Show AMERICAN liberalism depend upon it liberal newspapers that profess an ardent love for cormons mormons Mor mons are if ever to be trusted if they really love the mor mons or even admire them they will have nothing to do with the so called liberal party and will certainly not claim to be both liberal and independent to one who is fully informed on the political situation in utah and especially with the history of the self styled liberal party the profession of either men or newspapers i that they are both liberal and in dependent is ex tremley absurd A liberal cannot in the very nature of of the term as interpreted in this territory be independent nor a truly independent man be a liberal when you see a man or a newspaper declaring himself or itself to be independent and not liberal and stays with it yon may trust him but when he claims he s the one and the other look bouc for him he is not to be trusted any more if as much as the man or the sheet that rights the peoples party solely under tho banner of utah liberalism now there is a sheet weekly at that published in american fork that has sought to make capital from the commencement of its existence out of its professed independence and yet its course today to day only demonstrates mon strates the correctness of our ouri i theory as above announced it was independent as long as the seeming contributed to its support an election however is the TEST and whenever that comes along it is impossible for a liberal to wear the mask of independence any longer somehow or other an election in which one party or the other is to secure supremacy invariably draws the line of demarcation and compels the dropping of the mask lu the case of the american fork independent the critical time has evidently arrived and off comes the mask of course the outfit has up to the present time pretended to be independent though liberal it has argued that is could be both at one and the same time the peoples party for whom it has so long pretended friendship aud who have given it nearly all the support it has received begin to realize how they had been deceived the en kniber warned them loog ago some people believed in our theory others did not they were so desirous of having a paper of their own no matter what its politics might broye to be or what it might cost them or abo party they were with american fork is in consequence of the course pursued by its independent newspaper and the disaffected crowd who are in league with it likely to be th scene of a vexatious vexations political struggle ou monday next the peoples party should however to a man sit down most vigorously on the attempt to divide than at the polls there is nothing liberal or independent after the manner ol 01 liberalism that can compare with the grave principles of the peoples party sink down deep your personal or imaginary grievances rather than help by even one vote to place in power an element that as sure as the son shines at noon would rob you of ayery vestige of liberty you now enjoy there is no doubt in our mind that abo 0 d people of american fork perfectly understand the character and purpose of the move ment now on foot and that they will at the proper time completely annihilate it but then let the past be a sufficient warning to them so that none may hereafter imagine they can trust either men or newspapers of tho liberal persuasion |