The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-26

at his superiors from behind his editorial
shelter, safe in the knowledge that no one
will kick him, for he has been doing much
the same thing for fifteen years past.
The writer of this is personally &C
quainted with large numbers of the young
people Of this territory. He has met them
in almost every town of Importance, has
talked with them, camped with them, and
has grown up with them. He does not be-
lieve he could find better company and de-
lights to mingle In their society
We can therefore say that the author OF
the SANDER that the young people OF Utah
cannot bound a state in the Union or tell in
what direction New York is from Utah, is
liar and an assassin of character. The
young people Of Utah are, on an average,
his superiors, and he now attacks them in
the forlorn hope that Congressman will
believe his charges and disfranchise the
young men of Utah for what he says are
the sins of their parents.
We wonder that the would be disfran-
chlser is not ashamed to advocate the dis
reimbursement of the young men of Utah
on the absurdly false ground that four out
of five of them are no better than ignorant
men 'fresh from the slums of Copen-
hagen"
The young men of Utah, whose fathers
redeemed this country from desert, have
broken no law of their country, and stand
ready now to show their fealty. A villain
Gus newspaper, whose editor has been
soured by overwhelming defeat at the
polls and by the reputation of his own
party, demands the disfranchisement Of
all the young men of Utah on the ground
that few of the older men once broke a
certain law and were punished for doing
so. This, together with some vague talk
that no Mormon can ever under any cir
cumstances render any allegiance to this
government, even if he should die for this
country in the attempt to demonstrate his
! loyalty, Is the charge against the Mormons.
| Nothing they could ever do or say would
avail them anything, because being called a
Mormon necessarily makes an alien of any
one, whether against his own will or not.
| But the real reason for this attack upon
the Mormons after they have done every
thing that anyreasonable being could ask of
them, is that few carpet 5aggers, hungry
for Office, may be provided with fat salaries
in Official positions in this territory.
| Speaking of Mormon applicants for citi
zenship, the sheet says:
That they let these wretches in, and let them
come here enemies of the country, let them
come here taught as they are that they are here
because of tie greatness of the Mormon church
and in spite Of the government of tee United
States, and then to get up and say it is hard
ship TO shut such men out from naturalization.
| These quiet, law-abiding people are
called ''wretches,' while the baser crimi-
nails. nearly all of whom belong to the party
represented by the paper from which the
above is quoted, are called by it ''loyal
Americansn
To show why it is that Mormons whose
lives are blameless are still to be rejected
as citizens, while those of any other, or no
creed at all, are to be received, no matter
what their character may be, the sheet
says of Mormon.
He may live stainless life in community
he may violate no law Of that community, but
! he is not person that this government could
| count on in case of conflict between his church
and this government.
Again we may say that the Mormons
would act just as other people would act
under the imagined circumstances that give
our contemporary so much horror Each
would do what he chose TO do under the
circumstances; some would probably go
| one way and some another
The paper we have quoted from says the
editor of The HERALD, for example, "can-
not, to safe his life,' give his legiance to
this government. Replying to this partic-
ular piece of blackguardism we say to this
| character assassin, you are liar, sir.n