The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-05-20
GETTING ALARMED.

ing in this Territory. 1t sees that it il
losing its hold, and it smarts under thu
lash. On Monday it came out with {
most pitiful wall and among othe
things says in relation to the dividing
up on national lines:
1t has been through an arrangement
or by dictation, or by counsel call i
what you please-of ne eRleI priest
o. o. he Mormon Church. \, { al :i hlioN
that in the past had any cons, 'eltpF :
number Of Saints dared to do wha,
good many are doing now, go off on
political tangents of their ewn, they
would have been called up, and unless
they recanted they would have been
communicated without debate.
And when we reflect that the old
dream of the Mormon chiefs from the
first has been to secure Statehood for
Utah: when we think of the fight they
made through the twenty years past
to secure that object; when we
think of the means they took to secure
il; and when we see now the JONES
family going to the Democratic party,
and the BROWN family going to the
Republican party, it seems to us that
if the plan was on their part to make
any needed concession for year or
two or three until they could secure
Statehood, that they would be doing
exactly what they are doing now. In
the meantime there is no sign from
the men who control this organization
absolutely no sign that we can see,
that they have changed the least in
their intentions, but that all they have
determined to do Is for the present to
change their methods. And if this is
true, we give Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike notice that if they go on in
the lines which few are working on
now, while it viii be possible to de-
str0y the Liberal party, while it will
be possible to put the politics of Utah
absolutely in the hands of the Mormon
Church, the ultimate result will be eX
actly what 1t was in lllineis; there will
come a time in the next twenty years
when the Americans in the Territory
will simply say: I'VE will not stand
il. - and there will be civil war.
Nobody can be more anxious to see
this Territory Americanized than is
the Tribune. No man on earth more
heartily desires that the Mormon qneS
ton shall be forever settled than does
the Tribune. But the reasons why
there is a Mormon question here are
just as potent to ali human eyes as
they ever were. And with the Gov
ernor of this Territory a Mormon; with
the Legislature all Mormon; with all
the courts Mormon courts; with all the
jurors Mormon jurors, to think that
some of the old spirit will not remain,
and that the men in authority will not
conduct this region as they are direct
ed by their chiefs, Is to suppose, ii
seems to us, an impOsSibllity.
In his remarks on Saturday night
Mr.. BROwN said: This thing ought
to be tried; that if it did not succeed
that then we would again organize the
old Liberal party We beg to say to
him, and to all who think as he does,
that if this thin9 continues, if it shall
be determined by so many Democrats
and Republicans to drift off on To par
ty lines, that the movement shall pre-
vail and the Liberal party be destroyed,
we say that never again will that Lib
sral party be able to gather up it's scat
tered and discovered elements, except
through bloody revolution. There
will always Dc men enough in any
community woo will be willing TO ac-
cept such SOP as may be thrown them
to defeat any such reorganization. ex-
cept that a few men determining no
longer to bear unbearable wrongs, take
up the sword. And with statehood Sc
cured, and with Mormon officers in
full control, if such q thing were TO be
attempted in the future the men at
tempting it would be rebels, and the
Governor of this State would invoke
the whole power of the United States,
If necessary, to help him put down
mon who were struggling for life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, such
as is guaranteed 10y the declaration on
which our fathers threw down the
gauntlet to the foremost power Of the
earth.
Yesterday morning the Herald came
out and in an editorial under Afraid
to Fight" gives the Tribune the follow
ing severe whipping;
The dismal moaning of the Tribune
O,yr the prospect Of having to fight a
battle on political grounds, is topic
uf comment and mirth among both its
friends and foes.
IN one issue it declares the Mormons
know so little of politics and the affairs
of the government, that their children
DO not know the first iota of the char
acter of the government of the United
States" In the next issue it declares,
If 1t shall be determined by SO many
Democrats and Republicans to drift
on to party lines, that the movement
shall prevail and the Liberal party be
destroyed, we say that never again
VIII that Liberal party be able to gather
up It's scattered and discovered ele-
ments, except through bloody revolu-
tion."
Well, why notl If it is true that the
new parties will effectually kill the
Liberal party, viii that not be because
the new parties better subserve the in
terests OF the people than the old par
tles2 Oh do the non Mormons and The
Mormons exist simply in order that the
Liberal party may prolong its exist
ence?
The CHASTITY phrase, "a bloody rev.
luton is not a joke on the part o!
the mad wag of Utah Liberalism: he
actually intends that his readers sha
take it seriously. OF course he canno.
explain why the Democrats and Re
publicans could not return to the Lii
eral fold without first performing "a