The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Keep Up the Battle.

Civ Judge Goodwin delivered the following adj
dress
For two wears after Utah obtained statehood
there was great peace in Salt Lake and all over the
state People seemed to feel that all the old troubles
we're passed, that henCeforth hand IN hand and heart
TO heart all could go forward toward building up the
state without any local dssens1ons and no divisions
save such party lines. Many who are still
here remember the time how sweet the peace seemed
to be- how exultant everyone was that the Old
difficulties had passed away and that Utah, coming
out of the commissions Of the previous forty years,
was in truth real American state. We counted on
the honors that would to the state; all knew
something of its resources and what would follow
when united people should develop them. we
claimed for Utah that it to be- if not already the
BRIGHTEST star in the whole galaxy of the union and
world when the flood passed away and Gods bow,
spanning the heavens, was promise that no more
such calamties should come, and that nothing would
be in the way of mans advancement and the worlds
Improvement for all the years to
If things have changed since it becomes us to look
for the cause and, considering everything, of the
American party plead not guilty, and for proof we
offer that we stand where did all the time,
simply for liberty in its highest sense; simply for the
equal rights of men in Utah and for an open held,
where all might peacefully strive in generous compel
ton for success. That peace was brought about be-
cause the chiefs of the church of Jesus Christ OF Lat
ter Day Saints had promised to the president to con-
gress and to the country that hencetorth nothing
should be put in the path of their people which
would prevent their being in every sense true and
loyal and absolutely free Americans we have brok-
en- no pledges SINCE but pledges have been broken
We have sought to deceive no one since, but decep,
ton has become the rule the part OF those opposed
to u.s. We tried for several years, by petition and
by remonstrance, to make the high priests OF this
institution here return the fulhllment OF their
promises We tried until we realized that 1t was all
in vain and the fact was absolutely plain that the
pledges they made intended to deceive; that
they pretending to be the ministers OF the only true
church. in the furtherance of their schemes deEb-
o5a to the
states which they did not mean to keep, and cast
deliberate insult upon not only two presidents ana
two congresses, but upon the whole people OF the
United States and at the same time showed their
utter disdan and contempt for the Gent1les OF Utah.
who had enabled them to secure statehood Ihetruth
of this no honest man will doubt and then we came
face to face with manifest duty Individually we
might have let it pass; individually we might have
said it is not worth WHILE better spend the few days
of lives in peace than to try to stem this hood OF
treason and nastiness which had begun again to
flow but American citizen, II true cuZeI, Call
not shirk any of those duties. ,
The Americans of Utah part Of the custodlans
of the trust handed down by the fathers from the
beginning; who gave to us this free government VINO
decreed that every man should have the same rights
under the flag; who gave us for Our protection the
ballot and with it the injunction that that ballot
must be kept pure, and this obligation being upon u.s.
it links us with the who framed our government
It fixes our place in the upward sweep OF the repuD
lie and will link with all the generations OF
Americans that to succeed us, and the record
cannot down THAT VIC, SuSlOdleio ~ LILO 1900
Were lax in our duties and permitted treason to
strengthen its hold and to build its trumphaf arches
in Utah without one protest from US We may be
fighting losing fight; it may require one or TWO
enerofone VET TO break the thra1dom of the Mormon
geope and to get them to understand that they of
right are free and that when they do not exercise
that right they are untrue alike to their country and
to themselves But that does not matter When the
battle is on it is not nfrequent for general to send
forward column, knowing in advance that 1t Will
be annihilaed but realizing that it is necessary TO
Il Al nd TO
victory We are still the sappers and miners OF the
column it is our duty to storm well as we can the