The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-09
AN ORGANS ARGUMENT.

We remarked two days ago that 1.-THE
chief reason we have no national politics in
Utah is the constant warfare of the Liberal
party upon the Mormons. The threat that
the Liberal party will at the first oppor
tunity disfranchise, outlaw and even at
tack the titles by which they hold their
property is enough to drive the Mormons
together"
Following Is the reply of the Liberal
organ:
The reason the Malta does not give up its or
ganization in New Orleans is because the laws
of this country, and the press of this country
and the best sentiment of this country declare
their belief that an organization of assassins
is not good, and that when that organization
carries out its plans, and American citizens are
killed by it, they will hang the perpetrators if
they can find and convict them.
The reader will please observe that the
question is not whether criminals shall be
punished, but whether mans proclama-
ton that he is patriot entities him to dis
franchise, outlaw and rob others whose
belief, not actions, he affects to contemn
| II all members of the party that furnishes
murderers, thieves, burglars and other
criminals should be disfranchised and
robbed, we have clear case against the So
called Liberal party; for it furnishes ten
criminals to one furnished by the Peoples
party, according to the court records. We
should have thought that common modesty
would prevent Liberal newspaper from
inviting comparisons of this kind. If the
comparison means anything it must be that
since it is right to hang murderers in New
Orleans, therefore it is right to dlsfranchise
outlaw and rob honest and law abiding citi.
zens in Salt Lake. We suspect our in
ability to answer that proposition, and will
not attempt to do so at present.
The Liberal organ says further:
The weakness of the argument Of our contem.
poraryis is, first that it lies.
Oh, that is it. The HERALD lies, does it
Does our contemporary remember saying
that unless the laws were obeyed by every
Mormon that the first thing that would bs
taken from all the Mormons would be the
franchises Then, it said, they would fine
themselves at the mercy of such laws as
might be prescribed for them; and tn,
next attack, it declared, would be on thei1
property, which would mean "final bank
ruptcy, not only to the rich but to the poo
: in the organization And after polvgamy
had been formally given up, it's practic
having ceased some time before, our con.
temporary declared that all it had eve
urged should be brought upon the Nor.
, mons, for the crime of having voted solidl,
against its editor.
The organ has also this to say:
All the reason why there has ever been an
trouble in Utah has been, not because Gentle
, were not anxious TO have things here as the
are in other places, but because that organiza
ton. up to last autumn insisted on its right t
defy the laws Of the United States regardin
bigamy and because its people were in no sens
Americans.
There is no dispute about what was don
prior to last autumn; all that broke the Law
were severely punished; and the question
now is, shall the great majority of the MOI
mon people. who have broken no law an
, are not likely to break any law, be punishe
by Acknowledgement and 'sfinal bank
ruptcy" because few of their brethre
once broke the law and were punished fo
doing 500 We are not discussing the merit
or dement's of past puDishments, but of tn
proposed ruin of the Mormon people be
5 cause the editor of the meanest paper /
America says they are Sin no sense Ameri
cans" His proof of this is, not that the
do not live worthy lives or anything of tha
, sort, but that they vote for men they then
selves nominate in preference to voting fc
their avowed enemies nominated by tn
f Liberal clique that is daily urging their di
franchisement