Show WOULD IT PLEASE THEM In concluding a piteous wail over the prospect of the law in Utah being administered ad-ministered fairly and a distinction made between prosecution and persecution persecu-tion tho Tnlune Tuesday morning asked How would tho brethren like to have the President or the Attorney General come here and look on a month or jo It would please us well for that month we are convinced would be the waning moon of polygamous and law defying Mormonism The Tribune scribe was oil his guard when he asked the above question and then claimed would please the Tribune well Grief for its fallen heroes has 20 swollen its eyes that it cannot see afar off Sorrow has dulled its senses In its angry mood it forgets the past and stabs itself Listen friend Not quite a year ago on the 2d of May A D 18S5 monster mass meetings were held in Salt Lake City and in the principal towns and villages throughout the entire en-tire Territory to ratify a statement of the wrongs under which the people of Utah were suffering and to protest against the high handed actions of Federal officials That statement of grievances and protest was unanimously adopted at these massmeetingsthat document became the voice of the people Its closing paragraph ran as follows We respectfully ask for the appointment by the President of a commission com-mission to fairly and thoroughly investigate in-vestigate the Utah situation and pending pend-ing its report we solemnly protest against the continuance of this merciless merci-less crusade A committee was appointed to go to Washington and present this statement and protest to the President it did so Again On the 6th of last March the Tribune will perhaps remember that a massmeeting of the women of Utah was called and met on that day in the Theatre at Salt Lake City Over 2000 ladies of the highest respectability were present They condemned the cruel and unwarranted actions of certain United States officials andsent a committee com-mittee to Washington to present their grievances to Congress Their memorial memo-rial was presented to Congress on the 6th of the present month In its closing paragraph we find this We plead fur a suspension of all measures until a commission duly and specially authorized to make a full inquiry in-quiry into the affairs of this Territory have Investigated and reported In reply then to our uneateemed morning costenas query as to how the brethren would like to have the President or AttorneyGeneral come to Utah and Jookon month on a at the proceedings pro-ceedings here we tbiak weconld answer It would please them welL Tire HERALD would bid them welcome or any committee they might appoint in answer to the petitions of the people for a commission with authority to fully investigate the wrongs of which the people complain If such investigation investi-gation would please the Tribune j how Is it that that paper has not joined with the people in urging the appointment I appoint-ment of an investigating commission We dont believe the fTr btuie is in earnest when it iatltnatca thai an in I Tfitigatkw Utah affairsweald pleas I tit well Instead of being convinced that such investigation would be a death blow to Mormonlsm it iI fears it would result in writing halt across the fare of the carpetbag rule in Utah And carpetbag rule extinguished In Utah the press that has supported it defended its outraged and foncht for its contiiuanre would sit down in sickcloth and ashes and wail its occupation gone |