Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-21


faced Salt Lake Herald has the following
this morning on the steal which was
recommended to the City Council last
night:
As a matter of course howl will be raised
over the purchase, and the Council will be
denounced by a press that is incapable of
being fair and decent in discussing anything
done by the municipal authorities: but the
frothings and denunciations of newspapers
that make no claim to decency or fairness
have little effect in a community where they
are known.
We imagine that the Herald writer
had the DEMOCRAT in view as one of
the papers which are incapable of
being fair and decent, and we shall
howl about this steal, too. Before we
shall have finished our article, perhaps
che Herald writer will howl and curse,
too. No one froths so readily as the
hypocrite when he is putting thing
which he loaths. Decency and fairness
are fine words, and they have a pleasing,
respectable sound which tic5les the ear
and soothes the finer moral sense. De-
cency and fairness! and how the Herald
prates OF them Decency and fairness
would cause an honest man to be honest
at all times, and to express the same
views in Utah that he would in the East.
Decency and fairness if but simulated are
naught but deceit and falsehood. If
man advocates and upholds the religio-
political system of Utah in Utah, decency
and fairness would cause him to uphold
it everywhere, and by letter as well as by
press. Perhaps the writer who talks with
such ease and readiness about decency
and fairness and frothings and denunci-
ations may have always done this, and
perhaps he has not; but whether or not
he has We are unable to say, and will not
assume to decide. We desire accurate
information upon the authorship of a let
ter which was written from Salt Lake
City, and which appeared in the Phila-
delphia Times under date of July 1st,
1885. 1t is an admirable letter, and treats
the Utah problem without gloves as it is.
No doubt but that in the eyes of the Herald
writer it is wanting in decency and fairness,
and is the mere ''frothings and denun-
Citations of newspapers that make no
claim to decency or fairness" So excel
lent is this letter that we cannot refrain
from making some very considerable ex-
tracts from it, although in so doing we
shall doubtless be wanting in decency
and fairness, things SO highly priced by
the Herald writer. On the question of
polygamy this writer in the Philadelphia
Times says:
The people themselves are heartily tired
of the business, and / do not mean the NOR
nogomous Mormons merely, but the mass of |
the polygamlsts also, who secretly rejoice
over the knowledge that the end is at hand. |
Aside from the trouble and expense that |
polygamy has brought them from the out |
side, it has been full of misery and discon-
tent at home. Neither men nor women have |
been able to adjust themselves to the unnat- |
ural condition of things. They might pro- |
fess satisfaction in the relation and to the |
world assume an air of peace and content
ment, but under the surface there has ever |
annoying men.
In most people human nature is stronger
than either love or fear of an underlined and |
certainly absent God, and it is this human |
nature that has been all the time Furnishing
the polygamists and depriving them of real |
homes. In time polygamy would have died |
natural death; it has, in fact been diving |
for several years. The DEATH however. was |
not swift enough to satisfy the nations re-
gard for decency and it hastened the demise |
by choking the perishing monster, and now |
the followers of the system are at heart glad |
that release is being forced upon them.
The writer OF this letter also had to
speak about decency, ''the nations re-
gard for decency;" but it is to his or her
credit that nothing was said about fair
ness. When the writer of this letter
penned those lines, how he must have
frothedl Surely that writer never read |
the Salt Lake Herald and believed it, or
he or she never would have written a
letter SO wanting in fairness and decency
as the above extracts shows it to be. |
But this is not all that the writer of this
letter to the Philadelphia Times has to
Doy Oh AiCi anu ildstcIS III Old1. lnlS
writer speaks of Mr.. Taylor, the Presi-
dent of the Mormon church, and Mr..
Cannon, MIR. Taylor's chief counsellor, in
the following terms:
John Taylor and George Q. Cannon are
not the men for the occasion. TAYLOR is a
rank bigot, and not a man of brains He is
incapable of grasping the situation, and has
not the wisdom and foresight to take the
best advantage of circumstances.
We may be blinded by prejudice, and
wanting in insight, but to us it appears
that the above quoted language is singu-
larly wanting in decency and fairness;
and in conclusion we would ask the Her
dtdscto tell us whether or not it thinks
such language absolutely fair and decent.
and whether or not the Herald has anv
notions as to who the author of this de-
cent and fair letter is?