Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-02
JEWELS FROM THE TRIBUNE.

JEWELS FROM The TRIBUNE.
This morning the Tribune has an
article on Consistency which is a reply to
an editorial that appeared in the Demo-
Graf of Tuesday, although the Tribune
does not mention this paper nor that
article; in truth its silence in regard to us
is wonderfully like the policy OF the Neaes
for many years in not allowing the name
Tribune to appear in its columns. Has
there been a swap ora change ofheart? :? We
are aware that both papers prefer death
to Democracy every time, but scarcely
expected to see both papers pursue the
same road as to policy. In very sooth IT
seems both papers must have found that
all roads lead to Rome and that they are
both nearing it. But is there any lncon-
sistency in our article and the statement
made in the Salt Lake Theatre, January
8, 1885, when we said that OF the $4,000
majority Of votes cast at the election for
Delegate, all but one were ciphers? The
justification for the statement is the
fact that the politics Of Utah are
controlled by the dominant church,
and that such a thing is un-Demo-
cratic. 1t is also un-Democratic to have
another set of men "run things" here,
and what we desired then and desire now
is that the people resume the control OF
affairs themselves. Since when have
aliens participated in the control of affairs
in Utah? Has the Utah Commission
appointed registrars who allow aliens to
register and forbid citizens to? Or is
everything alien which has not the stamp
of approval upon it, the stamp being
placed there by the Republicans? The
invoking the resources Of civilization is
the very test which marks the difference
between Democracy and Republican
ism. Democracy holds that the
principles of freedom and the rights
OF man are ample to cope with all ques-
tions, and the graver the questions and the
more complicated the situation the more
need for these principles, the more GER
tain their cure. Democracy finds its
greatest triumph in applying these prin-
ciples when others deem nothing but
force adequate to the solution of vexed
and long standing political difficulty; and
thus to conquer is its chief glory The
principles of Democracy remain the same
in foul weather as in fair. 1t is not thus
with Republicanism, which saws freedom
for fair weather, force for foul weather.
Republicanism rests on the theory that
the Feople, not of Utah alone, but every
where, cannot be trusted to take care of
themselves, and that they will go astray
if not guided and guarded by strong
government. This is precisely what we
have always had in Utah, a distrust of
the people but supreme trust in force.
The centralization of religion is to be
replaced by the Capitalization of Repub-
! licanism.
We.do not seek to maintain that the
General Government has not the power
to appoint a commission for Utah, for
they have and could govern Utah bv
court-martial if such method was
deemed best or worst or anything else.
The question of a commission is one of
policy and not OF power, and as such we
are opposed to it. To reform things here
there must be new method of thought
and the method is starting and causing
much uneasiness among the Peoples
Party. The Tribune cannot deny that
polygamy is going down as surely as the
rebellion went down and that Richmond
is already invested on all sides and that
Appomattox Court House is coming into
view. There is. no armed rebellion
in Utah and never will be; but
are men to be punished for sympathies
and not for crime? Because a Mormon
fondly hopes and believes that some dav
his church will dominate the world is no
reason for Furnishing him so long as he
conforms to the law A Catholic might
as well be deprived of his rights as a citi-
zen because he believes in the infal,ibilitv
Of the Pope and the doctrines of the
Presence or High Churchman might
be declared in rebellion because he
holds that in uttering the name of the
Savior while at divine service he
should bow to the east What differ
erence does it make where he bows, so
long as he obeys the law of the land
All that can be required in Utah is obe-
dience to the laws and if that is rem
dered what more can be asked? Govern
ment is not established in America to
PROFOUND theories Of religion and see
that they are accepted, but to give to man
liberty and to enforce the laws which pro-
tect him in it. Cannot the Tribune wait
the remaining nine months of 1885 for
the destructionof Mormonism which it has
itself predicted this very week? The law
gives to the humblest open account two
years in which to die, and the Utah ques-
ton is as important as an open account.