| Show A MOST DOUBTFUL PAPER The Tribune this morning recommends to all readers in Utah and especially to that company which styles itself The Young Democracy an article published in the supplement to its Sunday morning issue as though that article were a second sec-ond Sermon on the Mount Ve read the article and read it carefully but failed to I I find in it anything wonderful or brilliant We admit that it is a well written article and that its chronology is good but we say that its application is bad It is a legal argument and not a political one Neither the writer of the article nor the Tribune seems to recognize the great fact in government gov-ernment that politics arc psychical while laws are physical j politics determine the method to be adopted while the law enforces en-forces the method after its adoption Politics deal with mans reason in go ernment the law controls a mans actions ac-tions and pretends not to touch his reason rea-son The article is based on precedent and power and finds its inspiration in dislike of individuals more than Jn its love of individuality The article I calls for the resources of civilization and ignore the resources of argument j the article declaims against the teachings of I the church to which the majority of the people of Utah adhere and says they are further taught as a cardinal tenet of their creed that this temporal power which they see established here shall at no distant day rise to universal sovereig nly over all governments instituted by man Surely then the greater need to free them from such actual errors no matter mat-ter how true theologically and if they T > e already so obedient as to seem serfs is it not wrong to fasten the chains a > upon them And then how meet how just how like the lion and the lamb lying down together to-gether it is to see an old time Democrat who for aught we know antedates the Missouri Compromise and an ultraRe publican a dyed in the wool Black Republican Re-publican paper shaking hands across the long years of bloody strife and bitter I hatred calmly solemnly as brothers as brothers of the whole blood as brothers whose natural love for each other is like that of Cain and Abel declaring this to be Democracy pure and simple and a commission for us is the panacea to heal all wounds to make glad 4 all hearts How beautiful is this union whose strong bands seem made of Sam sons hair How sweet the peace which pervades these bosoms this peace that was only to reign after a thousand years and which has been accomplished in a day yea in the twinkling of an eye And as this twain gradually but surely and certainly ascend the Hill Difficulty we who are mired in the 1 Slough of Despond can but exclaim as we wee their little golden slippers on the heavenly stairs How beautiful are thy feet upon the mountain But does the Democrat of the article I can he not give us the remaining thirty eight so that wemay have a new t creed 1 seems not to remember that in 1877 there was another commission composed of the same ingredients as this one is to be anti I that the kindly light which led that body was shed from Republican lamps lie I forgets also that there it was eight I to seven and that eight Republicans beat seven Democrats every time stole the Presidency and swindled the nation But in reply we may be told that those days are gone and let bygones be bygones by-gones So it is in Utah to a great extent and let the bygones of Utah be bygones The championing of Democracy by the Tribune is a most wonderful sight and suggests the ballad of the Vicar of Bray Behold how it speaks That is what should have been done when those good Democrats Stephen A Douglas and Frank P Blair recommended that commission com-mission should be sent to govern the Territory Ter-ritory which the Mormons had settled I in Seeing that Douglas is in fashion I for Utah politics we recommend to the Tribune his article entitled Popular Sovereignty in the Territories published in Harpers Magazine 1859 the month we do not now recall The Tribune ends its editorial with this uIt recommends recom-mends the only true swift and just course for the government to pursue pur-sue towards Utah and in its very next ty If one on IMr Hamiltons address says 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 conces-sions or it will not hold a great many of its own people through 1885 The reason is that what has been transpiring here during the past one hundred days has set many hundreds of Mormons thinking Some honest thought has convinced them that they have been defrauded and their souls rebel against further slavery Having thrown oft one tyranny why impose im-pose another |
