Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-15


Priesthood has been accompanied b.
punishment in business; by misrepre
sentation, csiumny, and even threat
against life and property. In short
VI. the monogamists have in no small
J, way been heroes.n
~ This borders on the maudlin. The
y punishment in business, which
u the leading "Liberals'' In this Ter
70 ritory have suffered at the hands q
= the Enormous" has made Them
u wealthy on the profits OF Mormon
patronage. Probably in no one
e thing have the "Mormons" ever so
: far deviated from a policy Of COM
; mon sense and justice as in coutinu-
ing lavish patronage Of business
men and firms who, in a covert and
even sometimes in an open way,
; were doing their utmost 10 rob them
of their most sacred rights. That
Gentiles have ever been in danger
of mormon" vengeance is a per-
ennial falsehood which is effectually
denied by the fact that the bitterest
and most INSCRIPTIONS foes that
people ever had have long furnished
and grown rich in the heart of the
"Mormon" community, without
damage TO hair upon their heads,
or CENTS worth oftheir property.
We fail to see any heroism On the
part of force which has the courts
under its control, the cooperation Of
Congress far beyond the limits Of
the Constitution, and the claimed |
moral and financial support Of sixty 4
millions Of people, while it assaults
and overrides handful Of religion
lists in whose behalf not friend in |
the world rises up to do an act Of |
kindness, or utter word Of defense.
Heroism is usually attributed to the
other side in a contest Of the char
acter now going on in Utah, IA
which a religious organization is
struggling to maintain an existence
against tremendous adds determined
to destroy 1t.
ave are assured by GENTLE leaders
that no fraud was practiced. that the
victory Of decency and free govern
ment was honestly achieved, and that
whatever illegal voting was attempted
is chsrgeable to the polygamists, who
saw defeat staring them in the face,
and resorted in more than one in
stance 10 deceit, in securing votes for
their ticket"
The Record Union has received
an assurance which has not been
vouchsafed to residents Of this
city. 1t is popularity and no. /.
toriously understood here that
the most brazen frauds were {
perpetrated under "Liberal', aus
pices, and no denial of this wide {
spread assumption has been made {
locally, "by Gentle leaders.n Fo- {
instance, it has been virtually ad- g
mitted that a special train which ,
ran from this city TO the Colorado 8
line, registering gang after gang of Q
workmen to the number Of hun Q
dreds, many of whom never lived .
here, but who were all expected to 4
vote the "Liberal'' ticket. 'swhat i
are you going to do about it?' is, in &
effect, the only answer the "Liber- d
al'' managers make here. We quote 4
again:
what the contest really meant on S
the Gentle sidewas religious liberty, U
not persecution. In the end the Nor d
mons will be the greater beneficiares v
by the social revolution now going on :
in the Territory, for at this time they T
are, as they have been for nearly half !,
a century, slaves OF the Twelve. the
Bishops, teachers, and other rulers
over Zion"
That the Gentiles of Utah have n
been waging contest for religious
liberty, is an astonishing statement. ;.
The overwhelming majority Of
them do not believe in any religion
at all, and do not pretend to, and .
the idea that they have ever been y
The victims Of religious persecution a
Is grotesquely absurd. The state
nent that SIN the end the Nor =
mons will be the greater beneticiares "
~ the social revolution now v
going on in the Territory" we be- '.
ieve TO be true. But the good will '.
'ome to them in a different way -
rom that expected by the Record :.
JntoH. The contrast between the
ule Of the Peoples Party and that =
4 their now victorious opponents a.
nd traducers, will be Of a character
cause a desire among decent peo-
lie of all shades Of political and re-
gious belief to welcome the former
ack to power. In this way the m,
Mormons" will be vindicated, and ity
heir countrymen be made to under. pu
and them better. u
The talk Of our Sacramento con- a
about the slavery in sh
hich the Mormon, people are in;
ED by their leaders, is twaddle un- az
orthy Of that paper. 1t knows ms m.
;tter while it prints such stuff. fri
be people who founded the great by
which now occupies mo-
is inter-mountain region, are not so ,,.
e material Of which slaves are Co
ade- The very contest in which mi
ey have just been overcome, and hal
lich shook the whole United IT,
ates from center to circumference, not
'uld not and could not have been the
for single day by a Of
ople who were seIfs. or served any aI.a a
sster save their own consciences. ms
N portions Of Russia the belief Arg
walls among the peasantry that
Jews mix with the bread they
in celebrating the Passover, the A
cd Of Christian child slain for mus
purpose. For a Jew in those fact
ions to try to correct this popular low W.,
lief is work scarcely more weary A. 1T :
hopeless than for Mormon, 10 I
~ to correct many false notions sem
! are almost universaIlY enter al ::