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Show property at 25 per cent of its value. Is there one Sanpete republican, exempting office seekers, who will come forward an 1 say he believes the revenues of Utah should be in any part diverted toward maintaining the Manti Co-op. L. T. Tutti & Co., i). M. McAllister's book store, the Gunnison reservoir, John K. Metcalf's farm, or Herman Chriaten-sen's Chriaten-sen's savings bank? The Sanpete republicans nay a iieh corporation of liah sugar capitalists, who could almost buy up Siinpeie, must have a bounty to convert beets into sugar. This is also a joke. lu their fifth article the Sanpete republicans re-publicans belie their manhood. The republican party proposes that Utah shall remain a territory. That is the declared opinion of Harrisou. The democracy de-mocracy of the nation says she will be a state. Tho latter party represents h vast majority of the people of the country, coun-try, aud time majority opinion will sweep the Uiitiou in the coming campaign. cam-paign. Harrison is well aware of this, and, iu keeping with permission granted by the democracy, has clerically performed per-formed the functions devohing upon the presidency of the United Stales. He dare not refuse. Ho was compelled against his wishes to grant amnesty, and the Sanpeie republicans indorse his cowardly snivel. But he has not as yet gran'ed amnesty. Now on exempting mortgages from taxation. The democracy is in line with this journal that every species of property which is properly the subject. propel ty wuicu is propel iy i:iw suujetri of taxation should bear its proportion of the general burden. The law taxing mortgages could not b made to ia.'i the Lombard Loan & Trust company of New York, who genera!l let out uicney in Utah at 8 per cent, nor cou'.d any law. It would be contrary to the spirit of the constitution of ihe United States aud the inter-state commerce law. Local loaners weie compelled to loau at from 8 to 12 per cent, ami of course nearly all loans are protected by mortgages. mort-gages. Those which were placed iu New York safes were not and could not be taxed in Utah. Herman (,'hristeu-en's (,'hristeu-en's papers weie. Why should the laws of Utah discriminate against the Utah martgagors? Can a jingle repnbli can, in his individual capacity as a citizen, when he is not influenced by a few tricketers, give a single, logical, neighborly reason, why the law should not have heeu erased as was 'none by Utah's first democratic legislator. legisla-tor. That sixth plank in the platform of jokes is rather a boomerang, and it is going to hurt when the plauk comes back. The democracy of Sanptte gladly welcomes these local issues, and eagerly advances in the battlo for local supremacy. su-premacy. It is humiliating to dwell at length upou these six resolutions for it exposes our neighbors, our people, how blindly aud unthinkingly they were trapped. The Sentinel would have refrained from printing such a mass of declarations declara-tions which are contrary lo tiie interests of every man, woman and thild in all Utah who ij not a member of the liberal party. THE LOCAL ISSUE. By refraining from publishing the platform of the republicans of Sanpete, this journal did so because the delegates dele-gates composing their last county convention con-vention were friends aud neighbors, and The Sentinel disliked to expose to pubiie the light in which the republican element held themselves, but they hnve seen lit to rush into print in the Mount Pleasant Pyramid, and here is what they say: RESOLUTIONS. 1 Rsoivi,''-that we endorse the administration of President Harrison and especially the diplomacy of the st ite department. 2 Resolved that we endorse the national na-tional republican platform of 1SS8. and particularly endorse as a result of the principles contained in said platf rr the McKinly bill. 3 Resolved that we tender the republicans repub-licans of Logan our heartfelt congratulations congrat-ulations in electing a ticket in interest of pure principles, sound policy and honest government. 4 Resolved that we do not approve ihe actiou of the Utah legislature, on the subject of bounties and believe that their refusal to favor the sugHr industry indus-try on the subject of bounties, will result in serious financial loss to the people of this territory, as statistivs show tho establishment of the sugar industry at Lehi was a saving to consumers con-sumers of sugar in this territory last year of $20,000 outside ihe bounty besides creating a market for the products pro-ducts of the farmer. 5 Resolved that we heartily endorse the action of the president in granting amnesty to a class of our citizens who have been deprived of the franchise for a number of years. 0 Resolved that we do not approve of the action of the legislature iu exempting exempt-ing mortgages from taxation. Just what Harrison's administration has done for Utah that the Sanpete element should indorse, is not clear. Have tbe local republicans the nerve to declare with Harrison that Utah 6houid not immediately hare home rule or statehood? Harrison says they shall have neither if his veto can prevent such a "calamity." That is the only occasion on which the president has been pleased to refer to Utah. Do tiie republicans of Sanpete indorse that doctrine? So far as indorsing the diplomacy of the staie department is concerned, Harrison never can do that but the Sanpete republicans hasten to indorao Blaine when the cabinet "fear to tread" in that direction. Every vote cast in Utah to support the McKiuley tariff meaus a demoralized local condition of crops and genera-values- Kvery vote to snpport that doctrine is a nail in the coffin inclosing the advancement of Utah. I Grave, very grave donbt, exists whether the Logan-rottenness was or was not intended as a joke. This journal would very much like to know in what way the Sanpete republicans republi-cans figure out "2ti,000 dollars were last year saved to this territory because the Lehi sugar mill was in existence. That was a rotten concern anyway. They debauched the confidence of the farmers, did not earn the bounty which bad been given them, and want more. Without mouey in the treasury of Utah, the agricultural agri-cultural college to be rraintained, the asylum at Frovo to keep that locality in existence, and the running expenses of our territorial, county, city and town governments, are enough now to make even every Sanpete republican list his |
