The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-12

believe that discussions which arise from
the exercise Of private Judgment can evel
be healed, for the cause which creates
them can not be reached or removed with.
out q retrogression to the stagnant menta
condition Of blind obedience, which Is mol
likely to occur"
Extract from the 1854 report Of the Utah
commission:
THAT there have been great changes fol
the better il admitted by every candid OBJ
server. Last year q graceful and able
/ writer, in an editorial article in one OF the
non-Mormon newspapers, the Tribune, OF
Salt Lake city, used the following Ian
guage expressive of the improved condition
Of affairs in Utah:
Salt Lake is so changed from the Utah
Of ten years ago that could the old style OF
affairs be restored for q week, the old sla-
very, the old tyranny, and the restrictions,
the Mormon people themselves would rise
up in rebellion. There sre forces at wora
which are all-powerful. and which no arti-
Gle or restrictions, no falsehoods and no su-
perstitions, can resist"
Tribune report of Judge Powers speech
at Provo, October 80. 1850:
Let US help to build up this territory
and let Us assist in speeding the time when
We can divide on national party lines as
they do in other states"
Tribune report Of F. II. Dyer's speech st
Pennington, Wednesday, October 20, 1890
1.-The Mormon church had lately said to
its people: we will give up polygamy, and
he Dyer hoped the time was not far dis
tant when the people would say 20 the
church, row take your hands on Of poll
ties"
Tribune report of n. C. Let's Liberal
speech at Pennington, Wednesday, Octo-
Der 29, 1890:
AZ favor the church and state, but want
them kept separate. When the time comes
that they shall separate in Utah / shall be
in favor of dividing upon national party
lines"
Tribune editorial, October, 1890:
"If the authority of the church has been
taken from the coBsciences of men in politi-
cal affairs, If the rank and nile of the church
has been released from that obligation of
obedience in political affairs, let us know it.
Then the war will be over; then, If that
shall be done, there will be no more in the
Mormon question than there is in the Meth
odist question, than there is IN the Baptist
or the Presbyterian question"
Tribune editorial. April IA, 1890:
I'VE would be glad to see the Mormon
church cause its institutions to confirm TO
the laws OF the United States. We would
be glad to sec every Mormon in good faith
q citizen Of the United States. We would
be glad to see extended to every Mormon
all the rights and privileges which the most
favored citizens OF the United States poss-
esses; but surely no Mormon can complain
OF restraining laws as long as the
Mormon power holds aloof from any affiiIa-
tons with the laws of the republic; so long
as IL holds that il is power superior to the
republic"
Tribune report of Judge Goodwin's speech
In the Federal court room, Tuesday, Octo-
Der p, 1890:
Judge Goodwin then asserted that If the
church was to assert that in the future all
should be free 10 vote as they pleased the
differences between Mormons ard Gentiles
would be no more. Then they could ali
combine and build up the city and terri
tory"
Observer (Hollisterl in the Tribune,
October "a, 1890:
when the Mormon church breaks up,
politically, rs other churches do in this free
country, then American politics must as
sumo their natural conditions, as in other
parts Of the Union"
Extract from Governor Thomas speech
delivered before the Alumni of the Utah
University, Wednesday, June IL, 1891:
1.-The future of Utah is bright one, and
In the days 70 come the wealth Of this young
commonwealth will rank with any of her
sisters in toe Union. The educational
the broad school Laws OF the territory the
time is not far distant when she will rank
with the best OF her companions under the
flag. The present. population is doing all that
10 can To place Utah in the position in rLich
she belongs, and dm glad 10 note 10. / think
the people are proud OF her.
shall be glad when the time shall come
when Utan shall be called 10 take her place
among her sister states and join In the grand
march of progress that the west is max
ing"
Tribune editorial, December .. 1850:
Let President Woodruff do by church
and state as he has done by polygamy; let
him suspend the old rule, If be please5; let
him do it in straightforward manner; let
MIN tell the Peoples party 10 dissolve; let
him tell the people 10 Join the national par
ties OF the country and discuss national
politics aud vote as they please, and the
Mormon question will be over; ana there
viii be no occasion for such a decision
as that of Judge Anderson"
Tribune report of G. &. Goodwin's final
campaign speech, Monday, November 3,
1890:
..He closed by saying that he longed for
the time when Utah, united under one flag
would march triumphantly to the music Of
the Union"
Tribune report OF c. c. Goodwin's speech
at Spanish Fork, November l, 1890:
.Put away priestly rule and polygamy
and the Mormon question will pass out OF
sight"
Speech at Springville in same issue:
1.-THE Mormons have put away one teGat.
Why not put away the ether, relegate the
priesthood to its proper sphere and be
American citizens"
Tribune report of Judge Powers speech
at Spanish Fork, November l.:
He stated that the times are changing
rapidly, and the day is rot far distant when
we will be like the rest of the nation.
When the hand of the church is taken from
politics the church will De the stronger"
Tribune editorial, November l, 1880:
"a vote for the Liberal candidate is a
vote to bury the dark and bloody issues OF
the past"
Extract Of Tribune editorial, November
Il, 1890:
From the very irstit has been easy, per-
fectly easy, for the chief OF the Mormon
church on any day in any year since 1877 70
put their institution in entire harmony with
the government OF the United States and
to stop the discussion of the Mormon ques-
tior in fifteen minutes. All they had 10 do
was for the first presidency 10 say: Let
pclyeamy be stopped and TO say to the
people: in your political affairs you divide
into parties and vote as you please"
Extract from minority report of Utah
Commission signed by John A. McClernand
and A. 3. Carlton made in 1883:
"Our conclusion from all evidence before
US, including our personal observation, is
that a radical reform in the near future is
morally certain, anu that Young Utah viii
stand forth redeemed, regenerated, and dis
enthralled from the heavy burden that has
SO long rested upon the people"
Extract from Judge Boreman's speech
before the University graduates, Friday
June IA, 1859: