The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-18

De repeated j. but SO long as they
remain they must be enforced Every
person may agitate for the repeal of a
law. DEMONSTRATION al law is not law.
He may 60 to the court at his own risk
to have that determined. But the ulti-
mate determination of that question is
with the courts, and not with him.
To effectuate this Democratic doc
trine locally, the Democratic Club in
its platform affirms that "We shall
struggle to make predominant the SEN
timent that every citizen shoule and
must obey every law until by legiti-
mate, agitation, if obnoxious or unjust,
its abrogation or repeal can be secured
1t is reputed abroad that people in
Utah do not obey or respect the law.
This fact has brought great evils upon
us IN the past, and until removed will
be an obstacle to our political progress
in the future. This is question, an
issue, we cannot avoid. We, the peo-
pie of Utah, may regulate the matter
ourselves, if we will act in harmony
with the principles of free government. !
If we cannot, the nation will do it for
us. You inquire, does this mean poly
gamy? 1 dislike to use the word, be-
cause it CRATES harshly upon the ears of
people. To some it may mean poly
gamy; to others something else. Peo-
pie say you cannot succeed with this in
your platform. Persons say, and they
say it in sorrow, but for this we could
submit to your doctrines. For the sake
of our conscience and our God, we can
not do this thing. Why do you young
men, thus rise up against your fathers
ance and cooperation of the people of
Utah the young men OF our club will be
as impotent for evil as for good. But if
know our hearts. Would to God that
we might condone the past and save the
future.
cords of affection which binds US to them
are of adamantine strength. We have
seen the remorseless tolls slowly but
certainly eneompassing them. To the
Businesses of the mountains they flee
for refuge. Safety, in the absence of all
associations of love and family, is the
highest boon they may be permitted to
enjoy. Some look upon gloom and desc
lation from between the prison bars.
Wives and children may be left to the
cold mercies of an unfeeling world.
You cannot do this for conscience sake 2
But does not your conscience revolt at
the consequences which failure to do
1t entails upon you, your wives, your
children, your friends and neighbors?
If you live with woman with the same
intimacy you would with wife, you
cannot acknowledge her as such. If
she raises children they cannot be
acknowledged, but must be held forth as
the illegiuimate offsprings of an illegiti-
mate union. A man of previous respect
ability does this; what kind of an ex-
ample is this to the communicate the
young whose characters are in process
of formation? In this matter the situa-
ton is such that the LETT hand cannot be
permitted to know what the right hand
does. 1t can be nothing less than the
worst sort of an example of licentious-
ness and immortality.
In fact, the attendant evils of this
thing are manifold 1t is useless to
speculate upon the probabilities of
change. Anglo-Saxon people have
never tolerated polygamy and it is
equally improbable thatit viii ever have
the approval of the Nation
The law should be obeyed. In respect
to any law, there is but one of two
things which person may do with any
degree of honor: either obey it, or ac-
cording to the right of revolution, take
up arms and fightit out il open, honor
! able welfare. One who sneakingly vio-
lates the law, then sneakingly attempts
| to shield himself within the petticoats
of woman or filings her into the breach
to receive the punishment which he
would avoid, can scarcely expect the
respect either of his neighbors or his
country.
1t is said that the people OF Utah are
| Democratic. | believe they are. Peo-
! pie of sober and well-regnlated minds
are generally supposed to be. If SO, let
I us live up to our Democratic doctrines.
| Thereby we may increase our import
ance at home and our influence abroad ;
! existing relations may be saved; where
there is sorrow we may have power to
bring JOY. -..s,.,
sources are varied and abundant. The
mountains have been perforated and
yielded up their treasures OF precious
energy and industry of the people, have
been productive of the richest verdure.
The SAVIOR of wealth has been extracted
from our salty sea, and our mineral lands
groan beneath their burdens of golden
grain We have brilliant sunshine 10
illumine the imagination, picturesque
scenery to delight the perceptions and
enrich the mind with imagery. In fact,
here all nature is almost supernatural
in the grandeur and fascination of her
scenes. The bold combinations and
distortions on the surface impress them
selves not only upon the mind but also
upon the heart.
This land ought TO be the home of
courageous manhood and freedom. Yet
politically we are not happy. The
scarlet letter of disgrace has been placed
upon our bosom. We have been sub
! jected to great, and are threatened with
still greater, political thraldom. Many
of our citizens have been brought to
political degradation by disfranchise-
ment. We have often been struck with
the thunderbolts of Congressional dis
pleasure. And when for brief spells the
dark clouds recoil in the heavens, it is
but to gain additional strength and
burst forth with redoubled fury. We
are becoming the gamins, the political
outcasts OF the nation. Like the des-
cendants of her who was sent into the
wilderness with her Iursling infant and
a bottle OF water: our hand Is against
every man and every mans hand IS
against US. 1t is not open to dispute
fbaf We have come into almost world