The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-18
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| tne people OF bnlS territory, KNOWN as the
Mormons.
1t maintains that every disability it has
in the past declared should be visited
upon the Mormons should yet be put into
force, and that the necessity for continued
attack upon the Mormon church and every
member of it is greater now than it has
ever been before.
/ It says the Mormons still believe in the
establishment of the Kingdom of Goo" and
that they abandoned polygamy, not because
they thought it was wrong, but because the
law was against it. For these reasons it
declares the Mormons unfit to lay their
stained hands" on the sacred American
ballot, and that all nou-Mormons should
unite and demand the same legislation that
the Tribune advocated against the Nor
mons before the latter gave up polygamy.
That the Gentiles, especially the new
corners, may know Just what that paper de-
manded should be inflicted on the Mormons,
and what it therefore asks them now to aid
to accomplish, we here publish few of the
recommendations of that gracious sheet.
We invite the attention OF all thoughtful
citizens to the proposed new crusade against
the Mormons, the object of which is avow ed
to be the same now as it was then.
Here is what the non Mormons of Utah
are even yet invited by the Tribune to aid
IN concentrating, because. as it now al
leges, the Mormons are notobeying the law
from principle:
The Saints must either come within the laws
| or must find some other spot in which to carry
out their purposes, Did they ever stop
to think that their prosecutions have not yet
really commenced? . Suppose the next
step shall be 10 deny the Saints the right to
enter lands, and to attack the titles already
! secured to lana? The government.
through the machinery of the law may outla W
and disinherit them Tribune, Narcb 26, 1889
The best way is to compel the system to con.
form TO the lars of the United States.
The first thing to do is to take all poll teal
power from it. The thing to do is to
make it impossible for Mormons to obtain title
to lands in the United States Tribune. ABriI
"a 1889.
One of the strangest features OF Mormonism
and the MormOns is their seeming utter lack of
comprehension of the enormity of disobeying
the laws. The first thing probably
that will be taken from them will be the fran
chise which they have so long prostituted Then
they will find themselves at the mercy of such
laws as may be prescribed for them. If that
will not do, the next attack will be on their
property, and no man who believes it right for
him to obey the First Presidency rather than
the laws will be permitted to acquire title to
lands. This will mean final bankruptcy, not
only for the masses but for the rich in the or.
ganization.-7Fi5uDe. September 16, 1856.
| The Tribune gives notice that until these
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Mormons, there can be nor should be no
national politics in Utah; that there can be
only two parties, the non-Mormons seeking
to accomplish these modest proposals, and
the Mormons seeking to defeat them Of
course this purpose is not distinctly
avowed. Only disfranchisement and
denial of the right to enter land, are now
openly advocated; but the purpose of the
Tribune ring is abundantly clear
A correspondent of the Tribune desires to
learn why it is that that paper and its
clique will not tolerate Republican and
Democraticparties in Utah, but will insist
that there shall be only Mormon and non
Mormon. That paper endeavors to answer
in the space of two columns. The cores
pondent must feel considerably ,sbe.
thumped with words" If he has by this
time read the attenuated argument that at
tempts to show why Democrats and Re-
publicans must forever wear the Tribune
collar, and not assert themselves as indie
pendent members of their respective
parties.
The correspondent hardly favors the idea
of prosecuting man simply because he is
called Mormon, and thinks that since the
only element of law breaking that ever
characterized the Mormons has now been
done away, it would be as well to endeavor
to win them over to the different politica
parties of the day, and stop this cid politi-
cal war of Mormon and non Mormon.
| But the Tribune will have none of this
To be cure, it once occupied the Identical
position of its correspondent, but that was
when it had no idea that the church would
ever give up polygamy. 1t said then that
there was no war on the Mormons but
simply on an illegal practice that obtained
among them. Again and again that paper
secuted the idea that it was making war on
the Mormons any further than to compel
them to come within the law"; and it JUS
titled its attacks ON all Mormons on the
ground that "a few of them were polyg-
amists. Turn to few back numbers Of
that paper, and almost at random you will
find numerous articles of this tenor:
Either all privileges Of citizenship will be
taken from them or CLEAN OF wisdom and
common sense will come TO their management
and they will cause their institution to conform
TO the laws OF this republic Tribune, April IS,
| 1890.
! This was merely demand to conform
to the laws" which, in itself, has pleas
ing sound to those that did not know that,
polygamy included, the Mormons broke
fewer laws than the people whom this very
accuser represented in Utah. Neverthe-
less, this was the constant burden of the
teaching of this self-styled patriot All he
asked was that the Mormons should obey
the laws. Notice also the following ex-
tract:
All such people should reflect that however
| they look upon the law, the authorities passed
it intending through IL to suppress polygamy.
They we're careful in the law TO legitimatize all
| polygamous Children it was not the intention
| 10 cause men to cease TO look after the women
whose lives had become involved with theirs or
to neglect the children born to them. What
was hoped was that the Mormons would accept
the the situation: that they would arrange their
families on that basis and cease preaching po-
lygamy 8 If any polygamist will give
some public notice that he has regulated his
life to correspond with the laws provisions and
that henceforth SO long as the law shall stand
unrepealed he proposes to obey it in spirit and
in truth, he will not be disturbed. Tribune, Dec
f. 1886.
J From this extract it appears that even
polygamists would be undisturbed if they