The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-10

trolls. To prevent this great business
transaction and SO paralyZe the COM
pany in its operations. we are told.
the Times articles were published.
The object is to weaken the financial
standing Of the gentlemen who are at
the head Of the Utah Company. They
are prominent Mormon Church lead
ers. It IS now evident by the latest
article in the Times, as reported in the
Tribune Washington special. that the
credit Of the Church itself is to be at
tackled, for that Institution is declared
to be heavily involved financially. in
stead Of being backed by vast wealth
as popularity supposed.
Thus both the individuals and the
church which they represent are put
IN a bad financial light, 50 that capital
may be excited to its proverbial
timidity and the funds expected to
push the works intended by the Utah
Company may fail to be obtained.
Politics, we are assured, we're in
troduced in these attacks to divert at
tentlon from the real influence at
work. which is in the interest Of the
Southern Pacific railway. The po1iti
cal references in them were intended
to work with the financial parts in the
direction here indicated. This intelli-
gence does not come from Demo-
cratic source, Indeed the intent has
been to make 1t appear that the as
saults came from digguntled Demo-
Gratis so as to mislead searchers after
the author of the communications in
the Times 1t will be remembered that
The Herald gave its opinion very
much to this effect when ghe subject
was first agitated. Commenting upon
the authorship Of the letter, we said;
In seeking for the animus behind
such a publication, we confess we can
| not discover anything but a financial
| motive. In our opinion it's publication
| was procured for the purpose of pre-
| venting, if possible, the consumma ton
| OF the money transaction in which, it
! Is well known, Mr.. Cannon was and IS,
| interested on behalf of the Utah com.
pany.
"The projects OF that organization
| for the benefit of Utah include the ex-
| tension of the Salt Lake s. Los An
/ geles railway TO the Pacific coast.
| Anything that would tend to prevent
! the requirement Of the funds necessary
| to that enterprise, would work in the
| interest Of people opposed to it. In
! that direction, then, we would look FOR
! the inspiring cause
The political illusions in it we re
! gard as a blind to the essential anfmus
of the article. 1t could do the Demo
cratic cause no good in Utah, to make
It appear that all the First Presidency
of the Mormon church are engaged in
active support of the Republican party
That ought to be perceived at a
glance"
eff there IS any political motive be-
hind the attack on Mr.. Cannon. we
cannot perceive wherein it would DC
beneficial to the Democratic party"
We can say most positively thai the
Democratic party had no hand and NJ
purpose in view in the publication o.
preparation of those Times communi
cations. If any Democrat or Demo
Gratis we're concerned in them it wa;
individual and not party work. But
even oF that there is no proof There
is reason for suspecting an effort from
the quarter indicated by our New
York information, and if the Utah
company shall fail Of the funds which
it needs to embark in the great en-
terprises projected, it may look for TIT
cause, not in political circles, but il
the direction of corporate power in
terested in maintaining a gigantic rail
way monopoly.