Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-15
BIDS FOR A BLOODY CONFLICT.

degrading mark.
BIDS FOR a Bloody CONFLICT.
The Salt Lake Tribune, which has these
many years been a thorn in the side of
rolygamy in Utah, recently announced
that Il movement is on foot among ex-
Confederate soldiers in Utah and all
adjacent Territories to hold mass meet
ing of all ex-soldiers, soon at Salt
Lake City, to protest against the insult
offered TO the flag of the Union by the
Mormons on the It'll instant The pur-
pose is not only to protest, but by speech
and resolution to inform the people of the
South of the true condition of affairs in
Utah, since the Mormons are making the
Southern States their chosen fields for re-
cruiting for the Mormon Church in Utah.
On the 9th instant occurs Pioneer Day.
in the Territory. Rumor has it that on
that occasion the Mormons propose to
drape the national flag in Grape This leads
the Tribune to suggest that it will be Il
good day for the proposed Convention to
assemble, as the presence OF 1900 or
5000 old ex-Confederate and ex-Upion
soldiers in the city at that time will
probably result in speedy and efectual
settlement Of the whole Mormon business,
for with such men present III force the
nations flag will not be insuIted with
impunity. This expression has reused the
Mormon organ, the Dcscret Nc,cs and it
declares that the whole scheme is "a bid
for a bloody conflict that conspirators
against the people" are making cats
paws of the ex-soIdiers, to manufacture
sentiment against the religion of the Nor
mons. Further on it declares it to be
deliberate plot to destroy popular rule in
Utah, and to obliterate the principles
upon which the republic was founded
This is followed by the assertion that on
the Fourth there was not "the re-
modest intention of Offering an indignity
to the glorious old ensign, and the Tribune
plotterS will find themselves in an isolated
situation in the endeavor to precipitate a
bloody and destructive conflict. 1t is well,
however, that they should haunt their
biackhearted design before the public
gaze, that the people may be on their
guard, and ali good citizens, as body, will
see to it that if such an atrocity be CON
animated, it will not be by their
taking the initiative, The other side
would have TO take it as well as the
brunt Of the terrible consequences,
If this means anything at all, it means that
the Mormons viii be ready for such
conflict as they assume the Gentiics de-
sire What the Tribune meant is perfectly
clear 1t is not intended that the ex-
soldiers shall go about provoking riots, but
that they viii, by force if necessary, pre-
vent the draping of the flag When the
Nelcs speaks of the initiative" being
taken it should remember that the man
who insults the national banner takes the
initiative, and he does 50 knowingly and
deliberately. Such Insults are not the re-
suit of impetuosity or heated blood, but of
cold malice and reconciliation. Now if
such indignity as it is rumored is intended
and which the NarS, though quoting, is
very careful not to deny, and thus by its
silence aflirms-is offered, and 4 bloody
conflict results, the burden of its infamy
must fall upon the Mormons They can
not spit upon the national emblem and
then charge whatsoever resents it with in
augurating bloody conflict" That
kind Of special pleading viii not do in the
Utah case. In some respects, while all the
time depecating violence, such a conflict
the possibility Of which is here debated,
would not be an unmixed evil. 1t would
result in some good. There are periods in
the history Of nations in which early con-
ficts are much to he desired, that later and
more serious shocks may be avoided
TE thorough tutoring OF pupils in schools in
The grammatical construction Of their sentences
docs not prevent them. when men and women,
from falling into reprchonsible errors
Of usage in writing and speaking. Thus. il is
common To hear and see such arrangement of
words rs this " He had quite fortune left
him. Instead Of a coHsidcrabi. fortune, etc or.
he is quite gentleman" instead of "hc is
g...+ t,f 4.
jcctivc but not ~ noun II is the Office of such
little books as Don't" Discriminate" Errors
in English, words and Their Abuse, and the
like. to call attention to the fact that such things
are errors, and objectionable upon the score Of
carelessness For instance, it is i common error
and among educated classes, too, to Use per be-
fore English words, instead Of a. thus. Der day.
pr ton, pr pound. But per SHOULD be used as
discriminate" one or the recent Volumes
named points out only before Latin nouns, as
pr diem, per- annum, etc. But when this is
said, il remains that these wasp-like, critical
hand books, now so plentiful strain many a
point to find fault, as in case Of the injunction
not to say several citizals were lost in the cat
astroihc.' and that other, to use drirc for ride
which arc Synonymous with us-and TAKE for
hare in the invitation to take dinner, tea or
coffee, etc. such corrections arc hypcrcrltcal.
THE news sand monopolists " H. Smith &
Co. of England must be by This time kicking
their own heads OIL for the stupid folly that led
them TO prohibit the sale the Plg star GG-cgc
from their counters aud places of exclusive priv
ilegc But smith. the senior, is bullet-headcd
stubborn, purse-proud fellow, who may. for all
his chagrin, attempt TO measure swords with the
Go-eite The instant he does So we venture the
prediction the other papers of London viii
come to the aid of the Ga-citc, and Smith 4 Co 5
business Of selling all the leading newspapers
of England viii have its back broken.
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CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION.
! THE man who is ever advertising his own yir-
| tues aud charging upon his own abilities is the
man the world can lest get along without.-tEl-
gin Every Saturday.
| THC American always imagines that unless he
has charge OF the universe, some planet viii
shirk its duty and some constellation will 80 of
on pienic.-iNew York Herald.
TYRASrs and monarchs protect their subjects
from the dishonesty of food adulteration.
whereas, in this country at least the people have