The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-10
AT IT AGAIN.


in a very feeble and futile manner
to explain away the absurdities and
inconsistencies occurring in its
article of the previous Friday enti-
tied "The Fourth of Julyin Utah, "
1t see ms to forget, lift ever knew.
that calling names is not argument
that bald assertions, however skill
fully contriYed, are not proof that
flying into the face Of others who
happen to look upon some things
differently from itself, does lot in
any sense constitute it a criterion
of public morals or exemplary con-
duct.
It says that for Americans to
meet with Mormons in celebrating
the Fourth is simply mockery on
both sides. In view OF the fact that
majority of the latter were also
the former, and that at least some
of the Gentiles were also foreign
born, this statement, if literally con-
strued, is incoherent; if given an
Interpretation corresponding with
the context, it is untrue. 1t has
been freely remarked by numbers of
people, whose veracity is certainly
equal TO that Of the Tribune,
that a more harmonious assem-
blage or enthusiastic celebration of
the republics natal day was never
held in Utah, and that it was rarely
exceeded in those respects by any
other comm nity within their ex-
perience. Furthermore, there was
no Earring, no jostling, no unpleas-
antness; all went merry as a mar
riage bell, and when the crowd dis
persed it was with but one apparent
feeling as to the occasion, that it
was a most pleasurable and CRAFTY
ing success. This from those who
participated, and were in position
t. know whereof they spoke. Look
now, what follows. Upon the heels
of the Joyous event comes the first
murmur of disappr0val, not from
active participants in the celebra-
ton, but from a paper whose mission
seems to be fomentiDg discord and
promoting hatred it does not, IN the
pursui: of this unholy calling, con-
fine itself to general statements of
improprieties, but resorts to
personal and unjust criti-
cism, instancing the speech
of Professor Lewis as something al
together unworthy and one to which
Americans" should not be com.
PEELED to listen in silence. The pre-
sumptionis that no one was obliged
to listen to that or any other feature
OF the exercises; if dissatisfaction
was felt, the dissatisfied could
have quietly withdrawn aad made
their objections known at the pro-
per time and in the proper way
bus neither Of these things was
done, so far as we can learn; conse-
quently, the conclusion is irrreSi sti-
BILE that the structures of our cotem-
porary have their paternity in
fault-fnding and their maternity in
an incurabIe stomach-ache. Even
if the professor were, as is falsely
charged, the keeper Of hsrem, does
that circumstance render him In
capable of patriotic utterances ?
Does his prophecy of statehood for
Utah of necessity place him in the
ranks of treason-mongerS aud law
defers? We should think not! and
yet the Tribune rolls this morsel
under its tongue as Though
nothing more succulent had ever
passed its ponderous jaws.
The more generous would say
that it would indicate
a lack of patriotism for a citizen
of the United States residing in q
territory to express q contrary be-
lief, to look Toward to any other
destiny for. the commonwealth in
which he resides than becoming
sovereign and Independent. Sup
pose he did say that in the future
state liberty and justice would pre-
wallis there anything greatly out
of the way in that? The censor of
the occasion seems to think there is,
for he proceeds from that point to
state that the speakers auditors all
knew that there has been a steady
prostitution Of the ballot here from
the teginning. We venture to assert
that all his audience did not know,