| Show rase eany POLITICAL HERESY severan beveral papers have noticed some recent utterances of the baffaro buffalo courier on the mormon question not because that journal has advanced anything new in thib this direction but because it Is a democratic newspaper and it is rather ing that it should endorse such sueh sentiments as are couched coached in the articles that has attracted attention the couriers suggestion Is ia simply the project which originated in utah tah to abolish the territorial form of pov gov eminent and on an appoint ed commission the only difference between the tho couriers couro Couri eha efa views and those of the political tricksters trick who broached the scheme is this while they would have the fortunes of the territory and the lives and property of its citizens placed in the tho hands of some of their own number the cou coutier courier arter F would have men flearl fully selected of high character not mere politicians xv but bat the principle would be the same in both cases caseb it would be a palpable violation of the tho which underlie and enter into the whole system of american republican im lim it would bs be in practical opposition to the doctrines of the da ci cl of independence and oua of the constitution re be publicans public ans and democrats must alike acknowledge this but one of the fundamentals of democracy is the right of local self government it Is ia formulated in old democratic platforms and put forth prominently prominent lj gln lin the new it Is an essential in the democratic creed the courier thed then in adopting the antl anti republican notion of a few offida hunting mormont eaters fifes cifes directly in the face of an unalterable tenet of its own political faith falth and there Is ia no wonder that its remarks should be taken up and repeated by oppose opposition tion llon papers but what is the object set forth in the cowfer as likely to be achiel ed by the unprecedented destruction debt deet ruction of an incipient commonwealth ready to emerge into the freedom ot oi statehood and the establishment of an oligarchy upon its ruins s Is it the 96 solution of the mormon problem which usually does service as an excuse for the wild schemes that thai are proposed concerning utah liet let us r eee eee ree ee the courier Is ia quoted as baying saying 99 while this might prove a step in the right direction it would not set tiel tio the mormon question which Is alil 11 likely L y to remain one of the most mos difficult c uit problems with which the national government has to deal if this un tin american extreme and really atrocious nostrum would not bo be likely to cure the alleged evil what is the good of resorting to it who would be benefited by bv setting up a despotism in the heart of the republic nobody but a few indi visuals who the courier should frece receive lve ive ample bompensa uon tion the public treasury is to be ba tapped to bend send forth a big stream into the pockets of a selected few to pay them for trampling upon the vested rights of at least a hundred and seventy thousand people entitled to the tho PrOtect protection fou fon of that bov hov gov which is asked to effect their political destruction this Is democracy with a vengeance the bucalo buffalo courier had bad better go over to the ranks of the blackest of black republicans or repent of or else repudiate pu diate the villainous utterances that its political opponent opponents a are copy ing from its columns |
