The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-10

is worth something to sit on ones tail and
howl like coyote at the men who are the
heralds of freedom and civilization.
But this fellow goes on to say that
"every thing sacred and cherished Is
dragged in the dirt until men lose all sense
of reverence and all other sense"
Of what particular portion of the Salt
Lake community the above is a true pic
ture, 80. j. H.' does not say, but strong
ly suspect it is biographical. He might
have headed it, "What | know about the
alleged Liberal party He knows that 1t
is not true of the independent Working
men. He knows it is not true of this
people. He knows that for twenty years
he has been sitting on his tail bowling like
| coyote because he could not brighten the
Mormon people from their homes that he
and his compeers might rush in and feast
| upon the spoils. He knows that no people
have ever more patiently borne persecution
| for opinions sake than these Mormons
whom he has villified so long that malice
has become the only product possible, ap-
parently, in his brain: the coyotes yelp
the only language of his lips. He knows
that the one sole, low wolfish cry here for
years has been that the Mormons will not
| give up their faith. He knows they have
sacredly cherished their sacred duty to
God and to each other Hence his reckless
and scurrilous charge can apply only to his
own little clique of ''petty" office-holders
| or seekers.
| | thought so! Here it is. 'sA year ago we
didn't expect to carry the county. We sur
prised ourselves by carrying the CITY," Ex-
actly. He and his brethren mad been sit
ting on their fails yelping at the Mormons
so long that they had never learned the
tricks of modern electioneering. But here
was man who had lost a judgeship that he
never possessed, had no meat in the house
lor11 Ohl irra1 to nt11
woodchuck. He got a big one and tried for
another this year, but secured only an O..
Even men who hold some petty office for
| twenty years will kick against being bled
too much to secure an election by means
that would never b tolerated among honest
people. The February election broke 90.
J. HIS" back. He had contributed 81
cents to buy banner for the Fourteenth
ward coyotes "sitting on their tails and
yelping" at the Mormons, but the $4,000
racket broke his head and he has been I'M
well ever since. "We didn't expect to
carry the election last year. But now
that he has discovered the secret of Win
ming it, he desires folks to know that he
was in Denver. near his sister-in-
laws ranch, and there woman
said he wanted the earth for so cents,
or something to that effect. But he
says he wants sthe earth" without any al
fusion to the fifty cents. The meat of this
chestnut is the unexpressed, but ever
acted and foreshown wish to get, not the
earth, but UTAH. That has been the aim
the object. the hope, the wish, the prayer
the labor of all these real workingmen who
have some petty office, and use the money
of the nation to support themselves while
they plan and scheme to precipitate a con
flict between the nation and the Mormons-
that will disfranchise the latter, rob then
and drive them out once more, homeless!
paupers. fleeing in search of new resting
place.
But o. ]. H, o. w. P. and all tn,
priestly political craft "sitting on thei
tails" and yelping at the right, will fail
This government was not consecrated b.
the birth throes of human liberty to be de
based and broken by political thieves ant
avaricious priests, who would rob minor
ity of the people 10 enrich the majority, O.
Danish one sect of Christians to augmen
the power OF the rest. 80. j. H.' will di
without fruition even in his most ''cher
ished and sacred" scheme of spo!iation.