The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-04
THE WRITING ON THE WALL.

Can it be possible that any Liberal be
lieves, from the way things look at present,
that his cause is being advanced and his
interests made secure after hearing that
the secretary of the interior at Washing
ton has ordered the Utah commission here
because of the decision recently made by
Judge ANDERSON! And if he be so obtuse,
will he not concede that the absence of
even hint regarding Utah from Presi-
dent HARRISON in his first message ought
to be considered as evidence of the fact
that the ultra-Liberal fever has not yet
reached headquarters and is not likely to!
THE HERALD is charitable enough to be-
lieve that all of them can read the signs
Alright, can all, in fact, understand that
there is point even in governmental and
political affairs beyond which the wire
workers for place and profit should not go
and the powers that be will not permit
them to go.
Utah, of course, occupies very anon
alous position among the commonwealth
of the land. She is not only dumping
ground for all kinds of political brio a braC
which the executive has no shelves for else,
where, but it is subjected at nearly stated
intervals to just such Johnstown floods OF
Misrepresentation, calumny and abuse as
the one that has just closed in the ''im-
mortal decision of Judge ANDERSON. Most
people and most communities would have
broken down under such strain long ago:
but not so here. The people are Injured to
hardships and seasoned to suffering. When
things don't go to suit them, they wait
until there is a change; when they don't
like a particular measure they seek the
methods provided by law to drive it out OF
existence, and if they fail, they accept the
the inevitable with as good grace as nature
land the weather. permits; if they don't
like man, it is generally the case that it
is not because of his goodness but rather
on account of his excessive accumulation
of nonsensical dignity and foolish assump-
ton of powers which at best are undeter-
mined. Is it not so!
Well, we can all understand that when
such things as are herein suggested are
permitted to go on day after day and year
after year, even if those who are afflicted
thereby submit quietly, that the circum-
stances will inevitably get up to the cen
tral source of authority sooner or later.
They have before, in every case. If Utah
were all that the conspirators
want it to be in all particu-
lars. it would be different for then they
would have it homogeneous as relates to
the general government having a full
swing. and isolated so far as relates to re-
ports getting up there. But the conditions
are homogeneous; they won't mix. Having
one. we necessarily have the other, and
that other is what with almost periodical
regularity downs the blood-and thunder
campaigners in Utah.
1t ought to be, if it is not, remembered
by the Liberal howlers that once upon a
time a certain white-souled Judge of Utah
peace to his ashes y undertook to do just
what his successors in excessive zeal
and inordinate lust for power have
do something greater than any
of his fellows he consummated
grand achievement in the direction of the
tyrannical use of the power by sending an
honored citizen of the community to the
penitentiary for purely technical offense.
The said Judge was an intimate friend Of
the President and yet the latter when he
heard the facts in the case, removed the
official in few hours after his abuse of
authority.
Putting this and that together, would it
not be wise for the heelers and howlers
hereabout to go Just little bit slower! One
would think so. They have nothing to lose
by it, and may have great deal to gain.
Try it, anyway.