The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-15
THE ARMY OF MARFYRs. =

The Tribune of Yesterday has the fol-
lowing in an editorial with the above
caption:
In reckoning the Z tab martyrs, there
is one class that must not be forgotten.
We mean the officers who have done
their duty here. Everyone has been
fayed alive. 1t has been so from the
first. Just the moment that any officer
has shown a disposition TO perform his
duty under his oath, the batteries of
filth and venom have been opened upon
him, and there has been no cessation"
Score one for The Tribune. This is
perhaps the first truth it ever uttered,
and however unintentiOnal, il certainly
deserves credit for even stumbling upon
an accuracy. We have held just such
views for years; in fact, ever since the
Tribune was first establis he'd. And
when it has opened its batteries of.
filth and venom, " not only upon officers
who undertook TO perform their sworn
duties under their oaths, and no more,
but on all who presumed TO differ from
It's views and methods and protested
against being "hayed alive" for failing
to see eye to eye with the morally cross
eyed Tribune, we have wondered how
long human nature could endure tie
strain, and il, perchance. the Tribune
itself would not be conscience-smitten
(frOm the oUtside9 and make just such /!
a confession as it has done inthe above |
paragraph.
The way it ''hayed alive" Governor
Axtell, for performing his sworn duty |
under his oath and acting as the gov /
ernor Of the whole people, instead OF i
combining his gubernatorial care 10 I
a little ring OF whisky-bloats;
the manner in which 1t abused |
like pick-pockets the four petit Jurors |
IN the Rudger ClaWsOn case, for failing /
in the first trial OF that gentleman TO
find him guilty against the verdict of
their own consciences; and later still,
the way it opened its batteries OF
venom" upon Grand Jurors Clayton,
Moritz and Davis, for daring TO assert
their independence and have an
opinion Of their own, opposed to that OF
the Tribune and Its coordinate branch
of the Utah anti" Mormon" mission
the Third District Court; these need
only be mentioned as cases IN point.
Why, there have been and are to-day,
judges, marshals, prosecutors and 9TH
ers, who dare not say their souls are
their own, if the Tribune
chooses to say otherwise, and all on
account of the way in which they
would be knouted and fayed and be-
spattered with filth by that paper, il
they pres umed TO exercise even a
modicum Of the liberty and independ-
ence of which the average anti. Mormon
lhowler pirates so much ana knows so
little.
1t even presumes to eel Congress
what to do-aye more, il advises the
crowned heads of Europe how they |.
should conduct their councils and war
only the crowned heads
of Europe, unlike the cracked heads
of Utah, do not happen to know
or care what the Salt Lake
/
Tribune thinks or says about anything.
1t IS only IN the Tri6un5s self-esteem /
shat 1t is great, but its egot;sm and {
arrogance often lead it to expose itself
IN much the same manner as the os-
tTlch, when II shoYes its head into the
sand Imagines itself completely hidden I
from view. 7
1t was only yesterday, we are told. i
that Editor Lannan-Ye godsl mon
what meat doth this our Caesar feed
since he quit keeping butcher sbopg- v
took Marshal Ireland to task for nor T
running MeSsrS. Nicholson and Smith ?
out to the Pen" Immediately after 2
sentence was pronounced upon them
instead of allowing those gentlemen
whose manhood has in some way in $
Cured fat Pats ill-will, the poor boon a
OF bidding their wives and children
good bye before going 10 prison.
Why, I thought You would have
lad everything ready to hustle :
EN- right out there this morn
ing the modest governor dc faeto OF
Utah is said to have exclaimed, in tones
OF pompOus censure, to the trembling n
officer. We are pleased. however, that O
one nights sleep has wrought such
miracle in the Tribune's conscience,
which it must have borrowed for the l
nolce, and that it is now willing 10 Z
acknowledge its past errors and by i'm
phcation promise better things for The j..
future, Success! Il
As trSfrsTs the T,o,,,oo-ot- -.