The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02
Sample Planks Showing the Posi-
ton Of the Liberal Candidate.
REMARKABLE F
FANATIC.
He Advocates the Disfranchisement and Denlal
Of the Right to Enter Lands, of all Those
Mormon Voters Who have Never Broken
the Law, but Have Sworn to Uphold 1t.
DIsFRANCHISEMENT.

reasonable demands of civilization or seek some
land where they will not sub ject their people to
constant hostility and loss. Tribune, jan. 10,
1859.
Either their people will break ava from the
un. American environment or the govern mont OF
the United States will take away from them
every privilege of citizenship, which will in
clude not only the ballot but tn, ability to To-
cate and own lands. The justice of this will not
be questioned in any country.-Ifi5u1e, Mdrch
4, 1890
To say that a man so enthralled las Nor
mon has right to become citizen OF the
United States, OF q republic, the only safety OF
which rests up IN the ballot, is direct impeach-
ment of the intelligence of this nation.
An yet our courts call these creatures up by
droves, wretches that have NJ more conception
of our government than Hottentot has of an
incandescent light and in eject place the free
American ballot in their scurvy hands and say,
bless you my children Tri5@n, Juas {, 1889.
Mormons, being subjects OF an alien and
hostile temporal government have no right to
participate in public political affairs. and no
real claim to the benefit of the ID ic land laws.
Tribune. Nog, J., 1890
AS TO coNFIsCATIoN.
THE HERALD says that we would take away
the franchise from men who have committed
no crime, and make al the offices appointive by
one man. II we had had our way four or five
years ago we would HI ave done better than that.
We would have taken the elective franchise
away from every man in Utah, Mormon and
Gentle alike, and wouli have had the govern
ment OF the United States assert its authority
by appointing commission TO come here and
draft a code and execute it.-7fibn'se, Oct. "a
1880.
| When THE HERALD says we would punish
men who have committed no crime AID have
| done no wrong, it talks like an idiot, We would
not punish them at all. We would simply
pre- hibit them from exercising the right which
they have deliberately absolved themselves
! from.
! Now we say that it is a crime on the part of
the government of the United States to permit
enemies of the government as pronounced as
these 1.-THE Mormonsl toootaln patents to pub
lie lands.-Irib,me, July, 10, 1889.
The rigid prevention of the requirement of
the rights and privileges of citizenship by Nor
mons, while adnering to their alien and hostile
system would be another most desirable step
| Tribune March 5, 1889
They need to place in that instrument [the
Idaho constitu Joni that no alien can, under
any possible disguise, use the ballot or hold
Office in the state, and include in the same
clause that all members of the Church of Jesus
! Christ of Latter-day Saints are, by the very OBJ
| legations which thsy have bound themselves by,
of necessity aliens, Tribune, Apr5l 20, 1889,
To give such people 1.-THE Mormons the
right to use the only defense on which a free
people can depend-the ballot; to give such d
people the right to participate in the election OF
political affairs. and the making and unmaking
of laws, is something that no civilized people
ON the earth except our own would for one mo-
ment consider. We congratulate the Idaho
convention on the perfect justice they have
wrought Tribune, Jalya IS, 1889.
HIS OPINION OF THE MoRMoNs
Statehood is wanted by the Mormons, said
Mr.. GOODWIN Oh one occasion, in order
That we may have the further rule of robbing
and cutting the threats of all who dare to op
pose any device or order of the chiefs-Tribune
Juae q, 1887.
/ II is wonder to US that this question in Utah
was not years ago appealed to the sword for ad
INDICATION. While the worship
of GOD is free in America, no crimes will be
permitted under the name o. religion.-Iri6use
Feb. go, 1890.
The church rule here is little better
than that kind of heresy for which men were
broken on the wheel or burned at the stake
Tribune, March 81, 1889.
The Chinaman looks upon our government as
a parvenu affair. But if that China
man becomes the father of child in this
country that boy viii grow up TO be an Ameri
can. But the lesson taught the Mormon child
from its mothers knee is that 1.-The LORD made
this world; He owns it and all that therein is
that He has right to rule it and does rule i
through his priesthood; that there is no othel
legal government except this, and it is the
child's duty to obey implicitly the chief priest.
who are GODS vicegerents on earth Tha
makes the child an alien.-7ribut1e, Marsh %
1890
One method of reform which he favors is
thus stated by correspondent of his paper
and embodied approvingly in an editoria
article by Mr.. GOODWIN:
rejoice when see young Mormon hoodlum
playing billiards, getting drunk, running witt
bad women-anyth:ng to break the shackle
they were born in.
The reformer approved this method OIL
reforming young Mormons, and said of it
Freedom is the first requisite of manhood
and if it can be won without excuses SO mucl
the better. If it can't, never mind the ex
cesses. : in the freedom 1t is not you who ar
resi- ousible, when it comes to that; it is thos,
that have ensaved you.-Ifi5u,ss, March &, 1881
Many years ago the government OF the United
States made it illegal for any church in any tel
ritory to accumulate-except in places of wor
} ship-property in excess Of $4,000. This sui
was ordered that a vast amount of property
illegally obtained by the church, might be takel
| Ia tt,o -,
the territory. We never approved of the wis
, dom of the proceeding, but the justice Of ii /
beyond disoate.--Ii5bnns, Oct. q, 1883
The Saints must either come within the law
or must find some other spot in which to carr
out their purposes. Did they ever sto,
to thing that their prosecutions have not We
) really commenced? Suppose the mex
t step shall be to deny the Saints the right tt
, enter lands, and to attack the titles alread,
secured to land the government
through the machinery of the law, may OUTLAW
and d!sinherit them.-7fi6une, Narch 26, 1889
The best way is to compel the system t
conform to The lars of the United States
The first thing to do is to take all politicg
power from it. the thing to do is t
make it impossible for Mormons to obtain It'll
| to lands in the United States.-7ri5une, April q
1882
One Of the strangest features of Mormonisn
and the Mormons is their seeming utter lack c
a comprehension of the enormity Of disobeyin
the laws THE FIRST THING proc
ABLY THAT WILL BE TAKEN FROM THEY
WILL BE THE FRANCHISE which they hav
SO long prostituted. Then they will find then
elves at the mercy of such laws as may be pr
scribed for them. If that will not do, TIL
NEXT ATTACK WILL BE ON THEIR PROF.
ERTY. and no man who BELIEVES it rigf
for him to obey the First Presidency rattle
than the laws will be permitted to acquire It'll
y to lands This will mean FINAL BANE