The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-07
FOURTH OF JULY IN UTAH.

Under the above heading th
Tribune of yesterday mOrnin
prints what ought to be considers
one Of the vilest things ever placed
before any community in the shap
Of newspaper article. It begin
with the announcement that unit
there shall be a radical change here
it will be mistake for the Nor
mons and Gentiles to celebrate the
Fourth of July together, stating
that neither feel comfortable under
tire circumstances. What the de-
sired change is we are not told, but
the supposition is that a complete
abandonment of the religious tenets
advocated by the former class is
what is meant. The paper dis
claims any intention Of speaking in
d carping OF querulous mood, and
wants everybody to know that it
means what it says. 1t is to De
presumed that consistency and
stability will also be claimed as part
Of the TTtbUne'S policy in this con-
nectiOn, in which case it might be
proper to refer to its files of little
over a year ago, when, in response
to the clamor of the corporal's
guard of people who upheld what is
now its position, it reeled off.
series Of lectures on the
bad taste of suggesting diff
ferences of opinion on such
an occasion, and showed with great
earnestness how necessary it was
that factionaI questions be lost
sight of IN order that all might
'meet on the level and part on the
square" while doing honor TO the
nations birthday; it now says in
substance that none but skulking
Gentiles who desire to drive profit
able trades, or Mormons with some
fresh command, will do what a year
ago it commended was the proper
thing to be done. It endeavors to
show how impossible is the gulf
dividing the two parties here, and
tries TO depict in graphic terms the
feelings of loathing which each
must secretly entertain at being
brought into close and ostensibly
friendly association with the other
even for the purpose of celebrating
the Fourth of July!
Such sentiments should receive
from right-minded people naught
but quiet disdain, but for the fact
that they illustrate wildly the
character Of certain would.be lead
ers of the Gentle party, and to
what extent they are trying to
widen a social breach which more
respectable people on both sides are
endeavoring to close. Its well that
the mask is thrown off, all dissimu-
tation discarded, and the true colors
Of an intending destroyer of peace
shown forth before his specious ar
guments and willy tactics deceived
the unWary. At last, finding faith
less pretenSe and hypocritical soph-
istry of no further avail, this seq
ment Of very dirty ring hoists the
black flag and proclaims itself in
favor of war a r0UtrGnee. Let it be
so understood.
The principal mischief which
that class of people are capable of
producing will not be here where
they are known, but elsewhere
where the presumption of honesty
and truth as to their utterances pre-
walls. These are simply the reiter-
alton of what decent people got
tired of listening to years ago, and
hoped never to hear again. They
show a disposition and even a de-
termination not to be reconciIed to
anything not in full accord with
their paternity, and eVince a miser-
able, peevish, spoiled child.liks de-
sire such as nothing can satisfy
in heaven, on earth or in hades.
q You shall and you shan't;
You will and you WON'T
You'll be damned il you do,
And be damned il you DON'T"
II the Mormons do not celebrate,
they are disloyaI; if they do cele-
citrate, they are insincere; if they
welcome a distinguished Gentle,
they are hypecritical; if they do
not, they are olannish and bigoted;
if they resist Entertainments by
law, they are in rebellion; if they
do not, they are "working an act"
And so it goes. Perhaps, after a few
more sHch exhibitions, the Mormens