The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-09
"IT ALL DEPENDS"

To the mind of a so-called Liberal gov
ernor there coIid be no stronger proof that
his soul was running over with love for
the youth of the country and with burn
ing desire for their education than his veto
of an appropriation made by Mormon leg
islature for the erection of the University
of Deseret. The contribution by Mormons
of money to aid in the erection Of our terri
torial university, after the governor had
vetoed the bill, IS undeniable evidence that
they are not the friends of education. but
delight in ignorance, showing by their gen
erous action their contempt for these great
and glorious United States,
To give a certificate of election to per-
son who was defeated at the polls by a
vote of over fifteen to one was another
illustration of the innate desire for right
which possessed the soul of that same gov
ernor and was one more illustration that a
burning desire to do right was the guiding
star of his life. For the candidate who
was elected by the above overwhelming
majority to even imagine that he was
entitled to the seat in Congress which the
vote of the people had given him, Showed
conclusivelyStha his mind was filled with
a lack of reverence for the nations
authority and that he was reasonable in
his feelings towards our government!
No truly loyal (?) American gentleman
can be found who does not know that if is
reasonable to disagree with the chief ex
ecutive of our territory, even if he is a
carpet-bagger of the genuine kind as so
perfectly described at the head of our edit
orial columns.
The above illustrations from the official
acts of our lost, but, we mourn to say, un-
lamented Eli, prove him to be lover of
education and that his soul burned to see the
right prevail beyond the peradventure Of a
doubt. He desired right SO much that one,
in his mind was larger vote than fifteen.
His ideas of right and also of quantity had
both undergone change since he learned
his multiplication table.
Truly, there is nothing in the educationa
line that will expand the mind and also the
brain with greater rapidity than to be-
come a member of the carpet-bag fra
ternity; as that education will make "one''
larger than "fifteen.n
Had the Peoples party, when they had
the registration in their hands, furnished
such accommodations for registering as
those lately secured by the representatives
of our government, what howl would
have gone up-a howl which would have
reached the ears of the cAief executive of
the nation, and those of the law makers of
our country
After doing their best to get all, the
names Of so called Liberals on the registra-
ton lists, and to keep off those of the
Peoples party, and then to furnish citizens
a chance to stand in the rain and wind for
hours was, no doubt. maintaining the
dignity Of the republic. But then UNCLE
SAM, being poor, could not afford any better
quarters for his officials; but the Peoples
party have hundreds of millions of money
in the treasury, and there would have been
no excuse for them for furnishing such
wretched accommodations, had they had
the registration machinery in their hands.
Truly, lit all depends upon who does it,
In the matter of securing naturalization,
''no Mormon need apply;" but only let a
low ebb that he is kicked out of the Nor
mon church as being an unfit associate for
decent people, and the REASONABLE oaths
which he was supposed to have taken
vanish like the morning dew before sum
mers sun, and he at once is admitted to
citizenship.
''Oh consistency, thou art a jewel" but
you are not to be found in a court which
rules one day that there are reasonable
oaths in the endowments of the Mormons,
and the next that getting drunk will wash
those oaths away, making pure and spot
less citizen. And yet, why accuse the
court of being inconsistent! That might
be reasonable, and the above ruling is
really in full keeping with another one, that
occasional sexual crimes are all right in a
Liberal, but the single opportunity for the
commission of an offense on the part of a
Mormon is sufficient evidence to send him
to the 'spen."
1t is the proper thing to ask questions
about the sexual relations of a Mormon,
but to say anything about those of a sweet
scented Liberal is. as an attorney for that
party remarks, "a id foolish question. -
We have no doubt the young
and struggling legal light who made the
above remark was right, as it was in very
deed id foolish question if his associ-