Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-28
POINTED REMARKS.
How NOn-J Journalistic Man Views
the Morning Republican Organ.
The Sainted "Tribune" Held Up fol
Admiration,
A Rafting Reply to a Conceitet
Writer.

To the Salt Lake Democrat:
am a resident of this city, and admire
fair dealing, but must say, in reading
both Mormon and Gentle papers, that l
see where extremes meet, and as usual,
good sense, in such cases, is lost sight Of
1t seems to me that there are two priest
hoods in Utah-both intolerant-one the
Mormon priesthood, and the other the
Tribune crank hierarchy. Let Mormon
have one liberal idea-and express it
and he is boycotted and is sent to
hell across lots. How is it with the
other priesthood? II lawyer comes
to the defense of anyone in the
Mormon Church, and true to his
profession, gives him the defense
which he is entitled to under the law,
then this censor, this all holy, immacu-
late, comes forward with fire and brand
to stamp him as disloyal- brand him
as Jack-Mormon. The same course is
pursued toward all citizens who do not
echo the voice of the sainted Tribune.
No matter how honest or sincere they
may be in their opposition to Church
rule, to polygamy, or any of the in
fluences growing out of the bgoted
fanaticism of Mormonism, all must be
damned unless thev drop themselves be-
fore Saint Tribune. Verify, they say,
there is no other roof by which you can
be saved. Voice our opinion and you
are saint of the first water. Ours is the
genuine Republican method. 1t is better
to be damned by us than saved by any
other gospel
The morning Republican organ has a
bandage on its eye this morning, tied up
in the head line, "The Kind They Are /"
1t is the yiscious fling of man who has
pumped himself full to repetion of can
kering egotism, and having bounded the
false horizon by the organ he writes,
cannot be made to understand that Utah,
and particularly Salt Lake City, and all
the loyal people in it, could manage to
drag out an existence, if the organ were
to take the Group and die. The old gag
of the country editor to non-subscribers
serves here to show Just how the organ
stands, i. e., stick your finger in the
water sect in front of the Office, and then
pull it out and look for the hole it made
The hole would be just like the hole
left in Salt Lake City among loyal people
|
ever, that does not work both ways, and
will paraphrase the organs black
eye: "To all such creatures, 1 desire
only to show them where they stand in
this particular case, by relating fact.
A distinguished journalist passed
privately through Salt Lake City
about month ago, from New
Orleans. He stopped over day and
called at my business office. He picked
up the morning organ and carefully
read it, and said "You people have much
to bear here from the Mormon incubus
and its attendant horrors, but this journal
(the organ) is the worst infiction / can
conceive a people who are struggling for
representation, to be suffering with Its
utterances are vain, insincere and con-
ceited to degree. If such as this were
published in New Orleans the writer
would have to leave town or face pistols
in the hands of hundred outraged men
every day he remained" How does that
strike the organs bump of knowledge?
BLACKSTONE.