Show SAMPLE PRESS COMMENT 1 tu THE etoy of the instant has an editorial upon the late election in this ity city this paper is one of respectable ability has entreated oft upon various aspects ozithe mormon ques tion sometimes with more than ban ordinary intelligence and fairness and is better posted upon utah affairs than most of the news newspapers apers nice published laho in the principal cities of the union its ita present cresent article mv may therefore be taken as a fair indication tio of the sentiment and intelligence of the american press relative to matters matter s in this territory it begins by expressing gratifies eloi over the fact that thai no violence occurred on an electa election on day and says of the result it to is a victory for free institutions and is a suggestion to the churches no matter what their creed or position that the american will not tolerate any interference by ecclesiastical authorities with the government of his state the election inaugurated a new era for utah it presages there the decline of the power of the church in civic administration here on the ground the victory wears a different aspect instead of being one of free institutions it was one which attended an arrogant assumption of tyrannical authority As an instance the liberal Liber aln managers held that there could be no appeal from the te decisions of the registrars respecting the right of a ottison to vote and none was al owed by the higher court whereupon the registrars set aside decisions of the supreme court of the united states iti in order to deprive cormons mormons Mor mons of the franchise franchi le such an outrage was never beffre heard beard of in the united states andis and is directly opposed to american institutions all the noh mormon churches in the territory hearell heartily co operated with the and the result is a suggestion to the churches that Inter interference leren i ce by ecclesiastical authorities A will be regarded from a standpoint exactly opposite that stated by the unson onion brov provided aided the mormons cormons Mor mons are made victims instead of victors by it an attempt is made to daae it ik appear that the opponents of the cormons mormons Mor mons have tor for a taug tong period beba bc n playing a heroic patt part for which they have reaped a jug reward wa L we 1 4 quote U 9 te the adherents adhereR ts to the their jr antagonism an to the domination of the ma priesthood has bow been accompanied by in a by mia misrepresentation app sen tation calu calumny midy and eign even threats against life iffe and property in wa abort the monogamists mistS have in no small way been heroes I 1 this biord bordereau en ou w maudlin the punishment in business wm which the leading liberals in thle territory have suffered at the bahaa ot of the Morma cormons mormons Mor mons ons him haa made mad them wealthy on oa the pronto profits of patronage robab in ajo W me have the cormons mormons Mor mons ever go BO 4 difed fam fpm a amcy of copi cona mon sense and justice as aa 1 in n bonu contti ing a lavish patronage of men and aad firms who in a covert and even sometimes n u an open way were doing their thisie utmost to tad rob of their most sacred rights that evex ever beenau been in lu danger of mormon vengeance ekx sib perennial falsehood which la effectually denied by the fact that the bitter baxt jeet and most unscrupulous loe foes that people ever had have and grown rich in the heart of take fhe mormon community without damage to a hair bair upon thu heads or a cents worth of their property we fai fail I 1 to see any heroism op on the part Q of a force which has bu the courts under its control the co of Congress Con gross far beyond tha the limits of the constitution a and the claimed mow moral and financial support of efty WY millions of poop people Is while assaults it and overrides idee a handful of religionists ju in whose behalf not bocca a friend iu 10 the world rises riser up to do an act of kindness or utter word defense heroism is usually attributed to the other side in a contest buthe of the eliar char acter now going on in utah tu which a religious organization is struggling ling to maintain an exis existence tenee determined to destroy it i i we are assured by gentile leaders that no ng fraud was practiced that the victory of decency and free govern ineat chent was honestly achieved sod add that whatever wa attempted apted 14 chargeable to the kolef ta enlists wo who saw defeat staring t them em in h the fao and resorted in ia more than one da stance to deewit in securing votes gr r their ticket 11 the record tenion has haa reemi received an assurance which has hai not hot aen lieen vouchsafed to residents of this city it is Opu popularly Jarly and notoriously understood here that the most brazen frauds were ve re perpetrated up mcder der liberal auspices and denial of ala achia wide spread assumption has baa been made locally lo ally ilby by gentile leaders 2 for instance it has been virtually admitted that a special train which ran from this city to the colorado fit 11 registering gang after gang of workmen to the number of hundreds many of whom never lived aare but who were all expected to vote the liberal ticket what are you going to do about KV it P is in effect the only answer the 11 liber id if managers make ekko here we quote again what the contest really meant on the gentile side was religious religions liber liberty not persecution in the end the mor mons will be the greater benefi beneficiaries ciares by the social revolution now going goin on in the territory for at t this his time tim t they gh e are as they have been for nearly az half a cen century slaves of the twelve the Bis biskaps kops teachers and other rit riders lers overa oyer Zion 1 11 thattie Th atthe the gentiles of utah have been waging a contest for religious liberty Is an astonishing statement the overwhelming majority of them do not believe in any religion at alland all and do not pretend to and the idea that they have ever been the victims of religious persecution is grofft grotesquely quely absurd lab surd the statement that in the end the mor mons will be the greater boned dares clares by the social revolution now going on in the territory we believe to be true but the good will come dome to them in a different way from that expected by the red the contrast between the rule of the Poop peopled lePs party and that of their how victorious opponents and aind traducers traduce rs ft will be of a character to cause a desire among decent people of all shades of political and religious belief to welcome the former back to power in this way the mormons cormons Mor mons bobe vindicated and their countrymen be made to understand them better if the talk of our sacramento contemporary about the slavery in which the mormon people are held by their leaders to is twaddle unworthy of that paper it knows better while it prints such mich stuff the people who founded the 9 great reat commonwealth which now occupies this inter mountain region are not the material of which slaves are made the very contest in which they have just been overcome and which shook the whole united states from benir center to circumference would ifould not and could not have been maintained for a single day by a people who ho were or served observed any master save their own consciences in portions of russia the belief prevails among the peasantry that the jews mix with the bread they eat ip in celebrating the passover the blood of a christian child slain for the purpose for a jew in those regions to try to correct this popular belief is a work scarcely more weary and hopeless than for a mormon to try to corre many false notions that are almost universally entertained even in this enlightened country regarding his religion habits and practices but as enlightened people now scout such statements about the jews so will they in time learo learn the false and absurd character of much that is 18 said and published publish bd about the mor mons |