The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-07
Ass-Ass-1NAr1oN sHRIEKEns.

The structures of the Tribune upon tn
ticket nominated by the municipal con
vention of the Peoples Party for Mon
days election, show to what depths o
asininity and depravity the editors O
that sheet can-we won't say descend to
because it is difficult to imagine how
they could descend any lower than
themselves in anything. But it GER
tainly shows to what desperate straits
they are driven in attempting to bring
forth reasons why that ticket should not
be voted for and elected.
Take for instan e the wild and ire
sponsible assertion that if it is elected,
with the name of the present candidate
for City Marshal upon it, the "Gentiles
would be justified in fearing that if any
of their number were to be arrested they
would be liable to be assassinated
in the black hole of tie city jail" And
this from the pen of scribbler, we dare
say, who never tires of prating about
Mormon bigotry and fanaticism.
Blgoted as some Mormons may be, we
do not know of one, who would not be
ashamed to whisper as much fanaticism
as is contained in that double-distilled
sample of hydrophobic froth and fury.
And yet this mad dog of journalism not
only utters 1t, and that too in re
lation to one who, according to all
accounts, is as peaceable, mild-man-
nered and kindly disposed as his
foaming assailantis quite the reverse, but
spreads it over half column of paper
which Gentiles are supposed to read or
otherwise dispose of.
1t is such things as this that have
created in the breasts of the lawless
element in this locality the feeling that
hey are in duty bound to resist arrest |
md to even shoot down. as was done
n the case of the lamented Marshal |
BURT, the conservators of the peace,
whose duty tits to take them into Gus
ody. And yet the reckless blather
kite who dips his pen in gall and prus-
ic acid whenever he touches the Nor
ION question, raves about "assassina
on" which, to judge him by his own
forts to incite it, Is precisely what he
esires, so long as he himself is not the
ctim. We are of the opinion that it /
his particular class of Gentiles, and &
} others-a bakers dozen. perhaps,
ho assume to speak for the rest-who
e afraid of being assassinsted by Nor {
on Thugs" And the fear is not caused I
: the probability of anything of the
nd taking place, but rather by the .
'nviction in the minds of such scoun-
els that in any other community 7
an the one whose patience, hospital :,
7 and forbearance they have so long 3
used, such fate ere this would have 7
en- melted out to him. Suspicion :,
er haunts the guilty mind; the thief d
tn fear each bush an officer" 1t is :
lite natural for preachers of assassina- =,
N to fear the rebound of their own -
omerang.
We repeat that it is fellows of this
ipe, and no others, who are appre
nsiye OF any violence by Mormon
nds, and they, only for the reason
1t they are all the time trying to
lite it by inflaming the minds of
speradoes of their own class against
officers of the law, and the perhaps
Ii founded apprehension that should
~ succeed in inaugurating reign of
ror and bloodshed in this now peace
city, their own worthless heads
uld be most likely to fall first
leath the guillotine of popular fury.