The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-18

rality of wives, and since the abolition of
polygamy many of them still believe that
they have the moral and divine right, but
not the legal right.
/ care not whether every Mormon IN this
territory believes in the moral and divine
sanction of polygamy.
While the majority of the south have not
changed their minds as to the moral right
of slavery, the majority believe that the
general prosperity of the people is better
without, than with slavery.
While the majority of the Mormon people
believe that polygamy is morally right, a
great many of them on practical grounds
believe that Utah proSperS commercially |
better without polygamy, than with it.
This was evinced by great many young
Mormons voting the Liberal ticket at the
August election, last year.
True these same young men did not vote
with the Liberals at the February election
of this year.
Why!
For two reasons: First-The leaders of
the Peoples party (or the church party,
care not which, made life and death
appeal to them to stand by their fathers
and their families. Second-They were
driven to accept this appeal by the bitter
dsnunciations made against the entire Nor
mon people by the Liberal campaign ora
tors aud the Tribune.
l know that Judge Powers, chairman of
the Liberal committee, issued orders to
make no attack on the church. But Judge
Powers could not hold the rampant speak
ers in check and the Tribune vomited col
| umn on column of vllldcatlon.
THE DEMAND FOR THE CULLoM DIsFRAN-
CHIsING BILL is BASED on THE REFUSAL OF
THE YOUNG MoRMoNs TO VOTE THE LIBERAL
TICKET.
The bloody shirt was raised and resulted
in solidifying the Mormon vote in Utah, as
it did at the south, every time it was up
lifted.
The south continue to vote solid and all
the efforts have been unavailing to split
the confederate states except by dividing
the northern states. The experiment was
tried during two campaigns, to divide the
south by burying the bloody garment. AS
soon as the red flag was put out of sight,
the solid south was broken, but in the alb
sense of the war emblem the northern
states went to pieces. The shrewd heads
of the Republican party found out that
they couldn't bury the bloody shirt ano
split the solid south without splitting the
solid north. In other words, that pacific
policy, while it gained at the south, los'
at the north.
For this reason the bloody garment /:
resurrected for each campaign, and the los'
of southern states is to be made up BY
; creating new Republican states in ths
, northwest This appears like politics bu
: it has a mighty bearing on Utah.
But was there demand to disfranchls
the south because they remained solids
!, ] regret TO say there was, and IS.
: The demand, however, came more iron
the south than the north.
When reconstruction measures were pre-
: posed for those who had been in open re
, bellion against the Union, these measure
= were most bitterly opposed by the oil
. abolitionists of the south.
:, The men who had lived there before tn
u war and had suffered all manner of insult
- and had seen many OF their friends sh(
!. down during the exciting years that pr
~ ceeded open hostilities, could not unde
g stand how the government of the Unite
: States could desert them to the mercy {
n the men who had been in open rebelllo
- against the Union. They went to VAST
ington las Judge Baskin and Patrick Lal
nan are there now to instruct Copgrei
= that the southern slave holders were {
% reasonable as they were when they hre
- on Fort Sumpter. Congress believed tt
. story of these men, and carpet bag COVER
ments were inaugurated that plundert
:, states, created anarchy, riots, blood-sht
y and gave birth to Ku Kluxism.
- But after few years Of riots and rapll
AZ Congress got to view the stories of the o
q southern abolitionists who had axes
"A grind as being little over drawn, and
Az presenting the beliefs rather than the q
=. - lions of the southern people; telling Co
a gress what the south had been, rather TIL
-, =; what it was. Carpet bag rule proved SUI
- disastrous failure that the south we
"a restored to their full rights and peace a
=" prosperity followed.
Because few men rush down to Was
"a "a ington who have old sores, old grudges, {
~, spites and animosities, will Congress
nln,. Tfsah
=. To NE, it was the most ridiculous thl
no in history to expect the Mormons to sp
~ their votes while the Democratic and Il
-. publican parties were united against the
N ~, The South refuses to split as long as I
~ Republican party presents a solid fro
'et and yet you have the presumption to &
~ the Mormons to divide their minor
ne vote while both the Republican and De
81 ocratic parties are arrayed against them
=. For myself, / do not care if every M
az az mon in this territory believes that he
Gu Gu entitled to thousand wives, and teacl
s i,e it to his children. l will not deny tn
'h' that right.
However, when it comes to matter
nc ~ deciding how many wives a man ST
W legally have, ! am in favor of enforcing
Jor the letter the preconceived notions of
great majority of the people of the Uni
~ States, and l am enough of a centrdli
tionalist to favor uniform laws in regart
ave divorce for New York, as well as for n
. ioi riage in Utah. In these days of m
u V, travel, think it well for man to hold
ene same relation to his wife in at least
;.b states.
lOli have been in Utah since February,
CIV / have not seen any more polygamy /
: than saw bigamy in New York. In
:, ] knew more men to keep more VOL
al there than here.
49,. Because / believe in neither monog
"a. "a, nor polygamy, and am bachelor, shou
'he be disfranchiseds There are thousand
.h gentiles who believe that after MARI,
'no one woman they have moral righ
IN keep as many mistresses as their me
al. on will admit. This, according to the pop
i u.o notion, is against good morals, and they
i'o in contempt of the law.
Because these men believe they ha
perfect right to do such things should
put them on their oath that they believ
yery and so, or disfranchise theme
ish- There are polygamists in Utah as q
are bigamists in New York, but they
the their chances, and pay the penalty "
fore discovered.
rity fail to see what more rights gen
light want in Salt Lake.
If there is any persecution here
be- opinions sake, will say, on my oath,
tue, gentle has more liberty here tina