The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-02
ON THE WRONG TRACK.

In HERALD article advising the
neonle OF Utah to be and remain united,
occurred some passages TO which the
Tribune objects. This was, OF course
to he expected. We would have an e1-
ceedingly hard time of it ii our efforts
we're directed toward satisfying our err
ratio neighbor; it is much easier to dis
please than to please it. It's article,
however, to DO it justice, is much better
tempered and trained a little more IN
the direction of respectable discussion
than are most OF the articles appearing
in its columns, and there is some salts
faction even in that. While there Is
life. there is hope. Among other things
in the article referred to occurs the ioi-
lowing;
What i there in the past Of wrong or
! in the future OF menace, to give
nubIic journal the right 10 advise the
neonle of 4 Territory to unite ana 10
! Keen united 70 defeat the execution oil
| tbe Jaws2 This IS what THE HERALD
reeIIy does. If the article means any
| thinS Il means to carry the idea that
/ fhe Mormons possess this land by right
of prior location; that those who nave
come since are merely invaders, ana
that il is usurpation for the governments
/ to seek TO enforce its laws here.
In this excerpt the Tribune shows Its
Inability to confne itself to argument
for even the brief space OF one editorial.
The question asked conveys an IN
sinuation which the tenor OF THS
). HERALD article does not warrant, and
points to 4 conclusion which nothing IN
our language or meaning supports ano
then the false position reached Is
, cInched as far as may be, by dlrec'
statement. The editorial of which 1t
t sneaks did not convey the idea thai
| the Mormons possess this land by right
= of prior location" that the "Gentlie'
2 are invaders" or that tits "usurpatlon
7 for the government to enforce its laws
2 here" Nothing of the kind. 1t meant tt
convey the idea that the Mormons, nav
t ing settled the country, reclaimed th'
: barren wastes and made the cultivation
and civilization which we all now enjoy
f a practical fact, are entitled to som'
), consideration and many rights OF loca
e self-goyernment, even in the presence o
n the agents of the reigning power. l
d tried to show that the rights las
! named had been dissipated on
T by one until the elective tranchis
2. was about the only one the Government
e had left to it, and this had been re
;, duced to the lowest possible limits am
, ANYTHING be left. 1t tried to impress
&c upon the people the necessity OF makin
d. the best and most earnest use of tina
o little by being united in the presence
Is those who oppose them, and who, RICH
is or wrong, are seeking to gain CON
a plete ascendency in political affairs
er no others. No one was, IS or viii b
d in these columns advised to violate tn
" laws or do anything else which an w
r right citizen might have occasion to II
pent after it was done.
s. One by one have the people conpoi
Ell ing the majority of our TerritoTi'
W population been deprived of the priv
i'll legeS which they once possessed al
n which are still possessed by the
T neighbors in other communities.
to say that this is because of their lawles
I'd ness IS folly in the extreme; lawlessne'
lg produces evil results, and where a.
the evil results of Mormon resident
and rule in UtahT They are MOTTO
found. There must be another reaso
we will go further and say that the!
is Is another reason, and If the T1T;5t4'
in does not know it, it is much no
n obtuse than itwould have US believe.
st Our contemporary then goes OH to sa!
n And then it is not that the maiorii
be here are united that any one complain
y hnt it is that under the un-Americs
and unholy discipline which Is enforce
? here. men do not use their own mind
ae hat accept without reason the rule
he others who hold them IN mere ment