The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-05
A DENIAL WHICH ADMITS.

The SUNDAY HERALD quoted from the
Peoples platform the charges made against
the Liberal party. These charges were
seven in number, were placed in the inter
rorative form and answered by quotations
from the chief Liberal organ and otherwise.
To-day we reproduce these questions and
append the answer the Liberal organ made
TO them yesterday.
l-Soes the Liberal party seek to de-
prive American citizens of the supstan-
tial rights of free men? Here is the
Tifoune's answer:
He who belongs to soma other country does
not belong TO this country. man cannot be-
long to two countries at the same time No
matter If he is born on the soil, he is not citi-
zen of this country. if he gives his allegiance to
some other power in which category every Nor
mon STANDS to-day.
OF course, this vague charge means
nothing. The Tribune admits that it desires
TO strip every Mormon of the rights of a
free man, and puts forward as its reason
Tor this, that the Mormons 'sbelong to some
other country" Just what is the nature
OF such crime as this. or how it could be
proved or disproved, the organ fails to
oOdSOs AlOh Cdu a prove JQGt he
belongs to the country" except by living
in it in peace obeying it's laws, and mind.
ing his own BUSINESS No general charge
Of lack of patriotism means anything. There
is no CRIME known as want of patriotism
Yet this meaningless charge is given as the
reason why the Liberal party favors dis
franchisementi The reader will observe
that the sheet does not deny that the Liberal
party actually does seek to deprive its
opponents of the substantial rights of free
men.
2-Has the right of trial by jury been
abridged and almost destroyed in Utah by
the Liberalss Here is the Tribune's latest
answer:
The United States has some laws here and
the courts of the United States have been exc.
cutting those laws for few years past. and in
The wisdom of those courts they have decided
that man who believes il is serving God IN
have four or five wives is not good man to sit
on a case where man is being tried for that
same offense.
The TACT is, however, that Mormons are
not allowed on any jury whatever. Not in
polygRmy cases alone, but in any case
whatever, no Mormons sit on iuries.
Observe again that the organ is in full
sympathy with excluding its opponents
from the jury box, but offers the lying ex-
cuse that the exclusion applies only to
polygamy cases, whereas it applies to
every case tried.
3-Did the Liberal party rob the women
Of Utah of the elective franchise!
The organ tries to make it appear that
Congress disfranchised the women. of its
own notion: whereas, it was the Liberal
petitions and emissaries that, by unceas-
ing opportunities, at las. induced the
hostile legislation. But the sheet adds
gleefully, that Congress did right in this
case.
4-Have the Liberals worked for legis-
lative commission to supplant the legisla-
ture! Here is the brazen answer OF The
party organ: ''The answer is, frankly.
yes.'
5-Does the Liberal party favor the
ioano test oathl Let every just and
patriotic citizen note the reply:
The answer unhcsitatingly is, they do and
will continue to till the men who control the
Mormon church and the Mormon people will
withdraw their claim that they have a divine
right to rule this people and this territory.
The leaders Of the Mormon church do
not, and never did make any such claim.
6-Does the Liberal party avow its inten-
ton of depriving AIormons of acquiring
title to the public lands And the Infamous
answer, in paragraph too long for Quota
ton, TO this question is, yes.
Then the sheet follows with a list of
questions, to which our answer is no. most
emphatically, no. The charges contained
in those questions are false. They picture
the people of Utah as murderous, thieving.
reasonable. and otherwise infamous, while