The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-07
ALMA ELDREDeE,s ORGAN.


Alma Eldredge's organ wants B. H.
Roberts sent to jail. 1t is fairly flashing
itself into a fury over moral questions
and legal questions that only worry
it when a campaign is on, and things
are not going its way
Mr.. Eldredge should have his organ
tuned. It jangles. It is playing all its
music backwards these days. Three
years ago it poured out psalms Of
praise and love songs into the ears of
this people" Three years ago it told
how honest and sincere they were; how
rapidly they were adjusting themselves
to changed conditions; how foolish II
was to expect the relations Of life
time to be severed: how wicked to agi-
tate the questions of the past; how such
agitation would keep people and capital
away. and all that But those were
the days when the senatorial bee was
buzzing in our neighbours sanctum.
Probably the bee is sick, or dead, now.
The Eldredge organ doesn't go much
on the people of Utah any more. OF
course. ii makes a hypocritical appeal
to them to help it carry out its bluffs
and threats against the church and
the community, but between the lines
there is all of its old-time hatred of
the people as q whole, for its course is
Inconsistent and its utterances are
manifestly insincere.
1t has supported for high positions
men against whom almost every vice
had been charged. 1t knew the charges
to be true. 1t defended guilt of which
there was no question. 1t exalted i'm
morality, simply because the objects of
its adulation were members of the
party which had secured its services in
those campaigns. And yet, the vicious
thing raises its wicked head to strike
with venomous fanGs a man whose
whole life has been an open book in
Utah; who. as member OF the Nor
mon church. was in polygamy before
the adoption of the manifesto of 1890;
whose relations were unsevered during
the constitutional convention. and
probably remain unchanged, but whose
life and character, aside from this
practice peculiar to his people, are and
have ever been above reproach. Mr..
Eldredge knows this, and his organ
ought to recognize it. and it would ac-
knowledge it, were it not proceeding
on the theory: Anything to beat the
Democrats"
The Republican organ has had a
great deal to say about the constitution
which simply follows the enabling act
in prohibiting plural marriages in the
state. 1t made no reference to exist 1
ing conditions. and. according TO the
debate on the section. the intention of !
the convention was to confine that in
strument to plural marriages only The /
organ also appeals to the manifesto or
pronunciamento of 1890. to justify its /
sudden awakening of this fall There |
was nothing in that but was construed |
by the Republican organ just as Mr.. /
Roberts himself constructs it.
OF that pronunciamento issued by |
the president of the Mormon church" /
our badly twisted contemporary said: |
Again, in considering this matter.
people will not lose sight |
Of the fact that human passions can
not always be killed by a proclama-
ton. or the habits of years made to
ose their influences. Beyond all that,
he matter of faith was not touched
Upon by the pronunciamento. IT
WENT ONLY TO THE POINT OF
PLURAL MARRIAGES. WHICH HAD /
BEEN TAUGHT AS a HOLY SAC
2AMENT, MUST NOT HEREAFTER
BE SOLEMNIZED We believe that
he rule then laid down has been as
iacredly kept by THIS PEOPLE as it
would have been by any other people;
hat the Mormons and Gentiles have a
light to say that the change amounts
o a transformation"
That change has been going on ever
ince 1880. In the meantime the Re
publican organ has supported polygam-
SITS for one Office and another They
lave never been objectionable except
IS their names appear on Democratic
icllets; and even then the matter has
-lways been overlooked, because the
rgan was working with this people"
or one purpose or another, until this
all, when it proposed amy combina-
ion to beat the Democrats out of their
,oots."
1t is now having a spasm of alleged
but the motive behind it is
Questionable, and the only object
ought, as has been confessed, is any
hing to beat the Democrats"
SPEAK UP, MR.. ELDREDGE.