The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

Tie Demand Of God and CSV lizatton
.'ALd Hushai said unto Abeoiom, The
counsel that Ahilhophel hsth given j;
not 9, d a. thia time" II Samuel
xvii, Z.
Ahithophel ebd Hushai we're thorough
politician. They were ant8gonis,!c
they were as much opposed 10 each other
il other times as Disrseli ard Gladstone
il modern times. What Ahithophei
said, alt must b. done in this way u
Hushsi said, 1T must be done in tie
other way" Ahithophei had changed
his politics, a. from be ng prime min
ister il DsYid's cabinet had become a
stsff officer Of Absolom, The enemy.
after awhile Assolom drops Abithophel,
and in his chagrin AhithC phel goes out
and commits suicide. Hushai surren-
dered the cause nj Absolom, and was re-
warded for it. His son Baans became
one IF the Off GERS of King Solomon as q
reward.
Pohticsl life then, st sll times, was
very uncertain and full Of temptation 1t
was up and down, and up and down.
There have been 10 the world hundreds
of political parties. They did their work.
They lost their prestige. They expired.
Their names are forgotten. In Our own
country we have an Ahithophelsnd aHu-
shat in the two political parties which
are now standing face to face getting
really for great national contest Which
one shall play th eAhiihcphei and CO nit
suicide, and which one shall Sc It's
ntsslon and success to other generp ;ons
csnnot say. Enough for me This m m
ing to declare what | believe Goo ard
civilization demand Of tbe two poli,icsl
parties Of lhis day, CT Their extermiEa-
ton
Now is the time for pbilanthropi.t md
Christian to speak. a little further on
snd the excitement will be SO CREST that
there will be no calm spprec stion Of
nstiOuSl mcralities. The time for a
naval architect to decide the structure of
q ship is IN his own Otie9 bsfore the 6sst
beam is laid, and the time 10 decide
political platforms for toe couatry il be-
fore the first spike is driven.
First Of sill, then, Iralark. that God
snd civilization demand of the, politicsl
parties OF this day plsnk snti-Mor.
monislic. 1t is high time y g. tn = nation
stopped playing with this cancer. All
the plasters OF political quscks only
sggrsvate 1t, and nothing but the surgery
OF the sword will cure It. ALI the con-
gressionsl laws on this subjsct lave been
notorious failures and the worst f4ilure
the last, the Ejmund's law, b-cau 6 :
much was expec:ed OF it. Nesnwh,
The great monster sits between the We
mou .iains-the Rocky Mountains a.d
the Sisrfa Nevada ats in d. fiAucc,
and mock ~, sometimes holding Is
sides with uncontrolled InIrih a our
natlonsi impot5ncy Sbiploai ~ ~
shlplosd OF MormOns are re2urgits.ed 81
your Castle Garden, and hundreds sn1
thousands OF them sra being mt on 10
to great moral lszarett Of tbs west. OH
efs are on the way, I'd the Atlantic Is
heayIng toward us ihs great sergss D.
foreign Hbertinism. Tbs moment thu
emisssries Of that organ lust are o1sy
II Norway and Sweden 8Dd Engiand ana
Ireland and Scotlaud and Germany,
breaking up homes, and with lnferns
cords drawing the population his way,
8 population which will BIS dumred as
carrion on the American territories.
American crime with its Icne rake
stretched across other continents is heap
lag up on this land great winrows of
aoomInstion. Worse and worse. Four
hundred Mormons coming into our port
In one day. six hundred in another day,
eight hundred 10 another day.
II the next American Congress should
exact fifty laws against Eermonism in
the same spirit of those which have
passed, they could be of no avail. |
nothing but United States troops armed |
With shot ard shell and great guns will |
ever put down that ibiouitv. James |
Buchanan was right in 1857, when he |
sent an army and they msrched to Sal. |
Lake valley; but James Buchanan wss
wrong when in 1853 after the Mormons |
had flung some rocks down from high |
places and crashed American troops, he |
sent General Powell, Of Kentucky, !
and Msior Mccullough, Of Texas, |
70 oher amnesty. Had that |
army under General Sidney |
JOIN! t)n marched on, Mormorism would |
have beee matter Of history instead of |
an awful fact of the present. Il will be |
saFlog OF human blood, il armed bat.
ISHons march on now and destroy hist
great evil before it is 3 hundred times
nor fortified.
are We so cowardly and selfish il this
generation that we are going to b queath
70 the felloWirg generations the great
efn' IetLng IL 60 until or children come |
70 ih9 front and We are lsafsly intrenehed
under The mound of our own sepu!chres
IesvIRg our children, through all their
actlVe llfe to wonder why We postponed
IBIS evil for their extirpation, when we
might have destroyed it with a hundred.
to!d less exposure. Whist q legacy for
tnls generation to leave to the following
generation! A vast acreage Of swelterine
put g action. of lowest besstiness Of
suuocating stencil all th g time bee ming
more ano more mslodorous and rotten
ara damnsble. We want sons great
political party, in some strong and un-
mlktskAble plank, to declare that it will
extrpate, heroically and immedistely.
ials CREST hsren of the American
continent. We want some President
Of the United States to come in
on such en- suti-Mormonistie platform.
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