The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-18
MORMON AID FOR THE DEMO
Gratis.


It will be easy enough to make fun of
the story published this morning con-
corning the contribution to the Demo
cratic campaign fund OF a fraction OF
the Mormon tithes. 1t is just
as easy to jeer at the Mormon |
bugaboo as at the bloody shirt. |
The trouble is that Mormonism |
and bloody shirts exist in stern reality |
and not alone in the imagination OF
campaign speakers; and the story that
the Mormon leaders have contributed to
the Cleveland campaign fundl Is ntrlnsl-
calIy probable, for several reasons.
First-The Mormons hate the Repub-
lican party with deadly hatred. That
party inscribed on its banners death
to slavery and MormOnism, the twin
relics of barbarism" at the very begin
ming of its career. 1t has enacted the
only measures that have ever checked
Mormon aggression and curbed Nor
mon power, and enacted them against
Democratic opposition.
Seeond-Ever since Cleveland's non11-
nation the Mormon papers have gwen
him hearty support, as the extracts
We have occasionally published IN our
columns have shown.
Third-The Mormons are anxious TO
succeed they will be able to intrench
polygamy behind impregnable barriers
and rule their community as they
please. They can be admitted only by
| Democratic votes; and in return Tor
those votes, they will undertake TO tur
nish the Democrats two Senators and
one or two Representative at Wash
ington. The scheme is a cunning one,
and they can well afford to spend
years fittings in bringing it about.
And there is nothing in the character
of the party or of its candidate to rem
der it improbable that just such an
Ubiquitous bargain with organized lust
has been made.
The above is from the New York Mail
and Express, journal which Cyrus w.
Field publishes for the purpose of aid
ing his stock-jobbing swindles, and
which the other New York dailies,
when they refer to it at all, call the
Vail and Distress. 1t has two character
istics-one being a mania for speaking
of the Mormons, and the other, deplor-
able ignorance of the Mormons. If by
any chance it should speak the
truth concerning the people of
Utah, it would be through ignorance.
On more than one occasion THE HER
AID has endeavored to beat more sense
into the thick skull of the Mail and En-
press, not because the latter Yields
| any influence but for the reason tn t
we dislike to see an editor IerpetuaIly
making an ass of himself.
Perhaps one of these days when the
Wal and Distress man cases to be a
pensioner on Field, and is obliged to
earn a living by honest work, he will
think it worth while to learn something
of the Mormons before writing of them
and when that time does arrive, and he
has devoted a little study to the sub
iect, ne will learn that the idea of the
Mormens appropriating church money
to assist the Democratic or Republican
party is so Improbable as t.
be ridiculous; he will also Learn
that the Mormons do not hate the Re
publican party with deadly hatred, bu
that there are Republican as well a
Democratic Mormons; he will learI
that the measures" enacted by the Re
publican party have not checked MOI
mon aggression and curbed Mormon
power because the Mormon "aggres
sion" which the II. and E. implies, is a
great now as ever, and Mormon powe
is greater to-day than at any time IL
its previous history; he will learn tina
; whatever support" the Mormon paper
have given Cleveland, has been base
wholly upon the fact that the Demo
cratic candidate is regarded as pure
man than Blaine, approaches nearest t
a standard of honesty and integrity
that he gives greater promise of reforr
in the administration of governmer
than the man from Maine, and tha
: his election will be better fo
" the country than the election {
: Blaine: he will learn that the Mormon
are not nearly so anxious to get Uta
= admitted into the Union as State q
others are to keep her out. The Mo
" mons would undoubtedly like to EMO
> all their rights and privileges as Amer
can citizens, but when they reflect tn;
IL Statehood involves doubling the rate {
taxation, and greatly increased expens
they sometimes ask themselves if it
= not just as well to suffer some ammo,
= ances and deprivations which it cos
. the general government a hundre
=. thousand dollars or more a year to il
fict, as to enjoy freedom with tt
attendant extra expense. Of the tv
evils they would prefer the latter, b
ed their anxiety in the matter is not owe
nc powering.
ce And finally, the Mail and Express e
" itor will learn that the more he has sa
d. of the Mormons in his ignorance, Il
II. greater ass he has shown himself to b
ed