The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-24
MIR. GOODWIN'S PLATFORM.

The platform of the Liberal candidate is
dismal, fanatjcal thing, at variance with
the simplest maxims of political justice,
and false to degree that is scarcely cred
ible. Only stern sense of public duty at
this important juncture could cause US to
quote so freely his villainous falsehoods,
urged as justification for the greater
crime he is advocating disfranchise
ment of law abiding people who will not
vote for him. Here is batch of vicious
falsehoods scarcely equaled in literature:
That rule which makes Mormon an alien
everywhere, and which causes him to deride the
government under which he receives home
and full protection; that rule which teaches
treason to every Mormon child which instructs
the Mormon child from the cradle up that no
law of the United States has any binding eject
upon any Mormon until the head of the church
sanctions it and declares it constitutional
Tribune, Octojer 81, 1855.
The Liberal candidate says in another
place:
The child of the Mormon is taught disloyalty
from his cradle up.-Hdy6, 1890.
We simply voice the knowledge of the
writer of the foregoing infamy is liar be-
fore GoD and man. The Mormon children
are taught to reverence the government
and its institutions, are taught that the
constitution is an inspired instrument and
that some day it will be the duty of the
Mormons to preserve and defend its prin-
ciples against the tyranny that will seek to
subvert them. The charge the Liberal
candidate makes against the young men Of
Utah is false to begin with; if it were true
they would not be responsible for it; while
the remedy proposed by the Liberal patriot
-disfranchisement, denial of the right to
acquire land, etc-would in no way make
loyal citizens of them if they were disaf-
fected. On the contrary, they would be
more likely to hate than revere the gov
eminent that would degrade them
for what their political opponent says they
were taught by their parents. And that is
what the Liberal candidate desires. Any
thing but peace is his goal in Utah. He
rakes up stale and forgotten troubles Of the
past. and gloats over them. He tries to
fan old embers of discord into a flaming
present strife. He pretends regard for
the young men of Utah, while seeking to
disfranchise them. He affects compassion
for Mormon children, while seeking to de-
prive their parents of their few, hard
earned possessions. He asks if Mr..
GAME can tell why we take no part in the
main political questions which are agitat-
ing the east. Why is this place isolated
Why does there have to be another kind oil
fight in Utah!" Here is the reason:
We want no division of Utah Gentiles along
party lines. but hail such division among the
Mormons-IfibU1e, NOUenaber II, 1888.
G. G. GOODWIN more than any other man
in Utah has retarded the formation o.
parties here on the lines of national politics
Here is another sample:
There is not a man with compassionate
heart that looks upon the little Mormon child
rem that are growing up here or who thinks o
his own children, but what looks upon THU
CULLoM bill as measure of infinite mercy tt
the Mormon people themselves. Its passage
will be notice to the Saints that while the pee
pie of the United States have no desire to inter
fere with their worship, still that the peopl
understand them at their exact worth, accept
ing the fact, which they have preached for fort,
years, tnat tney are Aliens TO our gOVernme9
and to our form of government, and that Will
they continue to be such they must not lay thei
hands on the American ballot; they must TAX
| no part in framing American laws.-Tri6u9e
, Mayo, 1890.
The infinite mercyn of the CULLoM bill
: which, it is suspected, was written by c
G. GOODWIN, consists in denying to al
| Mormons the right to vote or hold office
1t outlaws and subjects to possible pillag
and insult the Mormon people as whole
t because not enough of them had broker
7 the law to satiate the malicious hate of th
2 Liberal candidate in seeing them imprs
3 oned. Hence he asked that the innocen
be punished for what he calls disloya
. thoughts. He says the ''exact WORTH O
: these law-abiding people is thatthey shout
= be treated as serfs. He says they hav
proclaimed themselves aliens for fort
/ years, in which statement he knows tina
e he lies. For every criticism of the gov
D eminent, expressed by ally given Morno
in Utah, he has expressed two; and it Ia
been long time since the Mormons crit
cised the government. That occurred
the days of their starvation in the deser
+ here, when they heard that an army ha
n been sent to harass them.