The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-17
POLITICAL CLUBS.

Our Manti correspondent in yesterdays
issue informed our readers that a political
club under the banner of the Peoples
party had been organized for the purpose
of disseminating political knowledge
movement which we think should be fol
lowed by members of the Peoples party in
other towns and villages Of the territory.
The political stagnation forced upon a
community living in a territory IS
not favorable to the development
of political knowledge or political
opinion. Such a community from
its not being able to influence the tide Of
affairs in the nation, through its being de-
barred from participation in any of the
great political issues before the country,
will never possess that keen desire for poll
teal knowledge which communities will
that are actively engaged in political strug
giles. 1t is to the territorial vassalage en-
forced for so many years upon the people Of
Utah, by theimistaken policy of the general
government, that the lack Of interest in poll
teal affairs in Utah is due. But that
condition of vassalage IS not to be eternal.
The day viii come when Utah shall be
known as one of the sovereign states of the
great republic, her local affairs directed by
her own people, and the voice of her sons
heard in the national councils, assisting to
shape the destiny of our mighty republic.
When that day shall come we will want
men well versed, not in political tricllery
and low cunning, but in political science
1.-The science Of government, the
noblest and best science on earth.
We viii want men competent
to manage our local affairs with
credit, and representatives TO the national
Congress of whom we shall not be
ashamed. Auv society or club, therefore,
that is organized for the purpose of dis
seminating political knowledge and thus
preparing the young men Of our territory
for the future that awaits them should be
encouraged.
If we are not immediately in contact with
the political movements and issues now be
fore the people of the states, we have,
or will have before US the question
Of admission of our territory in the
Union, and though at present that question
may be upon our EXTREMIST horizon, still it
should never be lost sight Of altogether. 1t
may De depended upon that the ring of pc
Iitical tricksters which has cursed Utah
with its presence will oppose Utah's ad
mission to the last moment of recorded
time in our territorial existence;
unless, forsooth, they could see
our loved Utah enter the I'm
ion so manned, so manacled with
the chains of their forging that they,
the insignificant minority, could draw to
themselves all the political powers, honors
and emoluments Of the commonwealth,
whose foundation was laid and whose eXis-
tence was made possible by the labors, the
sacrifices and the sufferings of our fathers.
Utah of right is the political
heritage of those who made Utah,
and Of their PROSPERITY. 1t belongs
not of right TO the carpet-bagger
who has prospered upon the misfortuues
under which our fathers have labored in
being misunderstood by their fellow-citi
zens in the states, and that largely by the
political emagOgues-parasites who have
come amongst US. Let the young men and all
the men of the Peoples party organizepolit-
ical clubs. Let them fill their minds with
political knowledge, and their hearts with
political determination to hold their own in
this territory against intrigues of political
parasites. Give notice to all such political
cattle that they cannot wrest the control
of this territory from our hands by the
low-down tactics and intrigues Of dema-
gogues. Let clubs be formed under the
banner Of that party until the objects for
which the party was notwithstanding the
control of the local government to the PEG
pie of Utah, and the entrance OF our terri
tory into the American sisterhood of
states, and then if new party organizations
become necessary they can be effected
Organize and prepare for the struggle that
is inevitable.