The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-27
THE SHOWING.

OF course it cannot be foretold what will
be the outcome of the sensational proceed
ings in the Third district court during the
past week or two. The matter rests with
the Judge and it is for him to say TO what
extent the authors of the business have
succeeded, judicially. We all know why
the proceedings were instituted. Congress
is about to convene, and the minds of the
Representatives and Senators, rs well as
the public, must be prepared for the annual
appeal to the national legislature for more
law against the Mormons. As regularly as
the years roll round, just previous tc the
meeting of Congress, the country is duly
''worked-up" over Utah affairs. Noveu4
beris pretty certain to develop sensation.
Sometimes the schemers are unable to get
matters into shape for setting the ball rolling
before Dec emLer, but We have all learned
10 count on blood-curdling hurrah either
Immediately preceding, or soon after, the
opening of Con yress. If there should be
failure in this respect any year, the people
out this way would be as greatly startled
as if a cog in the machinery of the uni
verse were to slip and old earth should
wobble in her revolutions. There are men
who are Sc ming V born to meanness
Thev are new content when others are
happy. 1t is annoying to them when peace
exists and quiet prevails, and the domi-
uanceof right Sc MS ID be agonizing tt
them. These are the fellows who are per-
mutually devisinI schemes for fomentine
strife in Utah, and wio are careful to plan
a bigger one than usual at the
beginnirg of winter They are also
the men who, while they have done moth
ing to make Utah great or beautiful OF
prosperous, look with greedy and lustful
ewes upon the riches they see about them.
All that is valuable they have longing
for. and the offices are regarded as the
most valuable, for by their power and as
sistance it is thought that everything else
worth taking can be gathered in.
The public at large does not understand
the local situation quite as well as we do.
The outside public doesn't know why it is
heralded to the world one November that the
Gentiles are in danger, and government has
been appealed TO to send troops to protect
the non MormOns from the bloodthirsty;
nor why it is that the next November the
Associated Press and the newspapers
which can be used" as the As
sociated Press always is by the
schemers, to Il with stories of crowds OF
Mormons focking to the temples and
marrying innumerable women; nor why
some killing which occurred a third of a
century ago, is revived ia November, and
made blood-curdling and horrid by ad-
ditions suggested by imagination. If the
public were acquainted with the carpet
bagger's way of doing things, it would
understand well why the present sensa-
ton was developed at this time, and would
at once fathom the full meaning of the
proceedings inaugurated by the gang OF
hungry Adventures. There is to be an i'm
portant election in little while, and il
the malcontents can induce the court to
take some action, or make some order, that
will place the INSCRIPTIONS minority in con
troll Of the chief city of Utah, the object of
the gang will be achieved The courts
failing to comply, material has been created
TO give plausible excuse for another ap-
peal to the preiudices Of Congress.
AS remarked one may not even guess as
but it can be said, and truthfully, that so
far as establishing the claim of the political
seekers after power and plumber that the
Mormons are disloyal to the government
and unworthy of citizenship is concerned,
there has been a striking failure. Nor has
the investigation been in the least injurious
TO the Mormon church in the minds of the
impartial and unpreiudiced. The bitterest
enemies TO the church who could be found,
have been dug up and brought to the trent
where they have voiced their spleen to their
hearts content. And what have they dis
covered and unfolded? All they knew,
and in some instances much more than they
knew, and yet nothing that the world has
not known for half a century. Some of the
witnesses, in their eagerness to serve their
political party and bring trouble upon the
Mormons, simply lied, as was clearly
proven, and thus destroyed their entire
testimony. While terrible oaths and aw-
full penalties for their violation were told
about, they did not hesitate to violate the
oaths, and no ole could tell Of an instance
where the penalty had been inflicted. The
great power of the church over the minds
and bodies of men was dilated upon, but
these same witnesses had to confess that
they had deied that power and never been
molested, though the defiance was at time
when the church was almost absolute
and supreme in all this region.
The Mormons were all the
time on the defensive and while otherwise
placed at a disadvantage, were compelled,
in the very nature OF things, to employ in
their defense almost exclusively the
vveapons with which they were assailed.
Whatever the courts may decree in the
matter the Mormons need not be ashamed
togo to tie country on the record they