The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-08
THE UTAH VULTURBS.
How They Are Viewed by a For
mer Resident.
PUNCTURING THE GAS BLADDER.
The Material Progress of Nevada as Com
pared to Utah-A Grain Of Sand
to a Mountain.

the SALT LAKE HERALD is at hand con-
tanning the testimony of DR.. Richards,
Farley Williams, E. L. T. Harrison, T. G.
Weber, Eli B. Kelsey and others showing
by unimpeachable testimony under oath
the utter absurdity of the attempt to prove
that the Mormon people are
HOSTILE TO THE UNITED STATES
as claimed by the McBrides and the Bias
kins, it is interesting, as well as instruc-
tive, to note that not one word Of this
testimony has been permitted to appear in
the dispatches of the Associated Press
agent of Salt Lake city. OF course this
was to be expected by those who under
stand how completely this agency is and
hasFbeen for nearly twenty years mani
pulated by the plumber party of Utah.
There was one exception to this condi-
ton of affairs, for six weeks in 1872,
when the writer hereof acted as press
agent during the absence east OF
the notorious Could. But in return for
six weeks of unbiased and unpreiudiced re-
ports of the news and nothing more,
yours truly was compelled to accept
one-half the stipulated salary for the duty
dark alley and receive the balance in true
DANTE style by this leading light of the
Liberal" party in those days. AS my
progress in .
CIVILIZATION AND MORALITY
was not so far in advance as to adopt this
Liberal thug system of paying debts,
the plan did not succeed. And this is the
onty time in my knowledge from 1871 to
the present date that the ASS. Press
agency in Utah has not been made mere
machine for Yilifying the Mormons. To
expect from this source a word of fairness
or common decency toward a Mormon
would be almost expecting the impossible,
Fortunately for Utah, the character of
the general press dispatches from that ter
ritory has long been notorious east, as well
as west and the special interview with
MILFORD Woodruff, president of the church,
appearing side by side with the sensational
reports of the Associated Press agent de-
failing the testimony of Gilmore, ct hoe
genus Omne, completely
SPUNCTURED THE GAS BLADDER
which this agent was so assiduously blow
ing full of outrageous charges against the
MO7Nnon people. By those who under
stand the motive ana incentive of the as
saults of the plumber party, no word of
fairness toward the Mormons is ever looked
for in the general Geographic news from
Zion. The public generally is also getting
to understand this pretty well, and to rea
lie that there are two classes in Utah,
composed of vultures and fanatics, whose
constant aim is to induce Congress
to pass special bills by means
of which the Mormons may be legally and
judicially plucked. The fanatics are honest
and Jealous in their intent, and therefore
the more readily and naturally become the
catspaws of the vultures. They seem una
BILE to comprehend that even if the Nor
mons of forty-five years ago may, by some
oil
full of feelings of revenge
IN RETURN FOR THE oUTRAGEs
which they endured at the hands Of the
Missouri and Illinois mobs, new genera
tions have since grown up, and that in
1889 time may have scared over the wounds
of 1874 and 1915, as it has placed in the
grave nearly all of the survivors of the
hardships and indignities then endured as
heroically as the New England Puritans
faced the grievous tolls and sufferings of
their lot. And it is not recorded
of the Mormons that they ever
adopted a 1.-THE of the tyranny and
persecution of outsiders that was
practised by the sanity Puritans until
more than one man could exclaim with the
Rev. Mr., Blackstone: 81 fed from Eng
land to escape the tyranny Of my lord
] bishops, but l was glad enough to get back
to escaRe the tyranny of my lord brethren
-P T15'S'a'- rn. rr,7r,r.
do not desire the fanatics to exercise what
little common sense and judgment they
may posses, and they do not intend they
shall if noise and falsehood can befog them
and continue them as tools. The vultures
are few, and without the support of the
fanatics would soon subside from their
unholy work Unfortunately a bigot
w no no nj
and there always have been fanatics and
bigots as far back as the history of man
runs, and there have always been vultures
ready to use them. But rarely has it oc-
CURED that such an insignificant handful
of the latter have been able for so long a
time to use for their own ends the honest
fools as has been the case in Utah. These
seeh- always ready to swallow all the cock
and bull stories that may be incubated and
to believe:
"That no man living would refuse
Green slippers, but from treasonous views;
Nor wash his toes but with intent
To oyerturn the government"
Twenty years ago so astute an observer
SAMUEL BowLEs,
founder of the Springfield, Massachusetts,,
Republican, wrote as follows:
"All our experience and observation in
IeuQeu 10 lQCE6dS6 OuF
of the value of its material progress and
development to the nation; to justify con-
gratulations to the Mormons and the coun
try for the wealth they have created, and
the order, frugality, morality and industry
that have been organized in this remote
spot FOUR continent; and to enlarge our
respectNfor the personal sincerity and cha
racter of many of the leaders,"
But it remained for the Baskins and the
McBrides to discover that Bowles, Schuy-
Ter Colfax and William Bross, of the Chi
cago Tribune, who composed the party of
observation referred to in the above ex-
tract, were fools, and that
THE MoRMoNs Rad DONE NOTHING
in comparison with themselves-the Bas-
lsins and the McBrides-toward the mate
rial progress and development that Utah
has made, of so great value to the nation,
But,
"Pygmies are pygmies still, though
perched on Alps"
Dol hear a cry from the tripod Of my
friend Lannan: 1.-THE Gentiles, i. e., the
Liberals, have built up Utah by their de-
yelopment of her mining resources All, !
yesl Samuel Bowles and Dea-
con Bross had no conception in |
1869 of those mighty giants, the |
az LIBERALS who were to raise sheol in
Utsfh and thus develop the territory How
about Nevada, Brother Lannan! Did the |
opening up and working OF the Comstock
make Nevada rival of Utah in it's ma
terial progressl The total population of
that rotten borough now numbers some
forty or forty-fve thousand, after having
been
STATE FOR SOME TWENTY YEARS,
and eastern papers are now being flooded