The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-12
POLITICAL POINTERS.
John NichOlsOn's,, Address in the
Tenth Ward.
A SHOWING OF THE SITUATION.
The Different Ward Meetings Being
Held Announcements The
KaZOo Band.

John Nicholson, Esq, spoke before the
Tenth ward club on Tuesday night. He
showed in a very striking manner the want
of patriotism and principle in the Liberal
party, especially in the attitude of that
party during the recent court proceedings
The Liberal organ that had held up War
dell as a man whose very appearance and
manner bespoke truth and honesty, came
in for some well directed and timely sar-
casm. Wardell is a well-known character
in the Tenth ward, and the suggestion of
his uprightness caused the audience to roar
with laughter.
The Liberal howl about Mormon disloy-
atty was shown up as to its true cause and
inwardness. The attempt of the Liberals
to prove the disloyalty of the people was
that, under constitutional guarantee, the
people contributed to fund to test the
constitutionality of a certain law as con-
strued by the courts here. This was the
infamous segregation system instituted
by Dickson. The Supreme court decided
against Dickson's infamy, yet he is the
man that has accused US of treason, for con-
tributing to a fund for the purpose of test
ing his wicked scheme.
The Liberal party has succeeded il in
ducing Congress to pass law contiscating
our property, and applying it to public pur-
poses without compensation. This is I'M
constitutional.
There is an old saying that if you give
any one a bad name, you can then abuse
him as you please. The Liberal party has
constantly and industriously worked to
give the people of Utah territory
q bad name abroad. The latest ex-
ample of this is the libel that
the Mormons cut the Threats Of those who
leave the church; and to prove this, GER
tain mel who had left the church many
years ago were produced in court as living
witnesses of men who have been going
about with their Threats cut for the last
twenty years.
1t is said that we believe in Daniels
prophecy about the establishment of the
kingdom of God, therefore we are disloyal!
1t is grievous fault of ours; but Daniel
is responsible for it, and if he lived to-day
he could not be admitted to citizenship
What a crime it is to believe in the bible
The Liberal party has advocated every
un-American measure imaginable in order
to accomplish tie ruin of the majority of
the people here. That party has openly
advocated the confiscation of property, the
establishment of a one-man power in
Utah, a legislative commission, and the
disfrauchisement of the people on account
of their belief. That party asks for the
vote of the young men of Utah that it may
disfranchise and degrade them.
That party is today trying to punish
these young men for the alleged sins of
their fathers ana for the hypothetical sins
of their descendants. The Liberal party
is the wolf complaining that the lamb has
made the water muddy, or at least, that
the lambs parents did SO; or that the
lambs descendants are likely to de so; at
say rate, the wolf must devour the lamb if
he can.
When once the lamented General Max
well, in Corinne, standing on an empty
whisky barrel, and surrounded by about
score of people said, 1--WE, the people of
Utah"-the head Of the barrel gave way,
and into temporary Oblivion he sank-the
fall of that great Liberal simply presaged
the fall of his party, with the difference
that when the latter falls, its oblivion will
be permanent; for no party with the aims
and methods pr the Liberal party can exist
permanently in free country. What por
tions of this constitution would survive. if
the Liberal party would have its way! The
case would be precisely similar to that of a
man who was broken down by consump-
ton, and who when a friend asked him the
state of his constitution, said: "Oh, my
constitution is all gone and I'm getting
along as best can on the bylaws"
A recent American minister in England
said that if ever the time came in this re-
public when any person was not respected
in those rights which are the common heI
itage of maukind-life, liberty and prop
erty then the constitution will have been
violated and the republic is in great danger
of dissolution as a worn out and useless
thing 1t follows that the party which
urges the abridgment of liberty through a
dangerous Capitalization of power and
through religious tests imposed on the
citizen. which advocates the confiscation of
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life itself in jeopardy, is the party that is
disloyal to the constitution and a traitor to
American ideas and principles. That party
is the Liberal party.