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Show GETTING ALARMED. The Tribune is getting very much alarmed over the V ay politics are shaping shap-ing in this Territory. It sees that it is losinf its hold, and it smarts under the lash. On Monday it came -out with a most pitiful wail and among other things says in relation to the dividing up on national lines: It has been t.'uough an arrangement, or by dictation, of by counsel, call it whatvou please-of e chief priests Ot t5 Mormon Church. u e , that in the past had any cons.,' number of Saints dared to do wba. 8 good many are doing now, go off on political tangents of their wn, they would have been called up, and unless they recanted they would have been ex-communicated without debate. Aud when we reflect that the old dream of the Mormon chiefs from the j first has been to secure Statehood for Utah; when we think of the fight they made through the twenty years past to secure that object: when we think of the means they took to secure it; and when we see now the Jones family going to the Democratic party, and the Bkown family going to the Republican party, it seems to us that if the plan was on their part to make any needed concession for a year or two or three until they could secure Statehood, that they would be doing exactly what they are doing now. In the meantime there is no sign from the men who control this organization, absolutely no sign that we can see, that they have changed the least in their intentions, but that all they have determined to do is for the present to change their methods. And if this is true, we give Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats alike notice that if they go on in the lines which a few are working on - now, while it will be possible to destroy de-stroy the Liberal party, while it will be possible to put the politics of Utah absolutely in the hands of the Mormon Church, the ultimate result will be exactly ex-actly what it was in Illinois; there will come a time in the next twenty years ' when the Americans in the TVnitorv I Mill simply say: "We will not stand "v it." and there will be civil war. ' Nobody can be more anxious to see . lliis Territory Americanized than is I " i he Tribune. ' No man on earth mure J heartily desires that the Mormon ques- tion shall be fortver settled titan does the Tribune.. But the reasons win-there win-there is a Mormon quest ion lit re are just as potent to all human e e as they ever were. And with the Governor Gov-ernor of this Territory a Mormon: with the Legislature all Mormon: with all the courts Mormon courts; with all the jurors Mormon jurors, to think that some of the old Ppirit will not remain, and that the men in authority will not conduct this region as they are directed direct-ed by their chiefs, is to suppose, it seems to us.. an impossibility. In his remarks on Saturday night Mr. Biiowk said: "This thing ought to be tried; that if it did not succeed that then we would again organize the old Liberal party." We beg to say to him, and to all who think as he does, that if this this''' coatinu&s, if it shall be determined by so many Democrats and Republicans to drift off on to party par-ty lines, that tha movement shll prevail pre-vail and the L beral party be destroyer!, we say that n-sver again will that Liberal Lib-eral party be able to gather up its scattered scat-tered and diassrerau elements, except through a bloody revolution. There will always bs titu 6nough in any community wiio will be willing to accept ac-cept such sop as may be thrown them to defeat any such reorganization, except ex-cept that a few men determining no longer to bearunbearable wrongs, take up the sword. And with statehood se-t se-t cured, and with Mormon otlicers in full control, if such r. thing were to be attempted iu the future the men attempting at-tempting it would bs rebels, and the Governor of this Slate would invoke the whole power of the United States, if necessary, to help him put down mn who were struggling for life, liberty lib-erty and the pursuit of happiness, such as is guaranteed by the declaration on which our lathers threw down the gauntlet to the foremost power of the earth. Yesterday morning the Herald came out and in an editorial under "Afraid to Fight," gives the Tribune the following follow-ing severe whipping; The dismal moaning of the Tribune t,;vr the prospect of haying to tight a l :iii!e on political grounds, is a topic f ciinmeut and mirth among both its li ;e:ils and foes. I n one issue it declares the Mormons kii)W so little of politics and the affairs of the government, that their children Do not know the first iota of the character char-acter of the government of the United States." In the next issue it declares, If it shall be determined by so many Democrats and Republicans to drift on to party lines, that the movement hhall prevail and the Liberal party be destroyed, we say that never again v ill that Liberal party be able to gather up its scattered ami dissevered elements, ele-ments, except through a bloody revolution." revolu-tion." Well, why not ! If it is true that the new parties will effectually kill the Liberal party, will that not be because the new parties Letter subserve the interests in-terests of the people than the old parties? par-ties? Oi do the non-Mormons and the Mormons exist simply in order that the Liberal party may prolong its existence? exist-ence? The ghastly phrase, "a bloody revolution," revo-lution," is not a joke on the part of the mad wag of Utah Liberalism; 3:-actnally 3:-actnally intends that his readers' sh.; take it seriously. Of course he cani.. explain why the Democrats and la-publicans la-publicans could not return to the Literal Lit-eral fold without first performing a ' i i - i - - - "i bloody revolution," in case they discovered dis-covered that the new parties were no improvement on Liberalise, if they should become lired ol Lenceir.c and llepubliciinisai, ihe? Wild, f-? aught we cau discover, return to Liberalism without first performing a ghost dunce aad scalping or otherwise maiming any of our peaceable citizens. Indeed, we go so far as to venture the assertion asser-tion that they wouldn't even need to slaughter a sheep or a bullock, or ever, to stick a pig, before returning to th9 embrace of tiat modest strumpet known as the Liberal party. This is a free country, and men are at liberty to join any party they please; and the terrifying talk that the formation of national politics here will bring n ' a. bloody revolution" and "civil war," surpasses for grotesque idiocy anything that has lately been seen in print. The fact is the chief organ of Republicanism Repub-licanism and Liberalism in Utah dares not light a fair battle. It does not go before the people of this territory in open debate on public questions. In the same breath that it declares that the Mormons know no more of national nation-al politics "than do so many chimpanzees." chimpan-zees." it raises the whine that the Mormons Mor-mons will convert to national politics so many Gentiles that the Liberal party can never again be resurrected. The bawling booby seems to haTe in mind some recent experiences in attempting at-tempting to dsbate'with these "chimpanzees," "chim-panzees," and wants no more of it. They cost him four thousand votes of hia friends on his favorite hobby as an issue,- and he may well f tar the results j of meeting them on other subjects. The chief Republican organ in Utah runs away from a fight on national politics. It is a clay-listed mummy. |