The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-30
bow 10 DOT.

d execution Of tina order of the court DO
1t si6le. We would iwprison rebellion
/, and Estimate priests 9 re4soR4o'e tim
, and then We Rould, unIese hey consante
}, to do their york from within the laws
+ lcOniscste heir property. Without az,
e var we would make them uhderstAni
}, that TO defy thu laws was serious busl
9 nsel. We would make it clear that 70
the leaders Co interfere in he temp0r'
tsf irs Is III = peopie, or To preach or prac
e lice pol Fgsm7 would mske them perpet
= u eeriuu' trouble. 0u's'd5 of t5ee
( "a We would giys them every liberty
Our distinguished, esteemed ant
J highly respectable morning cotem
> p0rary Of this city, from which we
copy lh3 above choice moroel, ii
} tos modest by half. 1t contents it
self gith skirmishing along the
frontier Of the case instead
of marching boldly out into
I the interior and roofing
out all kinds of opposition TO the
execution Of The laws or diSresprct
for the government. 1t bOmbards
with rockets instead of stTeaking
the armament all over with the
Iurid Gre of hurtling shells. II
/ would be great in its efforts to effect
a revolution IN Utah, yet is pain
fully without ambition. This should
not be. A paper which does not num-
Der among its qualities a solitary
atom Of scrupulOusness when deal
ing with an opponent, and which
has attained SO high a pinnacle of
self-esteem as to make all who see
fit to differ with its conclusions the
recipients of Rag Alley slang and
BarbarY Coast filth, should not be SO
hating and hestitating In its meth
DDS when the object is-gO commend
able a task as reducing 125,O0o
MOrmons to serfdom.. And, apart
from the ethics Of the case, il is too
big a job to be dealt with so slight
ingly. Insufficient measures ac-
cOmplish nothing but the humilia-
ton of their projectors and increased |
belligerency on the part of those
against whom such measures are
aimed. Such negligence and dere- |
lection of duty coming from the
organ of a select few who of course
represent the wealth and comprise
the intelligent class of Utah, and
who propose to rule it by fair means
or foul, is highly reprehensible and |
should BIZ carefully avoided here
after.
We would stop polygamy by ex-
ecuting the civil law" Well, whose
hand is on the posterior extremity
Of your outer garment2 Who stops,
delays or binders you? You have
the laws made TO order already i
you have the Executive authority
Of the Territory ready and willing to
aid the great cause; the military are
accessible in an emergency and Ger
yainly not hostile to your purposes;
the Courts, the officers of the Courts,
The Federal representatives here, if |
not entirely in every case with you,
are not at all against you; and the
fact that active prosecutions result
ing in conviction have taken place,
is the best evidence in the world
that they can take place. In view
Oi all this, we are at a loss to deter
mine exactly what the lines quoted
above mean; while disclaiming any
desire to have q war here they advo-
cate a principle which amounts to
more and perhaps worse
than that-the cOnGscation OF prop
9rty. 1t occurs to us that the Char
Ter which is supposed to be the
and Limitation of all thel
powers Of the great corporation
known as the United States, is in
direct opposition to that kind of
Thing, and. while cOnstitutienaIity
Is not distinguishing feature of
the campaigns of the coterie which
oar contemporary assumes to be the
mOuthpiece Of. it must surely know
5h At practically setting aside funda-
mental law is rebellion. In plain
terms, it would suppress peaceful
To enacted law, by over
throwing the foundation and source
Of that lawl Yet there is no war
Oh, no. "ThOse men are
not lighting, they are merely paus-
.n;."
Perhaps Che exact meaning of the
lines Can be ascertained from a more
strict construction of the language. j
We woulI SOP poiygamy by exc
cutiag the civil law" Executing"
when used in connection with
II proceedings, means put
ting TO death, and perhaps the
wri er means that that is what is to