The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-05


from contracting any marriages forbidden
by the law Of the land. Yet our little gov
ernor has the brazen dppiicity to assert
that there has been no change on the sub
ject Of polygamy in the Mormon church
What does the petty tyrant mean by the.
the words mo change on the subiects'
Is he base enough to assert that the Nor
mon leaders ever before publicly advised
the people not to violate the anti -polygamy
laws! Will he say that in former years the
practice of polygamy was not taught from
the pulpits here? What does the little hypo-
critic mean.
1t is not enough for the little man who
partially fills and wholly disgraces
the gubernatorial chair of Utah that
all actual polygamists have been
punished with ferocous severity;
that the poly gamous families from the head
down have been badgered by q tormenting
persecution, often vindictive and inhuman
in its indecency and want of common kind
ness; that the great majority of the people
OF Utah have violated no law of the land,
whether the anti -polygamy law or any
other; and that the men of the Mormon
church have taken specially provided
oath that they will not in the future violate
the law,-these plain facts make no differ
ence to ARTHUR L. THOMAS, He says there
has been no change. 1t matters not to him
that all Mormons who ever violated the
law have been punished for doing SO; that
the others do not violate the law and have
sworn that they will not in the future vio-
late the law; and sthat it is publicly pro-
clGimed by the church leaders that the peo-
pie are to contract no marriage in violation
of the law, these truths are of no use TO a
small souled despot who longs TO be the
king of an American commonwealth.
Admitting that these statements Of Pres
iaent WOODRUFF are true, the telegraph re-
ports the governor as saying, sit does not
prove that the church has met the public
sentiment of the nation as expressed in its
laws, nor does it prove that the church is
| loyal to the law In heavens name, what
would prove it, thens
"There is no reason to believe he says,
shat any earthly power can exact from
gamy.n
! But the declaration his been made, and
whether it was exacted by means of 'sany
earthly power or not is not pertinent tc
the issue. 1t is condition, not a theory
which eonfroats us. Whatever our small
governor pretends to believe in this matter,
cuts no figure whatever. He believes
that No cuch 1aolarot;on cao ha alicita.
from the church; but the declaration has
been ELECTED, his belief to the contrary
notwithstanding.
When first this anti Mormon crusade wa!
commenced, it was declared taat there wa
nothing intended or contemplated excep
the punishme Mt of those WHO had actual,
violated the law.
But when the punishment o. the law
breakers had been accomplished, those win
had never violated the law were CON PEELED
under penalty of acknowledgements an,
other degrading disabilities, to swear tina
they had not violated the law, that the,
would not violate the law in the future
and that they would not, directly or indi
rectly, aid, abet, encourage, OF advise any
4 one else to violate the law. AS sort O
guarantee of their good fdita in this prom
Use, it was deemeo necessary to ron til
Mormons of their church properly. all Q
which bad been earned by members an
donated to the church, and to deprive ther
of trial by jury, not in polygamy cases, bu
in all cases whatsoever Tacn it wa
demanded that the leaders OF th
| church come out publicly an
! advise obedience to the law This also ha
been done. And now that tile last excus
for the oppression and piunjcr OF the MDl
mon people seems about TO be lost, bark
the united howl from the llBpecuniods fee
eral Office holders III Utah, beginning wit
the useless commission and the WORTHLESS
: governor, that goes up for the total di
S franchisement Of the only ciass of Peep
Q in Utah who are strictly law-abiding--tl
5 homogeneous Mormons. There is far MOI
9 law breaking among the non Mormons
/ Utah than among the Mormous, and no
9 that the polygamy bugaooo is also il
dangerel, 'help! fellow CITIZENS sho,
5 the Office holders; 1.-The Mormons are aho,
d to live so strictly above the law that v
: can not continue in our fat Offices Di
q franchise, them, Don't let them becon
z the best OF citizens. Harass them. Irrita
g them with penalties for their belief! An.
e thing to keep the old war waging"
S For our governor only asks, in addition
n the disfranchisement of the Mormons f
e what he says is their belief, that ne
: authorized to appoint certain county of
s GERS, as this will place the control
: twenty-five counties in the hands of IN,
9 "loyal to the government that is, in t
hands of men whose loyalty to the COVER
o ment consists in frequently breaking Il
e laws. And this is to be accomplished
the disfrancAisement and the DENIAL of
@ right to acquire title to land, of the peol
a of Utah who are the most exemplary ella
d in obeying the law, who have sworn
5e obey the law in the future, who ha
II sworn not TO aid or advise others to viola
lie the law, and who now through their lea
in ers publicly advise the people to obey I
lie law.
40 -.
"A A DIsREPUTADLE contemporary and ci
!; officials have sought to justify the robb
!, tax imposed upon property in this city
!. saying that while the local municipal tax
= Salt Lake city is only mills on the doll;
in that of Omnha is As mills. Before US i.