Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-27

and its people. Their special efforts
have been directed to maligning. Will
Tying and abusing the Mormon people.
but the injurious effects of their cam
paign of SANDER have come upon all
classes of people, and all classes of
business, until now the business and
industrial classes east and west are
coming to shun this state. Those
classes have been wrongfully led to
believe that Utah's business and indus
trial affairs are under an oligarchy
more cruel and tyrannical than that
which holds Russia in serfdom they
have been wrongfully led to believe
that social conditions here are viler
than in the ghetto of New York or
the slums of Chicago; they have been
wrongfully led to believe that neither
life nor property is as safe in Utah,
and especially Salt Lake City, as it is
in the illy-governed Latin republics
where bloody revolutions daily threat
en-. The vileness of this Knockers
gang continues shamelessly and I'M
restricted in the coarsest and basest
of cartoons and editorial and local ut
terances, until decent Gentiles protest
to each other against the outrage,
but many of these are in such mortal
dread of the Knockers lash that they
dare not speak out. Some of the
stronger men and women among tho
Gentiles have, however, come out in
open resistance to the vile calumnies
and are doing yeoman service in stop
ping such work.
But there are some Gentiles here
who lay claim to responsibility yet
who seem to be willing that, so long
as the special TRADE of abuse is di-
rected toward the Mormon people, il
should go on; and they even give fl
nancial, if not moral support to it. They
know that the sole cause of all this
knocking business is that Tom Kearns
and his gang could not induce Joseph
F. Smith to become their tool and
help send Kearns back to the United
States senate. The entire Mormon
people know this, too; and it makes
them honor and reverence Joseph F.
more than they otherwise would have
done, and each successive assault upon
him makes them cling more closely
to him, in the firm conviction that he
is being prosecuted for righteousness
sake"-the righteousness of having
been a factor, by his non-interference
in politics, in aiding the people to
throw off the Kearns-Lippman yoke.
Now, Gentle residents of Utah, here
is where your measuring up comes in.
This Kearns-Lippman. Cannon gang
has been doing the knocking in the
name of every fraternal organization
outside of the Mormon church. 1t Is
doing it in the name of every religious
society outside of the Hebrews and the
Mormons. 1t assumes to speak for the
Gentiles of Utah. 1t assumes to stand
for the Catholics, the Episcopalians,
the Congregationalists the Method
lists, the Presbyterians lne Baptists,
and for every religious denomination
except Jews and Mormons The latter
as yet have no part nor lot in the
knocking business; but those Gentiles
who do not utter protest must per
force be measured by the rule that
silence gives consent"
Suppose the Mormons, goaded by
the injustice which has been heaped
upon them, by the injury wrought to
the state in which they are 70 per cent
of the population, should turn, and
should render to the Gentiles of Utah
that class of treatment that is being
given to the Mormons in the name of
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