The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-24
DUBOIS WEAKENS.

The HERALD has earnestly endeavored
to convince the people of Idaho that they
were going about the business of securing
state government the wrong way. We
have told them many times that before
they could be admitted to the union they
must have their plea for statehood upon
something more convincing and satisfac-
tory than intense hatred of Mormons. To
denounce the Saints calling them all sorts
OF vile names and recklessly lying about
them, may be considered good politics in
an election campaign, and it may
serve to help sell newspapers to a
certain class; but it doesn't present
conclusive evidence Of ability to maintain
a state government republican In form and
just in its administration. We have also
insisted to our Idaho friends that their
Delegate to Congress, Mr.. FRED DUBOIS,
was doing the statehood cause more harm
than good. He is mailman when it comes
to anything relating to the Mormons or
their religion. Heis going through life on
the assumption that the chief purpose for
which he came upon earth was to make
war against the Saints. and very nearly ev-
erything he does is done upon that theory
or presumption. He has conducted the
statehood campaign as if all he thought
was necessary when asked why Idaho
should be admitted was to reply, because
We hate the Mormons''
Some of the Idaho people have believed
The HERALD and wanted to act upon its
advice; but these have not had control of
the political machine. They have been
frowned upon by the bosses, and been
forced into silence. 1t is unprecedented that
ore Of these days the majority will agree
with THE HERALD, and going about the
statehood matter with common sense for a
guide may carry the territory into the
union. Even DUBOIS, blind and fanatical
as he is, is learning that his cause is hope
less so long as it is conducted on
the lines he has been following. Our
Washington correspondent, in Thursdays
HERALD, informs US that DUBOIS has been
to Delegate GAME with request that the
Mormons be not again referred to in argu-
ments before the committee on territories
The time to have dropped the Mormons out
of the case WIS last summer in the Boise
convention. If it had been done there. and
a good constitution formed which was con-
sistent with tue fundamental law of the re-
public, and with American ideas, and
which recognized the rights of all citizens
there would have been comparatively little
trouble in getting Idaho into the
union this winter. This Congress is
favorably disposed towards the territories
and would like to abolish the ugly terri
torial system. But when it transpired that
DUBOIS and associates based their claim for
statehood almost solely on the ground of
their intense hatred Of the Mormons, Con-
gressmen virtually said that it would be
well enough to let Idaho wait awhile
The HERALD has evidence that the good
people of our northern neighbor are gradu-
ally coming around, and we have hope that
in time they will be willing to be guided by
wisdom and common sense rather than by
fanaticism and senseless hate; by their
friends instead of by the scrub and corrupt
politicians When they do escape from the
influence of the reckless. unwise fellows
like DUBOIS, it will not be difficult matter
to get the territory into the union. and no
body will do better work to that end than
THE HERALD