The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-18
QUARRELLING WITH SCARECROWs

Our morning contemporary continues it.
daily raving over the question of statehood
for Utah. 1t froths at the mouth like one
In I'll, and rends its linen most shock
ingly. Yesterday it said "there is not 2
Mormon home in Utah that the matter OF
probable statehood next winter Is not be-
ing eagerly discussed. More than one
Mormon has already said: L am Repub
lican or Democratic does not matter
which-so that il gives Us statehood And
the thought, no matter how much it may
be denied, Is to press statehood before the
incoming Congress, and that is the dream
of the chiefs of the church. That is ex-
emplitied on every hand" These are de-
finite and positive assertions, and the paper
making them should be able to bring for
ward the proof of their correctness. If il
cannot do this it must stand convicted of
lying IN the lnteresto of bugaboo of its own
invention. 1t cannot furnish a scintilla
of evidence which would be accepted in any
court OF justice to sustain one of the allega-
tons above quoted. 1t cannot name sin
gle Mormon home in Utah in which the
matter Of probable statehood next winter Is
being either eagerly or indifferently dis
cussed, unless it be the home Of the myth
cal Bishop WEST. 1t cannot name one Nor
mon who has said that he is Republican
or Democrat-it doesn't matter which
so that it gives statehood. II cannot point
to single thing which can rightly be con-
strued as suggesting even, much less ex-
employing, that it is the thought to press
statehood before the coming Congress. All
that our vicious contemporary says on this
subject is idle or malicious allegation in
capable OF proof.
Perhaps the organ may attempt to prove
what il asserts by trotting out Bishop
WEST or quoting the utterances OF the lem
inently respectable LADY, who has done
such service for the editor in the past. but
who has been seen or heard by no other
person. Or probably the proof will be sup
piled as it was yesterday when the editor
wrote: 1--WE think the Senators are already
picked out, and the number Of Congress-
men. We think the idea is to give those
Gentiles who are now breaking away from
the old Liberal ranks, and with their
money and influence are carrying as MANY
of the rank and file as they can with them
their reward"
This sort Of stun may be satisfactory and
conclusive to the mind Of the Tribune edi-
tor, but it doesn't count with people of this
community who know how wild and reck-
less and unreliable that editor becomes
when he undertakes to ''think" What he
thinks is of no concern whatever to people
who really think, nor does anything he saws |
carry weight, unless it is supported by |
known facts.
1t doesn't matter what our contemporary
says about the motive back Of the present |
political movement, nor what it saws
statehood; in truth, it is getting
go that it doesn't matter much what the
Tribune saSs on any subject, so unreliable
are its statements and so little influence
does the sheet have in the community:
hence it may be regarded as Q waste of time
and space to dispute with the sheet. All
the same THE HERALD viii reassert what il |
has frequently declared. what it believes
TO be the absolute truth. and whist it defies
the Tribune to successfully dispute, and
that is that the Democrats have no thought
Of applying to the incoming or any succeed
rg Congress for the admission of Utah a
J state, that question being one