The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-01

10 ~ ioloIoHCe 10 WHICH pOllblcal party
We snail join, and that we have been, and
are, perfectly free to unite with any or no
political party, as we may individually
elect, that the Peoples party has been en-
llfely and finally dissolved and that our
feaity henceforth will be to such national
political party as seems to US best suited
to the
PURPOSE OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
The declaration SO practically put forth
! against the presumption of a union between
church and state, coupled with the declara-
uon that the Peoples party has been
entirely and finally dissolved, is suggestive,
TO say the least. The Peoples committee
OF Salt Lake, on the Goth of May, 1891, de-
clared In favor of dissolution and on the
lUtn OF June, similar action was taken by
the territorial committee of the Peoples
party; but it remained for the SAINTS in an
/ nual conference in October, to make the
matter tinal''
Mr.. Perkins quoted literally from SER
mon delivered by President Woodruff ex-
planning the reasons how the manifesto
came TO be issued and adds: sit will be
observed that the relation Of such revela-
tlon to the temporal as well as the spiritual
welfare of the people is not left cut OF
mind. The unanimity of the church in ac-
ceptlng this new revelation, 1t will also be
| observed, is not less remarkable than the
unanimity of the conference in accepting the
| proclamation of the
DISSOLUTION OF THE PEOPLES PARTY,
st may be conceded that the practice of
polygamy will not be stablished in
| Utah, by revelation or otherwise, though
it has only been suspended All right
minded people will unite in encouraging
the Mormon people in a growth of the
better way, but the fact cannot be over
looked that this abandonment of plural
marriage has only been made under the
strongest pressure of government and So
clety, and that nowhere has the presidency
/ OF the church admitted the wrong or
confessed conversion from the authority
under which the practice through so many
years was encouraged under peril to the
soul.
The continued existence of the Liberal
party and earnestness with which that or
ganization resists the propositions of this
OIL may well arrest serious attention. Salt
| Lake City is now dominated by the gentle
population. That population is of the pro-
gresslve character upon which the great
west has SO marvelously fiourished in re-
cent years. 1t is composed of the elements
that have built the cities in the wilderness.
opened up farms in the desert, threaded
| the land with railroads and added states to
| the union. There must be powerful infiu-
! ence upon these people in Utah restraining
/ them from consent to liberation from a
territorial condition. They ask for time
| Tor adjustment to the new order, if, hap
PLY, the long contest for fact is nearing
A SATISFACTORY AND PEACEFUL CONCLUSION"
MIR. Perkins next casts a glance back
ward and reviews at length the efforts of
| the Peoples party to inaugurate a state
movement in 1887. He quotes first the
reply of j. b. Rosborough, the chairman of
the Democratic territorial committee, un-
rot a n Inn Of hot ~,
that gentleman characterizes the sugges-
ton as suicidal to the peace and prosl Gritty
OF the territory. The report of the Re
publican committee, which was equally
emphatic, is also referred to and following
! this are quotations from the subsequent
reports of Governors West and Thomas
bearing upon the same subject The re-
port continues: ut is not altogether re-
markable that after many years of conten-
| tlon against the government. much bitter
ness of spirit should still be manifested,
The desire on the part of the Mormon popu-
latlon for any relief is conspicuous, and in
measure excusable.
PRUDENCE WOULD HAVE SUGGESTED SOME
DELAY
in the matter Of bringing forward this bill
which with such delay might have given
place to bill for statehood outright Dut
the Importance has been such as to crowd
events; and the presumption cannot be
avoided that much that has been done has
been done in the way of record-maklng for
the session of Congress. The presence of
federal officers with authority; the COM
mission, the governor and the secretary, as
well as the judges of t courts, is con-
spicuously all!ng to the Mormon mind and
any plan which will give the people early
control is feverishly desired The memo
rial by the legislative assembly to the
Senate ana House of Representatives dis
plays this feeling in the following para
graph: The most vicious interference
with the vestige remaining of our local
! liberties is in the maintenance and action
| OF the Utah commission who, IL their ap-
pointment OF the registration officers, have
often selected
CORRUPT AND IRRESPONSIBLE PERSONS
These have filed the registration lists
with fictitious names and resorted to other
| devices by which repeating and other
frauds might be successfully perpetratsd
at elections, yet the endorsement OF that
! can hardly be expected by sober minded
| people here or elsewhere
MIR, Perkins, in conclusion. says: "This
bill does not propose TO trust the people of
Utah with statehood. 1t proposes to make
them peculiar people. 1t proposes to
transfer to them many of the honors of a
state government and yet TO leave them
subject to an act of Congress at any time
| that shall withdraw those honorS and place
them IN such other territorial re-
lations as Congress may provide.
To the minority of your COM
mittee 1t seems that this proposition
involves an added humiliation upon that
people, which, just at this time, ought not
TO be written in the national law. If it be
agreed that the Mormon church, as there
represented and dominant, is sincerely
moving to free itself of the principles ac
! knowledged as obnoxious to American law
then public policy would suggest that
separation be permitted to take place in
peace and under the terms of amnesty and
! justice provided by generous govern
ment II the people of Utah, as the ma
iority of them think, have been stigmatized
! by the acts of the federal government
then it may be urged that new conditions
not common to the history of our legisla
| ton,
| SHOULD NOW BE IMPOSED.
"It may be fairly recognized that among
those sustaining and those opposing the
dictatlon of church power in Utah, heir to
the hot battles and consequent passions of
recent times, there yet remains much bit
terness of spirit. 1t may be admitted here
! that there has been wrong upon both sides
that there has been right upon both sides:
but it may be admitted that neither side
Immediately involved in the territory is
now in a position 80 fairly judge the other.
and the minority of your committee is dis
posed to recognize the force Of the obiec-
| ton. strongly urged by that class of people
not strangers to Utah, who have stood the
brunt of contest in behalf of the authority
Of law and the honor of our civilization that
the proposition of this bill to withdraw
our federal authority and leave in undis-
puted power the party opposed to the gov
ernment in this long contention, would be
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