The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-17
AN IDAHO SCRUB.

FRED DUBOIS, the Delegate to Congress
from Idaho, has given another exhibition
OF his anti-M ormon rabies. He has an at
tack of this disease about every time he
opens his mouth. There is nothing more
striking than the exhibition of the utter
lack of sense which overpowers all who
have severe attack of these rabies. In
The HERALD's special from Washington
on Wednesday it was stated that FRED was
in favor of the hearing of the Idaho state
hood question going on and that the repre-
sentatives of the Mormon residents of that
territory be denied the privilege of hear
ing. We have time and time again called
the attention of our readers to the truth of
the saying that sit all depends upon who
does it." We venture the assertion that
there is not another man on earth who
would have the hardihood, while occupying
seat in the halls of Congress, to make
such an outrageous and un-American pro-
position as thai of taking the rights
away from large percentage of the
people in one of the territories, and that
they be denied the privilege of so much as a
hearing in the premises. Truly there are
some people so filed with love for the insti
buttons Of this land of liberty that they are
on hand to take away every vestige of local
government from the people called
Mormons, and trample on every one of the
constitutional guarantees of our country in
their efforts to rob people who, they are
aware, have so few friends that there is no
chance for retribution to be meted out to
those who do the stealing.
There are few more contemptible men on
this earth than FRED DuBo1s. He is a
scrub OF the scrubbiest kind He is just
the kind of man that the late Judge JERE-
MIAH ). BLACK had reference to when he
penned the following: 1.-THE man who saws
he loves his country, and yet strikes fatal
blow at the organic law upon which her
lie depends, shows his sincerity as NERO
proved his filial affection when he killed
his mother and mutilated her body" There
Is not man who has favored the Idaho
TEST oath tc whom the remark of Judge
BLACK does not apply. That the pernicious
oath is not in the Utah statute book is be-
cause certain men here have not had an on
portunity to place it there, for they are not
lacking in willingness to do that outrage
Gus and unconstitutional thing.
One can almost believe that the Hon
JOHN f. HOUSE, of Tennessee, had metand
conversed with FRED DUBOIS whom he
wrote his prophetic Speech" regarding
the carpet-bagger, to be found at the head
OF our editorial columns FRED is as true
specimen Of that article so perfectly de-
scrlbed in the speech mentioned as has eyer
been produced in this country. The Idaho
test oath will always stand as a brand of
disgrace on the brow of that territory and
it will be a lasting blot on the state of
ldaho IN case IL shall ever go into the union
with any such a damnable article in It's
constitution However, we have no fears
that Idaho will ever get statehood with anv
such provision in the constitution
though this feeling does not lessen our
contempt for the man who is working so
hard to have the constitution adopted
DUBOIS is one of that number who have
such profound reverence for the institu-
uons ofthe country that they would DESTROY
the foundation on which the republic
rests II they could thereby gain their
own ends. He is humbug in
every sense of the word. He stands
on the platform of, STAND aside. 7
am holler than thou" In the language of
Judge BLACK, Superior sanctity is not
thing to be safely believed: it is easilv
simulated; it is often false; and when it
comes into politics it is almost universally
put on to cover some base, malicious
design"
DUBOIS is like Ex-Governor WEST. a
reVerent man. WEST talks glibly about
there being no telephone communication
with heaven and DUBoIs gets a packed
jury to convict Mormons and boasts that
The has jury that would convict JESUS
CHRIST. himself But what can be ex
pected from men who are of the carpet-bap
stripe and who have openly advocated the
stealing of every liberty from the Nor
mons in Utah and Idahos We are glad to
know that there are men on thu committee
that FRED is laboring with who can
measure his disinterestedness in the
premises and who are apt to treat him and
his measure as they deserve
While the hobgoblin stories of BAsK1N
went down with the learned co Judge in the
Third District court in this CITY, these
very stories covered their author with
shame when he told them in Washington
and he was answered by Mr.. CANNoS,s
calling the committees attention to the
fact that BAsKIN had not been killed. and
that he was the first man who won d be
put out of the way in case there was any
truth in his statements We are sure that
FREDDIE and his little test oath will return
home disappointed pair and they can con-
dole with each other.
A day will surely come when the true
state OF affairs in this territory and in
Idaho will be known and the carpet-baggers
OF the DUBOIS stripe will be expelled from
these places as they have ''from every state
In the American union with the brand of
disgrace stamped upon his brow" Heaven
hasten the day!
THE DpJMADrrS