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Show MAD AS A MARCH HAKE. It was Agnppa, we believe, who said to Paul on one interesting occa sion: "Much learning: hath made thee mad." That was all right, but when it was followed by the declaration "almost "al-most thou persuadest me to be a christian," christ-ian," we begin to doubt Agrippa's entire en-tire sincerity. The Herald has crammed cram-med on the subject of equal suffrage to euch an extent that we really fear it, if it has not gone mad entirely, is unbalanced, un-balanced, a bit wlooney" as it were. , "Wanders thiough" and "attempted reply" are both ' exasperating and profound pro-found arguments. We are profoundly affetted by the strength of the argument argu-ment and stand before the logic advanced, ad-vanced, amazed at the task before us. We fear that the Herald is not altogether alto-gether frank when it says The Dis-PATCH Dis-PATCH claimed that with the president's presi-dent's aversion to silver, "when the east come6 to act, our suffrage constitution constitu-tion will be contemptuously returned to us." That is a trick in debate unworthy un-worthy of the Herald. Had it wished to be iair in any sense it would haye quoted the paragraph. Just as its quotation stands in its issue of Wednesday Wed-nesday of course it it is ridiculous. The Herald intended it to be so, but the whole argument could not be answered, eo tbe Herald divided it and then went in and demolished it. We showed clearly, we think, why the east opposes the admission of Utah; we also showed clearly why that section would attempt to prevent the issuance of the president's presi-dent's proclamation, -without which Utah cannot be admitted. We also made clear the probable motives of the president and gave good reasons for our belief that he would go rather more than half way to greet the objections ob-jections of the east, and act upon them. It is not necessary to Bay one word more. If the Herald had published pub-lished both articles in full we would not now be justified in saying another word, and would not do it. The east hates silver, so does the president. presi-dent. To Ue liatred of Bilver the east adds a bitter, intense and long cherished cher-ished hatred of the Mormon people on the grounds of polygamy. They move oa tbe president and use the argument , that Utah is a silver state, and her ad mission will add to the strength of the silver forces in congress. This influence influ-ence induces the president to withold the proclamation. Many people can and do see the force of the argument if the Herald does not and cannot. We understand very well that it does not affect his duty under the enabling act, and we undertook to show by the recent re-cent bond transaction that the president presi-dent is, with all ot his many excellencies, excel-lencies, yet a man who can upon occasion oc-casion overlook bis duty in the interests inter-ests of the gold bugs of the section we haye named. We have now stated and restated the matter clearly, but the Herald will call this rambling, doubtless, doubt-less, and perhaps it is, but we are sure that the people will not so reeard it. "No bearing on the duty of the president" pres-ident" dear Herald? We know that as well as the Herald does. It was not of ihat we were writing. It was as to its bearing on the president himself, a rather luely difference we Bhould say, J It the article were separately submitted submit-ted the president could approve the constitution con-stitution and our admission would still be assured, while he could reject the separately submitted equal suffrage article. The Herald may not be able to see this point, or rather, it Will not 1 see it, because "none are so blind as I those who refuse to see." But what authority has the Herald for saying that "if a separate article were submitted sub-mitted it would receive an immense majority yote." if the Herald's confidence con-fidence had been shared by the euff-ragists euff-ragists in the convention, they had mt railroaded the article into the constitution con-stitution with puch ntrvous haste. Nor is the mere assertion borne out by the petitions now flowing into the convention from every part of Utah . asking for a separate submission ot this article. The Btrength of the opponents of equal suffrage has developed to a de- gree not before dreamed of by those foyoring either in or out of the convention. con-vention. It is a revealment. The vast majority of the opponents of suffrage suf-frage are also ardently devoted to statehood and the fear of its defeat by the rejection of the constitution in consequence of the incorporation of the suffrage article, is one of the reasons reas-ons for their attitude, -and one other is the storm of opposition it will excite in the east, which storm will, we fear, so affect the willing president (willing to be affected) that he will fail to iesue the proclamation necessary to complete com-plete the work of statehood. It is charged by the eastern enemies of the Mormon people that without the great majority which suffrage will give them, they do not want statehood. Is the course pursued by the Herald and other equally indiscreet advocates of suffrage calculated to excite or allay thiafear? It is so hard always to see tbe right and also so bard to do it when recognized. We cannot doubt tke desire ot the Herald to do right in this matter, but that desire is bound by hooks of steel to the d Bt judgment judg-ment we ever run up against in life. |