The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-12
uarald correspondents
A ni DC, tie Of the Word.
=, cRUEIr1Es AND WkoSGs
rnop a Patient and Long
Inflicted people by so-caIled
sV" "Patriots."

meu'1 anniversaries of our National in
on the 81, an it.night be well te consider
depenusI meaning Of the word. Loyalty
the naf fidelity, and fidelity means ial'h
means s5herence toright, careful and
funass ,h.sTyance OF duty, or discharge
e1ls ,,;sst;ons. To be truly loyal is to
oil 0 ''tSg,,l either to parentaly civil or
DC ' ~ government, and involves
dl'lus . Of conduct that makes itself
OOui' 20 more in acts than in words.
" rnbodv questions the loyalty Of
u,'sS;ncton, Jefferson, Adams and a
Mo- others who lived century ago.
n1 S.acts Of their lives have passed into
tistory and stamped them as worthy OF
~ the honor the people century later
=, bes,ow, and it lily becomes those
-. -ho are to-day trampling upon every
canstitutional right, to mount the
sost-pm ESPECIALLY upon Fourth OF
Mn and applaud to the skies tne men ne
1 sacrificed everything 10 estaoIlsh
Tm-;Uciples of liberty, not Tor themselves
Zone INIT for future &c. erauons. II Is
;nsnit TO these men and the measures
'ii Tbe ae acfs Of the people to-day would
- 10 Indicate that we have outhved
~ shirt and genius of hundred years
tnS and either OF the patriots who
I SssInoS to frame the great charter OF
r ES and human rights would fail to
n racns5iSe the original instrument,
SISrTed and defaced as : is to-day. The
ioundation they then laid with the ex,
~. n oui mi that futlfre generations would
hid nnon Il Structure that would eu-
Jure for ages. has been weakened by the
cbanees that have been made, pur-
Dosaly no doubt. to improve it, while
TS corner stones have been defaced and
snNt men by the noviceS who have been
eager 10 make what they term the very
necessary alterations until the building
itself is in danger of falling at any time
that an extra gust of wind shall blow
mon il. Such is the true condition OF
the edifce to-day, and 10 point out It's
defects and weak points the result Oh
this unWise meddlinglS to be branded as
an enemy and diSlOyal, for honest ex-
preston upon this subject must De sup
pressed, as it seriously interferes with
their schemes, which mean plumber.
Should people who have been robbed
of nearly every inailenable right that
the (originall Constitution guaranteed,
place the national flag at half-mast
on Independence Day as an:emblem OF
sorrow for departed liberty. such an
act is distorted and made to appear as
the most reasonable disloyaitN and
worthy of coRdign punishment.
These robbers of human liberty pirate
the lOudest about our institutions. our
free government, ETC., and swell almoSl
to bursting (especially on the Fourthsvi
JULY in applaudlng The patriots of 17T6
who. could they but returnsto earth
again, would not stop to use a whip OF
small cords as Jesus did upon the money
changers who were deSeJratlng Gods
temple, but would summarilycast them
out and consign them I'd that oblivion
which their ungodly acts merit, and
would place barrier upon their ever
returning again to lord it over Gods
heritage, man. Take from these loud
mouthed fellows their fat offices, with
the emOlumentS. aud you would look in
vain fsr any exhibition of their loyalty
Tor this would all vanish with the loss OF
OF place and position.
As q result Of the late fratricidal war,
the people, Especially Of the Territories
have had f0iSted upon them men whose
only recommendation in many instances
has been the accidental loss of a. limb,
or sun more accidental success in some
particular battle. Many OF them have
ielt as the man did who stepped
between an assassin and his dear friend
ana received slight scratch, but as a
reward for such valiant conduct took
tne pest horse his dear friend had in his
Stable. True LOYALTY is silent and seeks
no reward. but the bogus loyalty that is
50 Ioud IN sounding Its own praises is
most exorbltant in its demands for re-
ward. Let every man be rewarded for
faithful service rendered, but do not
appoint to office even the valiant and
truly loyal man unless he is fitted there
Ior, or the disaster he may produce
might perchance many times outweigh
all OF his valiant andIoyaliacts.
). we challenge the world to prove the
dlsioyalty of the Mormon people. unless
the submitting under protest to uncon
sIltpnonal enaetinents may be calieC
sueh. Two centuries ago the officer.
appointed by the mother country inter
preted the acts of the cJlonistS as dis
loyal and reasonable when they resist
ed thy protest only the taking
away OF their chartered rights anC
privileges. VIII any American to-day
dare hint such thing against our fore
fathers? and yet there can be- found il
this land any number q was going I,
say OF their posierity. but let us hop,
they are notlegitimate.l who would roll
Va oil every chartered right and priv
iege and thus initiate the acts of til,
qa.aStardly towards of two centuries ago
II history has repeated itself to-day il
attempts upon a peoples liberties, wha
should hinder thSrepetition ofignoinin,
aaa disgrace which followed the actor
nhc played so ignoble part in the Ion,
80 Nc more loyal subjects could b
ioUnd than the early colonists; thei
!VNe OF country IS stamped upon theil
Every act; and they love and foiebor,
every humiliation from the officers o
the SoFernment. but continually pro
le5ted against such i'll treatment. unit
" ~, -, go4ied to desperation, they threy
Il, r ,,ie yo:>e and compelled the paren
mn in IIteognize ~ its ever loyal child tht
y, sfo%n maa and his peer.
oI ~ eh grew outof the government q
=. 1feat Britain another goyernn,e,i
hos ~ superior. The i'll treated chil
# t, ,.O Wisely profited by the harsh lesson
M 'oeceived,.a and determined bv the wi,
rt;,S'.si2ns 1t made for future genera
ue.iS s mat there never should be r,
W. Of the crlefties and wrong
Ills mad been inflicted upon i,sel
WdS The genius nf and lie 80 r