The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-10
A BITTER PILL.

THE HERALD has no doubt that the good
work which the Utah boy is doing in the
interests of the Peoples party has been
one of the bitterest pills that Chief Carpet
Dagger POWERS, and his so-called Liberal
party, have had to swallow. In addition to
being OF a bitter flavor, it has been a very
large sized pill and has almost choked them.
There has been nothing more pleasing to
this paper than the sight of the BOYS, who
have been reared in these mountains. turn
ing out and working with the greatest &C
tivity and energy possible to protect the
interests of their fathers, their mothers
and themselves, anG 20 uphold their honor
against the charges aad onslaughts Of tie
arpet-bagger.
There is little dou IL lat the sight of the
Utah boys working Ike beavers for the sue
cess of the Peoples party is having the
effect of causing more than one OF the
Liberal leaders to feel sensation of
goneness in the region of the pit of the
stomach. No wonder that poor Powers
is growing grey after having claimed that
there were several hundred of the young
men of Mormon parents training under his
banner, to have it so plainly shown, in the
late street parade, that he had not quite a
bakers dozen in his party. THE HERALD
has today, and it always has had, un-
bounded faith in the good sense of the
Utah boys, and we have never for moment
thought there would be any considerable
number OF them join the party of political
and civil robbery. We have no fears that
they will be captured by the honeyed
words of the enemi es of good government
and those who entertain the following
sweetscented sentiments; cit may be a
hard thing to say, and perhaps harder still
to maintain, but 1 believe that billiard
halls, saloons and houses of ill-fame are
more powerful reforming agencies here in
Utah than churches and schools, or even
than the Tribune"
The self-styled American gentlemen are
counting without their host if they
imagine for one moment that they are
going to reform enough Utah boys. to
cast a respectable number of votes for
their party, that party being responsible
for the ugly state of affairs in this terri,
tory. The party of test oaths and legisla-
tive commissions must think that the Utah
boy is lacking in good mule sense to be cap
tured by any of its promises 1.-THE burnt
child breads the fire'' We venture the as
sertion that there is not q boy in Utah but
feels the most profound sensation of dis
gust every time he reads that the party
which claims that it is his friend has ac-
cused his father and mother of being trea-
sonable. This class of friendship is some
thing new under the sun, but then there
are more new things in Utah than in auv
other place of the same size in the United
States. We are of the opinion that it is
only in Utah that religious and virtuous
influence" adds strength to ''the shackles''
that young Mormons ''were born in" and
that it is necessary to break these with
saloons and houses of i'll fame.n Outside
of Utah this damnable proposition would
meet with the reward that it is entitled to.
viz. 1t would damn the author and all who
supported il.
There would not be the least fear in this
Office that the reins of government in this
city would ever reach the hands of the car
pet Dagger IL the balance of power were in
the hands Of the Utah boy.
The host of Utah boys who were in the
procession formed by the four clubs which
marched to THE HERALD office the other
evening tells more forcibly than words
where they stand. There were twenty
times more of the Utah boys in the four
clubs referred to than were to be found in
the entire parade of the whole of the Lib
erals on New YEARS. day. THE HERALD
has time and again pointed out the frauds
OF the sn-called Liberal party, and told the
Utah boy the promises of that party would
turn out to be dead Sc apples;' the con-
vention proved that our position was cor
rect, and verified our words of warning
We had sized up correctly the party of test
oaths and now since its convention she
VINO runs may read" 1t is surprising
that the leaders of the Liberal party after
having labored to have all the offices of
the territory turned over to the minority.
should think that their statements would