The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-25
ANGELIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL
GOODWIN.


The results show that under the scare
which was awakened by the Liberal
train almost the last Saint in the
territory was WHO'D ped up to vote. And that is
the kind of free agents the Saints are 50 will
the Mormon chiefs never give up their hold on
the consciences of their dupeS? VIII the people
themselves never call up ther manhood and be
men indeed?-Tfi6uEe. Nor. %, 1890.
In the above quotation, our contempt
rery, as usual, writes like rogue and
reasons like an idiot. Is it not astounding?
think Of the moral depravity, the innate
and un-Americanized cussedness, or to put
the m1ldest possible construction on it, the
mental obliquity of the man, who in view
of all the, facts in the case. can find no
explanation of Mormon unity other
than their alleged priestly DONNA
ton. If person were to accept
the Tribune theory, its very pet
theory, the cornerstone, in fact of its whole
anti-Mormon superstructure he would be-
lieve that consistency is a jewel of such
rarity that no Mormon should wear it; he
would believe that man should curse
MILFORD WOODRUFF in the same breath
that he duplicated the Almighty to bless
him; that he should mail check to the
Liberal campaign fund at the same time he
was settling his tithing; that he should
sustain the party that has taken from him
the immemorial right of trial by jury; that
has deprived his wife of the franchises;
that has prolonged the territorial system
with its concomitant evils; that has pro-
cured the appointment and perpetuated
the evils of the Titan commission and its
partisan administration of election laws;
that has applauded every unjust and ex-
IRENE measure by officials and courts; that
approves the mercenary proposition that
no Mormon is fit subject for naturaliza-
ton; that has distorted every page of
Mormon history to suit the nefarious
purposes of an INSCRIPTIONS minority !;
that has threatened Mormons with confis-
cation of their property and with the with
drawal of the right of pre- emption and
homestead: that has been VIGOROUSLY the
party of the hcentiods and criminal ele-
ments of the territory; that has character
lied Mormon fathers and children by terms
too vile for repetition; that has uniformly
decried the results accomplished by the
and so on. I'D minimum. And yet because q
man, whose religious bent or education, ii
the free exercise of his right as an Amer
lean citizen, leads him to join or remain in
the Mormon church, does not yield ale
glance to both that church and party or
set of principles, characterized by, STEPPED
in, the very wormwood of hatred for every
thing Mormon, be is ipSo fdcto the collareC
slave of priesthood
To cap the climax of this sophistry, thi
defeated candidate for the delegateship, il
the superacidulated condition of natural,
sour temperament has the effrontery to tel
the world, or that portion thereof who rea
his angelic writings and philosophical
reasonings, that in the last campaign tn
Mormons turned out to vote because, a
usual, they were dupes.
Think of trying to convince intelligen
people, who know that the issue Of the las
campaign was Mormon suffrage or dis
francbisement, that when the Mormons
whose right to the franchise in FIRE
america was challenged, turned out t
vote they did so unreasoning, like cattl
driven to the pen.
Even a worm will turn on its oppressor
And yet, Liberal logic, as represented b.
the Tribune, insists that the only way
Mormon can be a man, the only way b
can prove he is not serf. is to vote to dis
franchise himself.
And that is what they call reasoning Xix
aphilosopher; we suppose the writing lk
an angel was, when young Mormons wer
advised to gamble and go to the demnitio
bow-wows generally, rather than cor
tinue to be Latter-day Saints.
1t is certainly astonishing that with his
tory, reason, experience, consistency
everything approving Mormon unity,
people against whom, it has seemed, tn
arm Of the whole world has been raised
the only explanation that the angelic an
philosophical Mr.. GOODWIN can find fo
voting against him, in particular, and tn
Liberals, generally, is that they are slave
and dupes.
1t is about time, for the healthfulness {
local conditions, that this hue and or
about serfs and a dominant priesthoo
should cease, and politics get down to
fair plane, where religious intolerant
shall not have, as it now has, so much pla,