The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-19

/ EULCOES H6TULO.
Being descendant of a revolu.
tionary patriot and taught from in.
fancy to consider citizenship in a
free country a greater blessing than
to be ruler of a kingdom, | cannot
sit still when inherited rights are
seriously threatened as they new are
by the various bills before Congress,
which have for their object the dis.
REIMBURSEMENT Of the citizens ofU tab,
by annulIing all past elections and
unjustly restricting all future ones,
and this too, on the supposition that
about cne-sixteenth of the male
voters have broken a law. | say
suppositiOn for if it was proven
against them, they would all have
been serving term in prison, and
for Congress to sit upon d case and
condemn whole community OH
&c pGTte evidence, that would not
convict an individual, would be
a standing disgrace to their honesty
and intelligence. 1t is true there is
a great public clamor about little
Utah, and it is probable there is no
more use Of asking, why, what
evil has she done?" than there was
Of asking similar question eighteen
centuries ago when the popular cry,
excited like the present by priests
was cruelty him, as it is now dis
franchise them; and the govern
ment, like the one in Jerusalem, is
Icing forced by an excited rabble to
act against their own convictions.
1t is bad enough to have
no voice in our own govern
ment as best, but a thousand
times worse when the governing
power is itself ruled by the int1u-
ence Of our avowed and persistent
enemies. The Constitution declares
that Congress shall make no law
abridging the right of the people
peaceably to assemble ana to petit
tion government for a redress of
grievances" Now, how has Utah
aggrieved cities Of the coasts or
those of the plains that they should
raise this hue and cry about her ?
She has not meddled with their af-
fairs, has not attempted to force any
of her institutions upon them, nor
coveted any of theirs. She has
bought aud paid for their goods,
and some of her people have been
robbed in their streets, but she has
not asked that their charters tie an
nulted; nor when ST. Louis passed
an ordinance licensing prostitution
did she feel aggrieved, or that she
had any right to interfere with her
neighbors, and [ claim that to ask
Congress to place grievance upon
others by those who are not them
selves aggrieved is a gross abuse of
the right of petition. But we are
accused of being governed by a
priesthood. All sects and parties
have their leaders, but if the Nor
mons are worse prIeSt-ridden and
duped than these same anti-pOlyg-
amy petitioners, | would pray
government to send a commission
to every city in the territory, as
they only believe and sign what
their priests tell them to. Perhaps
it would be news to them that one
of the first articles of the Mormon
creed is: you shall not consider
one flesh above another; neither
shall one man consider himself
above another" Have the republi-
can party broader or more liberal
plank in their platform
People alta distance know nothing
Of Utah only as they are told, and d
peoples enemies are not proper
representatives, and most of the
stories sent from here are merely
sensational, created Tor the purpose
OF making money, or living with |
out work. For instance, a literary !
friend of mine. thinking he would
do well by writing the biographies |
OF one OF the most rabid and I'M
Scrupulous pair of anti-Mormons
(whO were writing works of fiction
for the promotion of truth, for
items consulted their butcher. their
baker, grocer, milkman, nurse
woman. hired girls, widows that had !
rented them houses, wash women,
ETC., etc., till be collected a list of
$4,000 that they had bilked out of
the people here to live upon, while
writing fiction to blk the people in
other places. J will not ask tie
HERALD to violate its rules by Civ
ing names, but those who are SO
about other peoples morals
should not live in glass houses.
An executive in any other terri
tory or state looks to the welfare of
the whole people, while here his
mission seems to be to measure the
timber and ropes, and make and an ,
lounce to the people a mathemat- I
cal calculation that there is enough 3
to hang the pile. Of II
course he expects to do it :
Ill at once, otherwise there f
would be no use of exercising
lis mathematical genius. A certain j
Emperor wished the Romans had 9
Tut one neck that he could sever it t
It blow, but the emperor of Utah t
.oes not mind the number of necks, '
o that there is plenty of material S
o fit them. Unfortunately, the '
1OrmOns are just as sensitive about L
he neck as other folks, and there r
ore he has not been able, as yet. to t
dust one moose, but is probably
Waiting for the arrival OF the COM t
mission.
Senator Edmunds is reported to
ave asked Campbell and Mcbride f
hnra u-aS anutbinn Yoooro tbox I.