The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-22
TEMP0RA MUTANTUR.

TEMP0RA MUTANTUR.
THE HERALD has an organic cotempo-
rary down the street whose principal di-
version is being ill-natured and talking
back. 1t has a mission in our midst, and
on this it prides itself; in fact, now and
then we have reference from and to it as
missionary Journal The object which
it expects to accomplish as a result of this
mission is not stated in terms, but enough
crops out every now and then to enable one
who is not hopelessly obtuse to get rea-
sonable idea of what it is. AS the successor
of company whose object was the refor
nation of things as they were in Utah in
quiet, friendly way, it came laundering
down the alley with cry of absolute sup
preston to everything and everybody
hanging on or being humane to the institu-
ton whose tenets were professed by the
majority. 1.-THE great anti-Mormon organ
was the label fastened to the collar of the
then new regime. I'VE oppose Mormon
ism without any ifs or butts" used to be
the cry after the decent element arrayed
against the Utah religionists had
given way. Then followed a long
period of fanaticism, bigotry, spleen and
hatred which could only have been born of
an opposing faith: vulgarity, indecency and
hatred were the chief characteristics, and
a business of more or less prosperity was
built up, just as the Police Gazette and SINH
lar periodicals have built up business. by
pandering to those senses in man which it
requires no education on his part to crafty
But there was a considerable proportion of
decency in the concerns support and it got
tired of this kind of thing the result being
that the bushwhacking and jawhaWkiRg
element were bought out and released
from further service in that behalf. Then
the venture ceased to be an organ, but be-
came a missionary.
AS missionary it was entitled to respect
and fair treatment, so long as by its CON
duct it showed itself entitled thereto.
Everybody was in favor of fair opportun-
ity being given, and it was given, but the
most was not made of it. AT first it was fair
enough, but by degrees the animal forsook
the healthful pool in which it had been
placed and enveloped itself in the mire to
which it was more accustomed. 1t is use
less to recount the history of the i'm
mediate past, it is well enough known. |
Suffice it to say that as between the mis- |
and the organ, commend us to |
neither,
The organic continuance is sadly out of |
tune at times. II processes a lingering
oil yhtrc,e A a1sipan and n
utter detestation of anything In Opposition !
to the customs Of the ''better classes of |
tl.1a republic. It wants to see a metropolis |
here. with all the attachments, appnr- i
tenances and incidents Of one; city with |
q population of 100000 at least, with
system equal to the best, water
service at once adequate and convenient, |
with business blocks so reduced in area |
that the greatest possible frontage could
be obtained, with improved police regula- |
tons, and all the ct ceteras pertaining to a
real big town. In order to accomplish all
this, the organ expresses its willingness to
permit people who are blindly astray on the
subject of religion to worship at any shrine
they please, to believe in MoHAMMED,
or ZORoAsTER if they choose,
to entertain as their belief any
special plan for their own and their fellows
so long as they keep within
the laws and observe the rules of decency
as they are laid down and recognized else
where. This is all very funny when you
come to analyze it.
How is a population of 100000 to be got
herel Has the organ ever taken the pains |
to resort to practical figuring on such a |
There are but two meth |
DDS that we know of-natural increase and |
to both of which it is just now |
more or less opposed. Even if by the |
former plan it could be accomplished in one
generation at all, it would be un-American |
to resort to such means, for would not that !
be converting the American home " into a
s'human stock ranchr' To be gentecl and |
entitled to admission into good society, and |
remain in proper form, and have a commu-
nifty built up strictly on the American plan, |
one or two little copies of their faithful 4!
sire are as many as we can have in house |
hold, and, allowing for an occasional
visitation from the destroyer, this
would Only nave d OCuuShOy W
instead of increase the body polite. And
as to enlarging it by the other means, how
is that to be done when every new conner
is looked upon and treated with suspicion
unless he happens to belong to the organs
following? 1t says that no objections are
to be offered to those who come here in
good faith with theiHtention Of making this
their home; well, but how is that to be de-
termined! If the new recruit says so he
will not be believed, at least till after the
next election, and there is no law providing
for his being placed on oath to determine
the point; so that we are left to the conclu-
sion that the rule sought to be enforced is,
that if the applicant for residence within
our gates is in favor of the party of the
People he is fraud whose plain object is
the defilement of the ballot box; otherwise
as to politics or intention, he may be good
fellow and should receive welcome in our
midst.
Our organic neighbor threatens THE
HERALD with very dizzy feeling before
the SHOWS of February have mantled the
landscape hereabout This because, in our
desire to have the people properly informed,
we occasionally remind them of their
political duties and privileges, and
show them that, according to the