| Show A NEW VOLUME Today Vol l II of the DEMOCRAT begins j be-gins With its merits and demerits the public are pretty well acquainted and it shall be our endeavor to profit by fair and friendly criticisms of our paper in the future as in the past Whatever the shortcomings of the DCMOCRAT may I i > I j I have been it has ever been sincere and honest in all its efforts to do I good here or to eradicate wrong I I there During its existence it has i earned the justly protl reputation of being i j be-ing independent if naught else and to n I have done this in Utnhjs to have done much It will continue the same in the I future as in the past and however much i I we may differ from the majority of tho I people of Utah as to politics and religion we are more convinced now than ever j that when Utahs redemption from a j union of Churcband State and all the direful evils whir i such a union entails comes it must come from within The people of Utah r must learn that within the Territories of the United States the laws 01 the United States are supreme and I must be obeyed and that no other authority au-thority can or will be allowed to set itself up as the equal superior of that of the United States even when that authority is claimed to be from God Almighty The enforcement of the antipolygamy and unlawful cohabitation laws will necessarily neces-sarily entail much suffering aid hardship hard-ship but when the people of Utah complain of these things they should remember that they defied and ignored the laws and that they are reaping the whirlwind because they sowed the wind That this fact is to some extent being recognized by the people of Utah we know and that it maybe may-be fully recognized and that they may act in accordance with the lesson which it teaches is our sincere wish It has been said of us that we are opposed to i Utahs people and Utahs interests If I desiring the vindication of the law the breaking up of a union of Church and i I State in Utah the advent of the time I when the material welfare of a large majority of the inhabitants of if Utah shall not depend upon the good will of a priesthood is a justification of the charge made against us we cheerfully admit it There is much to be done in Utah and progress is so slow at times as to seem not to be made at all but although that may so seem still the u 1 m progress is made Those things I in nature and in politics which last the longest are of slowest growth I Affairs in Uiali have nearly reached a crisis and we sincerely believe that tho Government should now reach a final l determination either to suppress polygamy I polyg-amy forever or to cease its efforts to suppress sup-press it and let it continue unmolested forever The time has come when the tide which leads to fortune is at the flood and the decision of the Utah question I lies with the Government i |
