The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-12
The PEOPLE NOT FOOLS.

A few months ago the Liberal organ de
clared the only obstacle to the formation O
national party politics in Utah was the exist
ence of the Peoples party. In q leadin,
editorial, on the day before the last Dele
gate election, under the heading, "Disbant
the Peoples Party" it said:
Having solemnly announced that there shall
be no more polygamous marriages. if II is trut
that the priesthood do not rule in politics. le
The church renounce in good faith and in a for
NAL manner its attempt as an ecclesiastical
organization TO found a state within an exist
ing state-let it dishand the church or Peoples
political party, and permit its adherents to
affiliate, politically, and TO act in politics freely
as citizens without injury to their standing in
the church
When the Mormon church shall have done
this, when it shall have conforned the legisla-
ton OF the territory to that of the United
States, and created public sentiment among
its adherents, that OF itself will insure the en-
forcement OF such legislation, there will then
no longer be any objection TO the admission of
Utah TO the Union. All Will then be clear sail
ing. We could then all join hands and hearts
and make OF Utah the leading mountain state
Finally, so long as there is a church or
patty % 4OHB VIII lutTe De pGlOdDle
and undeniable proof that the ruling priesthood
busies itself more with the honors Of power and
emoluments OF political Office more than it does
with the proper functions OF church So
long, in other words, il will be vain as well as
silly and wicked for Mormon papers and
speakers TO deny that IN Mormoaism the
church absorbs and swallows the state So
tong ICiY there be Liberal party coHfronfiD0
this church party and no EORger.-Tribuns, No
GENDER 2. 1890
We cannot believe any man in Utah o-dsy
is such an idiot as to suppose that the Peo-
pies party is not disbanded, or that the
Mormon people are not free to affiliate
with either party without injury to their
standing in the church"
The Peoples party has been disbanded
and former members of that party are
daily identifying themselves with one or
the other of the real political parties with
out injury to their standing in the church"
Every man that is not hopeless idiot must
see this.
o. There is no longer any Church or Peo-
pies party" therefore, according 10 the
reasoning Of the Liberal organ a few
months since, there can be no longer "a
Liberal party confronting this church
party"
Accordingly, ali fair-minded Liberals
have been asking whether it is not time
that the Liberal party should now disband.
Everywhere Is heard this query. Most
men of sense have been heard to express
themselves with strong indications of IA
voring the disbandment Of the old parties |
But observe how the Liberal organ eats its /
own words to-day. Its latest issue con- |
Victs and pillories itself as the same old |
frothy liar that it was it the worst days of /
its fanaticism. 1t now says:
Liberals who have gone OF on party lines. /
come back. 1t is too sooE. You must see it bv |
this time. Any man is liable to make mis-
take, but all men ought TO be willing to correct |
G mistake wher once il is pointed out Come
back. We will all &C with you when the time
shall be ripe.-irioWse, June IL, 1891.
When will the time be ripsl According To
the Liberal fanatic the time never would |
be ripe. And we are reasonably certain
that the Democrats who still linger in the
Liberal fold will soon get out of it. "You
csn fool all the people some of the time and |
some Of the people all the time, but Won
can't fool ali the people ali the time.n was /
The laconic style in which Mr.. LINCOLN
was wont to state such cases as this. The
Liberal organ will presently find out the
truth of this saying.
Unless the Democrats, especially. shall
assert their manhood now, and embrace
he opportunity they claim they have been
waiting for years to come; above ell. if they
permit themselves TO be whipped into line
n the Liberal ranks, after the outspoken g
manner in which they have advocated divi- s
ion on party lines, they will be laughing I
took in the near future, a sample of c
spriest-ridden" weakness that they never I
ould Offset by citing in all Mormon history c
nything so peurile and cowsrdly. >