The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-08

indeed. and so far as we have noted, Judge
ANDERSON has none anywhere else. And
to say thae the decision rests upon
prejudice on tie judges part against per-
Jury when as matter of fact all the per-
Jury so far shown has been on the side
of the DIRECTORS, is to draw it pretty strong
even for sensational newspaper.
But the richest part of the extract is that
wherein it gravely announces what certain
men have done in criminal way in the
Endowment house. 1t does not admit Of
evasions or mistakes, it comes out
plumply and announces it as a
settled fact that men who have been
through that house have "solemnly sworn
allegiance to power antagonistic to the
United States and become oath-bound
sharers IN a conspiracy against the repub-
licn In view of the fact that the evidence
given at the hearing did not substantiate
any such thing; that even that offered on
the part of the Liberals was contradictory
and inconclusive, it might be in order to
inquire why it is that paper three thou
sand miles away and therefore relies on
reports, which is strongly addicted to pub
fishing merely symptoms as real disease,
shonld have all at once become so well in
formed. 1t is very much like the argu-
ment of a pettifogger, whose cause in a
general way the World is not seemingly
averse to espousing Just now; it goes out
side the record and does not seek to make
points by referring to adduced and accepted
facts.
1t is really too bad that Judge ANDERSON
does not want to assist men to commit per-
jury in his presence. 1t is THE HERALD's
opinion that Judge ANDERSON never
thought of anything Of the kind; that he
was actuated by another and altogether
different purpose, and that, with perhaps
one exception, he has less ability as law
yer and fewer of the qualifications of a
Judge than any man that ever occupied the
bench in this territory. For such papers
as the World, even though bent upon max
ing points out of materials as unsubstan
tial as the distant air, to undertake to give
a different appearance to the matter under
discussion than it ought to have is so much
labor in vain and will be so shown here
after.
In connection with the above, it is not at
all surprising to note that the San Francisco
Chronicle falls in line. Being, like the other
paper quoted from, a sensation monger, it
naturally grasps at anything having ten
dency to crafty the abnormal craving for
impure and unreal morsels of so-called in
formation. 1t thinks that if a Mormon can
be refused naturalization, then those who
are already Mormons can be and should be
deprived of their electoral rights. This
causes the Atd-more level-headed and
dignified in its character and more scrupu-
lous regarding the source from whence it
obtains news-to ask how such thing can
be- 1t being, as it states, no crime to be
Mormon, how can man be deprived of the
ballot without conviction of crime! A
Mormon or Gentle can be convicted of the
crime of polygamy, and such conviction
can work forfeiture of the ballot; but how
otherwise shall it be forfeited! The Chron-
icle plan is simplicity itself, for it declares
that a reason which excludes man from
naturalization should deprive him of the
ballot, if already in his possession. The
courts in that city, it says, have recently
refused naturalization to applicants who
had not read the constitution. Therefore
by parity of reasoning, all who have not
read the constitution should be deprived
of the ballot. This is, and must appear to
any intellectual and reasoning person,
much better logic than precedes it, and this
also from the Alta, is in the same strain
and therefore good:
Judges have refused citizenship to aliens who
were not of good moral character; therefore, all
immoral voters should be deprived of their cleo
toral rights, and their name is legion. The pro-
position to ALLEVIATE the electoral privilege from
orderly citizens simply because they belong to
certain church, unless they commit and are con-
victed of crime in obeying the teachings of that
church, is too absurd for serious discussion.
Right you are. 1t is too absurd for dis
cussion. But when lank and hungry or
ganization is intent upon capturing mu-
nicipal government for the sake of the
spells, and can get the powers that be flor
a short time only to stand in with it, we
need look for nothing but absurdity. If it
would only stop at even that, there would
be less cause for complaint than there is
now.