The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-23
LIBERAL PARTY CRIMES.

The Liberal organ, replying to our state
ment that the Liberal party has secured the
denial of the right of trial by jury to the
Mormons, says;
The charge, OF course, is untrue. All the
limit the Liberals have ever sought to put upon
the right of trial by jury is, that men charged
with crime shall not be tried by men VINO claim
that that crime is an act OF grace.
The organ means in polygamy cases, OF
course; but it knows that Mormons are not
permitted on any iuries, either for polyg
amy cases or any other. 1t has been long
time since Mormon has been on jury,
and the talk that Mormons are excluded
from iuries in .polygamy cases alone the
organ knows to be sheer falsehood.
To the charge of securing the disfran-
chisement of the women of Utah, the organ
says: ''If the Liberal party did not help
to disfranchise the women in Utah, it en-
dorsed the act of Congress heartily
To this admission we need only add that
the Liberal party circulated petitions,
passed resolutions and sent delegates to
Congress, urging the disfranchisement OF
the women of Utah because they did not
vote the Liberal ticket.
To the charge that the Liberal party is
presently engaged in the dastardly crime
of DISTINGUISHING those who have broken
no law in the past and who have taken
special oath that they will not in the future
break the law, the Liberal apologist for
crime is brazen enough to say;
The only ground of complaint they THE Lib
eralsl have is that while women are disfran-
chlsed, men who believe and act exactly as they
believed and acted are still permitted to vote
II is unjnst TO men who love this coun-
try, who believe in its perpetuity, who believe
in its justice to have their votes neutralized by
the votes of men who cast those votes simply
as they are directed.
A few months ago the Liberal party
loudly declared that it would have nothing
to do with disfranchisement for belief only !;
TO day the Liberal organ parades the in
famous scheme, acknowledging that it Sc
cured the Acknowledgement of the women,
its only regret being that the disfranchise-
ment did not include the men also.
1t is strange, by the way, that the follow
ers of the Tribune, t'men who love their
country" believe in its perpetuity, justice,
etc, I'LL up the prisons in Utah, commit the
MURDERS are the majority of all the baser
criminals, in fact are far below in all that
makes up good citizens. the very people
whom they are seeking to dlsfranchise.
Polygamy included, there is not half the
crime among the Mormons that there is
among the non-Mormons of Utah, yet the
latter class is continually Wanting its pur-
ity and loyalty, and clamoring for the dis
reimbursement and degradation of the law
abiding majority. AS TO voting whichever
way they are told, the Liberals are fan
worse than the Peoples party, if their owr
statements are anything to go by. They
claim to have voted solidly for twenty
years, and in nearly every election in recen
years they claim that numbers of Mormon.
have voted with them, especially yea
ago. when the Tribune paraded that severa
hundred young Mormons had voted with th,
Liberals. If any one is to be disfranchiseC
for blindly following party, through thicl
and thin, crime and fraud, winning or los
ing, certainly Liberals should receive dos
of that medicine first, for they have shown
more blind allegiance TO their party durin,
the past year than the Peoples party me,
have In FIVE.
But the summit of impudence is reached
where the Liberal organ blandly disclaim
any intention to punish for belief only. b,
explaining that Acknowledgement, denial o
the right of trial by jury, of the right t
acquire title 10 land, etc, is not punish
ment at ali! Certainly not 1t is rewari
bounty, a blessing, etc. We do not carr
TO argue this question with fanatic. who
like the pious PHILIP of France, would
maintain that burning the heretics is not ;
punishment, since heretics deserve nothin
better. Hear the bigot:
There is nothing unjust in this thought oftth
Liberals, nothing ungenerous.
We merely commend to this intolerani
higot the words of MAcAuLAY:
1.-The constitution it is said is essential
Christian; and therefore to admit Jews /
office is TO destroy the constitution. Nor
the Jew injured by being excluded from DO
litical power. For no man has any RICH
to power. A man has a righ9 10 his pror
erty. A man has right to be prc
tected from personal injury. These right
the law allows to the jew; and with thes
rights it would be atrocious to interfere
But it is mere matter of favor to admit an
man TO political power; and no man ca
Justly complain that he is shut out from i,
''We cannot but admire the ingenuity O
this contrivance Tor shifting the burden o
proof from those to whom it properly be
longs. ard who would, we suspect. find
rather cumbersome. Surely no Christia
can deny that every human being has
right to be allowed every gratificatio
which produces no harm to others, and I
be spared every modification which pro
duces no good 10 others. Is it not sourc
of modification TO class OF men that the
are excluded from political powers If il be-
they have on Christian principles right t
be freed from the modification unless it ca
be shown that their exclusion is necessar
for the averting of some greater evil. TIL
presurnptionis evidently in favor of tolera
ton 1t is for the prosecutor to max
out his case If there is an
class of people who are not in
terested, or who do not thin
themselves interested in the security O
property and the maintenance of orde,
that class ought to have no share of tb
powers which exist for the purpose of Sc
curing property and maintaining ORDER,
We suppose no one will maintain that i,
the only general case in which MAcarr. A.
tolerates denial of the frsnchise-complet