Show ROBBERY iRE JKEASOX The Evil Deed Perpetrat in Great Haste SALT LAKE CITY January 151337 To the Editor of THE HECALD As a matter of course the chief topic onst now is that monstrous bill which passed through the House of Representatives Represen-tatives in the indecent haste in which evil deeds are generally done but which ran against a snag in the Senate While thieves fall out honest men still hold their own The pain and only purpose of that bill is downright robbery It was designed purposely and solely to rob the very great majority of the citizens of the Territory of their rights and give them to the small minority It was designed to despoil the conscien tious citizens and give the spoils to the conscienceless party The whole business busi-ness is a wolfish one from beginning to end No honest man could vote for I such a bill None but an unprincipled and reckless legislature could pass such a bill I do not believe such an L infamous bill could pass through any legislature in Christendom except in these United States In Europe liberty is growing stronger and healthier every year In ths country she is growing weaker sicklier and more puny The passage of the Edmund ruckcr by the House is one of the most deadly blows I she has ever received If liberty is ever slain it will be in the house of her friends her professed friends To all others she hnr < j a rtlinrmori liTn Tlnf I false friendship is a fatal thing Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss It has been said that nowhere but among the Jews who claimed to be the favored 1 people of heaven could the Savior l of the world I have been crucified t > o if liberty is ever slain it will be in this boasted land of liberty and grievous things to say I the danger of such a tragedy ii imminent immi-nent roe House was in a desperate hurry to take that fatal step The fatr minded man feels ashamed of his country when confronted with such u spectace o The higher law caused i te aoolition ofslavery and now Congress I seems infamously anxious to restore slavery by abolishing the higher law Let us hope that better things will happen hap-pen though it be apparently hoping against hope SALT LAKER |