The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-11
THE sIIssI0N JUDGE.

i
There are certain persons here who
rejoice and make merry when a Federal
Judge displays extraordinary zeal in his
endeavors to punish the Mormons.
These are the bitter, unreasoning anti
Mormons. They are the agitators who
have nothing to gain or lose in the Ter
ritory, but whose natures are OF that
malformed, ugly order which is best
pleased by strife and contention. As
a rule they are not men who would be
selected as patterns for Sunday-school
children to study, and they are not
famous for their high regard for morals
and virtue. Elsewhere they would
amount to little in society; here they
amount to nothing in reality, though IN
their minds they are the important ones
of earth.
These are the people who
chuckle and grin, who cheer and shout,
threaten and brag, when Judge mani
tests determination to be very severe
in dealing with the Mormons. 1t IS
hardly necessary for us to say the
plaudits of this class are not such as
the self-respecting, upright judge viii
care to win. Their praises should be
accepted az q hint TO him that he has
overstepped the bounds Of legal pro-
priety and done something which he
ought not to have done, and which the
law viii not uphold him in doing. If
he were brave and right, and clearly
within the line of his sworn duty, It is
safe to say that all OF the encourage
ment he would receive from the sensa-
tional, rule-or-ruin fellows, would not
amount to even a cold approval of his
courage.
The better class Of the community,
the intelligent, thinking and far-seeing
! people, whatever may be their opinions
regarding the Mormons and their prac-
tees, look upon these jealous judges
with anything but IN approving eye.
They are afraid Of them, not as respects
their own persons or rights, but as re-
CARDS the bestinteTests OF The Territory.
They know what the zeal means, hay
ing had long years OF observation and
experience in the matter. They know
that il means a continuance OF sense
! less and exciting strife, full of injurious
consequences to the community, il both
social and business ways, and devoid Of
results looking to the adjustment of the
/ perpiexmg question that has so long
existed here. Indeed, they know that
instead of Fastening a settlement, these
two earnest judges only put
4 OF the day when the mat
! ters now in dispute will be
S regulated and arranged. The coming
2 OF red-hot missionary judge, with a
policy and purpose to settle the Nor
/ mon question mapped out and defined
simply means the fighting over again OF
the old struggles of the past twenty
I years, the final overthrow and defeat OF
! the judge, through his own zeal. and
! the leaving Of the field in worse. con
e dit;on than when he entered.
! History and experience, if they teach
5 anything, teach that Utah is no place
/ for Judge with mission. The field
! has been worked over and over, again
] and again, by the mission iurist, and
the harvest has invariably been an IN
e profitable crop for the judge,
+ who has reaped simply himself
When judges come to understand
? the question az the Mormons
2 and fair-minded, intelligent peo-
] pie understand it, they viii con
clude that there is only one way to deal
: with the Mormons judicially. II 3
a Judge imagines that Mormon has nc
; rights before the law because he is 4
Mormon, the gentleman on the bench
simply deceiveS himself. The MOI
: mons are not unacquainted with the
: law, or their rights as citizens, and il
| they cannot obtain fair Interpretation
!, of one and protection for the other be-
+ fore local tribunals, they are equal to
the undertaking OF seeking and finding
higher courts where rulings are less
; likely TO be warped By prejudice, and
where Judges are not SO strongly i'm
bued with. the missionary influence and
spirit It is because of the mis-
sionary spirit controlling 50 many
: opinions and decisions. in the
J local courts, that cases are SC