The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-01
SOMETHING WARNING.

of patriots whose mission is the pro-
motion of loyalty hereabout, do not
cohere. There is something rotten
in the land of the Liberals, and the
efluvium is like unto that emitted by
a Limburger cheese factory after a
cyclone. The patriots are as much
disconnected aud as inharmonious
as though it were only the arrange
ments for children's Sunday school
picnic they were trying to fix up.
Such inability to hang together is
nearly as sad as though they were
doomed to hang separately, and We
mourn thereat.
In Utah live more than hundred
and twenty thousand people whose
ideas of social polity and religious
duty differ from those of the re-
naming twenty thousand. The
twenty thousand have for twenty
years been trying to control the
other people, with very indif-
ferent success; in fact, one
failure has trodden upon anOther's
heels, SO fast they came; and all
efforts of the tail to wag the dog
have been absolutely futile. AS is
customary when failure is the result
of combined exertion, those who
do the work blame each other, and
soon disunlte, to be brought to-
gether again only by a mighty and
excruciating effort.
The Liberal party Of Utah, as it
is called, has no hope of success in
the coming election, and knows it;
it also ought to, and we believe does
know, that its present and prospeea
tive lack of advancement is not
merely because of its inferior num-
bers, but rather because of it's imbe-
cile management and entire lack of
principle. 1t simply places itself in
the position of an adverse claimant,
having no title whatever except the
mere accident of being on the
ground; it has but little in the way
of affirmative policy to rely on, and
has to content itself with being
sort of negation In the political
field. It does not advance like a
spirited and determined host;
1T pUrsues the tactics of
a guerilla, by lying in ambush and
picking off such unfortunate strag-
.glers from the enemy's forces as
occasionally come within range,
and when defeated and dislodged
by combined movement of the op-
posing force, it quarrels within its
own ranks, snarls at the victors and
blames the government for not
Strengthening its hands, while this is
the very thing, by the by, which the
government has all along been
doing; nearly every clamor for aid
has been regarded, every call for
reinforcements responded to. and
still the malcontents do not adj
vance, still they present themselves
before the world as weaklings, and
admit that they are unable to Go
anything unless the hands of those
whom they oppose are tied com
pletely. They do not propose to
achieve victory by means of acces.
sions to their ranks or try to gain
accessions by persuasion, argument,
patience and a superior cause; they
demand that the principal power
step in and hold the enemy in
Subsection till the works are
carried by them, then step out
that it may not be known
what disposition is made of the
power and plumber thus acquired.
But the government so far re-
fuses to proceed to that extremity.
1t says, we will disfranchise right
and left, wherever there is even the
ghost of an excuse for it; we will
give you officials who represent and
work for yourselves instead of the
majority; we will shield and guard
your cause in every way; but you
must fight your own battles-you
cannot rely upon us to furnish you
with anything more than securing
to you every advantage in the con-
test.
Hence there is sadness and wall
ing: because of this is there gnash-
ing Of teeth and violent lamenta-
tons in the camp of the Philistines.
They look to the east and ask for
legislation; it is given. They ask
for more legislation; this they get
also. They ask for the. appoint
ment OF a body Of men who will
take the control of the election