The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-16
HE WAS A LOYAL AMERICAN.
A Fellow Who relieves in Prescription. and
Would Like it gaforced

10 the Editor OF THE HERALD:
AS man who voted the Liberal p ticket
IN the February election and again, from
principle OF conviction. in August, / would
Ike TO define my position as Liberal voter.
twenty-five years ago was in this city as
an advance agent i'll the construction of the
Union Pacific railrold, and was met and
treated with much courtesy by tie people.
something more than year ago, now,
came to this bright and progressive city
and come amidst the throes of an election
which, it was sail, would decide the status
OF the business men who came here from
the outside and had cast their lot in Zion.
That was the midsummer election of 80, and
gave our party majority of II. In the
sprung OF the present year at the city cleo
ton, was carried out of sick bed and
put IN carriage to go and VOTE and we
were triumphant all along the line & short
time and the bigots of my party. not salts
fled with victory. commenced 6ae 6isfran-
cnlSement movement, and thai not being in
accordance with my ideas of American free
dom protested, to be told that was either
Mormon or Mormon sympathiser.
Notwithstanding this grave and very
serious charge, / so forgot my
sonable paper for signatures, and / thank
God and the good sense of the people of
Salt Lake that got great many auto
graphs, the cpurpose of which was to ask
Congress to consider before passing an act
to disfranchise $50, 900 American born citi-
zens. on no other ground than that they be
longed to, or were members of, a certain
church. This was done in good faith as a
man who loves his fellow man, but it seems
faly bod, hx-a,
tain class of ultra loyal (.)citizens, so much
so that and the good citizens who joined
me In that protestare called disloyal. Well,
1t matters not, / was at Appotomatox.
anyhow, and was honored, perhaps beyond
my merits, by Grant and Sheridan and
Sherman, but because ] do not believe in
the wholesale disfranchisement of the peo-
pie, who above all others made it possible
that this country could be inhabited. ana
disloyal- So it.
On Friday evening, while taking lunch,
this subject came up and was saying that
t.iis prescription was worthy of Canadian
Orangemen, not American freemen,
when my worthy host made the
remark that Orangeism in Canada
and Ireland was right and should be en-
couraged by all Americans, On being
asked his grounds for theiassertion, he said
that Catholicism was like Mormonism and
should be suppressed. He did not care
what were the means employed those are
mas very words so long as an obnoxious
ITO hlm) belief was in controversy; he be-
lieved in its utter and total humiliation
On being told of the great persecution to
which Catholics were subjected, and of the
utter bigotry and inconsistency of Orange
men in their persecution of the religion
which they are sworn to hate, he said it
was right and he heartily wished an or
ganlzation like the Orange could be gotten
up here to deal with the Mormons. Such
is the argument of bigots, and can have
little weight, but in the light Of the nine
| teenth century, would it not be well for
the American people to pause long enough
to think of the serious consequences that
may arise from an over Indulgence in such
such dangerous quality of mind as blind
and unreasonable prejudice. Great men.
great sovereignS and great nations have
been wrecked on the barren, bleak rocks of
religious preiu dice. l do not pretend to be
prophet Of evil omen, but am possessed
with fair share of common, every day,
American sense, having been born in Bos-
ton, and l do say that when bigoted Orange
preiudices are imported here and held up as
criterion for the treatment of any class of
| American citizens, think it is time to call
halt.
Space and time forbid my going into any
definite history of Orangeism, its aims OF
methods; suffice to say tnat the organiza-
ton is Isnmae,itic, its hands and hearts and
aims being against fellow men, and in Jus
slice to fellow men l will say the feeling is
reciprocated. $50