The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-20
he draws, and we all hope that he has
made it more ugly than the realization will

he draws, and we all hope that he has
made it more ugly than the realization will
be:
1t is now the proud boast of the Gentiles that
| ''every Mormon official will have to walk the
gang plank" The only question of eligibility
will be that of the church. while person al char
| acter, property interest and rights, home rela-
tons, ETC., will not be considered. CT course, it
is denied that there is any desire on the part of
the Gentiles to despoii the Mormons of their
possessions. For all that, confscation and plum
DER has been the rule wherever it could be fol-
| lowed with safety. The government itself holds
the property of the church, amounting to nearly
| a million dollars-under act of Congress it is
true, but an act passed after the church had &C
quired its property and passed for the purpose of
this confiscation. OF late years thousands of men
have gone into Salt Lake city from the various
states. They possessed nothing, money, char
acter or anything else except a desire to get
something for nothing, and hoping in some way
to profit by the overturning of things when that
time should come. The city officials are ''Liber-
ais, including the city council 1t is the policy
now to inaugurate system Of public improve
ments. The streets must be graded, severed,
curbed and paved. Many of them are too wide.
They must be narrowed. Thousands upon thou
sands Of dollars must be got from special and
general taxes to do this work.
| Now let it be remembered that the property
owners, stated broadly, are the Mormons,
while the office holders without money are
Gentiles. The latter are to grow rich from what
will be wrung from the former. Is this just? Is
any principle of politics involved in it? Years
ago the good sense and fair Judgment of the
country cried out against the carpet Dagger
and his rule in the south. The. conditions that
EXISTED then and there are duplicated here an
now. And more: The peculiar conditions al
Salt Lake made it more easy to plumber (pro
vided a majority" could be organized
that would capture the city government and
the rewards were larger. The majority was
organized The Liberal committeeman were
adopts at that sort OF work Colonization was
adopted, and hundreds of men who had 10 in
terest a. stake there were kept Sin employ
Hundreds of others who could be sneaked in
under some guse of citizenship who had beer
there at one time and gone away, were paid tc
come back and vote. The committee sent its
advertisements far and wide. These advertise
ments called for voters and voters were pro
lduced.
GENTLE rule in Salt Lake, under the present
conditions and by the class Of men who now de
sire and aim to secure control finds parallel il
the elevation and dominance of the negro in the
south. The minority having the wealth, find
themselves prey to a legalized, rapacous and
INSCRIPTIONS majority, and no matter what in
justice they may suffer they have no redress
The courts are against them: the dominant sen
tim ent, whether it be right or wrong, is agains
, them. They have no voice in the government
of their own affairs, or in the handling of thei
own property. Is it just? Does this appeal t.
the American sense of fairness? Shoult
not property honestly acquired, have right
which even the majority should be bound to re
J spect? Must the minority be totally at the dis
| position of the majority without even the fai
right Of appeal? Is this democracy? Rather i
it the old oespotic idea, clothed in the garb o
republcanism. With it the American peopl
should have nothing to do.
But having gotten the city under control
; civilization viii now boom. Heretofore, saloons
gambling hells and houses of prostitution hav
t been unknown to the youth OF Salt Lake. H
5 will now be introducedto them all, for by yer
general consent, they are the concomitants G
modern civilization, ''and the last end of tina
city will be worse than the first