The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-16
THE SCHEME OF THE FALsIFIERs.

The Ogden Commercial says that the Liberals
will lack in the next Utah legislature only
three votes Of majority on joint ballot. From
this it concludes that the time is not far off
when the Liberals will control the legislature
1t is no wonder that the Mormons were anxious
to abandon the old fight and have the Gentiles
divide along the lines of national politics. They
saw the day coming when they would be in the
minority against the united GentileS. The Won
Der is that any of the Gentiles were foolish
enough to be caught in this trap. But a con-
siderable number of them were. The Utah
Gentiles should stand together until they be-
come so strong that there will not be the least
danger of Mormon supremacy. They will not
have to wait long.-DenUer ReBubLicaR.
In legislature composed of thirty-six
members, two-thirds of which are Demo
Gratis and the remainder Liberals, it would
be interesting to know by what process of
! calculation the Ogden Commercial and Den
yer Republican make out that the Liberals
| in the next Utah legislature will only lack
three on joint ballot Of having majority.
The problem from our standpoint, of
course, is easily enough solved, however
| difficult it may be from the Commercials.
| The statement is simply straight out
Commercial lie, and it was known to be false
when the editor Of that journal made it.
The remarks which the Republican bases on
the Commercials lies are as contemplate as
the false statement and altogether unwor-
| thy journal assuming the airs of the Re
publican.
What is the situation in Utahs Why, for
number of years the press, the pulpit,
public sentiment, Congress, the Presid dent
and his cabinet, the whole nation, in
fact, have been engaged in a holy cru.
SADIE against the practice of one Of
the principles of the Mormon faith-po-
lygamy. At last, by dint CT congresssoua
enactments vigorously enforced, The Nor
mon church solemnlS abandon the practice
after contending for what they regarded a.
a religious right by constitutional guaran-
tee. The courts of the country went
against their view of the case, however
and they surrendered the practice anc
dissolved the local political party through
which they commended for the maintenance C,
of that supposed religious right, and the
control of the territory. They divided o,
national party lines, readily, willingly and
as the last election abundantly proves, con
scientiously grasping the hands of theil
Gentle fellow citizens who were satisfied
having suppressed the practice O
polygamy aud dissolved the church politi
teal party-or Peoples party-but VIII
have no disposition to manifest such
ghoulish nature as that which leads men T.
hack and mutilate a dead carcass. O
Cypress community which with polygam,
set aside, is the moral and intellectual pee
of any community within the lines of thu
union. The Mormons having yielded wha
the nation demanded and all that it coul
in reason or in law demand, the GENTLE
who consented to divide with the Mormon,
on national party lines simply accepted tn,
J Mormon surrender made in good faith
well aware that treachery in the matter
out of the question since the forces whic
compelled the abandonment of polygam
} still exist, and have no fear of a weak an
vanquished enemy. They have no dispo
) sltion to make tho Mormon people thin
| that they are their enemies, or that the
, wish to iniure them. This local contro