| Show A QUAILING nm MEND Were wo respect the apparently candid statement of the salt lake herald when it says gays that it has ha no desire to be drawn into an extended contro versy with tim such a controversy might prove disastrous to our friend f but bat inasmuch as the herald questions our memory as to what the deseret news newa said last october we wa must moat beg leave to quote duoto from the columns of the church 0 of f october 14 it said no the liberal party has no grounds for this alarm if it thinks the mormons cormons Mor mons either priesthood or people are in a be schema eme to secure immediate state hood 1 the cormona are so much better etter satir satisfied fled with their surroundings ana na circumstances today than with those which hays haye preceded them that they are quite willing to leave well enough alone alona they are not inviting i any increased burdens burdena cheso bard times when taxes are high enough enouch already they will not of course conne reject the responsibilities of statehood and its added expenses when whan they come but bat they are cin contented tented to wait until every everybody boily feels they ought to come Wha whatever taver incie toward statch statehood 00 d ia being made at present if any au such act there really is comes comas from other than mormon sources and when the boon BO ao well deserved des erred is at list last bestowed it will be found that other than mormon I 1 influences have neon been brought to bear t to bring it about we wa say therefore gentlemen of the liberal party dismiss your fears upon this thia subjects we speak emphatically stud and advisedly advia edly when we say that the mornion mormon church its ita priesthood or its ila members do not desire the admies admission ion of utah ce as a state elate under present con and with present fee luing aud we announce anno for tham that until each buch conditions arise as aa they undoubtedly ivill will arise sooner or later that the admission nals sion of ef atah will be as desi desirable aj e to non mormons cormons generally jene rally as it is ia to tho mormon people the mormon people will not urge stat statehood chood nor take steps to secure it 1 that was vaa altogether too moderate for the heran herald at that time and it answered in its zeil zeal to state the non attitude of the mormon church officials in their ecclesiastical capacity our neighbor has gone gene too far and its po is not warranted by toa state of public feeling in utah nor by the sentiment of a vast majority of the people it claims to represent now it tells tails us that utah can afford to wait a while longer her people have become used need to waiting using practically the same argument gumont ar as aa did the deseret news in the above quotation |
