The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-16
HOW TRULY LIBERAL !!

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The Liberal party Of Utah is a grand,
gloomy and peculiar organization.
It's SO peculiar that it is not ccnsis-
tent.
Itwants something to-day and some
thing else tomorrow. And it is very
rarely that either. of these something's
agrees.
It's history is full OF contradictions
and homogeneous attitudes on public
questions, and it seems to be never so
happy as when utterly indescribable.
To be placed in such position that
anybody could find it for two consecu-
tive elections, would break ts.heart and
probably end its career.
tt is fish to-day, flesh TOMORROW and
fowl next week.
It's head is where its tail ought to be +;
its ribs are on the outside of.its skin /;
and its brains fail to respond when the
roll is called.
1t is peculiar institution-very.
It asks for Congressional legis-
lation for Utah, and when that
point is gained says it has gained moth
ling. 4ltt ~
It asks for free ballot and fair
count; and, having first knocked sew
eral kinds of stuffing out Of the latter,
asks that the former be abolished en-
tirely.
And 50 on.
Perhaps its most brilliant feat in the
matter of absolute absurdity WAS
accomplished at the school meeting
in the Seventh District last
night. The grand and glor.-
GUS liberators of the people, those who
clamor SO loudly for the prevalence of
law and civilized practices, got little
more of their own medicine than their
systems could contain. and there was
more or less sea-sickness in consequence.
Their relative strength was as 300 10
1909, and, by the force OF habit, they
deemed themselves entitled to the tro-
phies OF the contest.
But they didn't get them Not this
time.
They footed up, the bill while the
landlord was absent
In other words, theysgot left.
A gentleman learned in the law, pro
posed to show by another plan from
that formerly adopted, how it was that
the majority could not prevail unless il
was on the Liberal side, but the show
ing failed to carry, as before. He argued
that in ALL elections, those who vote
must be duly qualified voters apparently
forgetful of the fact that this was moi
an election at all, but simply an ex
preston on the part of property owner.
as to whether or not their property
should be taxed to build schoolhouse
and that the grand, square and uprigh
features of the Edmunds bill were no
invited to nor accepted in the cere
monies.
1t would seem to be logical conclu
sion that men have right to dispose o
their own property as they Sc
fit, without reference to enactment
which deprive them of voting at publi
elections while generously permitting
them to pay taxes one would natural.
suppose that man might tax hiD1sel
to build educational institutions and as
sist in the education of the young. ever
if the glorious privilege OF asserting t,
or disappearing of those who are +
dispose OF his money thus voted i
taken from him; but the -lega
gentleman referred to and the portion
Of the Liberal party assembled on tn
occasion spoken of, seemed to thin
otherwise. And then, as if to add to tn
absurdity of the position, they wer
voting against the very policy whicl
they have all along accused the ma jorit
of failing to uphold! Wn a
If there is anything under the sui
which the people constituting the bull
Of the population hereabout can do t
satisfy the other element for even tn
brief space Of twenty-four short hours
will not the latter kindly indicate wha
it is, and thus give the majority chanc
10 be obliging?