The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-27
CROCODILE TEARS.

The Salt Lake Tribune made another
piteous appeal to the women of the
dominant church in Utah yesterday. In
addressing them it said, with mock
solemnity:
Thousands of you are devout be-
levers in your creed. Can you afford
to see that creed dishonored? Can you
help to bring the high officers of your
creed and the creed itself into con-
temptY'
Since when has the Tribune been so
solicitous over the welfare of the creed
it refers to?
How long has it been anxious to pre-
serve the good name of the high Of
ficials thereof?
There is not one of those thigh Of
ficers' who could run for Office, at least,
on the Democratic ticket, and escape
the warfare the Republican organ is
waging on e. H. Roberts.
There is a smack of hypocrisy in
every supplication our contemporary
makes to the people of Utah. There is
an undertone of intolerance running
through every argument it attempts.
There is III its record on this matter
the most conclusive evidence of in
sincerity.
Still it appeals to the women of Utah
to save their creed and shield their
leaders by following its advice. And.
to all appearances, it is just as serious
today, and just as ready to shed tears
for the church, as when it supported
John Henry Smith for president of the
constitutional convention.
When it asks the voters of this state
to reject 3. H. Roberts for moral rea-
sons, our neighbor puts on the same
airs it assumed when asking them to
vote for Frank J. Cannon.
Its interest in the creed, in the
church, in the leaders, in the people, is
like "a fairy tale; it reads well; it
sounds all right; but it doesn't resemble
reality
In the double-leaded address to the
women of the dominant church yester-
day morning, the Tribune said:
You saw the boys march away to
war; you gave them tears and flowers
and farewells, and your only comfort
was that you and they, each in your
spheres, were performing your pa
triotic duties. and you felt a glow in
your hearts that when the long roll of
the states was sounded, Utah was in
Guided Are you going to do some
thing or election day which may bring
Utah into disgrace?
When you saw those boys depart for
war, as the bugle call to duty echoed
through these hills, mothers of Utah,
did you think that from childhood
you had trained them to "Asiatic
methodist
When the long roll was sounded and
the native sons responded with the
others, did you feel that, because of
the training You had given them from
childhood" they would feel more at
home in the Spanish army than in the
army of the United States?
When the word came back from Ma
Mia, and your hearts thrilled with pa
triotic pride at the glowing accounts of
the valorous deeds of Utah's sterling
sons, did it occur to you that in their
training there was aught to detract
from the glory they had won?
Because the senior officer from Utah
in that engagement had been trained
from childhood in the very system
in which Mr. Roberts was trained, do
the wives and mothers of the state feel
that Utah was disgraced?
And they will bear in mind that the
chief objection to Mr.. Roberts. accord
ing TO the Republican organ of Sept. %.
and Oct. II, 1898, is his training from
childhood up.
This fearful talk about flowers and
farewells'' and women of Utah per
forming their patriotic duties" doesn't
look we'll beside the charge that the
mothers of Utah trained their sons Ito
Asiatic methods" Our contemporary
should decide upon one plan of cam
paign or the other-both viii not go
together.