Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-16
WAIT AND SEE.

The Salt Lake Herald OF this morning
gave expression to its fears that the Gen
tiles would come to the conclusion that
nothing short of Legislative Commits
sion would prove an adequate remedy
for the wrongs existing here, and in ac-
cordance with that conclusion, would ask
Congress to empower the President to
appoint such Commission. The Herald
may calm its troubled soul, since the
Gentiles know that it would be time and
breath wasted to ask for anything of the
kind, and SO knowing, have concluded,
almost unanimously We believe, to ask
for other and scarcely less severe legis-
lation, which they believe will answer
the purpose even better than Legis-
lative Commission would.
The Herald has also been taking peep
through the Urim and Thummim of the
News, and the conclusion it has reached
is that "the plan is to get control of the
local government, not that any class of
offenders may be more speedily or more
certainly punished, but that the people
may be despoiled of their property" etc.
The Herald is partly right and partly
wrong. The Gentiles make no secret of
their desire to control the local govern
ment, and there is no reason why they
should. For thirty-fve years past the
Church bosses have in their own proper
persons and by trusted tools controlled
all the agencies of government here,
and the Gentiles, while deprived of all
representation in Territorial and muni-
cipal councils, have been fleeced and
robbed at every turn of the season by the
exacting of an undue proportion of taxes.
And worst of all, this very money ex-
torted from the Gentiles, or consider
able portion of it, has been used to keep
in lucrative Offices men who claim allie
glance to power higher than that OF the
United States, so that the beautiful spec
tacle has been and still is being witnessed
OF American citizens paying enforced
tithing to help support in office over them
band of aliens and traitors who openly
avow their hostility to this great
government and bend all their energies
toward the erection within it's limits of
vile theocracy for the enslavement of
men and the most infamous degradation
OF women. Is it any wonder, then, that
at last the situation should become intol-
cradle to free-born American citizens,
and that to remedy these wrongs they
should cast about for plan by which
they hope to control the local govern
ment here-since that is the only means
by which a reform can be worked-and
seek to institute regime OF loyalty, JUS
tice and morality where heretofore
traitorism, robbery and immortality have |
run riot? That is what they have started |
in to do, and if they do not secure it, the
fault will not lie with them.
A little prevention is worth a good deal
Of cure. When the Herald asserts that
the Gentiles here are scheming not solely
for the purpose of more speedily or more
certainly Furnishing certain class of Of
tenders, it unwittingly utters truth.
The idea is not altogether to devise
means OF punishment, but to prevent the
further wholesale commission of crimes
and thus render unnecessary the enact
nent of additional laws to deal with Of
enders. That is one of the aims of the
horde of hungry adventures" which
he Herald alludes to, and is, we think,
a most tcommendable one, too.
AS the matter now stands, the Gentiles
lave every reason to hope that they will,
n some shape or other, shortly obtain
ontrol of the agencies of government in
his Territory, andit would perhaps be in
much better taste for the Herald and its
yihg co-laborers in the cause of human
degradation to cease their uncalled-for
buse of Americans resident here until
UGH time as they may be found guilty of
onduct deserving censure.