The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-15

REVERSE THE ARGUMENT.


the manifesto against plural marriages
continues. 1t says the manifesto ibid not
20 to any of the questions which were
brought up and ruled upon in Judge AN
DERsoN's court last winter.n
On this point it appears to have forgotten
the words of Chief Justice ZANE, in the
Third district court on Tuesday, Oct. I,
when the Judge said, thereafter will not
make the simple fact that an applicant is
member of the Mormon church bar to
his admission
pronunciamento was sincere and was
recognized by the Mormon people as
revelation from heavon, that that much of
Mormon breaking would through it be
eventually settled.''
That much of Mormon law breaking" is
rather novel. Polygamy is the only case
In which there has been any special Nor
mon law-breaking In the case of all other
crimes, pon-M Mormon law breakers outnum-
Der Mormon law breakers ten to one. 1t
might now be in order for the Mormons to
petition Congress to do something to abate
this fearful law breaking on the part of the
non-M Mormon element of Utah; this element
which maintains nearly all the saloons, all
the gambling dens and houses of ill-fame;
which furnishes all the murderers, most of
the thieves, and nearly all the baser
criminals. Should not this law-defying,
law breaking non Mormon element be dis
franchised if the Mormons should. This
Tribune ridden set of people who vote for
men they know to be corrupt, simply be-
cause the Tribune tells them to do so; this
set OF men whose campaign funds are
raised by assessments On saloons, gambling
dens, and worse places; these men that
barely murmur at the trebling of their
taxes for the payment of fat salaries to a
vast army OF men employed by the city :;
these men whose political leader says he
consults with the gamblers in regard to
how the affairs of the city shall be con-
ducted-should not these people be dis
franchised if any one should?
This would be the converse of the Trib-
une's argument for the Acknowledgement of
the Mormons. 1t is an utterly puerile one
and we present it only to show it's folly
We have conclusive proof that great
many of the Liberal party fear the Tribune
and its ring, and do the bidding of that
clique simply through fear, yet we have
not, we hope, fallen so low as to advocate
their Acknowledgement, much less the dis
reimbursement Of all Liberals, on that &C
count. We know that the non Mormon Gle
ment furnishes most of the criminals in
Utah, but that does not prove that there
are not non Mormons in Utah, and many of
them, just as law abiding as the Mormons
are. The error in all such cases consists in
Furnishing a whole class for the alleged
acts of few.
As to independence in voting or in
truthfully say, and we think that
no sensible Liberal will say, that
the Peoples party voters did not vote as
independently as the Liberals did in our
last city election. Certainly, the several
hundred young Mormons who are said by
Liberals to have voted their ticket, were an
example OF independence not shown by any
Liberals at that election. Yet these indie
pendents would be DISTINGUISHED if the
Liberal candidate for Congress, the Trtbun.
editor, could have his way. AS to the pri
maries for the recent elections, we Claim
that the Peoples party primaries and con-
ventions were so conducted as to let the
people have their way, while the Liberal
primaries and conventions were manipu
lated by the bosses in defiance of the plain
est rights of the citizens and delegates
This claim of the Liberal sheet that its
followers are better men than the member:
of the Peoples party, whether in morals OF
!. politics, is plain falsehood. The cour
records furnish the latter much better
ground for the claim of superior respect TO,
law than the Liberals have. And recent
election affairs furnish the proof that the
least Independent people of Utah in casting
ballots are the rank and file of the so called
Liberal party.