The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-16
LINCOLN CELEBRATIONS.

| appropriate celebration of Lincoln g
birthday anniversary. at Springfield,
| Illinois. last Monday. II was marked
| by deep feeling and hearty harmony
throughout. All the accessories, all the
| surroundings. the whole spirit Of the
| occasion, all tended most loyalty and
| generously to making every part OF the
| exercises, I'm sentiment. in expression,
| and in helpfulness. fitting memorial
To the birthday of the illustrious man
OF Illinois, who so nobly filled his part
! In the dark days of treason and re-
bellion
Senator Dubois was the orator OF the
occasion and that his address was most
enthusiastically received. and was pro-
nounccd eminently worthy Of the great
occasion, was the verdict of all who
heard It Yet there was an dissenting
voice, that voice the voice of the trea-
son Of today as the voice against LIN
coin was the voice OF the treason of
1861. The hierarchc organ of this city
uttered that voice. Its objection, Of
course, was In behalf OF the organized
treason of which 1t is the exponent 1t
objects TO this sentiment which Sena-
tor Dubois uttered,
You canont any more disSociatc Apos-
tlc-ScnHtor Reed Smoot from polyRamy
than you could dissociato the slave owner
In the carly days from slavery
Well, can you? APOSTLE Senator
Smoot stands up in his place and "sus-
tains" polygamists; he Is an evil re-
Si1It pf hn
And while. perhaps, he Is not him
self In polyeamy. he sustains others in
that relation. and calls upon all the
people to look upon President Joseph F.
Smith. an avowed and determined
polygamist who sticks to polygamy
through false swearing, the breaking
of pledges and the forfeiture of per-
sonal honor. as a pattern of holy life.
an example to be revercntly followed.
Just so did the men of the South who
were not slave-owners. lean upon the
slave owners, they looked up to them,
they followed their counsel. and laid
down their lives beside them in awful
battle
The hierarchic organ must remember,
also. that the platform upon which
President Lincoln took his stand in 1860
was but four years later than that
other Republican platform, which de-
clared polygamy to be twin relic OF
barbarism" to the slavery which the
platform of 1860 so firmly set bounds.
And when the hierarchc organ pro-
claims that there has been no proof that
this Mormon organization has prac-
ticed, encouraged, permitted, or solemn
lied a plural marriage, either in the
twentieth century or In many years
just preceding IT," that organ presumes
upon the crcdulity and compiaisance of
its readers and on the ignorance II ST.
lcntly lmputes to the general American
public, IT also forgets the admission
of Reed Smoot. where he is quoted as
saying that he believes Apostles Tay-
lor and Cowley have gone into new
polygamous relations since the mani
festo. But all this is but another evil
dence OF the hlerarchic organs bra
zen mendacity; of It's frequent and will
ing clamor to establish a lie instead Of
the truth.
In Salt Lake City there was an espe-
cially unworthy and Inappropriate al
legged celebration. which I'm fact desc
Grated the day, as in years before leg
islation forbade It. "enterprising"
tradesmen desecrated the American
flag by using 1t for advertising pur-
poses. This celebration of Lincoln's
birthday here was precisely OF that
character, 1t took Advantage of a sacred
day TO intrude personal and church po-
litical bossism and a commercial en-
terprisc upon public attention. And
when those guilty of that perversion OF
the right sentiment of the occasion arc
reminded OF their transgression OF
right ethics, they whine like exposed
perverts. because they are not Viewed
by everybody from their own degraded
standpoint. And while intruding them
selves into quarters that belong OF right
to the National Guard, a public organi-
zation of the State. ousting 1t from its
proper and legitimate use of It's own
property as 1t had arranged to do on
that night, the intruders gTumble that
somebody was trying ito incite the
guardsmen to break up that assembly,"
Nothing more pathetic than this little
plaint has been heard since the outcry
of the cuckoo at the attempt of the
robin to recover It's nest. which the
cuckoo, as is the habit of It's tribe, had
taken to itself, ousting the rightful
owner.
A MENDACIoUS COMPLAINT.