The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-13
THE SALT LAKE PEOPLE.
Following is the leading editorial in tt
Ogden Standard of last Sunday:

Following is the leading editorial in the
Ogden Standard of last Sunday:
The talk among the business men of Ogden
during the past two days has been of charac-
ter to justify the Standards estimate of their
good sense in the matter of the disfranchise-
ment bill now pending before Congress. IRE
spectiye of party-that is, irrespective of Re-
publican or Democratic party lines, though those
of whom we refer are all classed as Liberals
they utterly and unequivocally repudiate the
measure as unwise, impolitic unjust. ssand calcu-
lated 10 work disastrously to the best interests
of the city and of the territory. The excep-
tions-those who approve the measure, those
who have signed or will sign the petition asking
for its passage, those who shut their eyes to its
injustice or its injurious effects on business
may be more numerous than we think, but they
are not the ones who are doing the talking.
The proposition is not at..all abstruse or intri-
cate; but it is one which, for once in their
lives, men should consider apart from any par
tisan bias. Politics of the honorable kind are
all right in their place and season. But there
are many occasions when more vital questions
than political supremacy are to be considered.
And no argument is necessary to prove that the
proper season of politics is not perpetual. We
hold that the situation to-day is one in which
politics should cut no figure. Whoever intro
duces il now, with its divisions, its acrimony,
its ranging of citizens in antagonism to each
other, is an enemy to the public veal.
II there ever was time when union of effort
was necessary it is the present. Never was
there time when harmonious endeavor and
generous fairness promised greater returns.
Political differences are buried, and Republic
ans and Democrats, Peoples party men and
Liberals, are all patriots in their love for the
welfare of Ogden. Religious controversies have
lost their violence, and men and women attend
any church or no church as their conscience die
tates. without meddlesome and malevoleni
interference from those who worship
at another shrine 'Gentiles'' ant
Jews contribute to Mormon church fairs, and
Mormons attend Methodist and Presbyterian
and Episcopal and Catholic church socials and
are not envlous OF their success. A mans
politics and his religion are not specially in
quired into by the community at large or b,
those who have to do with him in bushes:
affairs. The latter only ask, Is he honest and
square in his deal? Is he upright and respect.
able as an associate? If so, we can meet hin
and treat him as a friend and fellow citizen
Different conditions prevail here from those
which exist III Salt Lake or any other city il
the territory Here is sociability which tn,
others do not understand. 1t enters into tn,
business rSlaIlODS OF illC 50 b0.il /
cannot be disturbed without serious danger t.
our common welfare. The threat that it ma,
be disturbed causes a flutter at once, suspic
ion on the part OF one class that another clas
seeks their ruin. 1t causes wonderment an,
sorrow in those of both classes who are cain
enough to look at its inevitable conseq uences
IL is to those that the appeal ought not t
be in vain: Let well enough alone; frown dow
every attempt TO create and intensity religion
political bitterness; treat as a common enc
my any man or any measure whose aim is +
cast across this fair city dark and yawnin
chasm which neither side may pass, nor tn
efforts of both may heal.
We hope every man in Salt Lake vii
read the above, and having done that w
hope everyone will 30 a little cool and dc
iberate thinking. The Ogden people ar
all the time giving us an example, and w
are all the time ignoring it. Whateve
promises TO benefit Ogden may count upol
receiving the support of the citizens with