The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-31
MR.. GOODWIN,S PLATFORM.

The Liberal candidate for Congress, is
still engaged in making clear his position
on acknowledgements, confiscation, denial of
the right to enter land, and other pleasant
things which he advocates. He denies that
he favors the robbery of the Mormons and
says Of his words on this subject that we
quoted against him that
Their whole purport simply Is that the -HOr-
mons, not being in fact true citizens OF the
republic, are not tit TO Cote and should not be
continued in the privilege of absorbing the
public lands.-2Fi5ane oct 50, 1890.
VIII the reader please notice the above
denial of the Liberal candidate that he
does not desire to rob the Mormons of their
lands! He softens his ideas now to mean
that his opponents should merely be pre-
vented from absorbing the public lands"
But what does he mean by that. We ask
any sensible man to reflect on the merits of
candidate, who, only four days before
election, thus openly advocates the denial
to all Mormons of the right to enter land
He says of his former words, 'sThese
reasonable and consistent demands are
tortured into proof that the Liberal candi-
ing their property away from them. ~
Here are the words, let all Judge for them
selves:
One of the strangest features of Mormonism
and the Mormons is their seeming utter lack OF
comprehension of the enormity of disobeying
the laws. THE FIRST THING PROB
ABLY THAT WILL BE TAKEN FROM THEN
WILL BE THE FRANCHISE which they have
so long prostituted Then they will find them
selves at the mercy of such laws as may be pre-
scribed for them. Ii that will not do, TIE
NEXT ATTACK WILL BE ON THEIR PROP
FRTY. and no man who BELIEVES it right
for him to obey the First Presidency rather
than the laws will e permitted to acquire title
to lands. This viii mean FINAL BANK
RUPTCY, not only for the masses but for the
rich in the organization.-7FSbu September. 16.
1885.
If those words do not mean the confisca-
ton of private property, there is no mean
ing in them.
But there is enough in the first extract
given above from Mr.. GooDwIN to make
every fair-minded man revolt at the in
tolerance of the Liberal candidate. There
is enough in that little extract of yester-
day to defeat him with overwhelming en-
phasis. Every Mormon voter who fails to
vote next Tuesday will in effect endorse
Mr.. GooDwIN's opinion of him, that he is
''not fit to vote" Every Liberal that.
knowing Mr.. GooDwIN's position, votes for
him, says with his ballot that his Mormon
neighbors ''are not fit to vote" nor to &C
quire land in this country
And in 7apar1 fo fhoco ono+,f;o,, fuo~.
his paper, the Liberal candidate saws we
no doubt had our helpers engaged in a
thorough search of the Tribune. and
after all found nothing, which
is correct with three exceptions, viz. That
we have no helpers, have not thoroughly
searched the files of the vile paper, and
1 that we have found enough already to prove
G. G. GOODWIN one of the most inveterate
fanatics that has ever come to Utah. He
says what we have found thus far amounts
to nothing. No doubt he has said worse
things, but we have simply run through a
few back numbers of his paper and have
given extracts almost at random.
There is now no particular necessity OF
quoting former utterances of Mr. GoopwIN,
He said yesterday:
The franchise has been continued to them in
ignorance of their spirit, purpose, and work. 7,
| cannot be withdrawn a moment too soon. And
the Mormons have no right to object-T,ibvne
oct. 30, 1896.
And the day before he said:
And to say that people so brought up, SC
| indoctrinated, so, oath-bound, are fit to take
| part in the government of free people, is tc
| belle all reason and sense Tribune October %
1890.
To justify this degradation of the law
abiding members of the Mormon church,
Mr.. GOODWIN quotes what BRIGHAM
YOU'VE is reported to have s>id in 1867
what JOHN TAYLOR said "about the same
time;" and attempts to show why the
young men of Utah who never heard those
words should be punished because of the
Interpretation the Liberal candidate sees
fit to put on them. They do not
mean that the Mormons are to work
for the overthrow of any or
all earthly governments. any more than
the prayer, ''Thy kingdom Gomez means
that the people who utter it desire the
forcible overthrow of all other Kingdoms
and are therefore traitors in any country.
The Mormon doctrine on that point is:
We believe in being subject to kings. presi.
dents, rulers. and magistrates and in obeying;
honoring, and sustaining the law-Articses O,
Fcih.
Let no man break the laws of the land. for he
that keepeth the laws Of God hath no need to