| Show A DARK IC 1 daiv Y A f ji jk F it II was a dark day fo tie lit when the assembled lawmakers in tit irous house of almost una 1019 ii I 1 passed tile the thicker edmund 0 bill a inen measure suro which provides lot fui the dis franchising of a large number of american citi citizens bens it seeing impossible that such cruel heartless un provisions provia ious ins those embodied in that thai bill should receive the sanction of of so bov honorable 0 r 1 b re a body as tile tho 0 4 s of df anthis Nt lius his i A raa t nation one would think that it were ft a horrible nightmare cl were it il not for tile knowledge of an ail unjust prejudice qt I 1 if that exists asi s ta to an alarming 0 against 0 people and their religion hut but it is too true that a most ingli infamous measure is on oil the load fond to become a law with a blind i ignorant ical zeal its passage is i being tir urged tired ed through gli 0 tile senate and it seems that tile notion nation is about to on MC M 0 C ill in a wholesale plundering 0 scheme to rob a religious PC people ople never since the dark ages was a boic more damnable plot concocted for robbing a church of its property properly find and depriving it ft people of their just ri rights 0 lits tile the people of this ahi territory have protested A against adlist the inimical measure ure they linro shown in clearness tile utter unreliability ot of the reports and sl slanders auders which have circulated abron abroad 1 concerning 0 them tile the responsibility of tile the ignominious i 0 bill should it become a law n will ill riot not rest upon them they have firmly and cartic earnestly itly clai chimed lile a the ri right Y lit to 10 alij enjoy 0 3 that religious liberty jor for which many ot of their fathers fought 0 and bled their noble stand in fali fa or of tle ilc fundamental damet da ilat principles of a free government will do them lionor honor in ill the a generations gen C to come the late fate of utah seems seeing to be one fraught a with peculiar trials cheis throated as sin nil ill favored ward of the lie govern government instead of as nit an honored trill ind equal member in the lite union unton I 1 of 0 f states the right of local self gov even cycil in ill the limited extent enjo il empl by a territory it is pro proposed posed to take away from her Pow CriSto is to be centralized into tile hands of a few men and among 0 those few ire the worst enemies silo she ling lias the strange 0 featt feature of this central centralizing izill move is that it has the support of a democratic i c administration ministration id to petit put it through 0 slid and democracy prides herself on oil her broad views conc concerning ernIna local self government the Autocrat autocratic iq rule nill ill le ile marvelously co complete in rutih under tinder the kucler edmunda law 11 1 1 ir the fhe power of appointment of a great arent cl many of the local officials is to lay in the president and he be from the i cry acry nature of ahe ardt arduous ious duties how HOT resting 0 upon him cannot gian the li ual ll 11 annl u in nl hit it torl tor I 1 these officials beiji being 7 under no dobli obliga ahoi lioL to the people for their positions C can make themselves in very deed missionary autocrats 11 in order to appreciate this cond condition of affairs it is only necess necessary arN I 1 to rend read the tale of stiffe suffering 0 endured liy ity tile southern people under carpetbag carpet ba bag title rule plunder was the order of alic tit day ind and tyranny frequently showed her iron hand fianda the nile infamous test oath was tag a characteristic feature of tile the plunder enabling n it is safe to say that it has ever been in tile hilroy of our country it is surprising I 1 adif lio boon 1 elie hand that thai lias has suf suffered fired from a gross arod wrongs a S is to put similar wrongs upon others statesmen of lite alic south having protested a against ainest tests in ill their own region and knowing R of their evil effects fc acts it would seem would ile be earnest eari cari I 1 opponents of test oaths oath a against 0 ainsa any any loss class of people lut J it is dotso with ambitious amb iliou 51 wire working a politic nuis and there are arc so many of that class f a with dead heads who nho want to lu lie be on ili tile the safe popular bitic of questions bic ions that anything proposed no ito matter how bow unconstitutional receives receives bauc auction of them it is pleasing to note that eacia these days of loa machine chine anil and moneyed politicians there is now flow bild then it a man mail gels blits into who hati hag the courage ef of ili his convictions alad tile the manhood to protest a against alina unworthy measures A few of I 1 I 1 dell men now flow hold scat in it tho nation s law making body they pra an hollod honor to the elie count country ry slid and a blessing 0 to humanity manity Isu the dark cloud bow hanging lia nging oyer over utah portends many weary da days T S of labor and pati patient clit enduring before tit alic a bright 0 sunshine ov hefty will fully I 1 be 0 o enjoyed 11 c belle bilicic c llull ever day will conio Lio nio who oy will ill lc be great gri ni oi of tile the downfall 11 of oppression and ami tit aliu failure to rush crush truth |
