Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-10-14

'hdh were marSnaled for their OppO-
nents. In three of the five wards the
Mormons greatly outnumbered the
Gentiles.
But If the five Gentiles are elected.
the council will not be badly unbal-
anced, for four of the five holdovers
are Mormons.
Here we have illustrated the amity
of feeling existing in this community,
yet with each element getting fair
representation.
There should come time when the
question will not be asked: Are you
Mormon or a Gentle? 1t should be:
Are you a good citizen and capable of
being an intelligent custodian of a
public trust?
That time will come in Ogden while
yet Salt Lake is quarreling over that
most un-American of all dissensions
namely, religious differences in poll
tics.
Salt Lake today is suffering from the
poisonous effect of its bitter animosi-
ties based on religious agitation. That
is Salt Lakes affair. But let us of
Ogden continue to be sensible enough
and broad enough to avoid those
hatreds and profit by Salt Lakes bette
noire.-Ogden Standard.
In Salt Lake it is otherwise. A few
days ago the Tribune again advised
Gentiles not to deal with Mormon
business houses. The Tribune and its
misguided followers of the Kearns'
American" party are doing their level
best to divide the people on religious
lines. They are Sticking" the Gentiles
on to the Mormons in order to crafty
the desire for vengeance of Senator
Kearns. Suppose he Mormons should
take up the challenge what hell Salt
Lake would be! Suppose the Nor
mons in self-protection should act in
the spirit of the Tribune and refuse to
trade with Gentle business houses,
what then? Who would be the losers?
These Gentle merchants who are feed
ing the Tribune of course. Last Satur.
day afternoon and evening the writer
of this walked down Main street The
street was crowded with conference
people, nearly all Mormons. The
stores, especially in the evening, were
jammed full of Mormons from the
country making purchases. Did they
discriminate between stores kept by
Gentiles and stores kept by Mormons?
Not at all. The Gentle stores, which
outnumber the Mormon stores to /,
did larger proportion of the business,
their numbers considered, than the
Mormon stores. Auerbach's store was
packed and the multitude of clerks en-
ployed there were as busy as they
could be serving Mormon customers.
1t was the same with the shoe stores
and all the other stores. The restaur-
ants kept by Gentiles had all the bust
ness they could do during the fair and
conference week. Seventy-flve per
cent of their customers were Mormons.
Suppose the Deseret News would come
out and advise Mormons not to trade
with Gentiles, how would we Gentiles
like it?
You storekeepers who keep the Tri-
bune alive by your advertisements,
how do you like the course of the Tri-
bune? Is it not striking directly at
you by trying to bring about condi-
ton which if inaugurated would ruin
your business? The Tribune is like
the cur dog that bites the hand that
feeds it. 1t has done more injury to
this city and state during the past two
years than all other causes combined.
A well known business man of the
city few days ago demonstrated with
Senator Kearns about the course he
and his paper was pursuing. He
pointed out that they were injuring