Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-03
JUST ABOUT.

This mornings Tribune says it wishes
The DEMOCRAT all the success it deserves.
Our success is now assured, but it is more
than probable that the Tribune thinks we
deserve no success, unless this paper
plays second to all scores that the Tribune
may arrange What soothing syrup do
we propose TO use to reach the people?
Merely the truth and the theories of free
dom, having long vainly looked for them
in the Tribune The editor of this paper
knows fully as we'll as the editor of the
Tribune the power of the Mormon Church
over its members, and humbly begs to
say he is as free from it as the gentleman
who edits the Tribune and is not so ap-
prehensive about it. We also know that
Mr.. William E. Gladstone said Of Catho-
lies that they could not he loyal subjects
of the Queen so long as they recognized
Rome as infallible; and we agree neither
with the editor of the Tribune nor with
the Prime Minister of England. Doubt
less we err much in regard to political af-
fairs, and our only apology is the one DR..
johnson made when asked how he could
give such definition, and replied, zig
norance, madam, pure ignorance" Why
does the Tribune not care to discuss the
difference between Republcanism and
Democracy? Can it better employ its
time than in showing the superiority of
its own creed over all others? The
thought sometimes steals into the mind
that it has no desire to show the true
foundation of its beliefs, wishing to have
them accepted because it says they are
true, and to question its authority is to be
immediately in rebellion. Yes,
we know that what We have
to learn about all parties would
make more than one book, in fact a great
many books; but we do not believe that
the Tribune will ever write an introduc-
ton to one, not even political primer.
In fifteen years We trust we may say not
merely that we know vastly more than
we do now, but that we shall be able also
to say we have forgotten more than the
Tribune ever knew. The Tribune editor
says that when we say it now desires to
replace the Capitalization of religion by
the Capitalization of Republicanism, we
talk like ninny. We are very sorry for
having so talked then, because we have
talked just like you. The resemblance
must come from the fact that God made
us both, and can find its true explanation
in Johnson's (pardon a second allusion to
the famous doctor in one article) reply to
Boswell, when Boswell suggested that
God made Scotland. eyes, sir, and
while comparisons are odious, you must
recollect that God also made hell" Last
year the commission was to be composed
of a majority Of true Republicans, who
alone are true Americans, and now it is
to be a "loyal commission, COM
posed Of a majority of Democrats"
How things have changed since
last November! Then all Demo
Gratis were rebels, and the giving of
power to the Democratic party by the
people was to place the tyrant's foot upon
the neck of free people. Will the
Tribune be so very good, SO very kind,
so very condescending as to explain
whether treason consists in talking
against the government and running
from the law or in some overt act? The
editor says: owe have not, as the DEM
ocRAT AYERS, predicted the downfall of
Mormonism." We have no desire to
pervert things nor convey wrong impress
sions, but will the Tribune explain the
following statement which appeared in
an editorial of that paper March 81, 1885?
but it is reasonably clear that under its
present pretensions Mormonism has
reached the summit Of its power 1t will
have to make certain reasonable conces-
sions, or it will not hold a great many of
its own people through 1885" Does the
editor of that paper claim to have had
some new light since Tuesday last? or is
he angry because he has seen the accom-
plishment of his hearts desire in the sup
preston of polygamy, and there are no
more worlds for him to conquer? Let
him mount his Rosinante and be-
come a free lance, and as he wan
ders about telling of past achievements
and how he crushed rebellion in Utah, |
let him boast that he crushed it alone |
like Coriolanus. How far seeing, how
almost prophetic is this prediction con-
corning the DEMOCRAT: at will give up
its present position by a1d-by, and be
come a real American journal, or will |
drift into such austere independence as
Eliminates the Herald, and we would
not disturb it during its incubation, if we
eodidd, any more than we would Tighten
setting goose from her nest, even if il did
hiss at us sometimes" That is all true,
and we are only waiting for the Tribune
to formulate q line of policy for
us, and when we get it, we shall
humbly and gratefully follow it; and ai-
ter we have followed this trail MANY
years we shall be true Americans-after
the Tribune standard, for who is so
American as the editor of the Tribune,
who is an epitome of the nation Every
nation contemplates itself through the |
medium of self conceit, and draws con-
clusions to its own advantage, which in
dividuals adopt to themselves with COM
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