The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-27
PAINTING HIMSELF.
A Crank Correctly Draws His
Own Picture, But La
bells it Another.

From the columns or the D0tty
Yelyoao Flag, ofyesterday morning
we extract the following: eve
wonder If the nation will ever real
lie the real position ofaffairs in this
Territory. We wonder il it under.
stands that there is here an orgsni-
zation composed in part Of tnaves,
and of Guiteaus, who stand outside
and are superior to the laws: who
claim that the Almighty has 6 ven
them the right to Je a law unto
themselves, and claim fur her, that
any American who dares to raise his
voics for the sovereignty Of his
country, snd to demand that the
maje.ty Of its laws be sustained, is
an enemy who is at the came time
seeking to peisecute pious peo pie,
and to fight the will OF 0mnipO ence
This people could, II they would but
raise their eyes, see how they are
being robbed; how they ate being
forced to be unjust to their own
families, in order 10 pay the merci-
less assessments which are levied
upon them; they might see how,
while East and West. states are
rounding into place, school houses
are being built, and people are free
an6 happy, and in their hearts there
glows a hope which has no limit,
they are but slaves who are doing
the bidding of men more sim bowed
than themselves, but they will not,
and when the truth is held up to
them, they will simply answer shat
man is our enemy"
"The nation looks on and says,
There is nothing wrong people
who have been here say, 'We have
been there, we know how quiet,
peacabIe and God-fearing that PEG.
pie is.' The calm OF the despolis 4
which rules here they mistake fol
happiness"
Now, the man who wrote tha
knew and deliberately cogitatet
over the fact. that the statement ia {
deliberate fabrication. There are &c
more knaves and Guiteaus in thit
community than can be found il
any other. Among all religious aot
political organizations there All
always many who cali themselvei
jealous, whose zeal is REGARDED by
their enemies and rivsls as fanati-
cism. To that extent Is the state
ment If ,a and no fu ther II,
knows that any american" cal
express his opirioG5 here as fTeel.
as in any other place in the world
| He knows that there are few, i
any, communities in the c1untr,
which would submit to the bastard !.
outrages imposed upon this one
| without a resentment which woul'
bring terror to this class. He know
that we have'fschoo.houses"and tina
the people are as "free and happy,
as they are elsewhere. He know
thst in their "hearts there 9 Ows
hope that has no limit; or at leas'
he knows that the statement is 8
true of them ss of the people Q
New York or any other sectiOn 0
the Union. He knows that he.
are no more tsslaves" than are an
other people who attach themselye
to a religious or other organization
He knows when he speaks Of til
''calm of spctism", that he expose
his own shame, as it is as impoa
sible that such a thing can exis
here under the circumstances, as #
him ever to state the truth regard
ing the situation, while his interest
lead him to willfully lnisrepresent i
Again / quote: Under The teach
ings Of the Giteaus who write TO
and harangue this people, a me
spirit Is being engendered whiC
will by and by break over the n
strainis which now chain then
, and then in a pillar OF fire, the fei
animus and intent of this accurse
system will be reflected"
All this is necessary to give th
sentence force, is to imagine ii beir
J said by Mormon, of tt
Tribune editors and their c!ass, (,
there Is certainly more OF tt
Gulteau spirit manifested by I'll
"American" element, than show
by the Mormon people. with ali the
alleged fanaticism.
He says, "In the meantime, the
are holding out falee lights to lu
more lives to this inhospitsble Goa.
to be wrecked and at the same TIN
: blasphemously claiming that it is
save their souls"
n Of this, it may be sad truthful
y that no one can accuss the IL
balanced scribe of the Tribune,
holding out false, or other, lights
d attract population hitherwards; Fl
x everything he does is calculated
y keep wsy from "tbis inhospitat
coast" every one who might othe
wise think of landing. He is Il
q suarlipg cert ent VINO la>hes hi
self into fury at ths sight Of an g
preaching vessel bearing addition
lives to this rich, (but for his borl
copvolutions, anu diabolical writ
ings) pleasant heaven.
He nerves himself up again, al