Show i this to us an opportune lime to lay down a few primary principles that control our policy as a journalist in utah during our brief but somewhat eventful career as editor of the HERALD our roost uncompromising enemy cannot pretend to deny truthfully but that we have touched the very core of boeni hearts in this community we could not have done this had we not beau sincere honest and fe arlesa when we haye expressed our admiration of the great mormon people with whole enthusiasm when we have striven to hold up cheif comparable virtues and splendid hero reni for the respectful consideration of a misled nation when we have espoused their cause to maintain their rights and consecrated our pen to the jealous defense of the mormon people they have i generously reciprocated our devo tion to them and theirs and rewarded us by spontaneous praise and unanimous support this satisfies us more than over that tho whole world today has no other such a loyal true and upright people as the cormons mormons Mor mons feeling confident of their cordial and staunch support and being deeply conscious of our rectitude of purpose we shall continue to serve them with all the talents that god has given us even though the irresponsible vicious local enemies of w s utah should persist ilaf threatening us ad they hayam tho past with personal violence lar and feathers braining aud murder we can not afford to pause in a good work even though the unswerving integrity of our effective course should invite the satanic malice of mobs and we should perish struggling gloriously in the harness at the hands of assassins and blood thirsty cowards in the words of a great american patriot and orator live or die sink or swim survive or per ish we give our heart and our hands vindicate tha rights liber ties and noble purposes of the grand mormon people and as long as we live we shall battle manfully for the perser valion of their interest and of utah we have a hl olefin efin conscientious to all worthy friends but while we are unequivocally on the aide of the cormons mormons Mor mons we haac nothing but goodwill good will and the beat regards for those honest gentiles in our midst who came hero for the legitimate purposes of business and trade and who adhere to their awu affairs and principles and pursue a legitimate avocation without pros ti their influence to degrade asperse and enslave the pioneer people of itus territory no honest man no true gentleman no law abiding peaceable frank and sensible citizen shall ever incur our indignant denunciation whatever hia creed or politics may be and however much we may differ with I 1 him in matters of belief so long as his conduct shows that he is not an enemy of utah or an irresponsible leader or instigator of a vile and unscrupulous opposition to the mormon people but any individual who joins the rancorous lying anti mormon party and makes himself conspicuous by aiding or abetting directly or indirectly the of the present crusade to disrupt the most holy family relations of the cormons mormons Mor mons and secure the passage of tyrannical laway ith the object of robbing the mormon people of their dearest rights deliberately exposes himself to public criticism and we shall have to let the world know whether he be an honest man or an irresponsible bilk and a rogue A federal officials and a paltry gang generally impecunious intriguers rs have been andare endeavoring to rob the leopla of this territory of their political rights of local self they have created a false sentiment abroad to prejudice taft nation against the cormons mormons Mor mons to further their schemes of robbery to cover these miserable intrigued a this reckless local anti Mormon element has pretended to work in the interest of morality as a cloak for their nefarious designs some reputable and doubtless honest but indiscreet gentile merchants and business men have tacitly supported this vicious auti gang which has attempted to brand every mormon man as a veritable fiend of lust and treason and which has advocated the disruption of families endeavored to place honored pure mormon wifehood upon the plane of prostitution and striven to brand the pure daughters and noble vigorous bons eons of utah with the mark of bastardy we propose to show the world the exact character and animus of the creatures engaged in this vile business wo propose to unmask anti mormon rottenness and no individual who makes himself conspicuous as a leader or backer shall escape our scrutiny if such a person proves to be a wretched dishonest intriguer or a moral leper he is incapable of working in alie in of moral reform and the people ol 01 utah and the united states ought to know it obnoxious anti cormons mormons of this class are re or all the cries of tho are responsible for the present business depression and social chaos which is exhibited in today albeit they are as a rule financially and morally bankrupt not one of them shall escape an airing through the columns of the OGDEN if we can help it unless they repent and desist from their vicious parti zan of plunder |