The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-02
HERALD Calendar for April.
UNwISE ALLUSIoNS.

The Herald is not in sympathy with
1he remarks on either side of the suff-
rage controversy which tend to revive
the old issue between the former Lib
erai and Peoples parties. The terms
Nfo-mon and Gentle, we consider out
of place in the convention and extran-
eous to the question under debate.
References to the religious status or
ecclesiastical position of delegates is all
wrong There has been much to pro-
woke it and the resentment displayed
was very natural under the circum-
stances. but it should not have been
expressed in the terms which have
been employed. Mr.. Raleigh was right;
delegates came to the convention as
Democrats and Republicans. not as
Mormons or anti-Mormons.
This feature of the decision was
brought out by the concealed venom Of
the minority report. It was inspired
by thai old spirit that animated the
extreme Liberal faction, and which
fingered long in the breasts Of those
who refused at first to affiliate with
the divided portions of the Peoples
party 1t breathed distrust and con-
veyed suspicion. It was insulting to
the enfranchised men as well as the
disfraachised women.
That is what started the rolling Of
the ball That is what stirred up a fire
which it was hoped was quenched for
ever The minority report declared that
soI, go
widespread fear That notion springs
from the impression that the circle in
which the writer's and signers move
is ''the world" The fear exists
among a very few as a fact, and is
pretended by a number of others to
whom it is fiction but answers a pur-
pose.
There is a clique which desires to de-
feat statehood. 1t would resort to ex-
treme measures to accomplish it. Those
who compose it cram into ears that
will listen all sorts Of imaginary evils
TO follow the admission of Utah into
the Union. They judge the
majority by their own stand
ard. They cannot believe that
the people whom they declare they dis
trust would be fairer and more just
than themselves. That is where they
are mistaken. There are thousands OF
people in Utah who occupy higher
plane of justice TO their fellow men
than some of their detractors are cap
able of reaching OF compromising
Be this as it may, the illusions TO
church matters we regard as in bad
taste. whether coming from Democrats
or Republicans, from ex-Liberals or
former members of the Peoples party.
We look upon the intimations that the
dominant church here will exercise po-
iticaI sway till it amounts to tyranny,
as an old assumption revamped for
present duty; and whether it refers to
influence over men or women as Vot-
ers. to be utterly unwarranted and
baseIess. There is nothing in it, and
we find ii difficult to think that any
sensible man believes it.
But It should have been answered
briefly and promptly and then dis
missed. The illusions TO church mat
terg. ecclesiastical usages and author
CIV. and other things regarded by many
people as sacred. were not in good
taste. some of them were tinged with
q hue bordering on the profane, and
all of them have given rise to exagger-
ated reports and MISREPRESENTATION,
Of which those who were the original
cause of the contention have
not been slow TO take advantage
II is IL be hoped that such remarks
will be avoided during the remaining
mart of the convention Better get
down to real work. Today it is de-
sired that the grafton business will be
wound up. It is Tine a vote was
taken on the question which has been
so worldly discussed. And let all re-
ference to ecclesiastical affairs be
dropped, and purely secular business
ne carried on in a SECULAR way. Do
not allow the old strife 10 be revived.
Let tbs changed conditions" be per-