The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-05
CLEVELAND AND THE WEST.


President Cleveland, in the course
OF his remarks at the Presbyterian
meeting in Carnegie Music Hall. New
York, held in the interest of the Home
Missions of that church, said:
No one charged with the duties and
responsibilities which necessarily weigh
upon your chief executive can fail to
appreciate the Importance of religious
teachlnSs and Christian endeavor in
the newly settled portions of our vast
domain 1t is there where hot and
stubborn warfare between the forces
OF good and evil is constantly invited
In those days the vanguard of occupa-
ton In a new settlement is never with
out its vicious and criminal element
Gambling houses and dram shops are
frequently among the first establish
ments In new community. It must
also be confessed that removal from
old homes and associations to nesW. and
more primitive homes has a tendency
among honest and respectable settlers
to smother scruples and freed evils in
different to Christianizing and elevat-
ing agencies. These conditions. if I'M
checked, fix upon the new community
by their growth and expansion a char
acter and growth which, while danger
Gus to peace and order in the early
lIlCO
ly regulated municipalities, corrupt and
unsafe territories, and undesirable
states. These are serious considera-
tons in a country where the peonle
good or bad are it's rulers, because the
conditions to which I would have re
ferred would certainly meanace within
a circle constantly charging the safety
and welfare OF the entire body polite.
II we would not hope that churches
and religious teachings would from the
first be on the ground to oppose the
evil influences that are apt to pervade
the beginning of organized commune
ties.
These churches and this religious
teaching We're never more needed than
now, on our distant frontiers. where
the process of forming new states is
gong on so rapidly, and where new
corners who are to be the citizens of
new states are so rapidly gathering to-
gether''
If we remember Alright, President
Grover Cleveland has never been west
Of the Mississippi, and If we were IN
acquainted with that fact we Should
almost be able to swear such was the
case from the tone of his remarks.
They clearly indicate the Presidents
prejudice against the communities of
the new states, and it is manifest that
he looks upon the west as but half
civilized, and that even the removal Of
honest and respectable people from
the eastern states to the west results
in the smothering of scrupIes and
breeds evils Indifferent to Chris
TANNING and elev4ting agencies!
In his remarks the President of
the United States insults the American
citizens of the west; and though 1t is
done through ignoranceg it is not ex-
cusable on that account. The President
of the United States ought not to be
ignorant. The people of the west are
not half savages. nor do they stand
more in need of the civilizing agencies
of the Presbyterian church than other
parts Of our country. We undertake
to say that there is more wickedness.
cussedness, brutality, drunkenness. de-
bauchery, whoredoms, murder. hypoc-
risy. smothered scruples, and unmiti-
gated heathenism in the single city
where Grover Cleveland made his silly
and Insulting speech than in all the
communities within the new states of
the west. Though President Cleveland
is unacquainted with the people of the