Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-03

legislative compulsion. and whose sole
knowledge Of American politics is
summed up in the one sentence. his
Is Christian country" have met with a
deserved disaster In this last result at
the polls.
Capital and religion, the men OF
monopoly and the men Of sectarianism,
the giants and the dwatis, they oil long
heads and they Of petty spirit, have
alike been rebukcd, and the franchise
las asserted the normal, the healthinl
man-the American pressure and pre-
iudicc have been alike without avail.
The American ballot has vindicaied Us
purity at least on its largest and mighti-
est occasion In its national opportunity.
And for this can we well he proudly and
profoundly grateful this national
Thanksgiving Day.
But we have special cause to be locally
so also. The corporation which we
thought through is power OF wealth
and religion would exert an undue
political influence in our territory IN be-
half OF iavorite sin has proven itself
either not so formidable or not SO H.
liberal and ianatical as VIC were inclined
10 credit II with being. II may be true
that the majority OF the successful can-
didate has been less than that Of his
party here hitherto. But when It Is
known that protestants will scratch for
protesiants, aud Catholics for Catholics,
and Jews for Jews Is that which is
rcprehensiblc In all TO be punished only
in Mormonsi A long rs Ii Is evidenced
that the Mormon Church itself Is
clcansed from the sin Of direct authoii.
tative political interference. Il not is
patriotism vet ut least It's official decla.
ration Of political neutrality can not
fairly be questioned. Aud this test Il
has honofably stood From this oh
lection alone It's right to full franchise
can therefore no longer be honestly
gainsaid. While the moral objection, are
wholly untonable, private theories and
religious convictions ought not to be
legislative considerations. Practice
alone concerns official notice and the
practice Of Mormonism that has hitherto
been open to moral objection has been
almost completely routed by govern
mental measures and energy. Such
misdemeanor OF crime is no more pre-
valent here than It Is elsewhere. To
deny people their rights 20 the iran.
| chise for what may happen In the future
Is the most outrageous OF injustice. II
our numbers here entitle US on pre-.
| cedent to admission to statehood, and II
there be here. no overt lawlessness TO
make such admission unadvisablc, op.
| position TO the reception OF this boon
! which must be the desire OF every
patriotic community and OF every in
| dividual American | can ascribe under
present conditions hest TO dcmagogueiy
and fana,icism. The imagined danger
OF depreciation In values Is ny mind
but an imagined one. Bat were 1t
real should monetary considerations
prompt us to iorcgo that which alone
constitutes our proud distinctive title to
the name American aud be our sufficient
reason for refusing that without which
virtually an American Is not an Ameti-
| can?
Therefore that the prospect dawns
that We too shall soon be enrolled IN the
sisterhood Of states with the full control
of our own affairs, and with our proper
Tomato voice In national matters, Il
another reason why ] not only as an
American but as an American drnizen
OF Utah rejoice N the glorious showing
OF the late election aud thank God this
Thanksgiving Day FOR having in Ills
providence so sIgnally blessed and
secured our republic both NATIONALLY and
locally with that wisest, noblest, man
liest and frcest Of institutions, unlver
sal and equal franchise in whose health
iul exercise, as illustrated in the last
election, feel convinced OF Americas
ever increasing glory and prosperity,
and forever By Il may she thus be safe.
guarded, so that with her pure strength
and reclitude, selfconscious in her
every son, she may surmount her own
immediate concerns and set herself di'
rectly and vigorously to her larger
mission OF emancipaiing humanity
whose every hope OF universal and
eternal liberty and Of unconsraincd
capitalization turns with fcverish eN
pectancy and yet ever with implicit
confidence but to her.