The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-17
A WORD TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS.

Disputations between men where each of
the disputants seeks to maintain his own
views, where all of the resources of sophis-
! try are employed and every false step OF
the antagonist is sought to be taken advan
tage of, never convinced. Conviction
comes from investigation, where the mind
approaches the subject with the desire to
! learn and to accept the truth.
! knowing these facts, we fully under
stand that we might go on until eternity
arguing with men who do not believe as we
believe pointing out the folly of their
premises and the error of their conclusions,
and that they would never be convinced
of the truth Of our arguments, though
they were heaven-born and stated with the
logical clearness of a Demosthenes, unless
the subject was approached the spirit in
Dictated. We desire that our Liberal readers,
and particularly that the young men of the
community to whom the situation is not
clear, and that newcomers, to whom it is
difficult, should approach our impending
elections with view to ascertain on which
side lie truth and justice, and to act in ac-
cordance with the conclusions reached.
With view of assisting in the investiga-
ton we would call attention to few of the
leading and most salient features of the
situation. The most important question is,
what are the principles professed by the
contending parties!
The first thing TO be noticed is that the
issues are local. The parties are the PEG
pies and the Liberal, not the Democratic
and the Republican, or other parties ma
tional in the scope of their principles and
membership. 1t is not here a question of
free trade or protection, of civil service re
form or the spoils of Office, of prohibition
or high license, of state-rights or federal
ism, of ballot reform or dishonest elections.
No; it is a contest wherein one party seeks
to deprive large class of fellow citizens
of every right dearest to a freemen, of prop
erty and of liberty, and to deny them the
privilege Of the pursuit of happiness; and
wherein the other party seeks to retain
those liberties; there is party of attack
and party of defense.
1t is no difficult matter to prove the truth
of this assertion. The head and front of
the Liberal party is the Tribune of this city
1t has printed malicious falsehoods persist
emily concerning the Mormon people, which
have created a strong anti-Mormon senti
ment throughout the country and in Con
gress. 1t has clamored for special legisla
ton and has secured it.
The whole policy of the Tribune and the
platform of the Liberal party, may be
summed up in one short phrase, Uindictiuc
hatred Of everything Mormon
We are not so bigoted that we cannot re-
spect honest differences of opinion even on
aquestion we believe to be so plainly one
sided. We realize that theme as broad as
the Mormon question gives opportunity for
many varying views. MormonIsm is not
entirely without admirable results; it has
reclaimed many frontier waste; it has
promoted honesty, sobriety, charity, chas-
tity, industry, and economy in many
a human heart. But Liberal OPP
position is based upon the cruel
assertion that Mormonism has no viz
tues. The Liberal organ daily blasphemes
the Mormon God, makes the solemn cere-
monies of the Mormon church the objects
of its irreverent iests, brands virtuous
men and chaste women as lecherous. sees
only bestiality, dishonesty and unworthi-
ness where virtue, honesty and sterling
worth abound. Itdoes not stop to ask the
question, Can nothing good come out of
Nazareth! Its blatant tones proclaim from
day to day that all is vile in Nazareth.
The result of these oft-repeated calumr-
les has boea the enactment of large num-
Der Of special and unjust laws; while the
passions aroused by its malignant course