The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-13
A CONTEMPORARIES HONESTY.

To the Editor of The Herald:
L wonder if you could spare little space
Tor some of the thoughts that occupy the
minds of a number OF Utah's citizens at
the present time.
1t seems that the organ of the would be
ret0rmerS of Utah is again suffering from
the effects of one of It's periodical spells
trust, sir, that the people of Utah have
become so accustomed to its rawlings that
they Will continue on the even tenor of
their way. l take il. sir, that it viii rot
be necessary TO go into details, for the
reading public OF Utah, as well as the
adjoining states and territories, are IA
mlllar with the writings and contortions
and exploits of this journalistic acrobat
When one looks back at its record of
infamy and tries to harmonic its incon-
sistent course we are led to think and
wonder what was there behind the cur
tain as the crime moving cause or the
various chalaes that the public have wit
messed in the hast few years.
Many Of the older members of So
ciety well remember what it advocated
some twenty years ago-the opening OF
gambling dens and other elevating re-
sorts, such as houses of designation. Any
thing to free the young men who had
been chained and held Gown by the OBJ
Servance of those grand and moral truths
taught them by the most devoted of low
ing mothers. The fact is too painfully
apparent in many ruined home where
some Maynard son may have followed
this beguiling but bighting advice. And
the holding up to ridicule the most sacred
principle for which their parents had sac
ritced all the comforts of their former
homes and friends.
Following the devious trail of this high
~ moral oracle down its serpentine
course. we well remember its frantic APP
pealS to young Utah after the division on
party lines to show their manhood by
voting for some grand character who
had not become motheaten or mossbacked
Every patriotic citizen contemplates
with satisfaction and pride the good re-
suits that have followed the division on
party lines, and there is scarcely any one
that questions the sincerity of all con-
cerned in that division. III any fault can
be found at al it lies in the fact of
some having taken the matter 100 seri-
ously to heart, engendering in some, feel
ings that are not soon allayed.
But. sir. how has this question been
treated by the organ? 1t judges every
one by its own standard of veracity and
still heralds to the world its false charge
that the Mormons from the venerable
president down to the least member are
fidence of those who have befriended and
assisted them in their hour of need. 1t
is sowing the seeds again as was done a
few years ago, when II and its friends
were the chief inStgators of what proved
10 be one of the most thrilling chapters
that this people has been called upon to
massacre, that took place in the state of
Tennessee. The writer was wildly re-
minded the other day of what happened
upon that occasion, when the lamented
prime of life. Martyr sons, who. like
hundreds more that have been called
upon, were vending their way to fill
what they fondly hoped to be an honored
mission. Think of the hundreds of homes
in our fair state, as well in the sur
states and territories, which
contain vacant chairs, and the thoughts
of an absent son will cause many an
anxious mother to offer a silent prayer
that God will bless and preserve her alb
sent son from the mobocratic flames that
this organ of the pretended, but hypocrit-
ical friend of Utah would start To show
the inconsistency of this great pretender.
we need only recall the frantic efforts
in behalf of Roberts in 1895 1t almost
succeeded in convincing some people that
il was about to SuperSede the News rs
the church organ. At least il was ac-
cepted by some as being semi official
Two years ago it championed the cause
of a Democratic candidate not because
it loved Caesar more and the state less
but because it could secure some cheap !
fuel to increase its flame After pushing
matters to the extreme limit. 1t abandoned
the man of its choice during that heated
contest and. on the 18th of March, 1897
ii notified Utah's distinguished Democrat
that only four days remained in which a !
contest notice could be served in the
United States senate. and demanded 10
know what was going to be done about
il. Think of the devotion and uDSelhsh |
solictude of Republican organ in behalf |
Of a gentleman VINO is recognized as one |
Of the leading and uncompromising DEM |
1crats of our state. There has been lull |
for a few months so far as Utah local |
interests were concerned.
IL has again undertaken the unenviable |
task of setting its neighbor's house in |
order and has partially succeeded in en- |
listing the support of a number of So |
calied divines in our fai rState. And this |
grand and highly moral combination is |
ending air in what may be termed a holy |
pr rather unholy crusade. with a view of |
the distinguished citizen whom |