Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-12
.sYMPArHv FROM A STRANGE
SOURCE"

..sYmPATHv FROM A STRANGE
SOURCE"
Under this extraordinary and sensa-
tional caption the Salt Lake Tribune
n;tches into ''the gentleman who has
temporary charge Of the Eureka
MEL" right fercely. The cause OF our
able contemporaries ill-humor is an
article which appeared in the SESr1sEL a
few days since. the object of which was
to sound a note Of warning, to express a
reasonable apprehension that. under the
Edmunds bill. the proposed results OF
the anti -polygamy legislation might not
be accomplished; that the FIVE Commis-
sioners to be appointed to govern Utah
might not be the proper persons. The
gist of the article was in this sentence
1t may give up Utah to pillage; it may
subiect a vast amount of tempting prop
erty. slowly accumulated by the patient
toll Of the fanatics, to spoliation or de-
struction, and it may put a ssop to many
profitable industries, which have hereto
fore enjoyed the protection OF honest gov
eminent, while it is to be feared That 1t
will produce no effect whatever upon tine
practice Of polygamy unless possibly to
confirm or increase 1t.
Now, in order to put 'the gentleman
who has temporary charge OF the
MEL" in his proper attitude in this mat
ter, it must be said that at least three
months ago he suggested editorialiy the
very legislation that has been had in this
anti ~polygamy business-that as an ne
roic remedy to eradicate the polygamous
disease, a commission from Washington
should be sent out, as a last resort, TO
govern the Mormons. He has no SYM
pathy with them in their lecherous. body
and soul- debasing lives. In everything
he has written upon the subject he has
voiced what he believes to be the senti-
ment of the American people-that
polypamy is a monstrous nuisance and
should be abated. But as between
polygamy and such possible vicious gov
eminent as may be justly feared from
appointments by our present bullet
created President, there is but little
choice. The comparison suggests the
frying pan and the fire. Congressman
Cassidy, who made such a stirring ad'
dress on the Edmunds bill as to call
forth congratulatory dispatches from the
Gentiles of Utah Territory, writes to a
friend in Eureka, the Hon. w. w.
Bishop, that the crowd of political,
br~oken-down, miserable hacks who are
presenting their claims to the right te
govern the Mormons is simply immense
He, as every other man that is capable
of analyzing the signs of the times by
reference to proper Arthur
and his safeguarding coterie-dreadl
the possibilities that are to be only too
nationally ~apprehended. Let five thieves
Arthur's Custom. house or Revenue De
partment pards and pets, DE sent to ruiz
Utah, and the choice between such pillag'
and scandal as would follow and polyga
my would make any decent man sick
Judge Goodwin is a superior writer. Hi
words are like music. His obituarie
are famous. When you read them yo'
hear the crash Of the brass band, tn
believing Of the church organ, the sal
voice Of the parson; the tears trickl
down your cheeks, and you SEQ littl
angels curvetting through the air, witt
healing all over their wings. He is
gentle and sweet. hammered man if 1
corpse is in question; but suggest any
thing but squelching the wretched Nor
mons. dare to fear anything sa bad. and
Immediately he struts about with wottle
red and makes havoc of sense in direfu
rhetoric. For instance, he says:
We are sware that the gentleman WHIT
wrote the foregoing has believed, fol
something over II years, that there is yer,
little justice remaining in this Republic
but we were not quite prepared to see hin
fly of on such q tangent as the foregoing
At least. we expected that II he discussed
the Utah question, or the Edmunds bill
his sorrow for one Lost Cause or his pos
sibie apprehension lest there should b.
another lost cause, would not 30 warp hi
judgment ss to make him appear ridicu
lous.
When the Jadge saw those empty
nothings in his paper after a nights
sleep he, no doubt, wondered where he
got his inspiration the night before. HI
and Sam Davis had probably talked eaci
other out Of time, and then went and
took . bath in beer. Otherwise tan
taene animis caelestibus irae?