Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-01
UP, GUARDS, AND AT THEM.

To the Editor:
Red-faced Rob is blue-eyed. tender,
strong and true. All the time, seven
days a week and fifty-two weeks
year. he stands by conscience and fol-
lows her call with unfaltering fidelity.
lie does this not because he fears hell
fire in the dim unknown, but because
his nature possesses a strong tendency
to the right. He would not be bad
man under any circumstances. But
he is not without bias-not that he
was cut bias. or anything of that sort,
In the making. His mental faculties
are slow, perhaps, and he may not
think fast enough before tomorrow to
see that he has been duped. Yet that
is what has happened to him.
Saturday he said to me: 80 you're
monarchist, are your"
what is the matter now7'
"Why. see you're working for this
bankers party"
What bankers?'
30. Blank and Blank. You'll see II
that Citizens ticket is elected they
will run the city"
MY dear Rob- that is all the swim
ding cant Of vealy orators who know
that the Reform ticket ought to be
elected, yet. true calves that they are.
they have been bunting the bag of the
public cow so long that they dare not
do right lest they be compelled to
rustic for a living. suppose that the
two men you have named have any de-
sign of attempting to control the city
government; where will they begin?
In their own political party where are
the men with whom they have worked
In the past and in whose ranks are
the very men they could control? To
say that those two men could control
the hundreds of men who are the
motive power of the Reform movement
would be as idiotic as to assert that
Grover Cleveland. Carlisle and Sher-
man would Join the Silver party in
1900 In order to control Bryan In the
interest of the gold standard. Messrs.
Blank and Blank are men who, like
every person Interested in the in
auguration of the reform work. began
poor and have acquired their means by
long and careful industry. Men are
working in the Reform ranks to save
what they have gathered from the
horse leech Of taxation. The more
they possess the greater the need of
save their own they work at the same
time and IN the same way to save the
homes of those who fortunately have
not so much to lose, that is not
crime to be charged against them, but
an act that should be remembered to
their credit. The fact is, all this rot
about the sinister motives of the Re-
formers comes chiefly from those who
have nothing to lose and whose only
hope Of gain is through increasing
political and social corruption. Think
IL over, Rob-
AN right, I Will. but why do they
want us to desert our partles?"
THAT is more sweetenod water to
catch political flies. The fact is, and
you know II just as well MS ! do, there
is nothing In that appeal hut an effort
to prevent tho reform work from vim
ming the election. You know II would
| be just MS reasonable to maintain that
| n n Presbyterian or Methodist or Bap-
list or Catholic voted for a Mormon he
would be hetrayng his own church as
| II Is to claim that Democrats or Re-
| publicans cannot vote the Citizens Re
| form ticket without deserving their
| own parties. There would be Just as
| much sense IN hlatherlng orntions to
/ the effect that n Mormon who voted for
| n Gentle could not thereafter he n
! Mormon as there is in this pampered
| lie uttered by lying partisnns that no
/ Democrat or Republican can ever again
| be o Democrat or Republican after
/ voting for reform In the city govern
! meut. II their assumption were true it
! could only be true because the success
! OF the reform work would so soon be-
I como apparent that the old parties
| could no longer ba maintained on their
/ pro 7ont low lovel and wond be com
! PEELED 10 reform themselves to prevent
] tholr annlhil9flnn. II that should
! happen, Bob, you would be one Of the
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