The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-06
MORMON AND MASON
A. L. Heist Draws a Comparison
Between the Two.
Bigot Might Raise the Same Objections to
the Order as to the
Church.


church officials for civil office, this was
conclusive evidence of political dictation
by the church. The charitable way of in
terpreting this fact would be to say that
the same qualities which make the individ-
ual leader in the church would also make
him leader out of the church. When the
Mormons nominated lay churchmen or
gentlles for Office it was concluSively pre-
| sumed that this was trick for private
church ends, then the very fact that such q
person was nominated to Office was again ac-
cepted by the credulous and bigoted public
as conclusive evidence of church dictation.
Ii in the last election the Mormon vot Q
had been divided nearly equal as between
emocrats and Republicans Gas was pre-
dicted) this would have been most con-
Vlnclng TO the average narrOw-mind Lib
eral that the division movement was for
! statehood and Mormon trick.
Had the majority of votes been given
to the Republicans, that would have been
just as conclusive evidence of insincerity,
upon the unfounded assumption that it was
bid to coax the Republicans out of the
Liberal party.
The Mormon-Republican voter, however,
being profoundly in earnest in his desire
for good government, and knowing that
his own party was hopelessly in the minor
two evils, Democrats and Liberals, and of
these he chose the lesser. This, to any i'm
partial mind, would have been an evidence
that the Mormons are good citizens though
| perhaps not blind Republican partisans
Lo and behold! even this Is offered by de-
signing politicians as conclusive evidence
Of Mormon triokery, and their willing
dupes, after fastening tighter about their
! eyes the bandage Of hate, take this morsel
of wholesome truth, give it coating of
their own bitter biRotry, then blindly swal-
low 1t whole and endeavor to make the out
side world believe that their cries of pain
are further evidences of Mormon trickery
With the average bigoted Utah Liberal
as juror you can always get verdict of
~ QUILL be damned If you do and damned if
you don't" against any Mormon.
Let me assume that we were now enjoy
Ing periodic anti-Masonic craze instead of
| an anti-Mormon idiocy.
Then suppose some one should call the at
tentlon OF the fevered community to the Off
cial letter of the grand secretary of the
Grand Lodge OF free ana accepted Masons,
as published on page Is of the printed pro-
| ceedingS OF the Grand Lodge of January,
| 1890. IL reads as follows:
On the 10th Of February next the body polite
that has for forty years misruled our rich and
lar territory and stood in the way Of progress
Will crumble down. On its ruins the body Ma
sonic ought to erect temple that will stand
till time shall be no more. Brothers, our time
has come. Let US be up and doing.
Permit me now to give you list of per-
| sons who have by the grace of the Liberal
party and their anti-Mormon tendencies
held official positions and profted thereby
since the above official statement was
written.
1-R. N. Baskin postmaster, member of the
legislature and special assistant to the city at
! torney.
Wv O. Van Horna M end0a, n NJ
| special assistant to the city attorney.
3-James Glendenning, NJ. NJ. and member Of
! legislature.
&C. S. Varian, worshipful master, P SIG. w,
| .. 8. attorney.
5-John Zane, entered apprentice assistant u
| 8. Attorney,
| sioner.
| Patrick Lannan P M, Worlds fair COM
missioner and practical governor of Utah.
| S-Martin Lannan, entered apprentice, beef
| inspector at Worlds fair.
| 9.Harvey Hardy, NJ. NJ, county seleotman.
lo-Henry Monheim, treasurer lodge, archi-
| tect city and county building.
1I-W. II. Dickson, Sen. warden of lodge
! special assistant TO city attorney.
| treasurer.
13-Eliiah Sells NJ. M, secretary of territory
| I'D. n. Swan, NJ. NJ, deputy U. S. marshal
15-L- U. Goliath, M. M, member OF school
| board.
16-M. K Parsons, NJ. M, member of CITY
| council
17-Jas. Anderson, NJ. M, member of city
council.
18-H. Pembroke, sen. stewart at-large, mem
19-Louis COIN, P. NJ. P. G. M, member of
/ city council.
GOV. F. James, P. M. P. G. M, member of
| city council.
2l-Louis Hyams, NJ. NJ, city recorder IRE
stgned).
BE. r. Cute M. M, assessor and col
lector.s
28-samuel Paul. P. M. P, G.. M, super
visor of streets.
25-W. A. Stanton. NJ. M, chief of fire de-.
pa. NJ. Grant, grand master, inspector of
| bridges.
27SWillam Shovel, NJ NJ, sanitary in
2S-Lorin Hall. NJ M, quarantine physician
and health commissioner
29-Geo. L. Lowe, NJ. M, board of public
works.
80-Christopher Diehl, g. S. and P. NJ. as
sistant collector of water rates.
| 3l-P. L. Williams, p. NJ. and P. G. NJ. at
torney for school board.
32-John Hinman, M. NJ, SUPERINTENDENT of
| poor farm for county.
33-J. W. Greenmsn, NJ M, United States
| commissioner
| 1t is also said that the strange political af-
| lection which those two eminent Liberal
leaders, o. w. Powers aud the Rev. L. c..
Lift, have for each other may be accounted
In addition to the names above given,
numerous Masonic benehciaries of the Lib
eral administration might be menloned
among the recipients of franchises and
lessees of Warm Springs property, etc. l
might also add the name Of Harry HAYNES,
who is member of the legislature and a
member of the Mt Moriah lodge of this
city. The list of Masons who hold official
positions as given above, is necessarily in
complete, because | have no means of
knowing all the Masons of this city and be-
cause there are but few of the subordinate
| officials of the city administration whose
names [ know. The list l give is only from
personal acquaintance. To the reader who
is not q MasonEI leave these facts for his
own Interpretation, and should he come to
| the concl usion that the Masonic fraternity
is secret organization controlling the Lib
eral party, then it is for him to decide
whether or not he has choice between
Masonic or Mormon control of public af-
fairs, provided he has no word in either.
AS for myself / am free to say that pre-
fer to give the same charitable interprets-
ton of the evidences herein set forth.
which / ask Masons to give others. and
this leads me to the conclusion that Mr..
Diehl went outside of his official duty In
writing as he did, and the remarkable facts
above set forth are purely accidental II
is certain that such men as Williams, Dick
son, Varian and others are entitled to their
position by their merits and do not need
the aid of the Masonic fraternity to heir
them to position.
Now let me ask of you Masons this
that you give the same evidence upon
which you convict the Mormons the same
charitable Interpretation which you need
for yourselves, in order to clear your own
skirts o. political intrigue. You must
know that if the merits of your order were
tried by the evidence of persons who had
committed moral perjury by revealing
your secrets (and it is almost wholly by