The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-27
THE ISSUES IN UTAH.

I ChaSe fCA otAAhkcul AncdSuIco dBdlQSl
Utah; measures that. IL passed. will
curse our fair Territory with political
serfdom, and betray our general gov
ernment 70 the commission OF an act
of cruel perfidy that would bring a
blush OF shame to the cheeks eof the
despot ic monarchs of the world. Meas
ures that are burdened with so much
misery for the loyal American citizens
of Utah and disgrace to the general
government, should indeed be carefully
conside red before action is taken. The
issues involved should be carefully
stated, and all extraneous considera-
tons discarded. When this is done. 1t
will be found that the whole controversy
about Utah resolves itself into these
two questions:
Shall the people of Utah be Free or
enslayed7
Shall the government be true TO Am
erican principles, or subvert them7
These questions cover the whole
ground of the controversy, but to dwell
upon the issues more in detail it may be
asked:
Shall Utah be allowed TO govern her
self or shall her local government by the
connivance of Congress be captured
by the avowed enemies of the people
who are proving about them TO seize
upon it and use it as an engine to plum
der and Cypress themf
Shall the people be governed by the
officers they have elected. and whom
they can trust; or shall these rulers OF
their choice be displaced by men in
whose election to Office they have no
voice, in whom they have no con
hdence, who are in fact unprincipled
political adventures whose creed is
spoils, and whose god is the emoluments
of officer
Shall officers elected by the people as
sess and collect their taxes, and dispose
OF their means in making public i'm
proeemen5s: or shall their enemies be
appointed to perform these ever delicate
duties-assess. collect, have charge of,
and dispose of their means. while the
people are powerless to check injustice
or pecuIation1
Shall the people be permitted to make
their own laws to protect their own
society in accordance with their own
notions of justice and equity; or shall
legislators be appointed from among
their religious and political enemies to
max laws for them; oppressive in their
character, foreign in their aspect, spe-
cial in their operations, and destructive
of their political and religious liberties9
Shall the people of Utah be tried be-
fore packed iuries7 Shall they be COM
PEELED. contrary 20 the prohibi-
ton in the Constitution, to take
religious test oath before
they shall be permitted to vote or hold
Officer Shall they be deprived of the
dearest right of American citizenship
without due process OF lav7 Shall the
rules of evidence Shen applied to them
be perverted, and the lawful wife and
husband be compelled to testify
against each other1 Shall their religion |
be subverted. their domestic happiness
destroyed. their homes desecrated, their
marriage vows broken. their wives re
duced to the level of harlots, their Off
spring branded with bastardy PIN
short, and IN truth, shall the people Of
Utah be free. or reduced to abJsct sIav-
ery1 VIII tee government be true to
American neutrality-suspicious. which
have exalted US as a nation, that have
given us domestic tranquility, and
made as admired and respected abroad3
WIZ the government remain true to
those principles which are the founda-
ton of all our national greatness; or
will it in answer to the clamor Of dema-
sogues or religious fanaticism trample
those principles in the dust7
II Congress decides 70 enact the mea-
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