The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-15
DULL TIMES.


ness in business matters il Utah; a
psrloG IN winch no Improvements wer'
made to speak OF, especially in Sal
Lake City, and as often as this period O.
stagnation IN the growth Of Salt Lake
City and the development of the natural
resources of the Territory is spoken OF.
Just as often will the memory of the
cIiqu. of ea-pet-baggers who have
caussd it to be execrated. It will be
useless for the Utah arpet-baggers to
undertake the removal of the response
biiity of this stagnation in Utah's de,
,veIopment te other shoulders. To th m
the responsibility belongs, and they
will forever carry it. These political
adventures came to Utah under the
appointment of the general government
to administer the laws. They found
our Territory g goodly pasture; a gler-
ious prospect TO them, for their hopes
we're nearly blighted. Receiving an ap
pointment to a Federal position in the
Territories is the last round in the po-
Iitical ladder, and if the WORKOUT
political scrub is kicked from that. his
career is ended as a politician. Right
here We should note an exception. The
Presidents, under the correct i'm
preston that in Utah there
was "a religio-political question
diffiozst to understand and solve, have
in soRae Instances, though very rarely
sought out men that were httle above
the average of the class of the political
hacks usually sent to the Territories
But for the most part, men who accept
Federal appointments in the Territories.
are on their last political legs. This
class of men coming to Utah, and
knowing the prejudice that existed
against the Mormon Peop'e in conse-
quenoe of their religion, conceived the
idea Of keeping Utah open, as long as
they could for themselves, and then be-
queaA it as legacy to their class. To
accomplish this end they and their or
gan have vilIsinously misrepresented
the actions and sentiments of the peo-
pie; have ruined them in the good
opinion of their fellow men; robbed
them, Of their good name; and have
created such prejudice against the
people Of this fair land that it has be
come possible to get through Congress
special laws, in their nature most in
famous; laws which either cast into vile
prisons or drive into exile the promi-
Rent men of the community-the men
who were the leading minds in the Ter
ritory, who built up the country, who
furnished employment for the Iaborers,
AID whe were the brains of every en-
terprise. as wei as the purse.
Not being able to prosecute their enter
prises. the growth of our city stops.
The wheels of business enterprise are
clogged, and upon the Mormon people
is thrown the blame of this stagnation
by the anti Mormons; when in fact it is
the result of their own iendish work.
Well, buteouldnt the Mormons obYiate
all the difficulties by snrrendering the
points at issue? Possibly they could, SO
far as business matters are concerned;
but to boR.doWn at the feet of political
Adventures, and quietly surrender to
infamous laws enacted at their sug
sgestion, would be a calamity that no
disaster however great in material bus
iness affairs, could possibly equal.
Though enterprise should die to that
extent that not another store should be
started. or saether farm opened, or
another canal constructed; though the
buildings in OUg cities should crumbs
t. ruins and The farms be reconouered
by the sage brush. let the people take
that course that shall preserve their
self-respect.
No set of adveEturers, however i'm
pudent they may be. have a right to
enter a community and arbitrarily m
dertake TO alter their time-honored
institutions, especially when their VI
welcome innovations would enter the
precincts of the family for the purpose of
destroying its associations. If social
errors exist it is the right of the COM
munity. where they exist to correct
them. Every needed reformation to be
efectual must be made by the eommun-
ity itself. Cruel laws, enacted under
false impr, ssions on the part of the
legislature can't be expected to &C
complish much in The direction of
bringing about reformation. Laws to |
be effectual must have the support of
the people where they sre to operate:
if they don't have it, they will never
answer the end for which they were
created.
There is one more point made en-
pbatic by the duI times of the present,
and that is. the Gentle portion of the
population can't push the Territory /