The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-19

neither criminals nor base-born wretchcs
and no word OF complaint WI
ever be heard that the pane,
is not always upright on the Mormon ones
hon. But let the same newspaper. inten.
tionally or inadvertently, print anything
| lntimating that the Saints are not ALWAYS
treated as they should be, that they are de
prlyed OF rights and that the laws are no,
made to operate fairly with them, and a,
once there Is howl raised, and the editor
is roundly denounced. He is said to be an
lgnoramus, or worse, the chances being
that the charge will be made that he has
sold himself for Mormon gold. It will
make no difference, that he has never been
in Utah, has never seen a Mormon. has
never fingered nickel of Mormon money
the fact that he can say the Mormons have
any rights which other people and the laws
| should respect is sufficient to condemn him
as dishonest man and his paper as being
for sale.
These remarks have been suggested by a
neGe which appears in the latest issue to
hand bf the New York World, as follows
To tho Editor of the World:
Do not disgrace the party by taking up for the
Mornons Your subscribers, or a large number
Of them, cannot stand that C. w. DERRY.
HOPE, Colo
This was undoubtedly called out by the
lew fair words in the World the other day
concerning our recent election. For years.
In fact ever since the present proprietor
took possession, the World has been I'm
reasonably, vindictively and viciously
anti-Mormon. 1t has been careful in
season and out of it and at all
times to assail the Saints, and to do it
without facts or reason. 1t has sometimes
seemed that the editor was flied with gail
and regretted that the quality was not
more bitter. After years of denial that
there was any good in Mormons, and of
uniform refusal TO admit that the Saints
should be treated with decency, the other
day the World referred in it's editorial col
umns to the fact that the Salt Lake cleo
ton was carried by the transparent parti-
san administration Of the law and by open
crookedness, and in the same article urged
That the lesson thus set before the voters
was bad one and was liable to have an in
furious effect upon the political morals of
the tab people. For this suggestion in
the interest OF public honesty and decency
the World is taken to task as above, and
We doubt that MIR. DERRY
knows anything Of the Mormons, though
1t Is apparent that he knows it is not popu-
Lar to be in any sense fair towards them.
HIS prejudice is of the regulation kind. II
directs and approves anything and every
thing which has for its object the oppres-
sion of the Mormons. 1t will be strange if
the World does not receive many such let
ters. We have already seen it in another
paper that the World has sold out to the
Mormons.
Our contemporary is so big and prosper
BUS that it IS not alarmed by MIR. DERRY's |
threat, and proceeds to assert it's position
with more emphasis than it before en-
oloyed. 1t says, referring to the letter |
mat lit is hard to make even simple things |
clear to certain types Of intelligence" and |
hen goes on to explain that it has not |
taken up for'' the Mormons, having |
merely insisted upon fairness in elections. |
For mormon teachings and politics it has
Nothing but loathing," and has only hostil-
ty to the church; "but it has felt and ex-
PRESSED regret that in the Salt Lake city /
election all the registration and election
Ulcers were of one party. 1t has con-
emned the arrangement as unfair and
ending to fraud, just as it would condemn
proposal to make all the election officers
n New York Democrats.
Rightly or wrongly, large number of
dormons are legal voters in Utah. So
ong as such is the case they should be
ecured the privilege of voting freely and
aving their votes honestly counted. That
5 the Democratic idea Of popular govern
1ent, and The World cares greatly more for
than for the success or defeat of any
arty in any election.
The worst evils that can result from
air election are temporary; the evil of IN
airness in elections is lasting. The oneI
mbarrasses progress for brief time: the
Their destroys the very machinery of pro-
ress."