| Show WHAT AN EDUCATED MUG HAS TO SAY ABOUT NATIONAL POLITICS As reported by the S L ter under the heading of 11 contribution trib ution to politics by 1 sport continued they also enumerated enumerate all tile the bad deeds that the party b lad ad manifested tow towards ards tile the mormons cormons Mor mons indeed mountains of distress it lias has heaped upon this unfortunate people and cahim catim 1 I to lo abell iii rinh f tears has resi ell thousands of dollars from froin thein by ay way of tines fince and made hundreds of familia i till nn happy andia is an tiling 1 1 in this or the next world like ju ill tice there suddenly appears a cloud with the words woe woe vine oe in it but what lauve tile llie democrats done did they check the lions of Clevelan 19 day lid did they keep keel their promised prom isei aal give udall lier freedom who shot stabbed expelled joseph and his people peo Ic who burned their houses destroyed their crops stole their cattle islieb thirty young women and committed all kinds of outrages on oil UC tile unfortunate mormons cormons Mor mons driving them over the frozen miss aliss into the snowy plains of iowa the republicans lid did not do this but it wat was liw done by democratic mobs headed by democratic preachers thel the people who we were told the other night were always right the last speaker m then instructed us lis that it was the of idalio idaho who oppressed and robbed it a handful of cormons mormons of rights As I 1 am from idalio I 1 will whisper it a word in my misinformed friends ear in idaho there are more than merely a handful of mormons cormons Mor mons there are over and were just J the turning point of the two parties and andas as the test oath has made it impossible for us to vote we stay away I 1 warned my brethren t although no friend of the tyran ical republicans not to believe the promises made by the democrats they only brought damage and disaster I 1 was right and fur for our friendship we were completely left by the democrats and had laws lawsuits on our hands for years the republicans never made any promises they were open enemies and for all of me they can remain thus but the democrats played the hypocrite hypo crit and as young inexperienced perien ced people and poets say false love stin stings 0 s now to come com e to a close I 1 will say I 1 do not vote in bath because I 1 pay taxes in idaho and as for the republican party I 1 only see in it a dark oppressive tyrant who does not love me who would rather see sec tile me on the gallows than any where els else c yet I 1 would vote for them because there still remains some law and order in it although they may oppress me tile resurrection will come some lay day and then the lord will wipe off all tears but never will I 1 join a party I 1 DO 0 matter liow how nice its platform ma may y sound if this party makes promises which it does not intend to keep and teach us its principles that when carried out produce anarchy anti and ruin tile the tendency of the time is in this direction and perhaps all mormons cormons would have gone Democratic if not a few of us looking down in the alic raging depths while standing 0 on oil the brink nail turned turne d away we germans what have we to do le each vote for whom lie thinks best but for heavens sake do not get excited and abuse each othar as we have many examples in the papers A person can call not reform any oue one with w ith abuse after these political bright days will appear do not become so excited in the heat of tile the struggle that you make inake life I 1 long olly 1 enemies lying abusing and offending earlier or later re return turn to the sender we are an ail not wanted and despised people very well we can have sufficient cent physical and moral strength to cudire this our ariaster endured more we should take revenge on oil our oppressors in this way by becoming good quiet citizens turning our farms into gardens rearing r our children so they will be practical useful thinking citizens and then there will be planted a forget 0 me not on oil our graves translated from tile the german by J stable jr |
