The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-20
The above parallel needs no comment.

The above parallel needs no comment.
THE HERALD says that we have said 1.-The ex-
clusion Of all members of The Mormon church
from jury service, which means the denial to
them Of trial by jury, is no hardship" What
we have said is this: That no Mormon
bound to believe as he has been taught all his
life to believe = is fit to sit on the case
of another polygamist on trial.
The dispute is not about permitting Nor
mons to try polygamous cases, but any
cases whatever. A short time ago the
names Of 200 persons were drawn in this
city to serve as jurors. There was not the
name of a Mormon among them. Will the
Tribune please give the name of Mormon
juror in this city for two years past? The
right of Mormons to sit on any juries is de-
MED altogether by the Tribune and its ring.
We ask the reader to notice also the
words in the above quotation, that every
Mormon is "bound to believe" whatever
the Liberal sheet says he has been taught.
MIR. GOODWIN would detect the fallacy
that turks in such an argument if he would
only recollect that he himself has been
taught all his life to be truthful, sober, and
honest
The reasoning above that proves no
Mormon fit to try another polygamist''
proves MIR. GooDwIN unfit to try another
ballot-box suffer, for the last mentioned
person is a member of the Liberal party in
good standing, and Mr.. GOODWIN belongs
| to the Liberal party.
| 1t says that we have used language suggesting
the conflscation of private property BY that
1t tries to get false impression before the pub
| lie. In the article to which this refer
ence is made we stated that when Senator Ed
MUNDs drafted his first law he meant it as an
| olive branch, and he was heard to remark that,
| IF that does not answer, the next time we will
attack their lands" Quoting that, THE
HERALD constructs it as a desire to have the
private property of the Mormons conflscated.
Was there ever such dog of newspaper on
earth before?
Below we give again the language of the
Tribune that the reader may decide for
himself whether there is any suggestion OF
confscation init or not. Senator EDMUNDs
Is not referred to in the article we quoted
from, nor do we believe he ever made the
remark the Tribune attributes to him: and
these facts, with a perusal of the following
words of the Tribune, will indicate with
some clearness who is the g dog":
One of the strangest features of Mormonism
and the Mormons is their seeming utter lack o!
comprehension OF the enormlty of disobeyine
the laws THE FIRST THING PROB
ABLY THAT WILL BE TAKEN FROM THEM
WILL BE THE FRANCHISE which they have
SO long prostituted. Then they will find them
selves at the mercy of such laws as may be pre-
scribed for them. If that will not do. THF
NEXT ATTACK WILL BE ON THEIR PROP.
ERTY and no man who BELIEVES it right fol
him to obey the First Presidency rather than
the laws will be permitted to acquire title tc
lands. This will mean FINAL BANKRUPTCY
not only for the masses but the rich in the
organization. Tribune, September 10, 1856.
The above is the quotation from. the
Tribune, not from Senator EDMUNDs at all,
that we used the other day We had not
thought Of that other editorial duplicating
Senator EDNUNDs in this advocacy of pill
lage. But since the organ is SO proud oil
that particular editorial we here give the
| gist of il.
Suppose like PHARoAH" suggests the
Tribune, "they still harden their hearts
until another plague shall be sent" ssSup
pose the governor should begir
suits against saints who own land
to have their patents set aside and theil
lands forfeited = because in no rea
sense were they citizensn Further or
Judge EDMUNDs is credited with saving tina,
if the Mormons rejected his graciou.
and merciful overtures, "We will mex
attack their property and see by what title
they hold land, ETC." The Tribune adds
4 ''The attack upon the church prop
terty is but a tri1e by comparison !
Surely if the chiefs love their people, they
will spare them such an affiiction as would
come with the confiscation of their homes )
1.-THE priests that are holding this people
in their present course are not only put
ting OFF their prosperity, but they are
moreover, placing in jeopardy their very
homes.''
If this last editorial suits the organ any
better as an exposition of its allegation
that it has not suggested the confiscatiol
of private property" we have no obiec
tions. But the choiceis like that hatwe el
Scylla and Charybdis.