The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-01
WORD PICTURING.
Tom Fitch's Beautiful and
lOi-' Sublime Orator,
,,rs EXPERIENCE WHILE HERE
uus Statement which Applies
q Now as we'll as when
Uttered.
Editor Of THE HERALD.

To The EdliOI VI -
aboI,enge all the photographers in
- 20 nroduce a more faithful, ac-
--,,t and inspiring picture of the cur
''- 60, aa,irs Of Utah, as they are being
is- l,rod to-day, h. the local pseudo
s' liners in their raids upon the
lemons than the following from the
~ Of the silver-tongued orator and
--in Hon. Tom Fitch.
10 make the picture prOpheticaIly &C
,.rrate. the names of the current cru
saders need but be substituted for those
named by Mr.. Fitch. AENEA.
f., regard to the unholy crusade pc
-iodicaiIv waged against the Nor
i ,gons . by goddess men, and specially
l Ioyived at every recurring COngression-
Al session for the purpose OF proyoklng
.'',.os~-intive anti" Mormon leglsla-
p ,ion he following forcible and faithful
llL I'D (which is as true as pho
tn. 80 and to which over 10000 ITO
can make OATH, drawn by the
t Ii-anorahle Thomas Fitch, ex-Unlted
a +otlS senator. Enthusiastically illustrates
mo motives which inspire every such
wicked riitgOcratic movement.
1.-the constitutional convention held
i, Salt Lake City, February, 1872, Mr..
Fitch said
There IS no safety for the people of
Utah without a State government; Tor
,-rder the present condition of affairs,
their property, their liberties, and their
~erv lives. are in constant and increas-
mo ieopardv. James, B. Mexican United
Sts9fes Chief Justice in Utah) is morally
and bopelessly deaf to the most COM
mon demands of the opponents OF his
nolicy. and in case where Mormon
6r Mormon SympathiZer, or a con-
seryative Gentle, be concerned, there
nav be found rulings unparalleled in
all the jurisprudence of England or
America. The mineral deposits have
attracted here a large number of rest
less. inscriptions, and reckless men,
the hereditary foes of industry, order
and law. Finding the courts and Fed
eral officers arrayed against the Nor
mons, with pleased alacrity this
class have placed themselves on
the side of courts and officers.
Elements ordinarily discordant blend
together in the same seething cauldron.
The bagnios and hellS shout hoSannaS
TO the courts; the affairs of religion are
infested with the paraphernalia and the
presence of vice; the drunken espouseS
the cause of temperance; the companion
of barlots breaches the beauties of vir-
the and confluence. All believe that
license will be granted by the leaders in
order to advance their sacred cause. and
the result is an immense support from
those friends of immortality and archi-
tects of disorder who care nothing for
the cause. but everything for the Ii
cense. These constitute a nucleus OF
reformers and a mass of ruffians, a
centre of zealots and a circumference of
plunderers. The dramShop interest hopes
to escape the Mormon tax of $500 per
month by sustaining judge who will
enjoin a collection of the tax, and the
prostitutes persuade their patrons to
support Judges who will interfere by
hs5eaS corpus with any practical enforce
ment of municipal ordinances. Every
interest of industry is disastrously atfec-
ted by this unhOly alliance; every right
Of the citizenis threatened ifnot as sailed
by shis ungOdly combination.
i Jul AOOdl tAAC SNANCCoo
fully defed, your local laws are diSre-
garded, your municipal ordinances are
trampled into the mire, theft and muir
der walk through your streets without
detection, drunkards howl their orgies
in the shadow of your affairs; the glare
and tumult of drinking saloons, the
glitter ofgambling hells, and the painted
Haunt of the bawd plying her trade,
now veX the repose of streets, which be-
ioretlme heard no sound to distub their
quiet. save the busy hum of industry,
me clatter Of trade, and the musical
'nkle OF mountain streams. In prose-
cuung Mormons the prosecution have
ttied their cases beforehand or the
streets IN the newspapers, by public
meetings., by petitions, and over the
oeiegraph wires, by means of their lead
ing alViser the Salt Lake agent of the
ASsoclated Press. There is no evidence
suihclently damning to indict man
"ho would swear against Mormon. In
support OF these statements volume of
de'alls OF acts of injustice and tyranny
might be compiled from the official re-
Co'"S' Une instance will suffice. Brigham
1ounS, an American citizen of char.
ac'er' OF wealth, .ot enterprise: an old
man who Justly possesses the love and
Cuhiiuenee OF his people, and the re-
Spect OF those who know and compre-
nehd MN, has been sent to prison upon
Inc uncorroborHted oath OF one of the
. most remarkable scoundrels that anv
age mas produced, man known TO in
fanny as William 4. Hickman. human
nutcher, by the side of whom all male
factors OF history are angels "a creature
VINO, according TO bis own published
statement, Is camp follower without
enthusiasm, bravo without nass;on =
without hatred.
me religious and secular leaders of
IAN, men who are respected by many
honest t,li' earnest people who are not of
!Iie't Iaitl, men who are believed 10 be
innocent by many influential and indie
peh9eM journals not OF their way OF
tlihklng, men who are held fast in the
embrace OF a hundred thousand hearts,
men who have filed the land With mon
umehts OF industry and progress and
. man happiness, are likely to be sacri-
iletSl because \ manufactured and nm
JUST public sentiment demands their
conviction.
J say deliberately that with the his
,9ry OF the past behind me, with the
Signs OF the present before me, I saw
MIN sorrow and humiliation. that the
,n',I charged with crime who now
NalSS INTO the courts of his country
goes not 10 his ,leliverance bI,t To ~