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Show Disfranchisement the Issue. The quiet observer is prune to inquire in-quire Why Ihe Salt Lake Tiibune is so exceedingly bitter against the Mormons (this time. There is no election pend-g; pend-g; the only moement among thepeo-e thepeo-e whom the paper assails is one courted cou-rted with the question as to which ol" e great political parties the ind.vidu-s ind.vidu-s shall affiliate with. This is recog-zedas recog-zedas a good movement, one that ail auould encourage; but the Tribune grows more vindictive even toward them than if a political campaign were in progress, in which its attacks might have the excuse of being for political effect. The question recurs: "What is its purpose? Why is it not willing that the division, among the Mormons at least, should go forward and develop all the good that can come from it?" Well, the Tintcs is no prophet, it does not profess to be abie to unerringly read other men's minds, but it seems perfectly clear that tne Tiibune is actuated actu-ated by its desire to carry through a plan of disfranchisement. It knows that if the -incerity ol this movement shall develop to the sat islaction of all classes, the dislranch sement idea w ib be so effectually buried that it can never nev-er he suggested in the luiiire. The ground upon which the disfranchised siand will be so be completely washed away that they w ill no longer be able to maintain a foothold. T he Tribune would therefore drive ihe Mormon people peo-ple together in their old organization if it could. It cannot hope lo do this, but it does desire to keep jhi animosities animosi-ties alive, preventing Gentiles irum accepting ac-cepting the new order of things, in the hopa that some contingency will arise under which it can spring its pet desire. de-sire. If matters were permitted to rur. along naturally people would soon get their eyes on the truth that is breaking through the clouds and the army by which it is hoped to support a disfian-chisement disfian-chisement proposition woula melt away. This is the way it looks to the Timex. If anybody can oiler a better explanation explana-tion of the Tribune' position, we would like to hear of it. But do the-Geni d.-s of Utah want to push this disfranchisement disfranchise-ment idea? Surelv, if the conditions that give rise lo it shall prove to have been done away with, there will be few to support the plan. Are men going to approve of the keeping alive of a scheme by appeals to prejudice w hich was born in their minds by what they conceived to be necessity? We think not. If the grounds upon w hich men supported it have disappeared, a halt will be called. Thinking men must stop and examine the (acts ami the evidence evi-dence and determine what the merits of the change are; they are not going to he letl on by biind fury in a course I hat is in contradiction of the underlying purposes which they have always professed. pro-fessed. There is a large class who have never approved the disfranchisement idea. They hold that it is un-American, and they welcome the clearing of the horizon hori-zon that marks the passing awav of the cloud. Between these two cl.iss-s, that which never hits at heart approved the plan, and that which supported jt from a conviction that it was necessary, the unrelenting, unreasonable, implacable dislranchisers will bo left in a great 1 minority. If the Tribune shall persist in milking the Liberal party a party of disfranchisement under all possible : conditions, it will compel a large proportion pro-portion of the present members of that party to join either the Democratic or , Republican party, both of which are squarely opposed to the proposition. ' Times. The work of excavating for the foundation of the new brick building to ; he built next to the Co-ftp clot hing store, I was commenced yesterday afternoon. I |
