The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-20
WHAT OF IT!
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 10, 1888.

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 10, 1888.
Editors Herald:
Have you heard of anybody adS
miring our beautiful Governors
message? Anybody outside of his
own little clique of INSCRIPTIONS
adherents, the pretended patriots,
but real traitors, who are incessantiy
plotting and conspiring and schem
ing and contriving to abolish re-
preventative government-that is,
free government, in our fair Terri
torp. and destroy the last vestige of
the liberties of the people in these
mountains, for the purpose of es.
tabllshing here an unconstitutional
and un-American Oligarchy?
Two things are especially promin-
ent in the gubernatorial production
an ignorant and bigoted enmity
to the religion OF the large majority
of the people, and an undisguised
threatening of the Vengeance of
Congress and the country at large,
unless the Legislature shall do ex.
actly thus and so at His Excel
lency's dictation. Is either of these
things consistent with the freedom
of this land of freedom Is either
Of them consistent with the liberty
of the citizens in this land Of lib
erty? No, 1t is not; unless the idea
of freedom or liberty in this great
republic is mere fading tradition,
instead of living and glorious re-
atty. They are a libel upon the
very name of liberty. They are the
methods of the despOt in the land of
liberty. They are the trail of the
serpent in the garden of Eden.
1t is understood that the mes
sage was meant for buncomb be;
was intended ostensibly for Utah,
but really for other Iongttudef; was
not go much for near as for distant
effect. That may be. 1t very likely
was so. But gubernatorial mes.
sage should be for home use, for
local application and influence, not
for expectation and effect one, two,
or three thousand miles away. A
governor who delivers such a mes
sage Is Gemagogue. Is the Gov
ernor paid out Of the taxes Of the
people to be Governor OF Utah, or to
be scheming politician, looking
mainly to results far outside her
boundaries? These observations
are per tinent to the issue, which is
more than can he said of much of
the message.
Napoleon In Egypt dramatically
told his troops that forty centuries
were looking down upon them. Not
that Murray is Napoleon by any
manner OF means. But Murray
tells the Legislature that 5O,O0O,0OO
Of American citizens are looking up
to them, our representatives elect,
and waiting, with hated breath l
suppose, to hear what Utah is going
to DO legislatively. What con.
demned trash is this, to be sure. 1t
is one of his little political tricks.
He has been gallivanting around the
States, trying all ia his power to
excite the millions Of the people
there against the mere handful of
people in this basin of Salt LAKE,
and then comes back and tells the
modest members OF our one horse
Legislature that ali the country is
looking toward them with eager,
nay anxious, expectancy. But
his little TRICK goes further
he claims that this locking
is fearful looking that, in certain
indicated contingencies, 1t is look
ing fraught with threatening5 and
vengeance of q direful nature. Yea,
verify, this sort of gubernatorisl
talk is unmitigated bosh. What
blowhard he is! He seems to be
perfectly at home when breathing