Show = The Newspaper of an Epoch Communicated It has been said that newspapers represent repre-sent the prevailing sentiments of the community in which they circulate and that as exponents of public opinion they have a right to exist Some newspapers spring into existence to meet the demands of the times others are called into being I by a change in popular feeling or by anew a-new order of things A new theory in politics a reform of abuses or a popular outcry against unjust measures and wicked wick-ed legislation demands an organ for the expression of each idea and as such a newspaper will always command the support of its friends and the respect of the people Especially is this true of the DEMOCRAT which coming com-ing as it did to meet a long felt want was immediately borne upon the shoulders of popular approval Its advent was hailed with JOY by thousands of good true Democrats who have had the best of reasons for being dissatisfied with the course of the Peoples Party in the past and as for the Liberal Party they would not have anything to do with a party one of whose chief doctrines is the subversion of popular liberties The DEMOCRAT suits the desire of thousands thou-sands of young men in this Territory who have long felt the need of an organ to advocate their rights to freedom in politics poli-tics unhindered either by the advice or command of their elders This newspaper I has been the outcome of a series of popular I pop-ular agitations and public meetings on the part of the restless young men who declared de-clared as the unalienable rights of every American citizen that church interference should not be allowed in politics They wanted to relegate church affairs and State politics to their proper places Church and State must be kept forever distinct was the campaign cry which is the sentiment of the DEMOCRAT and will always be maintained until the result is achieved That there is a change in the opinions of the majority of young men within the pale of the church has been made very plain even to the most ignorant ignor-ant minds by the replies of the sons of Church members at the empaneling of juries in polygamy cases The invariable answer is I dont believe in polygamy or I believe the revelation on polygamy polyg-amy to be spurious This clearly shows the drift of opinion on the part of the rising ris-ing generation Let us retrace while it is yet time Better let polygamy go and we shall secure the approval of the world and what is of more inestimable value to us we shall be reinstated in all our political rights and admitted into the glorious galaxy of States in the Union Congress will doubtless deal leniently by us in case we should discard dis-card the unhappy tenet of polygamy from our doctrines and will legalize the offspring of the men who conscientiously believed they were doing the will of God in entering into polygamy When the Saints ruled supreme in this valley the Deseret News was made the official offi-cial organ of the church and it was the sole medium of news to them The SALT LAKE DEMOCRAT comes into being at the same time with the national Democratic administration and as long as that administration continues in existence exist-ence so long will this paper live to advocate ad-vocate sans pew et sans reproche the inherent I in-herent doctrine of popular sovereignty or in other words selfgovernment which belongs to true Democracy as personified in Jefferson and let us hope in Cleveland Cleve-land also Z |