The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
YOUNG UTAH Is ALL RIGHT.


Our morning contemporary advocated the
Acknowledgement of the young men Of Utah
on the ground that:
-Four out of five OF them have no idea in what
direction New York is from here. They could
not bound single state in the Union.
Naturally enough, in replying to so mean
SANDER of the young people of Utah, we
did not mince matters. We branded the
author of the cowardly charge as charac-
ter assassin and liar, and challenged him to
name Sin the whole of Salt Lake city, a
native Mormon youth or maiden above six
teen years of age that cannot answer those
and similar questions off-hand." Here is
the answer to our challenge:
We said nothing about a few of the royal
family and the prosperous families of Utah; we
said nothing about young Utah as grown up in
towns where he has been brought in direct con-
tact with civilization; we spoke of the tenants
Of the farms in the outer settlements of the ter
ritory
That our readers may know just what
the sheet said, we here quote its words:
Except a few converts made among the poor
est and most degraded people in the United
States, trifiing few at best, every recruit that
the Mormon church has received for the last
forty years has come from the slums of Europe
And their children born here as a rule have not
advanced one STEP etc.
1t will be seen that no reference was
made to the ''ten ants of the FARMS" but
that the children of erery Mormon
could, as rule, not tel in what
direction New York is from here
etc. We named this city merely TO,
of our answer; and we mentioned the
students Of the University, the stake acad
emies and the other schools, merely as al
Illustration of the meanness of writer
who could deliberately charge upon them
the responsibility for the alleged ignorance
which does not exist.
According to the would-be disfranchiser
to the "royal families for not 1.-THE Of
them are to be found outside Of towns, anC
even those that are outside are intelligen
and thrifty, so that he would have as much
! difficulty in naming youths outside of the
Cities who do not know in what direction
New York is, as he confesses he finds il
the towns.
| We have no objections to an educationa
test for voters in this territory; it would
disfranchise as many non Mormons as Nor
mons, however The proposition made by
our foolishly wicked neighbor, though, is Il
distranchise all the Mormons, because i
claims that few tenants Of farms
among them are not well educated
1t is the whole of these young men who's
disfranchisemeut is demanded by the tn
sheet we refer to; not the so-called ssten
autsn of farms somewhere outside of cite
and towns. Very few Mormons are ten
ants they own the land they have re
deemed, Notwithstanding the efforts of tn
patriot editor, who, running his paper il
the interests Of the angels, seeks to de
prive them of the right to acquire title t
! their hard-won farms-not for any selfsl
purpose, of course, but only that he and hi
friends may fill the offices He was can
didatea few weeks since, but even hi
! friends could not stomach him. He says b
is not mad at that either, but desires tn
Mormons DISTINGUISHED simply bee ause
is patriot"
The organ of disfranchisement ma
SANDER the young men of Utah, but thi
paper will ever stand ready to defen
them. Nor is it an ordinary matter o
politics that moves US to champion tn
cause of young Utah against the crew tina
at the present moment are straining ever
nerve to strike them down. With US it
| acquaintance, friendship, companionshI
and esteem that makes their cause ours
And we have little fear that the statesme
of our nation will believe the steeled hatre
OF the accuser of young Utah in prefer
ence to the knowledge of friends and tn
acts of young Utah itself.