of Cleveland and pay their own fare It would tend to show that they were in earnest in their advocacy of reform and that it went further than their desire to be retained in office Utah is no worse than the surrounding Territories but that is no reason why we should not be better We know of an Idaho United States officer who threatened to apply to Carl Schurz for a pass over the Union Pacific and by the attorneys of the road was told that that was a good place to apply and he forwarded the letter telling him this to the General Manager of the road and complained of the manner man-ner in which his august personage had been treated Was it not disgraceful and ought he not to be allowed to go elsewhere else-where than into a United States office to earn a livelihood The whole subject is treated in the North American Review for January 1884 by Charles Aldrich and Judge N M Uubbard and should be studied by railway and government officials and put in practice |