The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-14
AN INSIDE VIEW.
The Situation AS Seen by Mr..
Ellis.
THAT MILLION DOLLAR OUTLAY
One Has Right to Know Where the Money
Gees II the Query Does Scare
Some People
To the Editor of THE HERALD.

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an appended editorial, to which L wish to
call attention. The above named matter Is
an attempt to manufacture prejudice
against the two morning papers by depre-
eating the controversy going on in the col
umns of those papers over local issues.
The aim Of the Commercial street organ Is
to convince the public that it has pain IN
its s'inwards' because the Tribune and
THE HERALD should enter into such wordy
contest. The hypocrisy of the position
and the plant is seen when we consider
the people who are behind it.
The Commercial street outfit is composed
of anti Mormons. 1t is manipulated by
men who subscribed literally to win the
Salt Lake election of February, 1890. by
fraud. They were men who, as rule,
were in Salt Labe for what money they
could make" They wanted to win that
election because the control OF the city
government meant the handling of vast
amount of money and many an opportu-
nifty to get something for nothing As a
matter of fact, the first year of the man
agement of the city government by Lib
eral'' rule shows that
NEARLY MILLION DOLLARS
were so handled, and The HERALD has not |
hesitated to insist that there Is very little TO |
show for it. will call this up presently, |
but first point in another direction.
The Tribune was, of course, the organ OF
all these men who now hold the CONNER |
cial street sheet, not only through that
campaign of 1SS990 but for years They
had endorsed and supported the Tribune in
all its malicious misrepresentation OF the
Mormons for years and years. When the
alleged 'Liberal'' candidates for the con-
troll Of the city government were NOM
with endorsed
declared them all above reproach. Within
three months the same Tribune declared
that it was a dishonest city council; that
there were "boodlers'' in it. The Tribune
has never retracted that statement. The
various city hall circuSes combined and
came to the rescue of the dying CONNER
cial street organ. They bought it to "get
even" with the Tribune. They run it to
take revenge on the Tribune. But. II So
why not fight the Tribune and leave THE
HERALD alone? Because THE HERALD has
pointed out the fact that the city is nearly
a million dollars out and very little IN I'M
less it be
''IN THE SOUP
to that extent. Here was an offense on the
part of THE HERALD even greater than that
of the Tribune In addition, both the morn
ing papers have not hesitated to let light
into the ways that are dark of the city
hall ring, as for instance, In the matter of
the offending Hebrew who is an owner of
the Commercial street organ, and who was
said to have been forced to resign to save
worse exposure. Then, too, the morning
papers have not hesitated to open the police
affairs to the eyes of the people here and
abroad.
In all these respects both the morning
papers have offended the evening glimmer
on Commercial street. That organ does not
dare to make an open fight on the real
issue, and hence attempts to cover its pur
pose by raising a new question; that is,
that the morning papers are damaging the
interests of the people Of this city and ter
ritory. Let US now examine the merits of
the case.
1t is conceded that from business point
of view, the hostility of the morning
papers is detrimental because it carries
abroad a conviction that all is chaotic and
threatening. But in what manner is THE
HERALD to blame! 1t has always been act
ing on the defensive 1t has stood for the
rights of the Mormon people against the
most vile and malicious assaults ever made
upon any people on this continent. THE
HERALD still stands for the Mormon PEG,
pie and in defense of their rights. The So
called Liberal party" was formed to fight
the Mormon people. In its formation re-
publicanism and democracy were swal
lowed in the vortex of anti Mormon hostil
ity Men who had been TRAITORS to the pa
ton through the civil war came to Utal
DOilLl
cal war upon the Mormon people in Utal
and Washington. The spirit of that part,
is the same today that it was when it wa
born. The men who control the CONNER
cial street organ have worked with and 70
that party and some of them are to-day il
offices given them by that party. To-da
the Commercial street organ is deprecatini
the hostility of
MORMON AND ANTI MORMON
In Salt Lake and encouraging it in Ogder
The Mormon people, when they foun
that Republicans and Democrats had swal
lowed their natural hatred for each othe
and united to crush them, formed tn
peoples partly and THE HERALD ha
been the organ of that party in defense c
of the rights of the Mormon people. L
now, a part or all of the so-called Liberal
party gees its mistake in keeping up thi
malicious cry against the Mormon peopl
and are honest in their desire to put an en-
to it, they should destroy the Liberal
party and place themselves, not as ant
Mormons but as Americans. To expet
THE HERALD to give up its defense of th
rights of the Mormon people, because fe
snti-Mormons, and few Mormons Ell
gagged in business, see that the continuanC
of the old hostility is detrimental to I'll
business interests of the city is to suppo:
that TIE HERALD has no higher conceptie
of right and duty than those who now CT
out against it.
The HERALD, say, has stood and stant
for the rights of the Mormon people
demands for them the same rights that g
other sects and all other people enjoy
Utah. In maintaining this demand
stands upon the constitution of our COUNT
and is compelled to meet the attacks of Il
morning organ of the Liberal part
Were it to flag in that duty now, i. won
deserve the condemnation of the peop
who have sustained it.
A thought that both parties to local
sues should consider is that there is som
thing higher, nobler, better in this wor
than subscribing the interests of greed. T.
cry of the Commercial street organ is t
whine Of avarice. It is the outcry of M
who have land or other material to sell.
course, it would be grand thing for Ut
If all this local strife should cease and di
appear. 1t ought to be buried. But the
is something more to be thought Of TIL
selling dirt" loaning money and traffic
ing in dry goods and groceries.
HUMAN LIBERTY is ON TRIAL
in Utah as it ever has been on the cont
emit. The Mormon people have console
tiously placed an Interpretation upon Ser
ture differing in soma respects from th
of other sects. That they have a right
do The nation, crowded by the malice
Mormon haters has made one tenet of t
Mormon Interpretation of Scripture cril
and because of that crime it has virtual
robbed the Mormon church of proper
worth great deal of money. The Norm
people, in Difference to the nations WI
has given up its observance of that CO
demned tenet of its faith. But the eli
eral'' party of Utah, instead of accept
the act as done in good faith, becon
more bitter than before Ia its b
tility TO the Mormon people and, w