Show THE CRANKINESS OF IT r 1 rile Position of the Rule or Ruin Organ THE CASE OF GEO Q CANNON Illustrating the Old Saw Youll be Damned IT You Do and be Damned If You Dont To the Editor of THE HERALD In relation to some statements made in the Salt Lake Tribune of September 19th I beg leave to say that there was a general impression that George Q Gan non could not obtain a fair trial the statement in the above named sheet to the contrary notwithstanding It is well known that segregation was an established tact and already many Mormons had been sent to prison 6n from two to four segregation counts the counsel for the defense holding before be-fore Judge Zane that if this construction construc-tion of the law could be held that segregation could be carried to the alarming extent of making a count for every day in the year to all of which the judge made no denial but always held the defendant on every count and punished hm accordingly until that inferior court in Washington reversed 1 versed the decisions of the superior I courts of Utah and Idaho and expressed ex-pressed it and enforced it as their opinion opin-ion that cohabitation was a continuous offense and that segregation was entirely en-tirely wrong the Utah Supreme Court to the contrary notwithstanding Mr William H Dickson who was the supreme prosecutor of the land at that time had been hard to boast that he would send George Q Cannon to prison for seven and a half years and there is no person no not even the editors cf the Tribune who would even dare to say for a moment that Mr Dicksons word was not law before Judge Zanes court at the time of Mr Cannons arrest in 1886 and his bring ing home from Nevada by Marshal Ireland with all the pomp of war The sheet goes on to state that to admit ad-mit this would imply that other trials held here in the past were not fair That is what every honest rightthink ing man will readily imply and admit that very many trials under the Ed munds law against Mormons were held in a spirit of unfairness and some of them touched at least upon vindictiveness vindictive-ness and cruelty That George Q Cannon ever did council the then chief of police to do something which had it been carried out would have precipitated wholesale riot and murder in these streets is in keeping with the rest of the bald headed statements of the sheet and is I utterly and wholly a lie and of an ilk and brotherhood with the statements contained in the paper when it mentions any of the leading citizens of Utah The sheet goes on to state He came in merely on a bargain A bargain bar-gain with whom The sheet infers that the bargain was made with Judge Sand ford or Attorney Peters or both and then says that Judge Sandford has been oannonized by the Mormon Church To bargain before hand how much martyrdom he shall receive Bargain with whom I a ain ask Who has been bargained with According to Webster the word means to make contract con-tract or conclusive agreement to transfer trans-fer for a considerations etc Now will the tribune please tell us how much Mr Cannon paid for the how much martyrdom he was going to receive and to whom he made the payment A bargain always takes two to make it binding When a bargain is thus made something is pledged or given from one party to another for a valuable consideration consid-eration Does the sheet then mean that Judge Sandfords decision in the Cannon case has been influenced by a bargain or sale That the judge has received money in advance for his decision de-cision or to influence his decision I want the Tribune to answer yes or no You either do or do not intend the above influence Mr Tribune now what is your meaning this I think that if Cononel Broadhead ever made a statement accredited to him in the Iribune of the 19th last he certainly reterred to the fraternity on the SaltLake Tribune only I see also further expressions of opinions in the sail e issue A A Noon of Provo says its an eDiphany and job ery in the interests of Statehood Who is A A Noon anyhow A well known Mormon has been looking for ito Who is this well known Mormon H A Keyes says it makes him tired Now there is na decent person in all this country but will readily say give Dokatest General Agramonte thinks about right It is a good time now no doubt to sell International Company lands in Mexico to disgusted Gentiles and if he had said to disgusting Gentiles then we would have exclaimed at once let the whole Tribune clique invest and move immediately onto their investment Last but not least wno is Christian Sentiment Does the Salt Lake Tribune voice the said Christian sentiment senti-ment If so when I Was it at the time when it made the statement that to see young Mormon men visiting whisky saloons and houses of illfame dens of infamy and following the wildest wild-est of habits gave them the Tribune editors great joy for it convinced them that said young Mormons were struggling upwards to the Tribunelevel and that they were breaking away from the power of the Mormon priesthood priest-hood or was it when they advocated the taming loose of the guns at Fort Douglas upon the people of this city II or was it Mr Editor when they were posing before General Ben Butler as martyrs in the Christian cause maintaining main-taining as they declared a Christian publication in this Mormon Territory at i he risk of their own lives By the by General Butlers reply to the soreheaded fellows was characteristic character-istic of the plain blunt honest old soldier that he is He said to them I have solved the problem for you Christian reformers Your only recourse course that I can suggest if for you to move away entirely from such a bad people as you represent the Mormons to be Or was it voicing the Christian sentiment senti-ment of tho country when it published the Bishop West falsehood or when it raised its voice in thunder tones against the punishment of treacherous men who were caught in the very act of harlotry and prostitutionbecause the men belonged to its own party Mr Tribune you exclaimed in your Christian Chris-tian zeal now let these prosecutions stop or the whole country will be ruined SALINA SALT LAKE CITY September 1888 |