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PEMBROKE'S RETIREMENT. COUNCILMAN PEMBROKE, during his fifteen months' incumbency of an office to which the community believes, the figures prove, and Judge Zane decides, he was not elected, must certainly be credited with some very sensational, if not sensible, acts and utterances. The crowning feature of his meteoric career as an official will be found in the minutes of last evening's Council meeting: he not only infuriated the "Liberal" bull in its own ring by flaunting before it a banner which it feared to approach, but he planted, on retreating, a sharpened dart deep in its quivering sides, and left it to its own mad agony. Plainly speaking, he renounced and denounced his colleagues and the "Liberal" ty, and retired from both; and he tells the why and wherefore in a few brief

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80 Democratic that the Democratic poration in Utah to own property of House of Representatives will be glad greater value than $50,000. In 1887 to push an enabling act through; at the the "Mormon" Church possessed real the President can easily see in the property worth $1,000,000. By the ensame time the Republican Senate and estate worth $2,000,000 and personal inchoate State a fair fighting chance forcement of what is known as the for the success of their party. Con- Edmunds law of 1887, the question of cerning Utah, the correspondent makes confiscating "Mormon” Church propthe singular discovery that the "Liberty over $50,000 in value under the erals" are leading the statehood move-law of 1862 came up. The Supreme ment. Says he:

Court of the Territory of Utah decided "The anti-Mormon laws which were that the confiscation was valid. This engrafted by Congress into the Constitu- decision was sustained by the Supreme tion of Idaho are reported to work so willing to risk them in laws which would maintained by the defense that the well that the Gentiles of Utah are now Court of the United States. It was give them statehood. Utah would be Republican by a large majority, with the property was a trust held by the corand yet the Democratic House of Con- by donations, bequests and contribuvoting qualifications which govern Idaho, poration for individual members who gress could not refuse to adopt such pro tions accumulated it, and placed it in visions if giving statehood to the former." The item is chiefly interesting as the hands of the Church as a trust. showing with what charming facility This claim was disputed by the United your average newspaper correspondent States. disposes of the weightiest questions of the day. He can carve out a new question of whether the law of 1862 State and settle grave political prob- was violated or not. The Supreme lems with all the ease and dex- Court held that whether this law exterity of the proverbial pirate isted or not the corporation could be when proceeding to scuttle a dissolved. But the Sentinel means to ship or cut a throat. Nothing equals show that the American principle of it except the speed and airy abandon government has been violated, and with which some of our local cotem- this it can do without touching on the poraries are building great railroads in law of 1862. impossible places.

AS TO CHURCH CONFISCATION.

The Sentinel does not touch on the

The Supreme Court in its decision of 1890 says:

We are opposed to the idea of men resigning positions to which they have been elected, no matter how unpleasant their duties in those positions may be made by others. If the others are wrong, so much more reason for the one to stand at his post-he may not prevent but he can hamper their crookedness; he may not be able to resist their assaults but he can be a thorn in their side. We are still more opposed, however, to the idea of men holding office to the exclusion of men legally elected to that office. In the 1891, has a very able article entitled, THE American Sentinel of May 7, former case, to hold on requires com- "The New American Revolution." It bativeness and courage. In the latter relates solely to the decision of the case, to hold on implies at least a United States Supreme court of May willingness to receive other men's 19, 1890, on the confiscation of "Morgoods. Mr. Pembroke's resignation mon" Church property. The Sentinel will probably not help his legally elect- holds that according to the Declaraed competitor a particle, and his hold- tion of Independence the principle ing on could not be regarded as a underlying our government is, that it virtue as we have described it. It had is "a piece of machinery which the orable court, it may be inquired, why been nobler in him to resign earlier people set up in order more fully to should not the modern doctrine be ap

and for the reason that another deserved the seat. But, for all that, we cannot say that his present course is altogether without merit. He has left his late friends something to ponder over, and that if of itself is a good thing. If they think more they will act less.

IS IT SO EASILY DONE?

"When a business corporation, insti
tuted for the purpose of gain or private
ment of its debts, equitably belongs to
interest, is dissolved, the modern doc-
trine is that its property, after the pay-
its stockholders. But this doctrine has
never been extended to public corpora-
lished rule prevails, that when a corpora-
tions. As to this, the ancient and estab-
tion is dissolved, its personal property,
like that of a man dying without heirs,
sovereign authority."
become subject to the disposal of the

In reply to this the Sentinel says:
"Now with all due respect to the hon-

trine be adopted in such cases, when, to face of the principles and institutions of do it, it is necessary to proceed in the the government of which the court is but

a part. When the ancient doctrine is government must likewise be adopted, adopted the principles of the ancient because the ancient government is but ancient government. And the principles the expression of the principles of the of all those governments were directly the reverse of the principles of this govas we proceed. It is in fact seen in the ernment. This will be seen more fully above expression that personal property, in such cases as this under consideration, becomes subject to 'the sovereign au

plied to public corporations as well as to make themselves secure in the enjoy-private? Why should the ancient docment of their rights." This principle underlies all the constitutions of the Union, both State and National. The great aim of the revolutionists was to frame a government that would be impersonal, and above all subordinate to the people. This they succeeded in doing. The Sentinel says that the work accomplished by the fathers of A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Republic is now trampled under several Eastern and Southern news- foot by the Supreme court of the papers informs his readers that an United States, and that the prineffort will be made this winter to ciple of European despotisms thority." secure statehood for Utah and Arizona, has been made the rule of law. The question now arises who or and that the well-known position of It emphatically asserts that the Ameri- what is the sovereign authority. BanPresident Harrison in favor of grant- can principle and system of govern- croft says in his history of the Coning statehood to the Territories that ment has been supplanted by the Brit-stitution, Book v, chapter 1: "Is it will be benefited by self-government ish and Roman. Continuing, the asked who is the sovereign of the lends color to the opinion that the Sentinel makes this presentment of the United States? The words sovereign effort will succeed. As to Arizona, the case: The act of Congress of 1862 pro- and subjects are unknown to the Concorrespondent thinks its complexion is hibits any religious or charitable cor- stitution." It is true that the people

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are sovereign; but they do not exercise their sovereignty authoritatively as such directly, nor of themselves. Bancroft further says: "The people of the United States have declared in their Constitution that the law alone is supreme; and have defined that supreme law." It is plain that to sustain the Territorial court, the United States Supreme Court had to seek for a sovereign authority. And as there is no such thing known to American principles, the court was necessarily driven to foreign governments for their authority. The Supreme Court further said:

"The principles of the law of charities are not confined to a particular people or nation, but prevail in all civilized countries pervaded by the spirit of Christianity. They are found imbedded in the civil law of Rome, in the laws of the European nations, and especially in the laws of that nation, from which our in

stitutions are derived."

the last county assessment roll. While the proposition now mooted is to plant there has been some contention to the an injunction suit to prevent the City contrary, it is generally, and no doubt Council from incurring liabilities to an correctly held by lawyers and public extent that will cripple, or infringe men of this Territory that indebted-upon the rights of, the schools. It is ness for school purposes must be in- for this reason that legal advice has cluded in the amount of liabilities a been sought with a view to taking municipality may incur. steps to prevent them from being deUnder the congressional statute re-prived, by the City Council, of the ferred to, Salt Lake City may go in money imperatively needed by them, debt to the extent of $1,800,000, in for the erection of school building.de. round numbers, and if the meaning The proceeds of the $200,000 worth of generally conceded to the law is the city bonds will quickly be disposed of correct one, that sum must include all to meet existing demands, outside of liabilities of the city as a municipality the city and county building. It is and as a school district. City bonds to believed, and the inference is drawn the amount of $800,000 have already from the circular issued to architects been floated and are now outstanding, by the joint committee inviting plans and a sale of $200,000 worth more is that the cost of this structure will not being advertised. This will make the be limited to $350,000 as at first procity's bonded debt a round million, to posed, but that, since the committee which sum must be added its floating made its trip east to inspect similar debt, which varies greatly in amount public structures, the purpose has been In this argues the Sentinel the in brief spaces of time, but which will formed to make the cost half a million court subjects itself to criticism, and average some tens of thousands. at least. Some of the plans that vi shows plainly that it is not acting in Over $100,000 is due from the be submitted by competing architec harmony with American principles city for taxes collected in ad- will contemplate the latter figure. & nor American law. In European vance for laying the water far as now appears, there will have to governments a sovereign authority ex- mains. Including the bonds now be another issue of municipal bonds isted. They were not governments of being advertised, the city's liabilities to the people, but of the sovereigns and will not fall much if any under $1,the people were subjects. The govern- 200,000. ment of Rome was absolutism pure A Territorial law authorizes a school and simple. The Emperor was father district to go in debt to the extent of of the country. He alone ruled, and it two per cent. of the valuation of the is only a few days ago since Emperor taxable property embraced in it. But William of Germany said "he alone this statute is, of course, subordinate to ruled." In England at the time of the congressional provision; and if an the revolution, though the monarch incorporated city, in its capacity as was not absolute, yet the system pre- such, shall incur a debt of more than vailed and the terms sovereign and two per cent. for city purposes, the subject were and are rigorously ob- amount it can borrow as a school disserved. Our institutions were estab-trict, to be used for the benefit of lished on principles contrary to those of England. There and in Europe, sovereigns held their places by "right divine," in America the government of the United States was to derive its just powers from the consent of the governed.

schools, will be correspondingly lim-
ited; in other words, the schools have
only such a margin as the City Coun-
cil may leave.

pay the city's share of the cost of this building, which wil make still narrower the margin left for the schools, and it is warmly urged that the courts will have to be appealed to if the schools are to be protecte from spoliation, at the hands of the present City Council. Whether or no an injunction suit for this purpose will be planted, has not yet, we believe been decided. And whether the tax payers when called upon to vote will decide to favor the issue of $600,00 school bonds, will depend somewhe upon the settlement of the legal que tion above referred to, but principal upon the force and promptitude with

which the school board shall bring forth its strong reasons.

The schools of this city are represented as being in need of a large amount of money. The present propHAYTI'S DISTRACTED STATE. osition is, in fact, to issue school bonds to the amount of $600,000. This sum, NEWS of another revolt comes from. SCHOOL BOARD VS. CITY COUNCIL. vast as it is, is far less than would be Hayti. Fred Douglas, our SenegamTHAT the present government of this produced by the two per cent. levy bian statesman, is U. 8. ministerin city intends to increase the municipal authorized by Territorial law to be that country, and it is to be hoped that debt to the limit allowed by congres- made for school purposes, yet it would he will keep out of the fight, though sional law, and will do it and consume increase the municipal debt to the when he first went there he was very the funds, unless prevented, is so limit, or thereabouts. near being entangled in the troubles strongly believed among prominent It is held that the Territorial law then existing. Hippolyte, the present "Liberals" that a movement has been ruler, has failed to bring about peace inaugurated by some of them looking between the factions. There was an to such legal proceedings as will check attempt made to assassinate him a few the voracity and extravagance of the gress allows to be incurred, provided days ago. A common rule finds exem City Council. the taxpayers so vote at a school bond plification in his case: he obtained hi Under a provision of a law of Con-election. But it is also urged that, if place by force of arms, and by the gress passed in 1886, a municipal cor- not restrained, the present City force he holds it, governing like s poration in a Territory cannot incur an Council will run the debt up so tyrant. He cannot move about withindebtedness in excess of four per cent. high as to leave for the schools out guards, and his rule is a military despotism. of the value of the taxable property only a fraction of what they are enA civil war, long and within the corporation, as shown by titled to, or perhaps nothing at all; and bloody, is among the probabilities.

contemplates that the schools may have
the benefit of a two per cent. indebted-
ness, or half of what the law of Con-

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A DISGRACEFUL EXHIBITION.

he indulged

The

ing the Saints, he says now, substan- be expected than that which is tially, that there is no "Mormon" who now associated with this incipient enIN another part of this paper we re- is not infinitely superior to the object | terprise. produce a lengthy special dispatch to of his present assault-the Reverend this unseemly, unchristian squabble is The picture presented by the Standard from Atlanta, Georgia. J. Wesley Hill. Doubtless the not only a disgrace to the Methodist Its statements related to the pro- reverend libeler knew that to be the Church, but it is a reproach to humanposed Methodist University at Og-case when den, of which the Reverend Sam his anti-"Mormon vituperation. inity that there should exist such deep Small is president. and double-dyed hypocrisy under a As is notoriously These two worthies have not the cloak of sanctity and religion. known in this locality, that individual shadow of a complimentary word for parties connected with it need no accuhas been delivering lectures in the each other. They accuse one another sation from an exterior source. They East under the auspices of the uni- of falsehood and dishonesty. Al- are their own accusers. versity. He undertook this labor with thougn The spirit they have demonstrated manifested by them is anti-Christian. the understanding that a certain pro- to the satisfaction of every intelligent It is intensely and unmitigatedly portion of the proceeds resulting from resident of Utah, at least, that both are satanic. it should be turned over for the benefit notorious economizers of that which is of the proposed institution over which true, yet there are occasions when the nature of a progressive enterprise, can If the university, which is in the he presides. It has been ståted in most consummate falsifiers may be survive the manipulation and contamplain terms, by J. Wesley Hill and others, implicity believed. There will, there-ination of such characters as some of that instead of accounting to the board | fore, be a very widespread suspicion those who have operated in connection of directors of the university for mon- down in the hearts of the people--owing with it, then there must be in it a eys thus received, he has appropriated to the course which each of the princi- strength of vitality that has not yet the financial results of his lectures to his pals in this dispute has pursued in this been seen on the surface. personal use, and that the income thus Territory-that, at least, a portion of derived has enabled him and his family the statements now made by Mr. Small to live in a condition of princely ex- regarding Mr. Hill and vice versa is travagance. strictly correct.

It is claimed that if it had not been If Mr. Small were as sharp as he is for the fact that the lectures were de- little he might produce an argument livered under the auspices and for the that would have some weight in bearbenefit of the university Mr. Small's ing up his side of the question. In receipts would have been in harmony opposition to his claim that he has with his name, and we might say, obtained the bulk of the money which without any risk of getting beyond the has accrued from the delivering of his line of truth, also with his nature. He lectures because of the work having been is not a large man from any stand-performed under the auspices of the point.

The Methodist church can attend to its own business or let it alone, as it may be disposed. If it has a regard for its own welfare, however, it will sweep a nest of unclean birds that have crept into it outside of its pale, with the besom of justice. If such scandalous and disgraceful exhibitions of depravity had occurred within the lines the "Mormon" Church-God forbid that they should-the community of Saints would have been accused of being corrupt as a whole. The manifestations referred to would have been cited as positive proof of the rottenness of "Mormonism." Far be it from us to take any such illogical and uncharitable position regarding any community. On the contrary, much as many prominent Methodists have maligned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that would not lead us to retaliate by perpetrating the injustice with which the "Mormons" have been so frequently treated. Methodism does not teach men to be dishonest nor to bear false witness against any portion of the human family. When the clergymen er members of that church engage in conduct that is perfidious and reprehensible, they act in opposition to the teachings of the courageous and progressive founder of the organization-John Wesley. The conduct which has been exhibited during the

Methodist university, he might retort, Mr. Small retaliates with great fuss with some show of consistency, that and fury. He makes the forked light- the "Mormon” people might on similar ning, so to speak, play around the ground be entitled to a share of the diminutive head of J. Wesley Hill, collections obtained. Mr. Small's commonly known as the "Reverend speeches have been largely made up of Kid," on account, we presume, of his anti-"Mormon” fabrications. He has limited proportions in every respect. horrified his hearers in many instances The president of the M. U. accuses the with incorrect descriptions of the namesake of the founder of Methodism Latter-day Saints. They have of doubled-dyed hypocrisy, asserting been delineated by this itinerant that while he put on sanctified airs and solicitor of dollars as being in a state of a zealous aspect, he, under cover of semi-barbarism and as a crime-stained the religious cloak, has been guilty community, when he knew all the of lewd and vile conduct. Mr. time that they are the peers in intelliSmall insinnates that his enemy gence, honesty and morality, of any endeavored to work him as a catspaw other people on the globe. It was to forward his financial interests, by probably as much to aid in the redempoperating the university enterprise as tion from such a situation of the alleged real estate scheme to enable the benighted Saints that Small was enpious Hill to fill his pockets with the abled to reach down into the pockets of god of this world wh le professing to his listeners as from sympathy with erve the source of divine truth. The the Methodist enterprise. president of the proposed educational If a tithe of the statements of some of Institution has, in every occasion when the parties immediately connected Methodism, but simply the operations an opportunity presented, been ex- with the proposed Ogden Methodist ceedingly generous in his abuse of the University are true, it has been steeped "Mormon” people. While indulging in fraud and pickled in iniquity from in this pious sectarian pastime he has its inception. When religious institunever endeavored to make use of the tions are used for personal ends and cusations made against each other by So far as relates to the damaging actruth, falsehood being his congenial efforts are made to rear them by the the principals in the unsavory controweapon for that purpose. Notwith- proceeds of the defamation of an un-versy treated in this article, the charges tanding the vile fabrications and offending and innocent landers which he has uttered regard-nity, what other result cau naturally tion for the falsehoods they have uttered commu- have the appearance of a just retribu

last few months in connection with the Ogden Methodist university is not

of individuals connected with that body, acting in conflict with their professions of religion.

less

law laid down by the Savior: "Whatso-fraud; that he who
ever measure ye mete unto others shall
be measured unto you again, heaped
up and running over." In this case
it looks as if it would be necessary to
procure an extra tub to hold the surplus.

THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY.

about other people. The expose seems which proposes to give something ing, and 650 in silk manufacture. The like a providential application of the for nothing is OD its face a amount of agricultural products was accepts, little increased from 125,000,000 bushels in than he who offers, the in- 1878 to 190,000,000 in 1888. In 1871 ducement is dishonest, and that both Japan had only forty-six ships of Euparties to the transaction are engaged ropean construction; now she has 143) in a crime which, if detected, as it is The number of pieces handled by the hoped it always may be, will land Japanese mail service swelled from 61. them in the penitentiary. In the case 000,000 in 1869 to 150,000,000 in 18. of our correspondent, the counterfeit- There are now 27,923 educational iper's offer was made to the right kind of stitutions, with 69,032 teaches and In view of the fact that the Utah a man; and happily the great majority 3,050,538 students, against 12,55 veCommission will on the 16th inst. take of our readers are of the same kind. stitutions, 27,000 teachers, and 1,300 up the question of Territorial re-appor- | But if we published a full expose, ad-000 students in 1873. The latter sta tionment, it will not be improper to dresses and all, it might unfortunately tistics suggest that in view of M remark that so eminent an authority meet the eyes of one who would be Blair's well-known hobby, he ough as President Harrison has declared: thankful for the information and to rejoice that China rejected him; # "The careful guardianship that shall would proceed to act upon it. If the has rendered possible his appointmen always make the expression of the postal authorities or the detectives can to a nation whose interest in edu will of the people fair, pure and true, | find any clues upon which to work in tion will doubtless invite the impres is the essential thing in American life;" the matter now in our possession, they his especial ideas. It will be remes and furthermore, that "The character- are welcome to it. But we must de- bered that his famous educational bi istic of our American institution, the cline to reproduce the bait held out to enjoys the unique distinction of havin compact of our government, is that the the unwary or to advertise a business been talked to death by its own auth will of the majority, expressed by con- that would both plunder and incrimistitutional and legal methods, be the nate its participants. supreme law of our community."

THE MIKADO'S LAND.

FURTHER REVIEW OF THE ACTE
CONFISCATION."

Bancroft says:

We take it that the President when he uttered these truths not only had THE United States Supreme Court in mind that the genius of American THE recent rejection by the Chinese its decision of June, 1890, on the e government rested upon a free government of ex-Senator Blair as fiscation of "Mormon" Church proje ballot and a fair count, but also United States minister to that county, said that our institutions were de that any manipulation of the try, renders probable his appointment rived from England. This assertion vote by which its full value might be to the much more desirable Japanese the American Sentinel vigorously com neutralized and its legitimate intent mission. Of all Asiatic races, the troverts, and holds that ouri stituts evaded was a crime against the spirit Japs are indisputably the most ad- are as far as possible the opposite of the Constitution and the laws. In vanced in civilization and material those of England and were intende other words, we assume that he prosperity. Their government has ex- to be so when they were established rowned upon gerrymandering and the pended vast sums in making itself ac"The Supreme Court itself," says the formation of "shoestring" districts, as quinted with the progressive thought Sentinel, “is an institution which sa illegal and unwarrantable encroach- and development of its more civilized far from having been derived from ments upon the voters' rights. The cotemporaries; and the result of this of the institutions of England or say lust of power frequently induces men acquaintance is shown in the astound- other European nation, was a to resort to these devices to defeat the ing advancement the country has creation entirely. The very for popular will; and sometimes the plots made during recent years. The Japan-government, that is, the distribution work successfully. Nevertheless they ese are apt scholars-quick to adapt its power into legislative, executive are to be resisted by every honest citi- and skillful to execute; and there is no and judicial, was also a new creation." zen and with every honest means. reason why, under suitable direction, Respect to the popular will is the sheet commercial relations between them anchor of our national security. and the United States might not be established that would be in the highBEWARE THE "GREEN GOODS" MAN est degree advantageous to both countries. A reliable Tokio newspaper of A CORRESPONDENT from the south- recent date tells in succinct figures the ern part of the Territory forwards us a story of national progress. In 1864 circular, accompanied by newspaper Japan's exports and imports were clippings, a letter of instructions, etc., valued respectively at $15,550,000 and which he recently received, the pur- $10,690,000. In 1889 the corresponding pose of which was to induce him to figures were $70,060,000 and $60,100,send a certain sum of good money to a 000. Between 1872 and 1887 foreign specified address in exchange for a trade rose from $1.30 to $3.44 per capita. much larger amount of "finely exe- In 1889 the country had 2038 trading cuted" counterfeit money; and be companies, with a total capital of auggests that we expose the matter in $67,855,468, and in 1890 1061 banks, with the NEWS by giving the document a total capital of $92,446,063. All subject." publicity. these companies aud banks have We cannot feel that the public inter come into existence in the ests would be subserved by doing so. twenty years. Of the companies, It surely cannot be necessary to warn fifty-four are active in mining, the community that any scheme twenty-two in spinning, 108 in weav

last

"The tripartite division of govern into legislative, executive and judi enforced in theory by the illust Montesquieu, and practiced in the bo government of every one of the Ame stitution of the United States, whit can States, became a part of the Co derived their mode of instituting it fro their own happy experience. It wa established by the Federal convention with a rigid consistency that went beyo the example of Britain where one brane appeal. Each one of the three depar of the Legislature still remains a courte ments proceeded from the people." The Supreme Court saiy:

"The manner in which the due admit istration and application of charitab estates is secured, depends upon the j cial institution and ma hinery of particular government to which they se

Whereupon the Sentinel asks: "Why then should the court find necessary to go to the judicial institutions and machinery of the governments Europe, and even to that of Rome wha has been dead more than 1200 years?”

The court further said:

In England, the Court of Chancery is - ordinary tribunal to which this class cases is delegated, and there are comratively few which it is not competent administer. There are me cases, however, which are beyond jurisdiction; as where, by statute, a to certain uses is declared void, and e property goes to the king. such case the king as parens patric -rent of the country or father of the ople), under his sign manual, disposes che fund to such uses, analogous to se intended, as seems to him expedi

- and wise."

In reply to this the Sentinel very sely observes that the people are the rent of the government in this counIt says:

he

has

attempt can be universally accepted The New York Press declares in its without the least hesitation. It is that article and in flaming headlines that the poor Czar will feel more keenly for the first time in the history of the than ever the gloomy heart throbs of Tabernacle the Stars and Stripes floated fear behind his shirt of mail, and that over it. The Mail and Express says in his stricken and quaking soul he the President, as he came into the will begin to wonder whether there Salt Lake valley, had a chance to see can be no safety for himself or his the wonderful, eminently successful family anywhere upon the face method of irrigation employed "by the of the peaceful earth. In truth Union Pacific Company to fertilize the Bear River Canal, the same paper this great valley;" and in speaking of describes the stupendous work done in "Bear Canyon," by means of which water" has been sent down to the dry lands in the valley, making them blossom as the rose;" all of which causes the paper to remark that "the Union Pacific has certainly been successful in its attempt to irrigate the desert lands of Utah." "James Young" is named as the owner and occupant of the Beehive House, and the Gardo House is particularly referred to as the place "where Brigham Young lived and where he died."

that the madman's thrust might not as no reason to believe easily have been aimed åt another than of the fated house of Romanoff. The assailant was insane for blood, and in the first and nearest being he sought his victim. But where a king shrinks Therefore, as there is in this Governent, neither king nor parens patrice to at a shadow and trembles at a breath, ich the property in this case might go, | he judges not critically between venfollows logically from the previous tement of the Court (that the adminis-geance intended and crimes accidental tion and application of the estate to him all is fatalism. Thus doth volved, depends upon the judicial conscience make cowards of us all. stitution and machinery of the parular government to which they are bjec), that the decision of the terri-ial court should have been reversed d the money involved restored to the dividuals to whom it belonged. Such the logic of the case, according the principles and institutions the Government of the United States.

at this logic was not followed. Instead it, the court proceeded to create and ablish a sovereign power, and clothe with the office of the parent of the untry and the father of the people." The Court said:

It may then be contended that, in this untry, there is no royal person to act as rens patriæ, and to give direction for e application of charities which cannot - administered by the court. It is true have no such chief megistrate. But re the Legislature is the parens patriæ, d nnless restrained by constitutional mitations, the Legislature posses all the -wers in this regard which the sovergn possesses in England."

ing to the sea.

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THE NAME "AMERICA."

The conceded greed of conquest with which the Czar looks over the broad empire that stretches between his southeastern confines and the available seaboard on the Pacific ocean, give These little flights of fancy might be rise to the suspicion that had the greatly multiplied if space would peraffront to his royal lineage been offered mit. We quote them because they are in China, his regiments would have real news to the people of Utah, and found occasion to sweep down upon will be sure to furnish amusement if the mild-eyed Asiatics and wrest not information to even the best infrom them a line of provinces lead-formed reader. Siberia's inhospitable shores present none of the requirements the Russian rulers long have sought for the construction and maintenance of a mighty navy. A favor- Chicago is famous for nothing but IS generally supposed that able opportunity to win a seat of com- hogs and high buildings. This is a merce on the Pacific, if not always mistake. sought would at least be promptly live there. Men of literary, tastes also James Wellsworth of seized. But the occasion in the present that city visited Washington, D. C., case is scarcely sufficient. Japan is recently. While seeing the sights of too remote, and has nothing that the the capital, he did not forget to ex"This at once creates a sovereign power Czar under any circumstances can very amine its bibliopolical treasures. He d clothes it with paternal authority. well covet. Besides, the insult came fell upon a rare old book, written in nd if this doctrine shall be maintained, that it becomes a principle of American not from the government or its offi- the Latin tongue, but six copies of w, and shall become established as a cials, but from an irresponsible and which are in existence. It is in this -inciple of government here, then the volution backwards is complete; gov-crazy soldier. It is more than proba- book that the name America is first nment of the people is gone; and that of ble that servile and ample apologies given to this continent. Sovereign parent of the people is put in will placate the potent sovereign; and s place. Then the doctrine of the Dearation of Independence and of the these, we may be sure, the politic Japs onstitution of the United States is sub- will not be slow in offering. erted and the doctrine of sovereignty, solutism and paternalism, is established its stead. Then also Bancroft's history the place above cited, will need to be vised so that it shall read as follows: sit asked who is the sovereign of the nited States? The Legislature is sove=ign and the people are subjects.''

But the Sentinel very pertinently ates in reply:

The book has a peculiar and interesting history. Away back in the fifteenth century a king of Lorraine, in France, founded a university and established a AS OTHERS SAW US. printing press. This caused the gathering of a number of literary men to THE great eastern dailies containing that center, and among them was a accounts of the President's reception man named Matthew Ringman. This in Utah are beginning to come to man was an engineer. He was called hand. In the main the correspond- up to Paris to build a bridge over the CHANCE FOR JAPANSE DIPLOMACY ents have treated the event with fair-Seine. He did build it, and it stands ness and accuracy and with consider- at present, and is known as the bridge THE recent attack upon the heir ap- able attention to detail. Some ludi- of Notre Dame. arent to the Russian throne by an in- crous blunders, however, may be no- While Ringman was in Paris he disne Japanese soldier has been tele-ticed. One paper asserts that thousands covered a letter written by Americus raphed to the ends of the earth and of people walked the streets of Salt Vespucci to Lorenzo de Medici, a copy as caused any amount of political Lake City the entire night preceding of which he sent to the king of LorDeculation. Much of this latter must the President's arrival, because the raine. The king turned the letter over eset down at once as exceedingly city was so crowded that visitors from to his printer, Martin Waldseemuller, polish; but one result of the murderous a distance could not be accommodated. who printed it as an appendix to a

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