Show I JUST ABOUT This mornings Tribune says it wishes J THE DEMOCRAT all the success it deserves I Our success is now assured but it is more I than probable that the Tribune thinks wes we-s deserve no success unless this paper f plays second to all scores that the Tribune may arrange What soothing syrup do we propose to use to reach the people Merely the truth and the theories of freedom free-dom having long vainly looked for them I in the Tribune The editor of this paper knows fully as well as the editor of the Tribune the power of the Mormon Church over its members and humbly begs to Bay he is as free from it as the gentleman who edits the Tribune and is not so apprehensive ap-prehensive about it We also know that Mr William E Gladstone said of Catholics Catho-lics that they could not he loyal subjects of the Queen so long as they recognized Home as infallible and we agree neither with the editor of the Tribune nor with the Prime Minister of England Doubtless Doubt-less we err much in regard to political affairs af-fairs and our only apology is the one Dr Johnson made when asked how he could give such a definition and replied Ignorance Ig-norance madam pure ignorance Why does the Tribune not care to discuss the difference between Republicanism and Democracy Can it better employ its I time than in showing the superiority of its own creed over all others The thought sometimes steals into the mind that it has no desire to show the true foundation of its beliefs wishing to have them accepted because it says they are true and to question its authority is to be immediately in rebellion Yes we know that what we have to learn about all parties would make more than one book in fact a great many books but we do not believe that the Tribune will ever write an introduction I introduc-tion to one not even a political primer I In fifteen years we trust we may say not i merely that we know vastly more than I we do now but that we shall be able also to say we have forgotten more than the Tribune ever knew The Tribune editor I says that when we say it now desires to I replace the centralization of religion by the centralization of Republicanism we talk like a ninny We are very sorry for having so talked then because we have talked just like you The resemblance I must come from the fact that God made e us both and can find its true explanation in Johnsons pardon a second allusion to the famous doctor in one article reply to Boswell when Boswell suggested that God made Scotland Yes sir and while comparisons are odious you must recollect that God also made hell Last year the commission was to be composed of a majorify of true Republicans who alone are true Americans and now it is to be a loyal commission composed com-posed of a majority of Democrats How things have changed since last November Then all Democrats Demo-crats were rebels and the giving of power to the Democratic party by the people was to place the tyrants foot upon the neck of a free people Will the Tribune be so very good so very kind so very condescending as to explain whether treason consists in talking against the government and running from the law or in some overt act The editor says We have not as the DEM I OCRAT avers predicted the downfall of Mormonism We have no desire to pervert things nor convey wrong impressions impres-sions but will the Tcibunc explain the following statement which appeared in an editorial of that paper March 311885 But it is reasonably clear that under its present pretensions Mormonism has reached the summit of its power It will have to make certain reasonable concessions I conces-sions or it will not hold a great many of i its own people through 1885 Does the editor of that paper claim to have had some new light since Tuesday last or is i lie angry because he has seen the accomplishment accom-plishment of his hearts desire in the suppression sup-pression of polygamy and there are no more worlds for him to conquer Let him mount his Rosinante and become be-come a free lance and as he wanders wan-ders about telling of past achievements and how he crushed rebellion in Utah let him boast that he crushed it alone like Coriolanus How far seeing how almost prophetic is this prediction concerning con-cerning the DEMOCRAT uIt will give up its present position byaidby and become be-come a real American journal or will I drift into such austere independence as illuminates the Herald and we would not disturb it during its incubation if we Quid any more than we would ig > ten a setting goose from her nest even if it did hiss at us sometimes TJvvt is all true and we are onlywaiting for the Tribune to formulate a line of policy for us and vl hen we get it we shall humbly 1 and gratefully follow it and after af-ter we have followed this trail many years we shall be true Americansr after the Tribune standard for who is so American as the editor of the Tribune who is an epitome of the nation Every nation contemplates itself through the medium of self conceit and draws conclusions con-clusions to its own advantage which individuals in-dividuals adopt to themselves with complacency com-placency because Uley confound and interweave in-terweave their private with their national character |