The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-30
UNITED UTAH.

The same complaint Is made mere
against the united action OF the major
ity of our population that's made in the
east against the solid south. Those who
belong to parties simply because they
are parties, and act with them as
matter of discipline, without reference
to Justice CIR logic, are most likely
to be the ones who clamor the most
loudly against others who do precisely
as they are doing or would do if they
could. In one breath they urge the
supporters of their party to present
united front to the opposition, in the
next they condemn that opposition for
presenting united front.
There is no consistency in such
things, though, in the light of history,
there is no reason why any one who
studies the facts and desires to be
guided by logical conclusions should be
misled, since the record of the opposi-
ton by the minority to the majority
of the people of Utah is a series of in
consistencies, always palpable, some
times fragrant. The opponents aim.
has all along been to either rule or ruin;
to gain prestige and power, or prevent
by other methods than those within
their immediate control the majority
from doing so. Failing to outvote that
portion of our population recognized
as Mormons, the other class appeal
to Congress for assistance i'll the ac-
complishment of the peculiar purpose
stated
Why should not the people of Utah
Gas the class last referred to are gener-
ally spoken of be united? Common
misfortunes, coupled with the necessity
for a common defense, will unite any
class of people; add to this a unity of
belief, and there will be found n defen-
sive condition which only those intent
upon self-preservation ever exhibit, but
which when called forth means some
thing more than mere show of oppo-
siion. When such opposition is made
unduly oppressive upon one or more,
with an evident disposition to make the
pressure still more comprehensive and
far-reaching, they are apt to become so
completely solicited that the fate of one
is the fate of all.
Elsewhere people are not expected to
vote for, uphold, or, in some instances,
countenance those who deliberately and
persistently work against them. In
Utah, because certain class
see fit to be united, and act
in concert in the matter OF overcoming
opposition, such action is trumpeted to
the world as a reason why Utah is not
fit for local self-government and that all
methods OF defense should be taken
from them. In other words, combat
ant, having shown his superiority with
all the weapons chosen, must have the
weapons taken from him in order that
he may be made quite defenseless and
his opponent enjoy a victory and the
fruits theirof which neither his proves,
skill, nor the justice OF his cause entitle
him to.
The people OF Utah have right to be
united; they have right to vote as one
man; and, so long as present conditions
continue, it is sincerely to be hoped
that they will do so. Wherein have
they any other defense? The agents of
the supreme governmental power, in
Guiding the executive and judicial. and
controlling the legislative functions of
the Territory, are all in the hands of the
minority, and to fail to make the best
use of what little in the matter of local
authority is left them, would be to
crush the only chance.as though it were
withered flower and scatter the frag-
ments to the winds.
Let the people'of Utah be united and
compact, the more SO the better, for the
present at least They have nothing to
lose and something to hope for by such
means. By cohesion and eompactness
they may gain advantages which other
wise would be denied and withheld.
There is nothing of reproach in the
term oneness" which the opposition
have coined and used on every possible
occasion. 1t was by oneness that the
little band OF Spartans under Leonidas
hurled back the Persian hordes at the
Pass of Thermopyle, that the Swiss
were enabled to cast off and destroy the
CALLING yoke of Austria, and that the
majority of the people of Utah have SO
far been able to maintain at least the
semblance of independence and liberty,
in a land dedicated to both, in the face
of the opposition of the majority in the
nation influenced and aided by the
minority at home.
The "SoIid South" has lost nothing
by being solid; United Utah" will lose
nothing by preserving its solidity at all
times and under all circums tances.
"
JUDGE ZANE, the recently appointed Chief
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