The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-10

place hunters whose name is legion.
One hundred thousand Of these and
all their dependencies dipping into
the public treasury, inaame the am
bitiOn of an ever widening and anx-
iOuS ring. With eagle vision and
with vulture's scent, they discern
afar ia the little colony called Israel
q held becoming more fertile than
the land of the Nile. But one thing
stands In the waY-the old Ameri-
can idea that righteous rule implies
the consent of the governed. Israel
is peaceful, thrifty, yielding almost
10 fault, and unused TO the SpecionS
arts OF the politician. In religious
thought and practice is found the
only excuse for aggressive measures.
TO be sure religious liberty was one
OF the cardinal blessings intended
10 be established in the nation by
the fathers, and the masses and
rulers now are profeSSed believers
in God, and Jesus and the Bible. If
profession were the test, it might be
concluded that they were Israel also.
Soon the politicians call upon the
priests TO put down this little power
IN the distance, bat this being found
impossible, the priests in turn call
upon the politicians, and the riyu-
let Of opposition swells to a surgine
tide, upon which all classes ride as
they suppose into the harbor of
national unity and overmastering
popularity
Legislation is easy work when
criticism is frOwned down: harsh
measures are easily passed when
frenzy rules in the council chamber:
constitutional barriers and checks
are as nothing in the maintenance
of partisan supremacy; all the safe
guards which the fathers erected
and time has sanctihed, and which
were the great dread of tyrants,
emperors and kings are but as chaff
when bigotry and misrepresentation
are freely exercised law, and right,
and precedent are trampled under
foot, when there is place and power
and money and rule at stake.
But in the meantime, what OF
Israel? Are they in arms mental OF
physical? Are they "breathing out
threatenings and Slaughter Are
they descending to intrigue? Are
they cOndescending tOcomprOmise
Not at all. They have for years beer
looking for ana anticipating every
present and many future moves Of
corrupt and designing demagogues
their prophet said long ago that op
position would spread from town
ship to county, from county to state
from a state to the United States
and that finally all the forces of tn
: government would be arraye
, against theml Consequently ther
? is light in Israel, when darkness
! general throughout the land c
! Egypt
Still more, under diSfranchis,
. ment they.are placid and hopeful
under restrictions aud rulings, the
. are not afraid; in paying a penalt
a for the assumption of right the
!. have increased faith that penall
i will most surely follow wrong; the
r know that one unfair or unrigh
- eOuS decision makes still mo-
n likely another and another, tn
O. decisions and requirements cOntTal
" TO constitutional enactment will
o. mora easily created until sectiC
n will be arrayed against section, al
: party against party leach bidding +
NJ power at the sacrifice of Iii
sv liberty and the pursuit of hap
h ness"
a Then shall come to pass the fu
Da filment Of prophecy: prOscrlbt
nc prosecuted and disfranchised Isra
1e will restore again the tested Ian
- marks, the spirit and institutions
al the fathers and the dOcumenta
10 safeguards of the Constitution
~ just and equal rights and pOwt
n growing out of the same will
n established again by the elders
oil Israel; the false fires of parts
70. demagogueS and uSurping rule "
80 be extinguiShed upon the affairs
~. our country and the true celest
=; fire again be kindled TO burn W
~. more intense flame and lust
nd patriots will minister again in
m sacred duties Of political privil,
10 and even TO the ruthless trait
at who in ignorance may have
he spoiled the citizenship of its glo
no then shall be awarded the blessi
lid of peace and uninterrupted rio
he the parallel will be perfect, or
,ar seers have had no vision; and ri,
10 will triumph or there is no @
MT Israel will conquer by patience a
I'm faith and every promise made
,at old or renewed again by the beav'
he will be surely and literally fulfill
in UTAH
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