The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-12
"IT ALL DEPENDS"

than sit all depends upon who does it.''
Almost constantly the residents of Utah
not only have illustrations of the truth of
the above remark, but they also appreciate
its force, as they have been called upon to
suffer from a practical enforcement of
| outrageous legislation enacted against them
Had the people who are suffering been
guilty of a single act of legislation during
| the forty years that they have had the con-
troll in our territory, which was of pro
scriptive character, curtailing in the least
degree the rights of the minority.
what a, howl would have gone up
from one end of the country to
the other! The robbery of a Mormon
of his political and civil rights
is in Illustration of the purity of the mems
souls who perpetrate the outrage, but the
| taking of single right from a Gentle
by a Mormon would be reasonable beyond
doubt.
THE HERALD rejoices that never has any
act been passed or even introduced in the
legislative assemblies of Utah by which
the rights of any Mormon class of men
would be curtailed. 1t is to Idaho and to
Arizona that we must go for special legis-
latlon and for test oaths. 1t is to the truly
loyal 60 that we are under the necessity
of looking for the inspiration of test oaths
and the violation of the fundamental prin-
clples upon which our government is
founded, and it is to the reasonable (?)
the defense of these principles.
The alleged trailing of flag at the end
of a long procession, which trailing was ac
cidental if at all, while the stars and stripes
were floating to the breeze at the head of
the same procession, shows beyond ques-
| ton that there was lack of respect for
the flag, as the members of the procession
were Mormons.
The raising of funds to contend for con.
stitutional rights and to endeavor to pro
tect the liberties of their friends is treas
enable beyond doubt and plainly demon
strates that the Mormon people desire to
resist the laws authority; but the dam.
nable and pernicious segregation ruling
which such funds caused to be overturned
stamps its Gentle perpetrators and sup,
porters as truly loyal and laboring to sus-
|
a simple statute so that for a misdemeanor
man could be fined a million or two
dollars by a prejudiced Judge and
sent to prison for dozen OF
more times his natural life is the essence
of love and respect for the authority of the
law, and the defeating of this outrageous
proposition is a subject needing to be
pointed out by learned Daniel come tc
Judgment in our midst
For Mason to refuse to answer d cues
ton about the sacred cereu onies of thai
order is accounted to his credit: for a Nor
mon to decline to expose the solemn cere
monies of his religion is sufficient cause fol-
him to go to prison.
For the editor of Mormon paper to re
fuse to answer an unimportant question
and one which he claimed to have good rea
son for not answering, though he was will
ing to give the judge privately The
information sought, is contempt: for on,
of the attorneys in the same case, who fel
that the editor Of our esteemed even
ing contemporary should be punished
for contempt, to say in open court
ayes, your honor, l wish you t,
know that hold you and your court in the
most supreme contempt" or words to tina
effect, plainly shows that said ATTORNEY
should not be adiudged in contempt, as b,
loved and revered the court and this, M
doubt, was the reason he went s'Scot
free" Perhaps the judge called and asket
his pardon for offending him, and requested
him to continue to practice in his court
This same attorney showed his love for fa
dealing and his unbounded honesty of pur
pose and true efforts to see justice done In
the celebrated naturalization case befor
Judge ANDERSON, when he referred in hi
arguments to the "Green River butchery, ;
notwithstanding there was not one wor
to sustain his position that a 'butchery'
had had been committed, out
side the unsupported testimony O
one man: and who was that one MANI Al
individual who, his own children said, wa
given to day-dreaming, and one who fire
quently imagined things happening whicl
had no foundation in fact; and what wa
the evidence against WARDELL's story
His own children testified that no murde
was committed, and they were in the trail
with him; his own son, not now membe
of the Mormon church, and who drove tn
team of the murdered" man to this cit
after the alleged murder, he having drive
the same team from the Missouri river
swore there was no man killed in the train
Many of our reputable citizens who wer
in the same train testified that there wa
no killing. The testimony was so stron
that even the Judge who rendered the ad
verse decision said no more evidence O.
this point need be given.
. What a strong and burning desire an al
torney must have for right and fair dealin
who will persist in making reference to tn
"Green River butchery' in the face of a
these evidences? We say nothing of tn
turning up of the Mr.. GREEN, who wa
supposed to have been 'butchered,n an
his affidavit that he is a lively and health
corpse, although not Mormon, as this fac
did not come to light until after the argl
ments were made. We can conceive {
, nothing more despicable than an at
tempt to fasten the horrible crime {
murder upon community after it had bee
S fully and completely proven that it was il
: nocent. How the pretended Performers
b.. in our midst would howl were a Mormo
/ to try to do such thing.
Well, the Mormons have no friends ar
no rights which ''white man is bound
respect" If it were despicable to refer
the "Green River butchery' before tt
n sworn statements came to light, where CO
, the language be found that will do iusti
/ to the feelings of contempt whit
e every minded person must ha,