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Show llllFRAM'IIISK HI NX tllE 1SSUK. The quiet observer is prono to inquire why the Salt Lake Tribune is so exceedingly ex-ceedingly bitter against the mormons at this time. Thero is no election pending; the only movement among the people whom tho paper assails is one connected with the question as to which of the great political parties the individuals shall affiliate with. This is recognized as a good movement, one that all should encourage; but the Tribune Trib-une grows more indicative even toward to-ward them than if a political campaign were iu progress, in which its attacks might have the excuse of being for political effect. Tho question recurs: "What is its purpose? Why is it not willing that the division, among the mormons at least, should go forward for-ward and develop ail tho good that can come from iu" Well, Tnu Times is no prophet; it docs not profess to bo able to unerringly read other men's minds, but it seems perfectly clear that tho Tribune is actuated actu-ated by its desire to carry through a plan of disfranchisement. It knows that if the sincerity of this movement shall develop to the satisfaction of all classes, the disfranchisement idea will be so effectually buried that it can never be suggested iu the future. The ground upon which the disfranchised stand will be so completely washed away that they will no longer be able to maintain a foothold. Tho Tribune would therefore drive the mormon people peo-ple together in their old organization if it could. It cannot hope to do this, but it does desire to keep old animosities alive, preventing gentiles from accepting accept-ing tho new order of things, in th3 hope that some contingency will ariso under which it can spring its pet desire. If matters were, permitted to run along naturally people would soon get their eyes on the truth that is breaking through the clouds and the army by : which it is hoped to support a disfranchisement disfran-chisement proposition would melt away. This is tlie way it looks to The Times. If anybody can offer a bettor explanation of tho Tribune's position, wo would like to hear of it. Rut do the Gentiles of Utah want to push this disfranchisement idea? Surely, if the conditions that gave rise to it shall prove to have been done away with there will be few to support tho plan. Are men going to approve of the keeping keep-ing alive of a scheme by appeals to prejudice which was born in their minds by what they conceived to be necessity? We think not. If the grounds upon which men supported it have disappeared, a halt will be called. Thinking meu must stop and examine the facts and tho evidence and determine deter-mine what the merits of the change are; they are not going to be led on by blind fury iu a course that is in contradiction contra-diction of the underlying purposes which they have always professed. There is a large class who have never approved the disfranchisement idea. They hold that it is un-American aud they welcome the clearing of the horizon hori-zon that marks the passing away of the cloud. Uetween the. e two clrsses, that which never has at heart approved the plan, and that which supported it from a conviction that it was necessary, nec-essary, tho unrelenting, unreasonable, implacable disfrauchisers will be left in a great minority. If the Tribune shall presist in making the liberal prty a party of disfranchisement under all possible conditions, it will compels large proportion of the present members mem-bers of that party to join either the democratic or republican party, both of which are squarely opposed to the proposition. |