The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-30
YOUNG UTAH AGAIN.

If there were any doubt as to the gen.
uineness of the oft-expressed love the dis
reimbursement plotters have for young
Utah, their organ yerterday morning must
have removed it. 1t publishes what it al
leges is parto letter it has just received,
containing profane epithets and boastful
defiance of this nation. The organ. then re-
marks of this pretended epistle and
''others' like it, which it likewise claims
to have received, that:
They are coarse of language. of course. They
give away the fact in an instant that the writer's
are of base blood; blood that originated in the
slums. or course young Utah is en-
tirely loyal and just crazy TO manifest its de-
votion to the government of the United States.
No one doubts that the writer OF the al
legged missive is of base blood. The writer
of it is the editor of the Tribune, in all prob
ability. 1t is similar to the Bishop WEST
sermon, which, though a fiction, the same
editor once paraded in his columns. 1t also
reminds one of another famous, or rather
infamous statement, which the editor pa
raded approvingly in his columns, alleged
to have been made by certain person.
This also, we are now informed, was the work
OF man still on the editorial staff Of that
paper, and was not received from any out
side source. 1t advocated saloons, gambling
dens and houses of ill'fame as suitable and
desirable agencies by which to reform
young Utah-to make men of the 'tpriest-
ridden youths.
1t is passing strange, by the way, that all
these horrible letters are anonymous, and
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does who can barely write Or spell, yet in
every case the writer's crafty enough, wise
enough, coward enough, to withhold his
name. Unless the editor himself writes
them ut is possible that he doesn'U write
ali of them then some schemlng disfran-
chiser helps him out. 1t is an old trick
Yet the editor has lived unframed and self
secure through all these years, while pub
fishing the direst tales of the mobocracy
of the older Mormons, and of the
murderous, ignorant and super
stitious character of the younger
ones. We venture the assertion that not
one tenth of the Mormon population of this
city know the editor of the paper re-
ferred to by sight even. His own paper,
his own perfect safety, are a stan ding in
dictment of him, and furnish an absolute
refutation of his charges of ''base bloodn
against the young men of Utah.
To be sure, good many Utah boys,
Mormon and non Mormon, will be tempted
to kick the cur who yesterday slandered
them with an intimation of disioyalty, and
foul charge of ''slum'' parentage and
''base blood;'' but they will cool off pres
Tribune that published the libel. If there
is any notice taken of these ISLANDERS, it
will be by young men in Utah who are not
Mormons; for most of the latter have been
so well schooled in the doctrine embodied
in the nursery rhyme, "sticks and stones
will break my bones, but names will never
hurt me,h that they contrive to let their
defamers alone and mind strictly their own
business. This is as it should be, for the
editor of the sheet would like nothing bet
ter than demonstration of actual violence
towards himself. For that he has appa-
rently been working for years, though
lately with more moderation than his re-
cent outburst of fury indicates If he
could only stir some thoughtless Utah boy
up to the point of shaking him, what tell
ing card that would be ju st at this moment
for the scheme to disfranise every Mormon
in Utah. He is simply sick for something
OF that kind to happen. This wretched,
dismal wight will never recover, we fear,
from the tit of envious rage into which
the Reputation by his own party has
thrown him
sGt just as often as he ISLANDERS the
young men of Utah, or the old men, either,
for that matter, just that often will we
testify to their good character and good
intentions. To the people of Utah, young
or old, native born or those who have
come here, we pin our faith. eshall not
silently permit any class among them to be
slandered; and least Of all will we permit
without refutation, Bashi-bazouk sheet
TO intimate that the young men of Utah
are vicious, ignorant, dIsloyal and foul.
Upon such an issue we place ourself on the
extreme boundary of our right to reply to
such defamation, TO ward off the disfran-
chisement, for which alone the present
miserable ISLANDERS are being circulated
against them.
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