The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27
CONFUSION WORSE COMPOUNDED


here in taking measures to stop the
incoming industrials at the north line
of Davis county, acting in conjunction
with the authorities of that county, is
commendable.'
That is from the Tribune of May 26.
How does it "jibe" with this from the
Tribune of May %?
IF men want to go to Washington
why shouldn't they? The fact that
their mission there cannot possibly Gull
inmate in the fruition of their hopes,
! is hardly a reason why they should
keep away; and the fact that they are
poor men is surely no good argument
why they should be deprived Of the or
binary privileges of untrammeled loco
motion guaranteed to every American
with his freedom of person"
| We will have to make a few more
comparisons. This is also from the
Tribune of May 26:
The resolution of the Weber county
court to proceed against the Southern
| Pacific on it's bringing these helpless
! people to Ogden, is certainly a correct
step. 1t is one, too, that we believe
the courts will all affirm. Governor
West strengthens the hands of the
Weber county court in this act, more
over, by authorizing the territory to be
joined with it in the proceedings. This
also is well, for nothing should be
overlooked to add power to what is
done.
And this is from the Tribune of May
%:
THE Tribune dealt as it saw reason
tn 11rifI
Governor West to detain the Kelly ar
my in Ogden till he could force the
Southern Pacific to haul them back.
! His attempt was utterly impractical
BILE and a piece Of costly foolishness.
| The Tribune said SO at the time, and
it says so now. Further, we said there
was neither law nor sense in interfer-
ing with the movement of these armies
so long as they did nothing unlawful
or committed no trespasS that could
give a court jurisdiction over them
The idea that the mere assembling OF
poor men in bands is unlawful and
their attempts to go peacably to Wash
ington an offenSe against the dw, is
the worst kind of plutocratic rot. TIC
say that is either to say that it is I'M
lawful for any body of men to assemble
and a breach of the law for crowds
to go to Washington, or else it is equiv
alent to say that the rich have rights OF
assembly and locomotion not lawful fol
the poor.
One more extract from the Tribune
of May %:
We believe all good men will sustain
the civil authorities in this move to
protect the public.
What ''move?" Why, the stopping OF
the Commonwealers who marched out
of Ogden on their way here. and pre-.
venting their coming over the bound
airy lines between Weber and Davis
counties. Now look at this from the
Tribune of April Il:
I'VE still adhere to the belief that
there is nothing to do but to make an
arrangement, that these idle men who
have come into the territory may be
fed and then pushed across the borders
eastward
"They want to go to Washington
We say let them go. They really are
but living petition, a helpless pro
test against intolera bic wrongs
1--WE think the citizens ought to com.
bine, raise what means they can, buy
provisions and get these men started
out on foot for the east. Certainly ne
tramp is so wretched in this country
the air or to walk upon the EARTH
We could furnish more of the same
sort of stuff, but the foregoing i.
enough for the present. Of course, i
is gratifying to see a change of hear
in the right direction. But hege is nc
telling how the Tribune may stand to
morrow. It may take a tumble bacl
to its old position, blackguard the gov
ernor, berate the courts. boost the com
monwealers as martyrs with "nis
sion,'' and beat the air with maledic
tons against everybody who questions
the right of men and mobs to "un
trammeled locomotion."
A public journal that jumps from on
opinion to the exact opposite, i
no guide for the public, anc
any paper that encourages the move
ment of misguided men to the seat o
government is itself a menace to tn
/. community.