The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
PECULIAR PATRIOTS
An Order That Would Read Mas
sachusetts Out Of the Union
AND CONSIGN UTAH TO IGNOMINY
Queer Combination OF Preacher, Heeler and
Bouncer in the Salt Lake Con-
tingent

To the patriots in the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, and especially TO S. Il. Armstrong:
SIRs-By a local paper ! am informed
that you have adopted resolutions opposing
Utahs statehood becauee Mormons are
supposed to believe in a union of church
and state.
Your resolution, perhaps, is somewhat
untimely, as no one wants statehood very
bad, but care not as to that. True patri-
otism is founded on justice, and Justice
discards party, friendship, kindred, and is
always, therefore, represented as blind"
Your action leaves doubt as to whether
your patriots are really very ignorant or
whether they are devoid of that patriotism
of which justice is component part In
order that you may relieve this very curl
Gus public out here as to the cause of your
shortcoming, l beg you TO note my sugges-
uons. The Mormon church officials have
wrongfully dictated much in politics,
thereby sitting the political individuality
of its members. These same officials,
however, never became so brazen in their
effrontery as to resolve in public conven-
ton that any political creed or party
should be supported by its members. There
"a
left inthe church to publicly deny its
political influence.
We have, however, in Utah, another
church which so far forgets church decen-
cies as to officially resolve in its convention
that a certain illiberal political organiza-
tion, which is the godfather of crime in
Utah. must DE continued in power.
Now that you know this factt trust that
atyour next convention you will resolve that
ha adr cd tot ,ti
the Methodists in Utah cease their politi-
cal dictation.
It is true our Mormon friends have not
given US very good public schools, but they
never became so utterly regardless of tue
rights OF others as to say that our children
must read the book of Mormon in the pub
lie schools. We have however, in Utah
another church, the Presbyterian, which
ia irrational desire for supremacy of the
church in the state resolved, in convention
assembled, that it would do its level best
tguratVely speaking, TO
RAIN A BIG BIBLE DOWN
the little throat of every child that dared
come to public school.
With notice of this fact you true ant
just patriots, il any there be in your order
will resolve that Utah shall not be ad
mitted into the union until every person
that believes in, or teaches, or contribute:
to the support of any organization which
believes in or teaches this doctrine of tn,
Presby terrain church, shall have been dis
francdIsed.
If you are really so very jealous in tbs
defense OF the state against the trausgres
sions of churches, you must know tina
Senator Blair in 1855 introduced in con
gress an amendment to the United State
constitution authorizing congress TO com
pei the use of the Bible in public schools il
every state in the union. (By the way
this is good illustration of Republican
Capitalization of power and strong gov
ernment.) Being such Jealous pat
riots as you are, you must know
that this amendment was in
dorsed by the W. c. I. u; that prominen
third party Prohibitionists said the
favored the amendment but they believe
it premature to advocate it. This infringe
ment upon the rights of man was endorses
by an order of patriots known as The Ma
tional Reform club, " which club has for it
object the contamination of union Q
church and state. l regret very much tina
the zeal which your Wanted patriotism in
spires is so blind to the purposes of you
order that these things have remained IN
noticed by you. Now that your attention
is called 10 these facts your patriotism 6
your next national convention | know wi
boil over. and in fit of righteous iRdigna
IlOu lOQ VIII IeoDLN6 Iudb jus LUX, SSut
tor Blair, the members of the Women
Christian Temperance union and the Ns
tional reform club
SHOULD BE BANIsHED
from the United States. Then should 20
perchance read the amendments which tn
National Sunday Law association" aske
70 have made 10 the aforesaid Blair bi
your Jealous opposition TO a union of churc
and state will cause you to froth at IN
mou tn with rage and you will at once tax
upyour patriotism and your shotguns AM
ask true patriots, not Of your order, to e
to the front and slay all the aforedescribe
church md state unionists.
! know that some of you patriots reat
the newspapers occasionally, and some {
you must have read the European tidine
just before you made these -Mormo
resolutions. If you did read them yo
must have known that at a convention
Catholic patriots across the water, resC
luton had been adopted declaring that
was time to re-establish the temporal powe
of the Pope over all the world. Is it not
little singular that you should pass resolu
tons asking that Mormons be deprived {
privileges which some of you patriot
enjoy, and that you should have failed
pass resolutions asking Congress to preveI
these Catholic patriots from becoming in
migrants.
AT your next convention, of course, We
will pass appropriate resolutions to GOV,
this matter, and will also resolute for Il
passage of such test oaths, ETC.. as will
ROB ALL CATHOLICS
already here of all their civil and polite
rights.