Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-12
A CRIME OR A VIRTUE?

Everybody who " acquainted with
commercial and industrial conditions In
Utah knows, that every field OF busi'
ness and Of labor and of enterprise II
oren 10 all comcrs ana that there aro
no restrictions placed upon the cs,ab'
lthmenl Of any kind OF agricultural,
manufacturing banking, or other lee
Ultimate business Tho fact ina, lead
Ink mon among The people who form
tho majority Of the population here lead
out on some of those lines should be n
source " pleasure ana oommcndation,
II argues nothing against similar en-"
gagemen,s by othora who choose TO
enter upon them Tneir success ought
ia be nm incentive rather than deter
rent 90 others utah needs agricultural
manufacturing commercial ana other
undertakings 10 give employment 10
the hosts Of Young people who nro
growing mp among us ana who need
profitable occupation,
The miserable attempt TINT has btcn
made 10 set class against class IN ulah,
md 20 make II appear 10 the outside
world that thorc are no avenues hclo
for the Investment N capital and the
employment Of business tact and talent,
simply bccauac enterprises have been
established and carried ON by leading
"Mormone, N groloaquoly absurd AN
well M inlmcal to the growth and IN
forests Of our Stuto, This IN perceived
by people and papers outside ~ Titan
that are informed uH to the situation,
and among Them ~ the Idaho Cily
World, which offers the following ed.
,orIal rcmnrks ON this subject We
commend thom 10 the attention Of our
non-'Mounon' rrionds, particularly
those IN this clty
"1'ho anti MOmous of salt Lake arc
greatly grICvcd because leading Nor
mons have imhlhCd the universally pres
yalcnt commercial spirit, and control
not only many Vt the Industries of
Utah but are branching oul into Idaho
whore they own two aukpr factories and
threaten TO pat MP more II probably
uun'l be holpod rommOlolaliem rs the
ruling spirit Of he nGo ana viii have to
run itA course llko an other mDuius
have, II the Momous hove been over,
come by the ruling passion ~ the times,
they are n0 worse I'm that respect than
The Grntllos MormOnR NJ titan
demand that tho hierarchy 40 they
term tho lcndorA must lot no. why
80 that the uoutcu can take hold
tommerolnllsln within the Mormon
church NJ n crime commorclalism out,
side ar the Mormon church " glorious
development, Welcome Industrial nd,
,anooment aud Commoudahlo enter
prise, therefore commorolallm should
he taken from tho hands " the hrr,
nrchy whore II has become dlnropui,
able, and Dc controlled by the Gontiloa,
N whose hands II becomes rcepcc table.
That " anti-Mormon logic. the field
IN idaho IN open io both Gonlllos and
MOrmons, " thO tienuloR Will nOl nut
w sugar factories ana embark an olhor
enterprises, Idaho win welcome Nor.
mon capital lf they nro willing TO
take tho chances OF suffering the con,
sequences Of conmorcallem, Idaho N
willing that they should como, IL they
40 10 nordlllon for H. they win not hurt
us Tho war on the Mormon Church IN
Atlh has ovorl1apcd she bounds OF
common sense, reason and Justice, ana
lnnded on the narrow realm Of religious
llgolrS intolerance and p0tty penie'
, culion' When the chlcf argument ro'