The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-14
KATE.

The readers of THE HERALD will per-
haps remember that sister Kate Field,
who visited Salt Lake some two or three
years ago, has the anti-Mormon rabies.
She has them bad. Last winter she was
in Washington with lecture on the af-
fairs of this Territory, but the people at
the nation capital didn't appear to rush
cut en- mass to listen to the heroic Kate
to that extent she thought they ought
to, seeing she had labored so hard to
collect the information (2), and had
studied the deiiytry of the bosh so care
fully. During the time that the Utah
question was under discussion before
the House judiciary committee, Kate
was on hand with ther notes to assist the
heroic Beskin; but all to no pur-
pose. The failure of Baskin's suit
before the committee, and seeing
that even her influence of which
she pFided herselfsh possessed no little
couldn't secure the much-coVeted
legislative commission of fourteen
'"good and discreet men to be chosen
from the Territory" she became dis
gusted both with the Washington pub
lie generally, and with Congress and
the House judiciary committee particu-
larly, and left the capital OF late she
has been pouring out her soul before
audiences in the more moral towns and
districts of Minnesota. Recently new
idea app ears to have struck Kate. It's
an heroic one too. 1t gives her a pros
pect OF becoming a modern Joan of Arc.
The Maid of Orleans" is a role in
modern life that would be new, and
doubtless the ambitious Kate aspires to
it. At any rate Kate appeals to the G.
a. r. with the hope of arousing them to
oppose Mormonism. In an interview
with reporter of the Minneapolis Tr;-
,5asne recently she said
"If the $4,000 members of the G A. R.
viii peacefully fight this battle of democracy
versus a pOlygamous hierarchy, they will
win 81 rious victory, second only TO that
Won in 1865, when slavery surrendered to
freedom Three hundred and fifty thousand
men earnestly in the right, calling upon
their representatives in Congress to pass the
EdmundS- ucker bill next session can
abolish,that twin relic of barbaIism now
eating into the heart of the Rocky Noun
,tains viii they do it? FIR N the generous
reception the Grand Army gave me at Min
.neapolls on Friday night, l know that gal
liant souls Will respond 10 any Well-O gan
lie GILL l. shall appeal 10 my valued
friend, Commander Lucius Falrdhild, to
push forward hat can be made a lnagnif-
cent crusade. It is not necessary to shed
precious bio IN order to fight great bat
ties may be an enthusiast and ask fof
more Ia will be -giEen, but j hone for
50 did results from the light that has
'&aWned upon portion OF the Grand Army
When Kate talks about the light
that has dawned upon portion of the
Grand Army, she has reference to that
rot that was poured into the heads of
the visiting delegations at the rink in
this city, from which Katie hopes for
splendid results" Doubtless Kate
with her eager thirst fer AL manner of
curious information has read certain
ancient book which says something
about figs not growing on thistles, nor
grapes on thorns; but she might as well
look for kgs on thistles as to expect
splendid results from the work that was
done in the rink during the sojourn of
the G. a. Z. delegations in this city.
The Truth Partially dawns on Kate's
mind Ehen she says she may be asking
for more than will be given. We think
that i so when she asks the American
Congress to pass that masterpiece of in
fanny known as the E6munds- Tucker
bill. 1t is to be hoped that Congress is
not yet so low as that.
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