| Show J HOLDING UPMIIRROR n g Wherein Some Liberals May Sec Themselves as Others See Them AN OLD SALT LAKERS VIEWS Omaha and Salt Lake Compared Remarkable Remark-able Eastern Winter Pome on La Grippe r TROY N Y Jan JSpec correspondence corre-spondence of THE HEBALDJ THE CHRISTMAS CHRIST-MAS HERALD is at band It is a splendid illustration of western push and enterprise enter-prise both in general makeup and in the advertisements and is a great credit to its originators and promoters I have as yet had leisure merely to look through its columns col-umns in a cursory manner but even in this hurried glance at its contents THE MOST NOTICEABLE ARTICLES to my mind were the review of the years that have passed by George Q Cannon and the editorial ulon Judge Anderson and Mormon Treason Both clear forcible forci-ble and logical they expose the weakness of the positions assumed by the Liberal k gang and their conclusions are irresistible because of the solid foundations upon L which they rest The article by President Cannon should make many a Liberal blush I with shame as he reads the stinging words eloquent with the impress of historical truth and picturing in vivid colors the persecutions from which the Mormon people have suffered and which are so disgraceful to the boasted liberality and civilization of the nineteenth century Can any man calmly and without prejudice study the history of the Mormons and then join hands with the Baskins and McBrides the vultures and tanatics to continue the abuse and persecution that have so long been heaped upon this people Read again THE WORDS OF PRESIDENT CANNON L The ingenuity of their enemies have vTiecn shown in formulated charges of stealing steal-ing swindling immorality murder rebellion L rebel-lion and at last treason They were mobbed and plundered before they came into possession i pos-session of and made beautiful their lovely gathering spot Nauvoo They were hunted and driven by bloodthirsty men before they developed and made homes in the Great Basin An army was sent acainst them to exterminate them before they came into the prosperity which attended the building of the railroad 1 They had to suffer imported officials hostile legislation fines imprisonment and finally denial of the elective franchise be fore their cities came to be regarded throughout the continent as desirable places to live models of sobriety synonymous synonym-ous with health beauty wealth and good order Their members have been v ROBBED MURDERED DRIVEN IMPRISONED and deprived of the common richts for which the patriots bled and died Disgraceful record of the inhumanity of men And the scathing editorial review of Judge Andersons decision may well bo read considered and inwardly digested by that mission jurist with profit to himself particularly the closing paragraph from Maoaulay To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrine with him that he will commit a crime is persecution and is in every case foolish and wicked Macaulays life was a life of honor devoted de-voted to noble ideas and he loved justice He could not look calmly on oppression Every outrage hurt him like a personal outrage and whoever attacked liberty became be-came his enemy I THE LEADERS or THE UTAH LIBERALS could profitably spend hours every day communing with Macauley and Carlyle if their brains were equal to the absorption of such grand ideas By this means they might in time be brought to realize how great frauds they are But if they will not thus profit and are determined to continue their crusade of plunder and persecution why stop at such trifles as demanding merely possession by appointment of all the terri tonal offices down to schootosuperinten aenta and assessors Why does not Governor Thomas continue in the path of Alva and request authority also to appoint Liberal midwives for each election district dis-trict so as to enroll all males at birth and compel them to imbibe Liberal doctrine sr with their mothers milk I Why not also demand the power to appoint officers to I keep watch at every administration of the sacrament in order to CONFISCATE THE PROPERTY of every communicant of the Mormon church I And let him demand too of Congress special legislation empowering the levy of 1 per cent tax upon all Mormon property real and personal 5 percent upon every transfer of real estate by Mormons and 10 per cent upon every article of merchan dise or personal property sold by a member of the church of Latterday Saints the proceeds pro-ceeds to be distributed among the Liberals These measures would prove decisively efficacious in disciplining the recalcitrant saints who now do so much kicking at the i plucking and plundering to which they are 1r Oxpected to submit smilingly l and with thanks I xnere is one little bit of evidence which we look for in vain in the proceedings of the Anderson inquisition or in his essay upon Mormon doctrines This is an extract from AX ADDRESS BY DANIEL H WELLS at the celebration of the fourth anniversary of the advent of the Mormons to Salt Lake valley This would follow very appropriately appropri-ately Andersons diatribe over the rejoic ings upon the release of said Wells from contemptible imprisonment In this ad dress President Wells said It has been thought by some that this people abused maltreated insulted robbed plundered murdered and finally disfranchised and ex patriated woulb naturally feel reluctant to again unite their destiny with the American republic No wonder it was thought by somo that wo would not again submit ourselves even while we were yet scorned and ridiculed to return to our allegiance to our native country Remem 6 her that it was by the act of our country rA not ours that we were expatriated and then consider the opportunity we had o forming other ties Let this pass while we lift the veil and show ruB POLICY VHICn DICTATED US That country that constitution those institutions weie all ours they are still ours Our fathers were heroes of the revolution Under the master spirits of an Adams a Jefferson and a Washington they declared and maintained their independence inde-pendence Because demagogues have arisen and seized the reins of power should We relinquish our interest in that country made dear to us by every tie of association and consanguinity Tnose who have iadulgedthoso sentiments senti-ments concerning us have not read Mormonism Mor-monism aright for never no never will jve desert our countrys cause never will vwe be found arrayed by the side of her J enemies although she herself may cherish them in her own bosom Although they may launch forth the thunderbolts of war I which may return and spend their furj npon their ownheads never no never will we permit TUE WEAKNESS OF HCSIAX NATURE to triumph over our love of country our devotion to her institutions banded down to us by honored sires made dear by a thousand recollections It would be pleasant to read as patriotic I sentiments from the lips of a mission jurist who novertheles considers himself duly qualified to sit in judgment upon the patri otism of the Mormon people animated as all disinterested observers must admit them to be by the most thoroughly proven patriotism and loyalty to the country of their birth or adoption J The coming charter election in Salt Lake city will be watched with interest in the country at large as well ss at home That in time the antiMormon vote may outnumber outnum-ber the vote of the Saints is scarcely to be disputed but such a consummation is not to be looked for at present Should the Liberals succeed ati this time it will be a great surprise AX 1STE ZED GENTlIlS TR1KXD in Salt Lake city writinrme a few months ago said Weare havinga rapid growth here now Wo expect to carry the February Feb-ruary election against the brethren for city officers in which case tve will have a second Omaha and you wont know they cit the-y the next time you come here This enthusiastic friend is full of business enterprise en-terprise and he is a hustler Ho believes the brethren somewhat slow Perhaps they arc But the tendency ot the age is to go too fast and it is nol a bad plan togo to-go slow and plant your foundations deep and broad and strong before you begin io loom ahead I dot no do-t believe my friend realized the situation at Omaha when he predicted that Salt Lake City would be another Omaha if the Liberals should carry the February election The Omaha Bee in a recent issue gave thefollowing picture of the situation in that city Omaha is lull of enterprise that has two sides to ii It is estimated that it will cost 50000 to operate the S machinery of the city government this year This is equal to a tax of 330 for every man woman and child within the S city limits OX TOl OF THIS CAME II hundreds of thousands of dollars levied on propert owners for grading paving sewerage and permanent improvements 5 I It is not surprising that the taxpayers are calling a halt on extravagance and I grumbling loudly Extravagance is as bad as penuriousness The happy medhim should be struck With such a picture of the loveliness of E of falselystyled enterprise at Omaha I do not imagine my friend would wish to crowd the brethren quite so fast if he looked for its inauguration in Zion He is not of the boodle class He is neither a vulture nor a fanatic An old ohI resident he has accumulated a handsome little property which Liberal administration administra-tion would soon dissipate Metropolitan airs are very charming to look upon but it is better to go slow with the brethrenat than to bankrupt yourself and your children I child-ren TO FATTEN THE BOODLERSl More than one city in this country has learned this by harsh experience It will bo fortunate for Salt Lalm city if she continues L con-tinues to keep the Baskins and the Mc Brides in the background and remain in control of her founders and their descendant 1 descend-ant yet many a year We are having another remarkable winter I win-ter season As I write I am sitting with m y window open and without fire the ther thermometer standing at sixtyfour Christmas was like a day in June The sun was bright and the air balmy and the thermometer registered sixtysix in the shade The absence ab-sence of snowbirds and of the verdure of summer alone indicated that it was not a different season of the year The Hudson I river has been clear of ice since last March We have had but one snowstorm and then I the snow disappeared as quickly as it does in your own city after an April storm There is no frost in the ground our prevalent prev-alent winds are from the south and rains are as frequent as in May We have had BUT FIVE DATS OP FAIR WEATHER during the month of December and January Janu-ary bids fair to equal that record Coasting Coast-ing and skating are becoming lost arts in this latitude and violets pansies and dandelions dan-delions are replacing the beautiful snow Last summer was also a season of great humidity People are constantly and astonishingly as-tonishingly asking each other Did you ever see such weather and the universal reply isuleer Old farmers predict pre-dict a late spring as a consequence conse-quence of the mild winter but it is unsafe to pin ones faith upon such prognostications Post facto conclusions are safest The spring of ISSn was unusually unusu-ally early after a winter almost as mild as the present I knew it last November says one weatherwise individual 1 never knew the goosebone so thin and white before be-fore The muskrats and woodchucks built almost on top of the ground and crows didnt co south at all We are going to have THE LATEST SPRING next summer since I was born And you dont catch me planting before the first moon in June But this granger may awake too late next summer after all Many did so last year and the rains rusted and destroyed their late crops while the early wideawake agriculturists harvested big returns One of the queer events of this season was the mowing and gathering of a crop of excellent hay in December by Mr Walter A Wood the Hoosic Falls mowing machine man Perhaps he may claim this was all because of tho superiority his machines This remarkable change of climate hereabout here-about is now attributed to a shifting of the channel of the Gulf Stream so that instead of shooting east off the coast of Virginia it now follows our Atlantic coast as far north as Cape Cod I so may not this be another indication that TUE NORTH AND THE SOUTH are becoming united in all things even to the Gulf Stream which heretofore has i been so sectional But even this fails to make all men happy The great icehar II vest of the north is threatened by this in roadif the theory be true And ice men are at present greatly alarmed Last year much ic was secured in December but 1eb threefourths of the crop ripaned in February Feb-ruary Thus far this season not a cake of ice has been cut in the Hudson river Less than G5000 tons now remain in Less against the usual surplus of 5UOV000 tons at this time of year A full crop on the Hudson Hud-son is put at 3000000 all yet to be gathered gath-ered But i wo have no ice we have a widespread epidemic of In rrinnn and n great portion of the population 6t the cast is in ths grasp of thedemon My letter is already too long to permit a description of its i effects at this writing I delegate this duty to the humorist of the Washington Post merely premising that many people are greatly alarmed about this disease Now listen to the wail of a victim I thought to give The grippe The slippe But as i live The thing got bold Of me You see Immediatelcc With nrt a cold And then begun The dread disease With every breeze Isneaso And whease And almost frease And both my knees Lord how they ache 1 And how they macho Me Ho awacho And twist and shachc Although 1 tache Pills by tho tun I ache all through My back and thighs My shoulders arms And head and cighs My neck my fingerjoints and toes My thumbs and wrists and ears and noso My knuckles jaws and both elboes And all my muscles they acho tough My teeth are sore And sos my tonguo My livers weak And sos my longuo My kidneys too My spleen and heart All feel as though theyd fall apart But these aint half the ills that attends a Case of Russian influenza My friends before you take tho grippe Youre very apt to laugh gppe But when tho grippe takes hold of you Youre not so apt by haugh you WHH |
