The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-19

ems this chance of robbing the Mormons on
the plea that some time or other they will
Tot obey the law.
We use the term "robbing'' advisedly
We have no hesitation in pronouncing as
robbery sheer and simple the denial of the
plain rights of man and the guaranteed
privileges of American citizenship to a
whole community Of law abiding people, in
order that law-breaking minority (see
| court records) may rule over them and fat
tenoff their substance
We pronounce it robbery to deny to law
abiding citizens the right of trial by jury.
We do not mean in polygamy cases, but in
any and all cases.
We pronounce it robbery to deny to these
people the right to own the land they have
redeemed from the desert.
| We pronounce it robbery to place in the
hands of few carpet baggers in this ter
ritory all the offices of trust, honor and
emolument, to enable them to Cypress the
majority with heavy taxes for the pay
ment of fat salaries and the execution of
swindling contracts
We pronounce it robbery to deny to
whole communities and precincts the right
of self-government in many of which
there are now no non Mormons even to fill
the Office of registrar.
We are somewhat amused, therefore, at
the following, from the afore- mentioned
biped:
That old whine about seeking to plumber the
Mormons was started in BRIGHAM YoUNG's
! days; it has been brought down in regular sue
cesslon ever since, and yet no Saint has ever
been plundered by any Gentle.
Why, under carpet-bag rule in the south,
the southern people describe in no uncer-
tain tone the manner in which they were
"plundered" by the officials placed over
them, whom they were won't to call ''birds
of prey.n
But the Utah case is vastly worse than
that of the south. The same paper that
protests that Acknowledgement, denial of
trial by jury or of the right to enter land,
etc., is no robbery, reeks from time to time
with such declarations as these:
The Saints must either come within the laws
or must find some other spot in which to carry
out their purposes Did they ever stop
to think that their prosecutions have not yet
really commenced? Il Suppose the next
step shall be to deny the Saints the right to
enter lands, and to attack the titles already
secured to lands The government
through the machinery of the law, may outlaw
and disinherit tnem.-Zribuse March 2G. 1889
The best way is to compel the system to con
IJornlt to tie id1cS of the United States
The first thing to co is to take all political
power from it, the thing to do is tc
make it impossible for Mormons to obtain
title to lands in the United States.-7ribuhe
april p, 1889.
One of the strangest features of Mormonsm
and the Mormons is their seeming utter lack o.
comprehension of the enormity of disobeyine
the laws. SO tie first thing probably Ma
1ciH be taken from them uiH be tie Franchise which
they have so long prostituted. Then they vii
find themselves at the mercy of such laws a.
may be prescribed for them. If that will not Go
tie merit attack lciU be on their property and NJ
man who 6etieoes it right for him to obey thu
FTstPresidency rather than the laws will be per
mitted to acquire title to lands. This will meaI
final bankruptcy, not only for the masses but fo
the rich in the organization Tribune September
10 1886
Yet the man who wrote the foregoing
advocacy Of robbery, in terms of plain, un-
mistakable vileness, protests with indigna
ton, that ''no one wants every Mormon t.
be more happy and prosperous" than ht
does.
He says that what yet remains for tht
Mormon people to do, now that they obey
the laws in every respect far more strictly
than their opponents do, is TO declare Il
their people that herceforth the churcl
had taken its iron hand off politics - tina
IS, declare something stopped which ha
never been recognized as going on. TIL,
church cannot repudiate something it ha
never claimed: but it has in effect done tn,
very same thing. During the proceeding
before Judge ANDERSON concerning til,
! admission of Mormons to citizenship TIL
presidency of the church issued declare
, ton defining the attitude of the church OF
the matter of the allegiance and politica
, independence of its members, in which i
was distinctly set forth that the churcl
makes no such claim as that which GU
mean friend says it should repudiate.
The organ says:
If they wish to be citizens, if they wish {
e have the protection which the laws dra,
around them, IS it any more than fair to clair
they should be in accord with the laws:
l They are in accord with the laws. The
obey the laws more strictly than their OF
3 ponents do. They are better citizens tha
those who, like the Tribune editor, deman
r their final overthrow, lest they establis
themselves as the most iaw-abiding peopl
/ on this continent. The cowardly dlsfran
i chiser knows he must accomplish his pun
D pose speedily or not at all