The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-03
CONSIDER YOUR POSITION.

Have the men who are asking the Presi-
dent of the United States to make Judge
ZANE chief justice of this territory forgot
ten that last year the people Of Salt Lake
city alone spent more than ten thousand
dollars III an effort to counterfeit and over
come the injurious work performed by this
same ZANE while he was on the bench?
The late chief Justice, by his course as
Judge, came near to bringing financial ruin
upon the entire territory. From the day
that he took the oath of office until he took
leave of the place social peace was un-
known. There was terror everywhere.
The people lived in an atmosphere of tur-
mol and sensation. Home capital was
alarmed and held Inactive while outside
money steered clear of this land of bicker-
ing, strife and uncertainty. When things
became desperate, and the community fully
realized how bad the state Of affairs was,
a united effort was put forth to overcome
the evil that had been wrought by Judge
ZANE, and to bring matters to their normal
and legitimate condition. Without regard
to class, politics orreligion, men contributed
literally to a fund to be expended for
destroying the evil influence of Judge ZANE.
Men were employed and paid to go through
the union and disabuse the minds of the
people as to Utah, and to induce capitalists
and gentlemen Of enterprise to come here
and help us put a stop to the terrorism with
which ZANE had inflicted the territory. 1t
cost Salt Lake and Utah not only a large
sum, paid out directly, to defeat the machi-
nations of the chief justice and the clique of
which he was the head centre and moving
spirit, but it cost millions of money which
ZANE and associates frightened into staying
away.
Now there are those who are asking his
return to the bench, and of course this i'm
plies request for the return of the old,
dark days of business inactivity and social
distress which the community had done so
much to free itself from. 1t cannot be pos
sible that these petitioners can realize
what they are doing They have not
thought this matter out to its natural
and inevitable conclusion. Some of
the petitioners are avowed and con
fessed enemies to Utah. They live
on turmoil and disorder, and fat
ten on strife, but others have foolishly
consented to pose as enemies to their own
interests and to the peace, the good order
and the prosperity of the community.
There IS no intelligent fair minded man in
Utah who can honestly say that he believes
the elevation to the bench Of Judge ZANE
would be 'efcial to this territory; there
is no man familiar with the career of the
eX-chief justice who can truthfUlly say that
ZANE's re-appointment would not be in the
nature of a calamity at this time, just as
the community is recovering from the bad
effects of his awful reign. THE HERALD
has never believed that HARRISON would
show himself so vicious or so ignorant of
the local situation as to foist Judge ZANE
upon the territory which the latter did so
much to wreck; our only object in referring
to the matter now is to cali the attention of
the signers of the petition to the attitude
in which they stand towards Utah.