The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-29
NO.126

get them into working order.
Pictured the existence Of q the
ocracy, with a president for a
| government, stakes for counties,
high council for courts, teachers for
spies and police, tithes for revenue,
and who would ever suppose it
would banker after free govern
ment such as exists in the free land
of America and if trouble arose
then would it not be attributed to
such theoracy? Blight comes on
every priest-ridden country, and
the remedy seems to be to send an
old rough-and-ready on one side,
and General Scott on the other.
with a force of valiant free
men to reYolutionize it The
spirit of democracy is contagious.
and the proceedings and fOrmalities
of elections get into the blood and
will, in time, make freemen of those
who were slaves. Is is the economy
of God that each one should eat,
drink and think for himself, and
not let one man do it all for him;
it was just as consistent for one man
to do the whole of these things as
to do any one of them. The only
way into the Peoples party is
through the church, and any oppo-
site argument by their elect!0neers
is to throw dust in the eyes of the
thinkers and deceive them. They
profess regard for the Constitution,
but not for the men who made it.
Men here in Utah preach against
their own knowledge; it is suicide.
The freemen of the United States
have stood between the grasp of the
church monstrosity and the pro-
perty Of the people, and we ask you
to vote the freemen's ticket, and
sustain those Liberals who have
been the peoples friend in Utah.
If the leaders of the Peoples party
go on with their political meetings
| and appeal to the reason Of the peo-
pie, it will grow to beapatural thing
for them to reason. 1t is nonsense
to talk about us robbing the peo-
pie Of Utah. What have we got
of yOurslthat we have not paid for
we pay one third of your taxes, yet
have no representation. You Nor.
mon men and women might now
have been back in the old country,
half starved to death, if we had not
come here and spent our hundreds
: of thousands of dollars. We do not
; want to drive you from here, but
} we want you to come to the line of
freemen, tear down your flag of
: notification and obey the laws.
: There is no local right of self-gov-
! eminent in this country, especially
i in the territories, and the people of
y the entire nation has the right to
S say what shall be the law aud Gus
!; tom in Utah. The right to regulate
! suffrage in the territories belongs
u to the Congress, and you cannot
= change it. If a legislative commits
'C sion is appointed you will still have
: your rights Of property; you may
u not have the power to make your
! own laws, power which you have
|. not properly nor wisely used for the
q past thirty years, but you will have
y your right of property, etc. All we
I ask is that you submit to the laws
y as we do. If one Of Us takes a
| SSCOnu WIG NO ak SoIb w GlO DOAh-
g tertiary; if you take . second you
J are raised higher. Theocracy can
) not be maintained in this country.
II Is it better for the United States
g government to step in and lay q
= hand On you and stop you In your
e career, than you should be allowed
le to run mad to destruction and dis
! grace. If you have a political party
q. and it is man for man church mem
IS bers, is il anything else but union
D of church and states? A legislature
le composed Of apostles and bishops
e who vote as units never having
u division of the house in 80 years
"a and ruled by the one man, cannot
10 be anything but union of church
a6 and state. Theocracy may be strong
. but one free man is stronger than 8
le thousand theocracies. You aposta'
~ tie, in fact, when you decline to hVC
p toevery jot and. word Of your church
u dogmas, and we only ask you to
y apOstati2e for the Mississippi water
70 running down hill, and he did no
e need to spostatize, for the American
. system making this huge effort t.
y threw off the blood poison In Utah
~ The meeting then Immediately
% adjourned, while the band playe'
u yankee Doodle"