The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20


construed as an argument, or attempted
argument, in faver of man or of men VIC
lating or attempting to violate, or justify
ing the violation of laws rs they are; it is
rather desire that, while observing the
forms of the statutes in all cases made and
provided, they require something in the
way of a consideration before abandoning
political tenets, from those who affect to
be so upright and patriotic on the otLer
side and vet WHO show by their daily ac
.ions tha. Icy aye .4ins wal!.. r"ngF, u
over &, ilud4-lc.. tal PRINCIPLES ldGJf and
by X :cl al2le 10 nation can ext and
M .itai,. "a status a, the ideal democratic
nation OF the globo.1
- would ask them If they were Nor
Mons, aud if they answered yes. would
maze that sufficient ground for their ex-
clu Ion from the jury box and tie polls"
This, if not the exact language, was IN
doub.cdly the meaning conveyed. So that,
it appears, il this Instance, the sleeps
skin which covered the wolf has been cast
aside and the raven;Ig and devouring, al
belt cowarlly and sneaking animal, stands
And what this particular party ard those
who are of and with him said and have been
saying for so many years past was only
another feature in the dastardly and hypo-
critical programme whose inception and
progress have been a systematic
attempt to deceive. When YOU
said that if the Mormons would do thus
and so they might still retain their faith in
general, and still call themselves Mormons
and receive all the rights, benefits and
trusts that other citizens receive, you were
liars and deceivers, were you! You
wanted them to cast off their clothing, as
surfing them that they would be as warm
and comely without as with it, and when
they stood thus arrayed in the costume of
the Greek slave, you can have the addi-
tional pleasure of haunting them with their
and still withholding the great boon which
you promised! That is doubtless your idea
of craftsmanship, of good conduct, of just
treatment. Cardinal RGCHELIEU is caused by
BULwER to say, eve can promise it and
see that the King withholds it, but this
was case in which the end justified the
means; his object was to check and crush
a conspiracy whose aim was the overthrow
of that King; it is different here, for the
conspirators themselves have done the
promising, and their object is not ostensi-
bly, to crush combination, but to starve
and debauch it under the guise of friend
ship, and fattcn upon the spells which
their treachery has produced.
There is but one proper and consistent
thing for those who would maintain their
rights, their principles and their honor,
and who are or have been marshaled under
the banner of the Peoples party
in Utah, to do in the coming
contest, aud that is to be
friends to their friends and return good for
good. They will, by achieving a victory
at the polls for those whom they know and
can trust, run no risk at all except such as
the citizen is required to run in all com
munities and under general circumstances.
How viii it likely be if they persist in
trading off old friends for new ones and
taking the desperate chance of improve
ment at the hands Of those who have at
last, if not previously, shown that they are
determined to not only possess all that is
involved in the contest in general way,
but compel the majority to forego every
item of religious and political principle
they have now or ever had? The risk
is too great, and even if it returned
dollar for dollar on the investment, would
still be money lost in view of the fact that
the same end could be accomplished with
out the risk, and those who have been with
them and for them all along can thus be
maintained in the positions Of trust and
profit.
If the Liberal party should carry the city
next February, it will not be by Liberal
but by Peoples votes, the latter being either
cast for the opposition or not cast at all.
The Peoples party has natural majority
in the city of not less than 500 votes, and
those who stay at home or fail from any
cause to go to the polls will of course be Civ
ing negative aid to the enemy. If this pol
icy should be pursued to a sufficient extent
to produce Liberal victory, there will be
noopposition to the latter taking possession
of the offices, of course, Notwithstanding
the fact that they are actually in the mi
nority; but how do those who intend so to
act, if there be any such, think they will
feel short time after-when they COM
mence to count the cost and consider
calmly what they have gained by their in
action or improper action? Let them now,
we ask, place themselves in the position
they would occupy then, and take two or
three good thoughts upon the subject before
the fateful day comes.