The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-15

political humiliation. AS to whether
or not they have gained any points is yet
to be determined, for no one, so far, can
tell what the court will hold. Certain it is,
however, that they have gathered together
some campaign material which they will
doubtless use for all it is worth if not a
great deal more than that And what Of
the matarial2 An open and avowed enemy
to an institution of religion, one whose
chief delight by day and whose dream by
night it is to conjure up something that will
iniure and Cypress the people who have
trusted and never wronged him., for some
inscrutable reason places himself upon the
witness stand ard swears strange oaths
against his former allies, whereat their
enemies and those who seek to overthrow
them politically in this territory rejoice
with an exceeding great ioy--almost as
much Joy as the British forces exhibited
when one BENEDICT ARNOLD forsook the
cause in which he was enlisted
and gave them the benefit of
everything he knew regarding his
former allies and at the same time of
course gave them great many things he
did not know in order, perhaps, that
they might have the worth of their money.
We don't say that the cases ara identical or.
even parallel; but in reading of one per-
son can hardly help thinking of the other
And what is likely to be gained by all
this blaring of bugies and general fan
faronade9 If anything beneficial, will
some one kindly and in advance Of any
jnIinio1 1a1foiOn mint n nnk1 =
ing that everything sought by those who
are engineering the business against the
Mormons should be accomplished, what
then? 1t will only result in every Mormon
who is not at present citizen and applies
fer citizenship being denied that boom, 1t
will not deplete the ranks Of the Peoples
voters, for the reason that those thus de-
MED have no votes and could not cast a
ballot either way as they now stand.
1t is only question Of whether
so many more legal voters shall be
added to the general list or not. And if
there is anything more in it than what is
previously herein suggested-a little cam
paign material, the practical application Of
which may be somewhat in the nature of
boomerang before the case is closed, we fail
to see where it is.
The more enthusiastic of the Liberal
touters, shouters, bar bummers and loaf
ers, whose residence is alleys and whose
place of business is the open streets, may
think that the outcome of the present in
will be the Acknowledgement CT
all Mormons, whether naturalized or not
In fact, such talk seems to have become
quite common on the business thorough
fares, stray sentence here and there indi- |
eating the Joy which a great proportion of
the rank and file of the Liberal party feel
over the assumed turn in the tide which |
has just set in. They are mistaken. Those |
who now have the right to vote will |
vote unless through their own choice, |
some wrongful act between now and
tho time of voting, or the occurrence !
Of something unforeseen. will vote and |
there are not enough gutter-snipes, hood |
lums and hirelings in our midst to prevent !
it, The situation has become such that |
many who have never before, or at least |
not of late, taken any particular concern in |
the way things were going, will register, |
and the blackguards who attempt to pre- |
vent them from voting pursuant to their
will do well to stand from
under.
There Is no particular necessity for multi
plying words in this connection All that
is necessary is an understanding all
around. The scattered remnant Of tie
tribe against whom many people are ignor,
lntiy or preiudicially arrayed will hardly
in all instances. if at all, uphold the action
Of the particular one Of their number who
began this hue and cry, it being evident
that little fleeting notoriety and the graf
fcation Of his extraordinary Though ut
.erly foundationless) self-conceit is about
all there is in it. In MUNCACzY's great pic
lure of CHRIST Before PLATE" is the
figure of Jew whose cowardly
cruelty, inordinate desire for sensa-
ion, ghoulish love of persecution and fiead-
sh determination to be conspicuous
1t any cost make him almost as eonspicu.
JUS figure as that Of the great Victim
Himself. With hands appraised this lover
If injustice seems to say even from the
mute canvas; Cruelty him! Cruelty
lin! :" Those who have ever seen the pic
ure Of the prototype will have no difficulty
n recognizing the living reproduction. The
mage of the bloodthirsty Jew of nineteen
hundred years ago has been preserved,
ven as to his facial lineaments and per
onal characteristics, in real life, down to
he present time,
But the Peoples party will win the cleo {
ion in February Notwithstanding.