The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-21
SPECIAL EFFORTS, SPECIAL
LEGISLATION, AND SUCH.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 10, 81.

ioSIuouG nays nave both sent gov
errors, Judges, aud observation-disclosures
to Salt Lake City pledged to make
special effort to break up the peculia,
institution of the Mormons." TheI
that paper went on to recommend
special efforts" "in the direction
+ sought in the shape of the with
e drawal of the right of self-gover.
ment for Utah, the adjustment of
); the territorial Organization, the Gre
: alton of a covering commission with
full and almost arbitrary powers
and the setting aside of the right
J. of jury trial. In passing | NAV saw
that these unconstitutional and d.
abolIcaI recommendation come
from persons who professed great
, sympathy with the agrarian, anar-
chial, and assassinating Irish and
r the slave-making Beers. But under
F., such rule as that recommended above.
would not inOffenSive Utah. in re-
publican America, soon be thrust
J into worse situation, ten thousand
times over, than Ireland or Boer
land ever has been under monarch
ial and imperial Britain. | NAV also
; ask, is 1t not curious comment on
republican institutions, government.
and principles, that the federal gov
eminent should enact pledges from
appOinteeS that they viii determinl
Iedly oppose, with special efforts
1.-THE religion of the vast majority of
the people over whom they are ap-
lpoineed orule? Is it not gross per
version Of true republIcanism that
bitter prejudice towards and fierce
hatred of the people should be &C
counted a chief recommendation an
an indispensable qualification, for
candidates for federal office in ter
ritory Of the United States? Does
I the imperial government of Great
Britain adopt any such tyrannical
policy towards Ireland, or Boer
land, or Afghanistan Is there not |
some truth III the prOveTb, politically |
as well as religiously, that the more |
profession the less possession
To return. a week or two ago
the same paper said, There never |
was nation, party, or sect which, |
when possessed of political power, |
did not abuse it." Are not these |
two sentences which l have quoted |
from the n. Y. Tribune in intimate |
relationship with each other? Now /
if the n. Y. Tribune people were
fully convinced of the truth of this
latter quotation, were they not
criminallyculpable in recommending
"full and almost arbitrary powers"
to small and powerfully prejudiced
governing commission in a remote
territory, with every right cores
pondingly withdrawn from the peo-
pie, and where some of the federal
officials now wrest and even boldly
overstep the law to the injury of the
people?
Let me give the context of that
last quoted passage, as l find it in
these words: "Let the teacher tell
the boy or girl before him that there
never was a nation, party, or sect
which, when possessed of political
power, did not abuse it, and he can
bring on his massacre of st. BartEo-
lOmew, his burnings of BaptistS by
PrOteStantS, his whippings of
Quakers by Puritans, with broad
and wholesome effect. ;
Give the boys and girls the facts of
those old bloody, inhuman days, let
them call tyranny and murder by !
their right names, and they Will be :
more fit as men and women to ele-
vate and purify whatever church
they may happen to call their own"
The people of Utah know, by
what they experienced in the "old
bloody, inhuman days" of their
suffeTings in Missouri and Illinois,
and by later and even current ex-
peTience in this territory, what
would be perpe-
trated under the "almost arbi-
trary powers of an imperial
governing commission" of bitterly {
unprincipled, and almost
irresponsible federal officials, were
such a libel on republicanism eStab-
Iished in this part of the country.
We have one federal official now
who, on his own responsibility and
in brazen defiance of the law, robs
5he people of their right to send a
delegate to Congress. What would
1 governing commissions" of that
stamp do if their powers
we're made almost arbitrary"
Would they hesitate at any enOT-
nifty to accomplish their ends? I Z
lhink they would not.
Is the policy virtually recon-
nended by the New York Tribune,
not to read to merely, but to re-enact
the facts of those old bloody. in
human days" before the eyes of the
BOYS and girls Of Utah good policy? I
Would the sight of the reperpetra-
5iOn of the old time tyTannieS and
as well as. the calling of {
those Odious things by their right
names, be a useful and desirable
course of study for the boys and girls |
Of this community? Would 1t be
likely to make them more fit as
men and women to elevate and puri-
fY whatever church they might hap
pen to call their own" and is it to be ]
5oberly commended in that view?
Would passing through such multi
tudinouS seas incarnadine by an
imperial governing commission"
with almost arbitrary powers" be
humane, ciYilizing; wise, and Chris
tan kind of experience for the close |
instruction and edifica-
ton of the rising generation of
Utah?
That respectable journal, the New
Y ork EUe7ltTg Post, speaks of the
of that city, as a journal
which at least wears the air of a
personal and confidential organ of
the administration" 1t may be,
therefore, that the New York
as I have quoted from it,
the sentiments and policy
Of the administration. But, If so,
the craftsmanship of the same is
Just as bad, and the inconsistency
Just as glaring. And if the New
York Tribune and the administra-
ton, as represented above, repre-
sent the republican party, then l am
disposed to largely agree with the
following utterances of the Post:
"COntemporaneous republican &C
Invites are directed to the mean
est ends which ever engaged the
attention of contemplate
partisan faction.
The republicans never were Oecu-
pied with meaner business, they
never sought more questionable
alliances for more unworthyobjects.
$ The shabby figure which the
grand old party cuts just now Is
,T-alI daScriba1 nv ono Of itS dnuuhtV