The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-12
AN IRATE EDITOR.

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, that appeared in THE HERALD tn
3 other morning, that the editor o
the Chicago Tribune is mad. HI
belches forth gall and wormwood
, aud splits venom. The cause fOl
all this disturbance in the editoria
system is found in the fact that on
here in Utah and the surrounding
Territories there exist and prosper
10000 or less people who persist in
living and thriving despite edicts
mandates and efforts to the con
trary. The Mormons will surren-
der neither life, liberty nor the pur'
suit of happiness at the command
of Governor Murray and the editor
of the Chicago Tribune. The
saints will insist upon nominating
and voting for men of theil choice
| fer office. They will not consent to
their enemies doing the selecting
and electing so long as they
the Mormons) are in the major
ity. Another thing that makes the
saints hideous in the eyes of Murray
| and the Tribune mar, is their stub
bornness in the observance of their
creed, 'sMind your own business"
They will not interfere with their
neighbor's affairs, and while letting
alone, ask only to be let alone. All
this is rank heresy and downright
sedition in the mind of the Chicago
Tribune editor, who rants and raves
and fumes like a mailman. He
would have the entire population of
Utah disfranchised, which "would
sweep away all the political power
of the priesthood?" The Territory
he would have "run by the federal
government as the District of Col
umbia is managed" when this
has been done other steps could be
taken to break up the commercial
and industrial monopoly which the
priests are trying to build up" And,
finally, he concludes: "This
Mormon question must be
met, and the sooner it is settled the
the easier of treatment it will be-
Why, bless yodr soul, man, don't
you know the Mormon question has
been s'met" all the time for fifty
years? There has been little else
than meeting of it. It has been
"met" continuously, and by just
such unreasoning, unreasonable,
hot-headed asses as the Chicago
editor, who create a Mormon Cues
ton" and give 1t impetus. The
Chicago man would now meet it
harder than ever, and the result
would be bigger Mormon question,
How would the Acknowledgement |
Of the entire population of Utah,
and the government Of the Territory |
by Congress, settle the
question? Would it seal up the |
skies and prevent the falling of |
rains In summer and SHOWS |
in winter? Would it stop
the growth of wheat, corn,
lucern and fruit? Would it de-
crease the yield of "Utah's best |
crop?" Would 1t prevent hens lay
ing and pigs growing? If it would
not do these things, how could it
'settle" the Mormons or the "ques-
tion?" The plan proposed by Gov
ernor Murray and urged with 80
much vigor by the irate editor
would settle nothing, except the
question of bread and butter for
few hundred played out politicians
and friends and poor relatives of
active statesmen" It would create
more offices to be filled by appoint
ment from Washington. and there
it would stop in the settling busi-
ness. Congress has already tried
The Acknowledgement remedy, and 7
# it isn't heartily sick of the expert
nent it should be, for everybody
else is. Ten or twelve thousand per-
sons were DISTINGUISHED, but we have
yet to hear the name of one of
those who isn't as firm in his
faith and religious belief and
as when he could
march up to the polls and Geposit
his ballot with other men. Will the
editor of the Chicago paper, if he
has gotten himself into cooler at
tell US why he thinks
he acknowledgements of $4,000 or
10000 will have an effect different
rom the Acknowledgement of 12,~
MOO