The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-06
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fact that you will also find community
pure and honest. The larger the percent
age in the family, on an average, of that
c'ass who cannot be trusted, the
lower the state of community NOR
rails, is something that no man, I'M
less he be so called Liberal, would
even so much as deny. That the carpet
bag Liberal would deny this, or anything
else that did not tend in its nature to show
that the only test of honesty or purity was
to be opposed with force and vindictiveness
to everything Mormon, or that belonged to
the Peoples party, we do not question. How
ever, the denial of truly loyal carpet-bag
Liberal simply adds force to the position
taken by anyone on any subject
Coming back to our proposition again,
what is the position of the individual mem
bers of the Peoples party? 1t is admitted,
even by as rank an enemy of that party as
w. II. DICKSON, a man who sho we'd less Of
the milk of human kindness" and more
hate and vludictiveness in the prosecution
of cases under the Edmunds- Tucker
act than any other man who has
held the position of United States
prosecuting attorney in this territory,
that the Mormon people condemn" sex
ual crimes, while the other religious de-
nominations or sects "deplore" the exis-
tence of that class of crimes. We all re
call the gentleman's speech wherein the
above admission, in substance, was made
to get conviction under the
act of Congress, and in his zeal
he unwittingly paid one of the
highest compliments to that great majority
of the Peoples party (the Mormon por-
tion), that it was possible for him to have
done had he received the usual retainer
and the 'fee" for appearing in court as
well.
It is true beyond question that there is
here less Of the social evil" which is
damning the soul and body of so many in
this nation, than is to be found
outside of Utah, or inside of
of it for that matter, if we go to the ranks
of the Liberals. That there are honorable
exceptions to disregard for virtue and
honesty among the Liberal party we do
not doubt. nor would we for one moment
is, however, a case of "poor dog Tray and
we will hail with delight the day when
wisdom and sad experience, if these
shall be necessary, shall teach those
who are honorable that they
are in bad company. One of the greatest
causes of crimes of all kinds and almost
the forerunner in every case is the use of
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Peoples party leads the world from a
temperance standpoint, and therefore leads
it in community capacity, no man living
can truthfully deny the accuracy of THE
HERALD's statements, made before our last
election, that over 80 per cent. of the
gamblers, saloon-keepers, drunkards and
loose women are members of the so-called
Liberal party.
The Liberal increase of taxes by multi
plying them by five in Ogden; the Liberal
expenditure of funds in Tooele, so that it
took eight years TO recover from the hope
less bankruptcy brought on by the four
years rule of the Liberals; the liberal ex-
penditure of money that comes from taxa
ton on improvements and real estate and
not from the assessment of "gri1 sack'
are what Chief Carpet Dagger POWERS and
company are working for, but what they
will fail to get, provided the members of
the Peoples party will do their full duty,
and THE HERALD is confident that they
will do that duty, and do it in a way to
make the carpet Dagger "seek for other
pastures green"
The following from an editorial in the
Salt Lake Tribune, the chief organ of the
carpet-bag Liberals, illustrates more forci-
bly, than. words of ours could possibly do
what kind of purity the Liberals desire to
see prevail in our fair city.
1T may be a hard thing to say, and perhaps
harder still to maintain, but believe that bill
lizard halls, saloons and houses of ill-fame are
more powerful reforming agencies here in Utah
than churches and schools, or even than the
Tribune. What the young Mormons want is to be
freed. So long as they are slaves, it matters
not much to what or TO whom, they are and they
can be nothing. At all events i rejoice
when 1 see the young Mormon hoodlums play
ing billiards, getting drunk, running with bad
women-anything to break the shackles they
we're born in, and that every so-caled religious
or virtuous influence only makes the stronger.
Some of them will go quite to the
they are made of poor stuff. and since
there is no good reason why they were
begun for let them soon be done for, and the
sooner the better. Most OF them however, will
the stronger for the knowledge of il and OF its
vanity. AT the very least they will be free, and
it is Of such vital consequence that man should
be free, that In my opinion his freedom is
cheaply won at the cost Of some familiarity with
low life. And while it is not desirable in itself
il is to me tolerabe, because it appears to offer
the only inducement strong enough to entice
men out OF slavery into freedom" Freedom is
the first requisite of manhood, and il it can be
won without excuses so much the better. If it
can't never miRd the excuses, win the freedom
1t is not you who are responsible, when 1t comes
10 that, IL is those who have enslaved you.
One actually shudders when he reads
such damnable sentences, as he feels that
one at least of the emissaries of hell
is here on earth and that he penned the
above words which are calculated to damn
soul and body, if the advice be taken.
Honesty and virtue in individuals, in
communities and in governments are THE
HERALD's motto to-day and always have
been and will be, and it is because we desire
these to prevail that we are first, last and
always for the Peoples party. 80
There are counties in this fair territory
where there cannot be found single
Liberal voter, and neither can there be
found in those counties a gambler,
saloon, or a loose woman. 1t is
history of this kind which the Peoples
party makes in contradistinction to
the history made in Ogden where, to
maintain some degree of decency, morally,
it became necessary for the United States
marshal to take hand in the suppression
of the vice so openly Haunted on the streets
and in the gambling dens.
We have heard surprise expressed that
as bitter and relentless an enemy of the
Mormons as W. II. DICKSON should have