The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
GRANT on UTAH

may be entertained IS TO the worth
of General Grants services to hil
country there is little doubt that hs
has done for the nation to which hs
belongs much that is deserving OF
gratitude; that he was tw'cs elected
President of that country, the fact
that he was "ovated" wherever he
went, while on his famous tour
around the world; the fact that he
has repeatedly been suggested as a
thir6-termer; the fact that his coun.
try has done everything it could to
show how deep and abiding is its
appreciation Of the good works of
one of its servants; all these facts
combined are not sufficient to win
for him reputation for infaliibil-
ity or for perfection of judgment.
This Utah Commission that he
talks about is what? Is story that
is twelve years old; that has been
urged by soreheads and by the
country because Of desire to do
something-it don't make bit OF
difference what-with Utah; and for
the want of anything intelligent to
say on the subject, the General
gracefully falls into line ana
recommends commission for Utah.
If the General had explained two
things in connection with his sug-
gestion there might have been an
opportunity for a reply. He should
have told why commission was
needed, and what good the commits
sion could do when it gets here. The
psople of . tab have not been guilty
of opposition to the United States
government. True, they do not
comply with the wishes of thoae
"white-souled" who provide that q
person cannot vote if he IS guilty Of
certain things Sin the marriage re-
lation." The United States has not
now, aud never had, better clsss
of citizens than this same
Mormon community about whom
so many people with added heads
are whining. The pet pie of Utah
are wealthier, averaging them all
through, than the inhabitants of
any section Of this vast country,
population in both instances being
equal. This wealth is the result
not of fortune, not of favor, but of
honest, hard work - thing IN
known by and foreign to a majority
of their maligners. They have yet
to receive a favor at the hands of
any government or Of any commun-
ity, and in the teeth Of
the bitterest and most malignant
opposition - an opposition that
If the specimens we have here of
Mormon eaters may be taken as a
sample, would have proven fatal to
the existence Of any othar people.
Despite every drawback, they have
worked, and labored and because
they reap the honest reward to
which honest effort is entitled they
must have commission appointed
to rule over them. The material
interests are ever fore-runners of
social condition. If a people pre-
serve their Industry and viltue
nothing can prevent their becoming
great. Will the commission that
Grant and others talk about |
cause the people of Utah to be more
frugal, more Industrious? If not |
what can be gained? Whoever heard
of people corrupted by vice that
accumulated wealth? Is not COM.
mon immortality the surest evidence
of the death Of a community? I'll
this be true why then this alarm
about the fast increasing power of
the Mormon people when their
crimes are but the outgrowth of
conditions as certain to bring about
decay as the sun is to shine? A vile
people becoming powerful and
wealthy I! Bah! The fact is
that increasing wealth is an
evidence of growing industry
in a community, and indus.
try is the inevitable concomitant,
or associate condition of virtue.
What these howlers, whose cry
Grant has foolishly taken up, want
8 the very thing that will destroy a |
community ahead of any other In the
United States, in point of industry
and wealth. It is question If a
nation like this, independent of |