Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-04
HE SETS THEM Up.

| AO-NS 1hC lew menus OF Amer
lean newspapers who think for
themselves on the ''Alormon'' dues-
ton and are not carried like corks
on the surface Of the stream Of
popular prejudice, is the gentleman
.who presides over the columns Of
the Times Of Albany, y. Y. Under
the head of "Gentile Sharks in
Utah, 4" his paper presents the fol-
lowing pungent article:
The Express is panied TO notice that the
Salt Lake Tribune refers to the articles on
territorial government which occasionally
appear in the Albany Tunes, as ''trash and
falsehood."-A'6Gsy E-pre,,
When it was found some years ago
that the labor and energy Of that re-
markable sect of crazy religionists
known as Mormons, had converted a
bowling wilderness into fertile and
rich territory, great many enterpris-
ing persons were seized with
desire to rob them Of their
property. Robbery is all right
enough to such people, if it can be ac-
complished under cover Of law and
religion. These persons known in
Utah as 'gentiles." established the
Salt Lake Tribune, as their organ.
with robbery in view.
1t was. and is, a singular combina-
tion-this Utah ''geatile" party. There
are keepers of disorderly houses and
retailers OF bad liquors, whom the
'Mormons had vigorously suppressed.
hand in hand with excited mission
aries, who, finding no sexual unclean-
ness at home in the eastern States.
Journeyed to the Salt Lake TO hunt out
aud extirpate polygamy. Add to these
number OF land spectators and
quarter section jumpers, sundry
merchants aggrieved by the cooper
alive stores Of the Mormons, and the
miscellaneous gamblers, roughs and
cowboys of a new community, and
you have the party Of which the Salt
Lake Tribune is the exponent and
mouthpiece, OF course, while nomi-
nslly independent" its politics arc
republican, Of the most extreme nat
tern. The paper speaks for a small
fraction ofthe population Of Utah. but
ii can appeal to a party sympathy
outside the Territory, and as a relig-
ious and social test has been imposed
by act Of Congress upon the infatuated
Mormens, the small minority which
the Tribune represents, rule, or soon
will rule the Territory.
or course any disclosure OF the acts
and purposes OF the "Gentilem gang
who hold under President Harrison. /
all the offices, gag all the public meet
ings. stuff all the ballot boxes, and
iyrannize over the majority of their |
fellow citizens because Of the obnox- /
ious religion ofthat majority, is trash |
and falsehood." The people of the
United States have no relish for polyy-
amy, nor any tolerance OF ii, and want
1 to die out and disappear. 1t would
have died out long ago, had this Gem
lie conspiracy no: provoked the OBJ
'tinate adhesion Of its voiaries. Per-
has just this this result, all
over the world. But the objec; Of the
Gentle" republican officials is less a
riumph over polygamy. less a tn
lrnpa over the control of the public
'ffices of the Salt Lake Valley than it
robbery of the property of these
anatical Ieligionists. Already under
he forms Of law a million or more has
zen seized and confisczted by them.
hat sort Of trash" the Tribune don't
Ike to hear about. But it is some
hing more than trash to rob religious
as is done in Utah. The
overnment which robs the Mornons
day may rob the Me;hodisis. or the ,
atholics or the Shakers tomorrow.