The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-20
PROVO CITY. JUNE 20. l8S
THE CHURCH PROPERTY.
One of the paragraphs Of the demo
cratic address reads as follows;


cratic address reads as follows;
In the restoration to the hurch OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop.
ertY confscated under the provisions Of
congressional law; and we favor the
immediate restoration also of the real
property so escheated in view Of the
now lndisputable fact that no pretext
remains for charging that the majority
of the people of Utah are in opposition
to the national authority"
Thus do the democrats of Utah 60 on
record in favor of righting the great
wrong perpetrated on the Mormon
church by a republican national ad'
ministration, and also to the effect that
there should be no further withholding
Of the sum restored by the action of
the democratic administration on the
score of remaining opposition to the
national authority which has been so
loudly charged and SO often reiterated
by the republican people of the north
and east 1t remained for the demo
cratic representative in congress to
formulate this act Of simple justice to
the church and to the democratic con-
Rress to pass it, as well as the effort to
quicken action delayed by the ''moral-
ist shriekers" of the republican east. We
are among those who believe that there
are hundreds, nay, thousands of good
Mormon people in the territory, of
republican sympathies, who will be in
fluenced by the graceful concession of
the present democratic congress, as
well as by the correct action of the
democratic convention of Utah, to vote
with their true friends because, alone,
of these two graceful acts,
The democracy of this nation, true to
its faith and policy of liberation, and
especially its religious liberation, has
ever been the friend of the Mormon
people and their church, especially
since the church has gracefully con-
ceeded to the national demand for the
Rbrogation of the tenet of faith tolerat-
ing polygamy. The party has ever
advocated the admission of Utah as a
state even before the action of the
church on that subject. 1t has ever
headed every effort to effect this great
good for the territory, while the only
record republicanism has is of hos
tility bitter and unrelenGing. 1t is
also true that to the general republican
feeling on this subject is due the fact
that this other great measure of justice
is delayed in the senate until after the
passage OF the wilson bill. AS an
evidence of the correctness of this
claim, has anyone ever seen demo
cratic missionary, man or woman, at
work in Utah. And it is claimed in the
east as great republican virtue that
all the returned missionaries in the
east headed the obstructlonists
when the statehood bill had reached
the senate. While patient, fo1bearing
and placable, yet the Mormon people
have memories and will be likely to
vote against the wrongs they have ex-
Derienced at the hands Of the republi-
can party in this way. 1t would be
perfectly right and proper if they did,
and unnatural and ungrateful if they did
not. We naturally vote with those
who reflect our views and against those
who not only do not reflect them,
but who are bitterly opposed to them.
The fact is, none nave forgotten that
the leading organ of the Utah republi-
cans was, but brief time since, the
most bitter blood thirsty and cruel
leader of the enemies of the Mormon
church and people. Will they with
the memory of this bitter hostility
still green, vote with the party whose
champion and mOuth-piece it is today?
They would be queer people indeed if
they were to do so.
This plank like all the remainder
Of those constituting the foundation |
faith of the Utah democrats, is wise,
just and most timely. In the bestowal
of favors it is always well to remem-
Der those distinguished for their
for us rather than those
for their enmity to |
us, their prosecutions and never
ending misrepresentation. For these
reasons it looks queer to see the high
officers and leaders of the Church of !
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ar
'ayed under the banners of the party
which only two years since was its
foe, and which is even now
opposing the admission of the territory
% statehood with its every power.
That sugar trust business wants to