The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
In LEICESTER.
How the Twenty-Fourth was
Observed Over There.
LEICESTER, July 25tb. 1884.

Last evening the few Latter-day
Saints CT tais place met in their
usua' place Of meeting. Some of
the struggles and hardships Of the
Pioneers OF this memorable date of
the entrance Of that notable band
who led the van OF tens Of thousand
of warm hearts pulsating and pant,
ing for breath OF freedom and
liberty to worshipsGcd in their own
way. Fleeing In the Wilderness
from the smoking blood of martyers
and robbed of homes and the graves
of their fathers were glsd to find an
asylum in the great basin Of Salt
Lake in the midst of sage brush,
wolves and Indians and to erapple
with the crickets and grasshoppers
incident to the R9cky Mountains
when four wss worth 81 per pound
and could be hal only in very
small quantities at that Compar-
ing those memorable times with
fields and focks and Plentiful har.
vests, the wilderness blooming ss
the rose, is Indicative of wha is in
the hearts of q noble people, capable
OF accomplishing, under the stars
and stripes, so nobly raised at that
early day by those pioneers then on
Mexican soil.
And when we see the struggle to
destroy the franchise OF tlose hardy
SONS, by our should-be fathers by
special legislation and intrigue, ets, +,
we are led to many deep reflections.
| On the memorable Twenty-four.h
about $4,000 people of this
shire assembled in mass meeting
in the market place of L ,icester, at
the call of FIVE Of the M. P's, Mes RS.
A. Macarthur (brother to the one
who wrote the "HisUory of Our Own
Times" also M. Plendon, who visited
Salt Lake in 1867 and j. A. Picton,
T. T. Paget, Fl. B. Roadhurst, J.
O'Conner Power, and A. Illins-
worth, six divisions of leicester led
by bands of martial music and ap
propriate banner. Among them
vas one American flag upside down.
The square was living mass as far
IS the eye could see. Every Rindow
of the surrounding houses, balconis
and every available spot was eagerly
sought for and occupied, and th' n
: thousands disappointed wandered
away in the midst of q pouring lain
storm, bu. tens uf thousands jammed
together, could but stsnd their
ground under q sea of umbrellas,
and take 8 ducking, and with
cheers, and occasionally groaus,
applaud the various speakers
one of whom said Git was Mr.. Pic
tony "Don't you know what you
come here for? Yes, I think you do,
and it don't need any one to stand
up here and tell you. / will men
ton two objects, the first is equali-
z2!ion Of the franchise throughout
the country (heat hearty and we
are determined to have that equal :
zation carrie in our own way (hear
hearD The Lords say: Oh, you may
have the franchise, but you shall
i have it 1ur way. (No, certainly not.
! We intend to have in our own way
and not in theirs (cheers,) 1t IS fol
us to say who is to draw up the
, measure of redistribution. We
would rather trnst Mr.. Gladstone tC
do that (applause) than we woulc
: Lord Salisbury. Why, last Mon
, day, there were, I suppose, at leaet
> quarter of a million of people gath
cred together in the streets OF Lon
don and Hyde Park. Very
few policemen there, just a
there are very few policemen
In this magnificent assemblsga eve
are), but this quarter of million O.
9 people kept order amongst them
l selves, sustained good tTae kindness
{ OF feeliDg, and were show to th'
t whole world that has created amaze
I ment wherever the report has gone
2 Foreigners are astounded ut thu
strength of our love OF order anC
Z liberty at the came time. It is thes'
q millions who are thus lovers o; or
der as well as ibel ty, who irsi
n upon having the franchise their owl
> way; and who are they who "a.
f they shall not? About 500 gentle
= men in the House of Lords, who, q
q is well said, have doEe nothing t
! deserve the right save the comipi
: into the world ,condescen stng in fac
: to be the sons of their fathers
;, daughter and loud cbeers). Nov
|, this is one of the objects. (At thi
. point the effigy of Lord Salisbrr,
: : was burnt and for few moment
! attracted the attention OF tn
n crowd. Resuming, Mr.. Pictol
= said: When Lord Salisbury is re
q duced to ashes, and has gone il
:. smoke. butDo the House G
: Lords has become & pubic nuisanc
!. that must be abated. Why 20
know very well that they have bee
!, against every measure Of equality
! every measure OF justice, ana ever
= measure Of right.
: Notonly was Lord Sail bury burn
' in effigy between two long poles, bu
4 there were various notices. "Ol
= Salisbury; shameW "Thou MAJ
naisleeder. "-"King Henry Part :
Act 5:'-"We demsr d The BIZ. -
"a (laUely defeated in the House c
}, Lords land nothing but the Bill,
Al Lelcesters gpicknlcs reply to mao
70 Drained Salisbury" This was sui
u scribed shakespeare" and backe
- by the words. "All men are equf
d before God: Why not equal