The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-21
LIBELING THESTATE.

The people of Utah are a patient
people. Irrespective of race, creed,
party, or occupation, they have proved
this quality.
In no other state of the Union would
citizens, and taxpayers, suffer them
selves to be libeled, day after day, and
week after week, as the Salt Lake Tri-
bune has nbeled them. 1t would have
TO stop somewhere, and sometime, and
somehow
Business men tire of a constant agi-
tation begun for political purposes and
continued throughout the year, with
the evident intent of humiliating
majority who disregard the threats of
a would-be boss.
Residents, of whatever religious or
political BELIEF, sicken of the constant
reiteration of suspicious based on
promised proofs that never material
ize.
business interests are bound to suf-
fer. and are now suffering, in a COM
munity which is advertised persistent
ly, from its very midst. as the abiding
place of a lawless and immoral people.
The organ denies that it has said
these things. It's own columns furnish
the contradiction.
1t has expressly stated or intimated,
directly or by implication, the follow
ing charges:
1. That Utah was admitted into the
Union under false pretences. The in
ference is that the state is unworthy of
confidence.
>. That the people of Utah are
pledge breakers. From which outside
capitalists may be lee to believe that
contracts are lightly treated in the
state.
3. That the people of Utah elected a
man to Office because he was a law
breaker. BY which the organ tries to
create the impression that the people
of Utah have no regard for law.
4. That immortality and corruption
are taught by the leaders of the domi-
nant church. Wherefore, the people
who sustain such leaders are not TO be
trusted.
>. That plural marriages are still be
official denies it. Which means that
the organ regards every such official
as falsiier.
6. That the elders of the church are
performing ceremonies for plural mar
riages. As this includes almost the
entire male membership, it is saying
substantially that three-fourths Of the
people OF the state are law breakers
and liars.
It's charges are not specific. They
are general They apply to all the
people. They reflect upon the entire
population Of the state. They create (
distrust wherever they are circulated,
and the organ circulates them where
ever they VIII create distrust.
If a man break the law in another |
state. and his neighbor feel as ag-
grieved as the Tribune assumes to I
Ieel, he will swear out a complaint and /.
take the object of his Indignation into |
court; he viii not mount a housetop /
TO proclaim the matter to the world
In other states people are led to be- /
lieve, by the attitude of the Tribune, |
that the courts of Utah refuse to pun
ish law-breakers; that the officers
VIII not arrest them; that justice can
not be obtained in the tribunals, nor
the laws enforced in the state.
What other reason can they assign
for this appeal Of an untried case, to
the sentiment of a nation.
How long are the people of Utah
going tc permit the professional mud
thrower to blacken their reputation. to
defame their state, to spread distrust
Of their honesty. to discount their
credit to question their credibiuty and
discredit their courts of justice?
There is said to be a limit to forbear-
ance. a point where it ceases to be a
virtue.
How long is the patience of Utah
people TO be tried?
How long is the tolerance of Utah
business men to be abused?
How long is the Tribune to be hu-
nored like a spoiled child of the sec
md stage?