The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-21
f they can obtain their rights and get their
WHAT WE CHARGE AGAINST THE LIB
ERAL PARTY.

EKAi PAkTf,
| The Liberal organ of this city tries TO
make out that The HERALD charges vari-
Gus crimes upon the non Mormons Of Utah !:
OUT Is careful not to quote what we do
charge, not against the non Mormons, but
against the so-called Liberals party. We
charge nothing against Liberal as indi-
yiduals, but we Go arragn them for belong
ing to certain political party and acqui-
escing in its nefarious schemes. Many
excellent citizens and good men belong to
that party; yet the party as whole has
vast numbers of criminals in it, as the Gen
tile court records plainly show The party
organ, however, makes the following yirtu-
GUS spasm:
Will they 1.-THE Mormons1 remember that
there is not case on record where a Gentle
over injurea Mormon yet in this Territory
The significance OF the foregoing prepos-
ferrous statement can be in some degree
comprehended when we reflect that this
territory has been settled over forty years,
with population of over two hundred
thousand to-day. In all these years, with
Gentlles always here, with the prisons full
OF them; Gentiles always occupying the
attention of the Gentle courts there
are no Mormon courts Of any Importance in
Utah); keeping ninety-nine per
cent, of the saloons, all the gamb-
ling dens and places of bad re
pute; waging for years through
packed Gentle iuries and bitterly anti
Mormon merciless warfare on the Nor
mon people; in all this record of crime
says the Liberal sheet, There is not case
On record in which Gentle ever injured a
Mormon yet in this territory! - Reason
stands aghast at such a statement We
record il merely to direct attention to the
utter untrustworthiness of editorial utter
anees in the anti-Mormon organ of this
city, on matter concerning which anyone
stranger or resident, can judge as truthful
We have not charged individual Gentiles
with making war upon individual Nor
mons, though a Mormon defendant in any
case IN our courts, especially in jury cases,
Is at serious disadvantage. What WE
have charged ana what we now charge is
that the so called Liberal party is at pres
ent engaged in the dastardly crime of dis
fran chising its political opponents Before
That party obtained power in this city, il
publicly cisavowed any intent TO partici
pate in the contemplated robbery of Amer
lean citizens through denying them the
rights of free men, Members of the party
declared the disfranchisement proposition
to be mere raving of the Tribune The
party itself made the following statement
in campaign document:
II is sufficient answer TO make to the attach
made on the Liberal party to say that no MAJ
has been nor will be DISTINGUISHED in Americ;
who does not violate the la WIS OF his country
Whatever Congress may do, we are making NJ
attack on any religious organization.
Men and women of opposing religious faith will
be as free then, TO worship according to the
dictates of their consciences as now
This sounded fair and won votes for the
February election, but the party OF FRAUD
soon threw OFF its mask. At meeting OF
the territorial Liberal committee on June
:, 1890, some resolutions were adopted
among which was the following, as it ap
peared in the organ of the committee mex,
day:
! Resolved, BY the Territorial Liberal commit
tee Of Utah, composed OF Democrats and Re
publicans, that they heartily endorse the bill
now pending before Congress, introduced il
| The Senate by Senator CULIoM, and in the
House by Representative STRUBLE, providing {
test oath Tor Utah, and earnestly request it!
passage.
This is the crime we charge upon the
Liberal party, 1t is endeavoring to bring
upon the majority of the people of Utah
rrota nf off OILS +Io,4
Idaho. Just what that means NAV bt
learned from the statement of the Daill
Alta California: r.
N Idaho Mormon is forbidden TO perfect hi.
title TO land or 10 teach school, or practice law
The Jews in Spain were never more completed,
shut out and away from all civil rights than ar,
the Mormons of Idaho. They cannot sit on ;
jury, and are, We believe, also denied the righ
to testify in any judicial proceedings. Az Idaht
Mormon may be outraged and pulaged in an,
way his enemy may select, for he has no re
dress. Remember that these are not penalties
for polygamy, but for belonging TO The Mormon
church, some of whose members are poIyg
anlists.
The Liberal party seeks thus to outrar,
the people of Utah, not for any act the,
have committed, but for membership in tn,
Mormon church. 1t should be distinctl,
understood that the tes5-oath will not pun
ish any violator of any law in Utah. 1
will punish those only who have strict
obeyed the law in the past, and have taker
a special oath that it is their intention t,
obey the law in the future
We have nothing in particular to say O
individual troubles between Mormon AM
Gentle; such differences would arise il
any community. and are not frequent here
Indeed, the most of the legal qnarrels ar,
between Geutile and Gentle, as Mormon,
do not often engage IN litigation.
What we charge upon the Liberal party
then, is simply this: that it has abridged
and almost destroyed the right of trial b,
ljuryin Utah; that 1t has deprived tht
women of Utah of the right OF suffrage
after they had exercised that right TO,
seventeen years; that it is now seeking tt
bring upon this territory the Infamous tes
oath of Idaho, by which people are pun
sh ed for their belief without any regard t.
their actions. The principle we are con
tending for is that man shall oe punished
for actions only, and rot for beliefs, rea
or supposed; while the Liberal party i.
| working to punish people for their belief
or for their membership in an unpopula,
church.
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A NEW ENGLAND LIAR.