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Show If ', AS TO HTITHIOIJO AUllf. IE The organ of the Liberal party at- tempt no concealment of tho fact that I HI ' the aola necessity for the continuance Hj . of that parly li toopoie'lmnilucut A . atatehood," which It eHecta to think IKl would bootlietwlso scry "Imminent I H i w'thtn the next four luontha." I BJ The organ of tne Dcmooratlo party, BB probably In (ursuance of It frankly II expressed hope that tho Liberal party Bl In thla county, will not illiband until Mt after the next election, desires the lugl atatehood question kett prominent, S! It (corfesaee Its (partlaauthlp J IS, In the hope referred to, and yet It J 'I , proceeds to read the DrarniT Nino, J 2 J which la a non partlian pf cr, and haa PJL'J' zowtlsanliott, a mtral locturo on H j "Insincere avowals made with a elnla H fjtx I ter urpoee" and on a departure from Hjjsl "the polloy of fair play which baa III been cbaracterlitlo ol that libit a- H'fsF We oaii hardly concolvr the necca- Hj illy of repljlng to auch Inilnuatlona Bl from auch a source. Vat the Invlta- H ll' tlon la ono that may not well bo re- J H alited; eipcclally when It li charged II that In our "seal to stale the lion- fn lolltlcal attitude of the Mormon Jj II churoh ofllclala" we have "gouo too H II tar," and that our position li not HE U warranted by the sentiments of a Tail Hr jfi majority ol the poople we "claim to HJ jj rc resent." Hk ' Let ui lee. Hfl' If there la any one thing that the Hr DnsKHi-T N us deslrea,or lias, desired, Hj I out of the political controversy lhatfor Hjlg laore than n ) ear plat hat been going 1 ou In thla Territory, It la the welfare Hjjl and advancement of tho majority of Hjlf . the people. That olJect,nnd that alone, Hjjl ha with us broil oyer In lew during B 3 all the wrangllug that pattUau coteiu-HJ coteiu-HJ I rarles and partisan spoakera on HJ.lt either aide of tho political line HK I have Indulged Id. We have HE JJ not tapouied the cause ol Democraey, Hjjl' Lecause the Itepubllcaoarofeei, ami HJ; t hate given tome evidence of, patrlollo HJ dealro to bring abjut a condition uf HI peace and proeperlty. We have not HJ l taken up the cudgels for Itepubllcau-HJ Itepubllcau-HJ ? lam, bccauie tho Deruocrata have pro ! claimed, and manifested aome uln-rerlty uln-rerlty In, a like dealre. Wo lw Here that either party haa the power , to help materially In the oonaum I tuition of ao dealrablu an object, and I wo certainly Lcllevo that boili partke, Working alncurely for theaame objtct, have the power to aooompllili It. If a I comcltmllous ndheronce to thla attl. j tudo permit ui at thla lato day to only claim to rc,ireut the Mormon 1 eoplo, then turooureJorti lotted boeu wov fully mlia piled, HJl, Furthermore: TheNEwslu declln. HJ' Ing to champion tho cauao or caudl- HJf ) dale of elthor thfc Demooratlo or the Hb ' Republican party hat also declined to HB lead or participate In active opposition Hh to either the ono or the other. Hut Hut Hb courto haa not taken ua out ot HB . the field of ajgrcwlvo popular dls HB L outilon. The common enemy of both HB ' the national parties, the SbVlacle, ut we Bht believe, to the harmony nnd growth of BKf Utah, his not nelvid gingerly trial BBI meut at our hands. Kot that Ha can. dldateahave Uen uuutl) assailed or BHT ralllngly accused, many of them huve BHT ' beenmenofoaiaclty and honor. Hut BH they have lljoj upon a platform BHJ vlioso I rope have one by ono HH been knocked nway, nnd wtro the HB I reprcseutatlvea ot plnolplia that HH either called for tbo contluuauoa of HH , or return to the porlod of dUiord and HH strife, or were aummod up lu tbo one HHj word "ipolla." Our oj position to thla HIT iuty and policy has been untxjulvo. HHr calaud uuoiaslng; believing It to bo HB antagcnlstlo to tbo best lute alt of HB j the i.;rltory( we have fought It In BB ; all sesious nnd lu every honorable BV, way. We have not .veu desired Its BH continuance beund a ipecltlfd eliu BB j ion day lu the hope that Ita alrongth BBJ ' would draw from another set ot Laudl. HH' dates and thus reuder more certain the HB , I election of a set of candidates for BHl whom we might havo favor, Our HB "alncerlly" lu thla admits of no quca- HBi tloll we tbluk, even thou gh It haa not HHj beau ot the artisan Dunoctsllc HBJI l varldy, K0r should wo think that Hj I In any avowal uf ours the Democratlo Hl'j "'',n toul1 Ond.lba "imaik if a elnl'tsr rurioic" llenco to charge ua with saying that wlilih "would land the I'riexthcod and mem lrs of the Church In ohoJy In the Liberal parly, which haa no other platform tbau Mormon hating," may be leased ui a piece of amusing ab surdity. If the Democratlo organ will lookatltalnucndiln the light of Ita own performance It will citifes that It has been utility of coloiial Im pudence Coming back now to the main proposition Liberal opposition to "Imminent statehood" an I the wl. HngneraoMheNFUS, speiklng for the Priesthood nnd mimtirs nf the Mormon Mor-mon GhurilJ, to wait for tlutlnnn uhlll tin. lion-Mormons shall want It The (Kitltlon of this pier la consistent, sincere, and lu every nt-pict of the case prudent. If wo didn't btllevo the political atmoipbere III Ulali would Lo cleared and purified by the death of the Liberal rly; If we did not have the confession ol that init) that It only Uvea to opra stall hood ; If wo did not (eel that every honorablo mm li entitled to hsva all his double as to Mormon sincerity, Idle and without foundation though they may be, for ever eitllcd and net at rest, If we did not feel that our preseut condition la much more satisfactory than that from which tha Tirrltory haa but recently emerged, and la to be cherished as referable io any possible rolurn, If we did not feel that with each political larty to clnely watching the other Rood government will bo iretty certain and rank abuses seedy of correction; If we did not believe that tbo territorial form if well ny-mlulatertd ny-mlulatertd can bo indured aa Jong and with aa little discomfort by Mormons as by non Mormons, If we did not bellevo any of these things but telloved their exact opposite, then we might Jolu In the ilamor for Immediate Im-mediate statehood nnd not get It. The Mormon iecple are atleut aa well na patriotic. They sre not L'enai-crala L'enai-crala becauso of the Homo Hula bill, nor republicans becauieof the Tollir statehood bill. They haven't Joined ilther I arty lu order to haitcn state hood. As to how much Injustlco haa liotn done the I)i mocratlo arty by the statement ol tills paor that "in rill candor we susrect loth parties are playing largely for tQVct" In Hie atato hood agitation, the organ of that itty may recall Itaown tlatument,"rather no statehood at all than atatehood at Ke- ubllcaii bande with tho understanding understand-ing that Utah shall boa Jleiubllcan state" or words to that ellecl; and Ita furthor declaration that tha Jteiubll-cans Jteiubll-cans would novir have presented tho latehood bill save to oliaet the home-rule home-rule bill, n declaration the Ite ubllcans meet by assorting that tho Demounts only framed the"grotrtquo"honie rulo bill because they wero afraid of straight statehood, and still wanted to make n bid for voter, If thisn varloua "elucidations" are not "conlutlng" Io the averago mind then wo do not understand the term; and If they ilo not warrant tho suspicion that both partita are taylug with thla question for Iffeit, they at least t,o to show that each party thlnka tho other is doing that vtry thing. We say naln, the Mormon people will wclcomo ttateboo I when It oJliln, and they will then shirk none of Ha responsibilities. They are not slghlnc for a greater burden ot luxation, luxa-tion, but will not refuse their share of It when their follow-cltltens announce themselves aa rtady to assume It, Meiuwhlle they are dolii quite well, they are outeottd and prosperous, they are trying to live their rellelon apd build up Zlon; and they have little time and small Inclination to rant about, breathlessly seeking an object which they have long lhcd without an 1 to which a largo number of their Mlow-cltlzenshave nnnouuctd thim-selvtie thim-selvtie aa violently opponed. They can wait. |
