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Show WIPE IT OUT. This paper was established to furnish to our Democratic fellow citizens something some-thing which would be in harmony with their principles. It was the hope of its promoters that it might add new recruits to the party, as well as renew and strengthen the faith of its old members, by a daily discussion of the vital principles princi-ples underlying it, and whose Tjbject is to give character and independence to the citizens. The task is difficult. To preach Democracy to a people, nine-tenths of whom are in a condition to quake in the knees as if about to be overcome by some great horror at the bare mention of the character and independence which Democracy Democ-racy implies, reminds one of the story of the pearls and swine. It is a heartless task to continue to 6ow where you cannot hope to reap. Yet, the situation in Utah is fast becoming intolerable.' Decency and self-respect must either emigrate or revolt. We are no longer the citizens of a free country, 'except in a very limited and qualified sense. So far as we are directly di-rectly affected byihe administration of government, in that which has most relation re-lation to our social and material welfare, we are the subjects of an aged, ignorant, and profligate foreigner, himself a fugitive fugi-tive from justice, but capable, in his sordid sor-did and stupid caprice, of .degrading the best, or of elevating to the position of ruler, the most depraved of the specimens speci-mens of humanity. Well, what shall be done about it? Whatever is necessary should be done, and it were well that it were done quickly. There must be a crisis in affairs here, and all good citizens should do what they can to hasten it The vile pretense of a divine di-vine right to rule, set up in this interior of a free country, must be wiped out. Polygamy is an evil, but it is the incident and outgrowth of a still greater evil the ecclesiastical despotism which dominates the local government. Destroy the latter and the former will naturally go into decay. de-cay. While the criminal controls the agencies of government, he will not be in great dread of punishment. This control con-trol must be taken away and the enforcement enforce-ment of the law will then meet with fewer obstructions. Democrats must lend a helping hand in this matter, and see that it be brought about quickiy, effectually, ef-fectually, and not botched. Upheavals and revolutions have not been extraordinary extraordi-nary incidents in the career of Democracy, Democ-racy, and they are not to be deplored where they are followed by a fresher and more wholesome political atmosphere. |