Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-10

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4 Government than like religious services.
4 They blasphemously connect pretense
of religion with all their wicked pracr
1 tices. Over whisky saloon in Salt Lake
Il you can see these words: Holiness to
4 the Lord-three drinks for quarter.
1 The whole system is full of blasphemy
4 and pestiferons wickeeness.
] President Arthur in his last message
] recommended the passage of bill pro-
fviding Legislative Commission fer
fthe Territory. A bill to this effect was
i introduced at the first of the session by
| Mr.. Cassidy, of Nevada. 1t came before
tti,e Committee on Territories, of which
am . member. We gave it careful con-
federation. prepared lengthy report
in its favor, in which l stated every
phase of the question and as | thought,
answered every possible objection. When
we came to consider it every Republican
voted in favor of it and every Democrat
voted against it.
T. Every Republican signed my report,
which became minority report, and no
Democrat would sign 1t. One Democrat
member said he would like to sign it but
he did not dare to do so because his
party was against it.
Every Mormon is Democrat. The
Utah member of the National Democrat
| ic Committee is Mormon. The Terri
tory of Utah is rsjoiced over the ninety
| Eve Democrats who voted against the
| Edmunds bill in the FOrty-Seventh Con-
gress. The Democratic party denies
that we have any right to interfere with
| the local institutions of Utah as they
denied that we had any right to interfere
with the local institution of slavery.
These fragrant violations of the laws of
God and man, these relentless enemies
of. the government, who were driven
from Missouri and Illinois at the point
of the bayonet, and permitted to nestle
fin that beautiful valley of fruit and
flowers, where they are using the prop
erfy of the government and the income
of the territory, to foster their peculiar
institutions. This too while the govern
ment is apprepriating over one hundred
thousand year to pay the expenses of
the Territory.
This national disgrace, this foul stain
on our national escutcheOn, this blow at
the family relation, this enemy to re-
publican institutions is permitted to
grew in wealth and power because the
Democratic party is welded to its old
heresy of states rights.
The Mormon leaders select the juries
in Utah, dictate the verdicts, vote their
submissive harenas, oppress the poor
with tithes and fittings, corrupt the pu-
rity of the home. and yet the Democratic
majority of the present house will not
take step to prevent it. 1have letter
in my pocket received two or three days
since, signed by Judge Mckay and ten
others of the most prominent men in
Salt Lake City urging the Importance of
passing some law to suppress the crime
of polygamy, and giving the opinion that
heSplan Recommended by the president
and by the Republican members of our
committee is the only one that will ever
remove the evil.
l have spoken this much on this ques-
tion because / do not think there is any
other question of equal Importance in
this campaign. / am not here to waste
your time or mine, but / wish to call
your attention to the attitude of the
Democratic party to these great ques+
tions which interest fify-fve millions of
people and involve the Institutions of
the republic.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
The present Democratic House, by a
very small majority, decided to appoint
committee to investigate the effects of
the liquor traffic. but defeated the meas
ure by appointing men who were the
known enemies of Temperance, and who
were chosen because they would report
against any investigation whatever.
They will appoint commissions and
investigate the fish of the sea, the birds
of the air, and the cattle on q thousand
bills, but they refuse to investigate or
inquire into the causes and effects of a
traffic in which is expended. in this
country, more than SSO0,000,000 year,
and which is the direct cause of three
fourths of the taxes and nine-tenths of
all crimes.
And in Ohio the recent Democratic
eIvention has again insulted our pso
pie by Haunting in their faces the oft
repeated and baleful project of a grsdu
ated license system; and it has again
placed itself on record as against sump-
tuary laws, which means lawful restraint
of the liquor traffic.
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.
The attitude of the Democratic party
is dangerous to every branch of indus
try, as we'll as somewhat demoralized on
questions of morality. The committee
on agriculture reported early in this ses-
sion, bill which was in the interest of
the farmers. 1t was called the pleura-
pneumonia bill, and was similar in its
provisions to legislation of other coun-
tries, which has proved to be of great
value. 1t was intended to prevent the
spread of the diseases of animals, and
to encourage the expectation of live
stock, by making it possible to refute
| the false alarms which are often raised
| in regard to diseased animals and dis
eased meat. The bill had the support of
every member Of the committee and yet
the Democrats struck out of the bill its
most important provision, the section
which allowed the President of the
| United States to declare State, or por
tion of a State, in which cattle or other
animals were found to have contagious
diseases, in quarantine, and thereby pre-
vent the shipping of diseased cattle
into other States. and in this way pre-
vent the spread of the disease. The
Democratic side objected to this, and
they struck 1t out, because, they said, it
interfered with the rights of the States.
that the president of the United States
had no authority under the constitution
to interfere in any way with State
even if it was for the good of the State.
Mr.. Hatch, the chairman of the COM
mittee, a Missouri Democrat, who seems
somehow to be greatly in advance OF his
brethren, denounced the Democratic
party for its want Of statesmanship.and
| its want of capacity to do business, as
no Republican has done during this ses4
sion. He openly declared that the DEM
ocratie party was falling into decay.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
The campaign of 1880 was supposed
to have put ut rest the question of a
protective tariff. but success of the DEM
1000 .,..A L.. lSSn ha.