Show R E JEWELS FROM THE TRIBUNE This morning the Tribune has an article on Consistency which is a reply ton to-n editorial that appeared in the DEMO the Tribune CRAT of Tuesday although does not mention this paper nor that article in truth its silence in regard to us is wonderfully like the policy ol the News for many years in not allowing the name Tribune to appear in its columns Has there been a swap ora change of heart Were We-re aware that both papers prefer death to Democracy every time but scarcely expected to see both papers pursue the sooth it same road as to policy In very seems both papers must have found that all roads lead to Rome and that they are both nearing it But is there any inconsistency sistency in our article and the statement made in the Salt Lake Theatre January 8 1885 when we said that of the 18000 majority of votes cast at the election for Delegate all but one were ciphers The justification for the statement is the fact that the politics of Utah are qntrolled by the dominant church and that such a thing is unDemocratic unDemo-cratic It is also unDemocratic to have another set of men run things here and what we desired then and desire now is that the people resume the control of affairs themselves Since when have aliens participated in the control of affairs in Utah Has the Utah Commission appointed registrars who allow aliens to register and forbid citizens to Or is everything alien which has not the stamp of approval upon it the stamp being placed there by the Republicans The invoking the resources of civilization is the very test which marks the difference between Democracy and Republicanism Republican-ism Democracy holds that the principles of freedom and the rights of man are ample to cope with all questions ques-tions and the graver the questions and the more complicated the situation the more need for these principles the more certain cer-tain their cure Democracy finds its greatest triumph in applying these principles prin-ciples when others deem nothing but force adequate to the solution of a vexed and long standing political difficulty and thus to conquer is its chief glory The principles of Democracy remain the same in foul weather as in fair It is not thus with Republicanism which says freedom for fair weather force for foul weather Republicanism rests on the theory that the people not of Utahalone but everywhere every-where cannot be trusted to take care oC themselves and that they will go astray if not guided and guarded by a strong government This is precisely what we have always had in Utah a distrust of the people but a supreme trust in force The centralization of religion is to be replaced by the centralization of Republicanism Repub-licanism Wedo not seek to maintain that the General Government has not the power to appoint a commission for Utah for they have and could govern Utah by a courtmartial if such a method was deemed best or worst or anything else The question of a commission is one of policy and not of power and as such we are opposed to it To reform things here there must be a new method of thought and the method is starting and causing much uneasiness among the Peoples Party The Tribune cannot deny that polygamy is going down as surely as the rebellion went down and that Richmond is already invested on all sides and that Appomattox Court House is coming into view There is no armed rebellion in Utah and never will be but are men to be punished for sympathies and not for crime Because a Mormon fondly hopes and believes that some day 1 his church will dominate the world is no reason for punishing him so long as he conforms to the law A Catholic might as well be deprived of his rights as a citizen ity i citi-zen because he believes in the infalibility of the Pope and the doctrines of the Presence or a High Churchman might 1 be declared in rebellion because he holds that in uttering the name of the Savior while at divine service he should bow to the east What differ erence does it make where he bows so long as he obeys the law of the land All that can be required in Utah is obedience obe-dience to the laws and if that is rendered ren-dered what more can be asked Govern ment is not established in America to propound theories of religion and see that they are accepted but to give to man liberty and to enforce the laws which protect pro-tect him in it Cannot the Tribune wait the remaining nine months of 1885 for the destructionof Mormonism which it has itself predicted this very week The law gives to the humblest open account two years in which to die and the Utah question ques-tion is as important as an open account |