Show LIBERAL LETHARGY Opcim thc Field to irlestly Pro sumption anti Victory The recent election of a school trustee for the First Ogden district of Weber county calls to mind a few reflections of a nature not altogether pleasant or flattering flat-tering In Salt Lake City there have been six school trusteeships won by the Liberals from the ever greedy grasp of the Mormon hierarchy This is an achievement almost equal to the Mil tiades victory at Marathon or Grant at Vicksburg The brethren at last deprived de-prived of the suppliant support of the sisters and their cousins and their aunts found out that theUnited States are not a portion of the kingdom of God but that Utah is a back yard on Uncle Sams farm But how suffused my burning cheeks arc with shame at the honest and candid acknowledgment that the Liberals of Oden City failed in their calling and neglected their trust It was a dead Mire foregone conclusion that if the non Mormons of Ogden had made any effort whatever if they had crooked not even a finger but the little too of the left foot they would have been able to walk away with the bag and baggage and for the first time in the history of f the Junction City elected a Liberal school trustee at least a respectable minority representation representa-tion for the party whose heads and votes number four to five and whose taxes count five to four to the Mormon peoples peo-ples I may hurt some feelingsno some prejudices making it perfectly plain and distinctly understood that the luke warmness on the part of the Liberals in this matter was a shameful neglect It was suicidal just as much so as was the refusal on the part of a number of selfstyled Loyalists to take the test oath and he registered The sooner such people peo-ple such patriots are relegated to the rear ranks the better for the country They are worse than no good because being counted upon and then failing to respond to the call of their duty they seriously disturb the balance bal-ance sheet in the final summing up I give the Mormons credit for their Father Rodin ability see the Wandering Wan-dering Jew in checkmating the Liberals Liber-als of Ogden by the old Roman maxim of Divide and rule They know it These priests of the latter days are up to snuff and they know how to shear the sheep where the wool is thickest They understand under-stand how to sow the seeds of discord distrust dissatisfaction and corresponding correspond-ing dissociation into the ranks of their enemies Talk about Jesuits Well George Q Cannon could give lessons to an Ignatius of Loyola in casuistry They study their men iearn their past histories histor-ies and then control their future conduct con-duct I have been led to say these things plainly frankly and openly on the same principle as I think it is better for a patient pa-tient to be acquainted with the seriousness serious-ness of his malady than to be ever dilly dallying around him with sham verbiage The long and the short of it is simply this The Liberals of Ogden City have been flagrantly derelict in their duty They might have rallied in force They might have got together and organized They might have united above and outside out-side of the flimsy pales of creed party or society particularities and assimilated themselves as a party of antiChurch andState and antiMormon But noJ They went asleep on their oars when a favorable tide was coaxing to carry them them into the harbor of success suc-cess They had cattle to sell grain to buy grind their axes or wreak their little clique spites by that condemnable individual spite which causes the Mormons Mor-mons to chuckle and to grin from the lobe of the left ear to the fleshy pendant of the right auricular conch One hundred hun-dred Gentiles present could have insured the election of a Liberal school trustee of Ogden City for three years There are at least 900 Liberal voters Where were they Where was their boasted patriotism patriot-ism Where was their sacacity I ask once more Where Echo answers Nowhere J |