The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-09

efal canvas be exposed and published tt
the world, but rejoice, since member Of
the Liberal party must rule, that such {
man as
GEORGE NJ SCOTT
has been chosen; that gentleman, at once
energetic and capable and citizen whose
interests are conferred in Utah, is to be the
mayor
Could you or knowing that the Liberals
controlled, even honestly and legitimately
majority of the popular vote of Salt Lake
city, have chosen mayor from that party
believe there is no man in it for whom
we would have labored more heartily thar
| Tor George M. Scott. Therefore, out O.
the hery contest Of the past few months
the consolation may be cherished tina
neither vulture nor fanatic will hold The
relns OF government in your beautiful city
The disgraceful acknowledgements of Nor
mon voters, the refusal to naturalize mer
possessing every qualification for citizen
ship,
THE FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION
of hundreds of non-residents, are evils thai
strike at the very root of free govern
ment.
That such tactics were adopted and pur
sued to the uttermost by the Liberal party
| demonstrated both the weakness of then
course and the desperation which possessed
them. The seed thus sown may vet return
bitter fruit. But let not the Mormon peo-
pie be dlsmayed or discouraged. The re
suit OF the election was undoubtedly lone
since discounted by them. They remain a
part and parcel of the great nation which
dominates this continent. And we live in
| the close of the nineteenth century which
| beholds the approaching death of fanati
clsm throughout the world. To the Nor
mon people there can never come another
| expulsion from their homes built with Low
ing hands and hopeful hearts. To them
| there can never be another NauVoo. And
bitter as are the memories of that terrible
experience, yet even about it cluster some
pleasant thoughts, and when
SICK AND HUNGRY AND SUFFERING
| the exiles crowded in their improvised
| tents or huddled beneath their wagons and
under the bushes to escape the pittiless
storms, as they encamped upon the west
ern shores of the Mississippi river in full
slgnt OF their loved city, "the beautiful
hab1tatlon for man, as Nauvoo is said to
mean; even in that most trying hour fiocks
OF quail fell upon the wagons and empty
tables, and upon the ground so that even
the SICK caught them, and the hunger and
famine were thus marvelously appeased
Yes the Lord God omnipotent, reigneth
And even in Utah! Let ''the ruthless bear',
break in upon the hive and devour the
sweet until his appetite is cloyed The
bees still live, and the honey will continue
to be gathered by them, though bruin do
taste few drops; and Salt Lake city will
continue to grow and thrive and Utah will
flourish, and the -Mormons continue to be-
come rich and prosperous. The day and
hour can never come when they, looking
back over the historic past shall cease to
rejoice with unspeakable Joy that their
prophet led them to the now fertile and
happy valleys of the Rocky mountains,
there to remain in spite of the rage and
hate and greed of the ruthless bear: as the
Chicago Times terms the Liberal party in
Utah.
1t is not all of life to vote or to hold pub
lie Office. And
THE HERALD TAKES THE CORRECT POSITION
in the premises, the position which turns
to confusion the onslaught of the enemy.
The founding and growth of Salt Lake
city, and OF the territory of U tab were well
described by the historic writer who looked
upon this as one of the greatest achieve
ments OF modern times, and one that shed
lustre on the dark cloud which to Gentle
gaze hangs like funeral pail over the gen
lus OF this singular community, a commu-
nifty that within two generations has built
one OF the most slightly capitals west
OF the Mississippi, an oasis amid the Great
American Desert, with hundreds of settle
ments depending upon it, where farms and
orchards, hOckS and herds, factories and
warehouses cover the formerly unpeopled
solitude, abandoned but few decades ago
to the savage, the coyote, and the wolf.
The men and women who compose this
community have not been slow to learn the
practical lessons which their church has
taught them, to exercise forethought, fru-
gality, and other qualities that lead to sue
cess in life. And having
LEARNED THESE LESSONS.
they must continue to practice them
whether Spencer Clawson, or George M.
Scott, a Mormon or GENTLE, be the mayor
Of their capital city.
The vivid imaginationS which. time and
again, have pictured another exodus of the
Mormon people have always been sadly at
1ault. Pioneers may extend the border
settlements into Arizona or Idaho, the Nor
mons may settle in Mexico or British Amer
lea, but IN vain do eager eyes look for the
departure from Nauyoo to be repeated In
the valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mormon people have learned, as the
prosecuted Jews of old learned, that there
are other modes of conquest than those OF
force and fraud, so openly resorted to by
their enemies, and that the peaceful pur-
suit OF their varied callings may be sue
cessfully followed even if the only priyi-
lege accorded them i'll the way of.participa-
ton in the political government of the
cities and towns which they have founded,
should in dire extremity be confined to
THE PAYMENT OF TAXES.
''Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war" Therefore, while the
heather rage and imagine vain things. let
not the people "bate q jot of heart or hope.
but still bear up and steer right onward u
Thus shall appear to their enemies virtue
which shall in the end conquer all hate and
all malice, and give TO the prosecuted peo-
pie final victory glorious, and the more to
be desired in that it shall have been won
without force, without theft, without i'm
position upon any.
''Whatsoever things are true whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure.
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
these things;'' and in time even the Basbi
Bazouk Tribune may be regenerated, and
possibly Governor Lannan be baptized and
admitted into full fellowship in the Nor
mon church.
Stranger things than these have hap
pened and will continue to happen So
mote it bel w. H. H.
Peterson, the sign painter, done twenty
of those silk banners in the last campaign.
mr., mr..