Show AN EDIT EDITOR OR P A MUCK if the editor of the helena herald has nea nearly rl y gone crazy over I 1 the news which had reached that town b by the tho wires about the reported action acison of the congressional kreis greis ional lonal committee on elections in the utah contested election case this news has had a somewhat similar effect upon him that a dose of opium or some other drug which they use has upon the malays balays when they wish to run a much muck and indiscriminately L kill 1111 ili iii all whom they meet in perusing the dispatch about this eon bon contested tested election ase case he has been seized with a species of frenzy and he has taken it into his is head to run a mua mud his language would alarm us probably if we had never seen anything of the kind before he is not the first edif editor hor tor however that has been similarly afflicted we have known many who have had just such symptoms as he evinces they fre 1 survive a few attacks of the kind and if they have extra good constitutions they may live through a number of them but they cannot last long the editor of the he helena iena lens herald we notice is predisposed to this frenzy we have perceived evidences of it before in his columns and it will undoubtedly have a bad termination with him as it has had bad with others unless be exercises better control over himself we know a sedative that would cure him if we only felt disposed to ael ail minister administer it A good long iong list of prepaid subscriptions and advertisements ti from utah would quiet his nerves and make him so that he might perceive something that was not utterly disagreeable even in a mormon but it does not suit our people to deal out such medicine even to allay the ire of so formidable a person as the irascible editor of the helena herald he Ho heads his article the rejection of delegate hooper the mormons cormons court annihilation let them have it jefe he jete starts out by saying that utah and montana are so very nearly allied in temporal concerns that he must view the news he has just received in the light of local importance this is his excuse for his article he does not know what our governor will do precedents of the kind do not just then occur to his editorial mind whether he will proc proe proclaim laima a vacancy in the office of delegate and give notice of another election or whether the gentile con will be allowed the seat but in either case her ber says the people of the territory will be dis franchised 71 the process of reasoning by which ch he arrives at this conclusion may be clear to his own mind but his readers fail to understand it every true disciple of jog joi joseph eph smith sinith elder or layman he says has taken a treasonable oath from this we suppose we are to infer that we can not vote for fora forn a 11 mormon with the hope of his getting a seat unless he should would be willing to take tak some esome oath that congress may prescribe this is what he calls taking the jast last ast step of political infamy by seating in congress a perjurer j u r er and a hypocrite bat even if th this s were the case which we ampha emphatically tic and unqualifiedly deny how bow is this to disfranchise us he makes one no admission in this connection which is worth recording we do not deny he says that the admission to the seat of the gentile cindi candidate date would be mo nothing gothing thing but a mockery of the cepro tentative senta tive principle as it is well known that he did not get a single mormon vote he then aen indulges in considerable about popular popular elections being a mockery in utah disgraceful and humiliating anomaly r ibia founded despotism J voluntary slaves 1 IP shackles of jg ignorance norance ab jeet se servility 1 I and the usual hackneyed hockney el expressions that we have heard from childhood up from writers of a certain class who for the want of sense and argument r gu me indulge in denunciation and abuse it hurts hurta him to think that the will 0 of f brigham young has always been recognized as gods will and that the masses have ever bowed with unanimity even enthusiasm and voted tickets 1 nominated by him and that opposing candidates were never known amona among the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 1 the prophets authority backed by the lA apostles postles 1 is absolute now we think the people of utah display most excellent sense in this one thing we confess that we can see no more republicanism in a set of hungry pothouse pot house politicians and mercenary editors getting together in caucus even if the editor of the helena herald should be one of the number and nominating their pliant minions to office and then endeavoring by every kind of chicanery to secure to them the we positions than there ia is in a man like ilke president brigham young in company with other leading citizens nominating men to office if it is right and republican in montana for professional politicians to meet in caucus and select their candidates is it wrong and anti republican in utah for the leading citizens cit izeris to do the same or must the creatures of party and broken down hacks of editors only have this privilege president young has by lifelong life long devotion to the interests of the people I 1 anday and by every act of his life shown he has the peoples welfare at heart the people know this and therefore they unhesitatingly ta and voluntarily give him their love and confidence this Is disagreeable to the editor of the herald he does not like it but who can help it ft As to having no opposing cardl caRdi candidates dates if it is republican anti antl we have yet to learn bo 90 he continues as follows and now that mormons cormons have disqualified filed themselves for representation in congress by oaths of hostility to the govern ment i that is as it is shown that none nono of the tho faith fait falth hcan can take like the oath to support tho the constitution of the united states without committing perjury thus throwing upon i the general government the full responsibility of their political destiny it behooves the nation to pour upon them the light of civilization congress will bo be recreant to its duty if it docs does not regulate their domestic as well as their federal relations for if they cannot in consequence of former solemn obligations to the charch church 1 have a delegate at washington under tho the constitution thoy they cannot qualify as members of tho the local legislature tho oath to support the constitution of tho the uni united cited states being prescribed the same in each case under tho the decision in the tho caso case of mr hooper all powers of local government lapse and utah comes as fully under the control of congress as is the tho district of columbia let the first step in the new rule bo be a police establishment specially authorized and empowered to reach and punish bigamists biga mists fornicators fornica tors and all others down that way who in tho the name namo of religion violate the laws ot of nature god and man survey the public lands of the territory and throw them open to tho the immediate preemption pre emption of only as will swear to support the constitution of the united states and that they never took an ecclesiastical oath hostile hosti leto loto to the G government overn ment and ia in thus acquiring homesteads ill in the territory of utah provide for no security or indemnity whatever for those owning improvements prove ments who will not solemnly abjure ail alt fealty to thern theIN the mormon formon hierarchy and finally anally the occasion belig being so opportune it might be well ver enough to make four new now territories out of the territory of utah and let each corner of the new temple bo be the initial point for tho the boundary af pf of each of these organizations in short now that the mormon people acknowledge through their delegate elect that they havo have relinquished relina dished privileges under the constitution by taking oaths hostile to it let mormonism be swept from existence and it necessary to its complete eradication let the domain it pollutes be devastated and sown in salt the mor ifor mons can no longer expatiate on their con rights it is tor I 1 or the nation to now redress the iho constitutional wrongs it has suffered at their hands hat ids on to the now new jerusalem I 1 I 1 this high toned language doubtless dou otless sounded very nice fo to the writer as he penned it how easy a work it must have seemed to him i to demolish th the e Mor mon Mormon monh monO sand and annihilate annihilate utah A few strokes of his pen and the work is done in his bis imagination but he has only blown a very big bubble and though it i may like many ninny a boys soap bubble look very pretty prati it only needs a small smail puncture to make it collapse it will be perceived that ho he bases all his arguments on the assumption that the cormons mormons Mor mons have taken oaths of hostility to the government this he assumes because forsooth a telegraphic despatch from washington says that our delegate declined to deny that he bad had taken an oath of hostility to the government of course a telegraphic despatch must be reliable 2 they always are they have as powe powerful r ful fui an deflect efi ell act in arousing the editor of the as the e flery fiery eloquence of peter the hermit had upon the chivalry of europe he is eager for a cru crusade ade but unfortunately for him and his humane plans the mormons cormons Mor mons do not and never did take oaths of hostility to the government of the united states state they are more loyal and true to it and always have been than any of their blatant accusers even evon though they are aa as noisy and profuse in their expressions express ious of loyalty as is the editor of the herald we repeat the denial emphatically and broadly no Momon Mormon as amorton ever has taken or been required to take an oath of hostility to the government of the united states there is nothing in any of our ordinances or ceremonies the purest and most loyal patriot can not subscribe to in closing this subject we would advise the editor of the herald to be sure and hav have the labors of the police establishment lish ment he wishes specially authorized and empowered to reach and punish bigamists biga mists fornicators fornica tors and adulterers confined to utah for if they had bad power given to them in montana he might stand in danger |