Show ATTEMPTED ROBBERY THE familiar adage that patriotism is the refuge of scoundrels receives many exemplifications in this territory the active politicians who have operated on the line of anti mormonism mormonism 11 in utah have persistently denied that their chief object was the spoliation of the lat ter day saints current events constantly arise stretch up their hands and tear the masks from the faces of the hypocrites through the efforts of that claw class aided by a popular sentiment chieh they created by the spread of falsehood congress was induced to pass the law which confiscates the prop arvol i erty of the church they have at tempted to deny that this was the j result of their work but the truth will not down they have made it manifest by their own subsequent actions as well as their previous 0 11 operations operation since the beginning of the en ell eni i foro ement of the es cheating clause 0 of f the edmunds tucker law the political cormorants have been J j gathering around the carcass rep t resented by the property of th mormon people endeavoring to j help themselves to portions of it J snapping and snarling at each other othe f erstwhile making a sorry spectacle of themselves while claiming C I 1 protect it they have been making dashes at it in order to obtain the largest possible mouthfuls mouth fuls all this and more has been manifested by the recent investigation before SIX an examiner the same class clas have shave resor resorted tedlA in t the he past to every conceivable device so as to obtain political control in 0 this territory both as a whole aad 4 in part by what we have good reason to believe to have been fraudulent means the party to which they belong recently gained the ascendancy cen dancy in the city of ogden i this result was ratified with great characteristic rejoicing in whick which wh whisky isky and boisterous uproarious ness nem conspicuously figured at the outset of their dominion in that municipality highly colored prom J aises were werd made with respect et to the great things which were about to be done in oui our unfortunate neigh neighbor bot ing city on the north of course a spirit of fairness was to pervade the doings of the new officers of the corporation what this means will be apprehended when the action of the mayor on oil the evening of march 1 I is taken into consideration at a meeting 4 3 1 the council he left the chair is member of the corporate body pro j siding in the interim this accent T ric functionary acting on what ftp ar pear to be his ideas of justi justice cs moved fok foi the framing of 0 4 y ordinance so constructed as to ow en able the corporation to steal a eel tain block of land 1 the property referred to Is mhd t ris piece of ground on which 0 the tabernacle in which the latter 1900 day saints of that section meet ff V divine service that thailand land was 8 apart for religious purpose by those who redeemed that part of utah from being a wilder bew forty years ago so far as we can learn it has been used for no other object we cannot but regard this action of mayor reisel keisel as one of the most barefaced a refaced efforts to steal that can be imagined we know of no mitigate ifie g circumstance that in the slightest degree justifies it one might look alth kh as much expectation of suo cem for foran an element of justification 0 hi o the act of the train krhin robber who awaits awaits the approach of his victims and on their arrival dislodges the ex P basman from his car by exploding a dynamite bomb under him so far as ag honesty is concerned there ars pars to us to be no difference ilie fie distinction is only in the method applied iti in the endeavor to secure th wie booty the object is in our view the same robbery what does a circumstance of this ar acter teach the majority of the people e of utah if it teaches any ng it to is this that if they supine y repose in a condition of political inactivity vity they are in danger of a il all ballar nilar condition of things in other this territory we have stated repeatedly we fleat peat it again the evidence being evincible that spoliation is the ul baor or motive of those who are seek P to belze the reigns of local government ament and deprive the great mass of the people of all their rights when anyone attempts to contro rt this position all that is necessary ID the premises is to point to facts as trey exist and as they are transpiring acte are stubborn things if aele aoe county which for a time vaa under liberal sway and subjected to processes of robbery was t a 4 sufficient warning to the peo ale P to be alive to their own inter te and to cause them to combat t enemy step by step let this late otence tt ence at ogden make an im beabdon Be aBion that will be beneficial in its v results we have no idea that the move merd ant inaugurated by mayor kelsel keisel arding Rardin 2 the taking of the property 40 d to 0 religious purposes by the autier w day saints who reclaimed faion from the condition of a ygerne ss will be successful but tf it doea not result in success the on should be none the less pow fd on that account eternal VittI wince alace is the price of liberty the attempt made to atlle e ogden tabernacle square jr ul HI cause litigation which will t the afe darg e length along through and may serve a good pur pose after all as an opportunity will be given by this incident to further demonstrate we ane true inwardness of those who are re continually ol claiming aiming that their main object is to americanize utah when they are seeking by all the power they possess to make it un am rican that being the character of their methods spoliation is opposed to the whole genius of amer american can institutions and american freedom |