The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-01
HOW HAS THE MIGHTY FALLEN.

Recent events have demonstrated one
thing. The time was, not many years ago,
that the lash of the Tribune served either
to whip all Gentiles into line or to COM
mand their silence. No matter how highly
seasoned with intolerance or marked with
hatred were its utterances or how bitterly
fanatical or inhumanly cruel were its
recommendations; no matter how much
opposed to the experiences and knowledge
of its non Mormon readers were its accu-
Stations, the ferocity of its denunciations,
the swing of its lash were sufficient to open
the Jaws of its followers in denanciation, or
TO close them in commentator or pity, OF
their Latter-day Saint neighbors.
When the Tribune took snuff they all
sneezed or pretended to; under its poison
GUS influence its readers became either
fanatics or the aiders and abettors of
fanatics. They feared. in this free Ameri-
can republic, to express conservative or
sympathetic opinions.
If Gentle, usually under the Tribune
influence, were punched up by his
conscience to say something just
or friendly, he would couple
his sentiments with the injunction not to
say anything about it; the fear of the i'm
putatioE of being a Jack Mormon (Which is
the name used to describe man who does
not believe in the Mormon religion, but be-
lieves thai the Mormon has few remain
ing rights Of which he should not be ruth
lessly deprived) has been enough in these
United States to close mans mouth to
the honest sentiments of his heart.
EDr chan GRO has como ovnr the shirt of
this nightmare. New blood has come in.
New non Mormon papers have been estab
ished and ideas that the Tribunc'0 gang of
fanatics view as dangerously heretical are
openly uttered on the public highways and
published in the Gentle prints.
Blasphemous words are uttered on every
street corner, heresy turks in many
breasts, open treason is committed, and the
tyrant Hate is being sna6ed out Of his den.
The Tribune is no longer the
Gentle monitor, the keeper Of the
Gentle conscience, the thinker of
its thoughts, the censor of its
utterances, the 'Daily Straight and
Narrow PATH whose admonitions were
regarded as &c cathcdrd. No bridled
tongues have become loosened, trammeled
conseiences are set free, and the strange
spectacle is presented of large numbers Of
non Mcrmons who dare TO think and who
arc not cowed into shameful silence.
Whatever the cazses may be, the results
are uudoubted. The Tribune can no longer
claim TO voice the united Gentle sentiment.
Republicans may like it, Democrats do not;
1t may reflect the bitter sentiments Of the
cid-time prosecutors, but it does not repre-
sent the new blood. 1t must either swing
into line as conservative foe of Mormon
ism, or lose the remaining vestiges of it's
influence.
The decline of its influence is made appa-
rent by the wholesale refusal of the Cen
tiles to endorse its demand for Mormon
Acknowledgement. 1t has sought this for
wears; it has been the very keystone of its
arch If there is one idea that that sheet
has inculcated for years more than another
it is the idea that Mormonsm is essentially
reasonable that all Mormons are traitors
at heart, and that no Mormon is in any
sense worthy of the privilege of American
citizenship.
And now. alas at this supreme mo-
ment, the moment of the fruition of its
ueSlfSS, NuSu VIC ODiSCV VI CdKS StSllS W
be within its grasp, to have the whole Gen
tile population rise up with few ignoble
e2ceptions) and denounce the monumental
wrong Of DISTINGUISHING Mormonsl 1t is
TOO much. The evidence that the oracle
has been rudely thrust from its pedestal is
too convincing.
Its publishers have awakened TO the ter
rible truth that they must either change
their course or suffer. Naughty, impetu-
Gus, the petted darling of two decades, it
will be difficult FOR it to swing into line.