Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-26
TIME TO CONSIDER.


with a short. but acute history OF un-
pleasant symptoms.
TIME TO CONSIDER.
Now. | desire TO say at the outset
that | have no quarrel with the rank
and flle OF the American party. They
are honest and patriotic men and wo-
men, Just as the rank and file OF every
other political party OF tho United
states are honest and patriotic men
and women; and this Is a good and
sufficient reason that all political par
ties are taken from the body Of the
American people and the American
people as whole are honest and pa
triotic. doing their duty day by day
unosteDtatiously and striving for the
right before God and man as they are
given ability to understand their duty
aud TO see tho right. No, men aud
women OF the rank and tle Of the
American party, my quarrel Is not
with you. ! believe that YOU are hon
est but / also believe that you are
mistaken. l believe that sometimes
you are disposed to accept cpithots
Instead OF argument | think YOU are
unduly disturbed about the impress
sion that some of you have that there
is hierarch In the land, roaming up
uVNii, INC tlhPSs illD'ih-
ING detectives from Scotland Yard,
causing sickness among the cattle and
frighteneng nervous women and chill
dren. ] think YOU are unconsciously,
to yourselves, disposed TO eXaggerate
the terrors OF the situation, and that
you don't know exactly what you are
doing or what you may expect To ac-
complsh. Indeed, / think you arc Just
little bit In the same situation as the
Kansas farmer who was lifted out of
his back yard and over the roof OF
his barn, and he exclaimed as he Went
over the lightning rod, Well, l am on
the way, but God only knows where
am going, Now. you are on the
way, but nobody. inc rding yourselves,
knows Just where you are going. !
suggest to you the wisdom Of stopping
and making some inquiries, and one
OF the first inquiries that l would
make IL l were you would be, who
started the cyclone and who IN ar
ranging tho itinerary? II YOU will
make that inquiry. you will discover,
as we have discovered, that this
American party was conceived in dis
appointed political ambition, and that
II was brought forth In bitterness and
hate.
DISHONEST LEADERSHIP.
1.-THE cornerstone Of this organiza ton
IL opposition to the interference OF the
Mormon Church IN politics. But your
leadership is composed OF dishonest
leadership. The real grievance OF your
leaders IL not that the Mormon Church
is In politics, but 1t is that the Church
Is not IN politics for them. | submit
TO You that II Is not unfair to Judge a
political party by the kind of men
whom that party voluntarily follows.
Don't deceive yourselves; there are
high minded men in the American par
ty, men whom honor and respect, men
among whom / number some Of my
lifelong friends, men who honestly be-
lieve there are affairs In this community
which only the American party can
remedy. But these men are not your
leaders. The leaders whom you have
been following along a pathway strewn
with calumny and Islander and write
personal bitter abuse of citizens Of WELL
known integrity are the men who own
and are owned By the Salt Lake Tri-
bune.
For two years the owners OF this pa
per have given their orders to those
whom the paper owns. and those orders
have been implicitly and abjectly
obeyed, to pour out the walls OF their
mallgnity upon the heads OF every man
who would not be bought or bullied
into subserviency. Utah. thank God.
did not contain within her borders
cough men of the kind required, and
so they went abroad and imported some
OF them. and l am glad for the honor
of my state To think that some of the
worst Of them are from other states, |
don't think II was an expensive article
u blackguard Is never an expensive
article-and viewing the matter the
ground OF personal taste the owner of
this paper desired the kind they got.
ISLANDER AND ABUSE.
For two years this campaign OF SIAN
der and abuse has continued. Nobody
is EXEMPT from IT, Here Is a man like
DR.. Beatty, for example, clean OF life,
clean OF thought, clean OF purpose, clean
of act, Is high-minded. splendid
American gentleman, and yet In some
way he incurred the i'll Will OF this pa
per and at once II turned Its mud bat
teries upon him. Let any man affirm
his allegiance to the Republican party
and he IL Church hireling, he Is a
Jack Mormon, he Is n sycophant and
every other epithet that purchased mall
Ice can think Of
These men have been telling false
hoods about honest men for so long a
time that II seems TO me that some
body ought to take little time to tell
the truth about them. And am going
to take a few minutes Of your time to
tell little OF them tonight.
"The famous Russian novelist put into
the mouth Of one of his characters the
annoy an opponent and at the same
time divert attention from yourself,
charge him with the vice you know
yourself TO most conspouously pos
sess. II Is favorite ruse of the
sneak thief who finds himself pursued
TO join in the crowd with the cry of
Stop thief II Is also a subterfuge
OF abandoned women TO observe feeling
ly about virtue. SO we need not be
surprised when we discover that the
men who have most conspicuously and
most shamefully In the past sought the
influence of the church In their own be-
half are the men who are now most
blatantly denouncing 1t.
CHURCH AND STATE.
II am just as much opposed to the In
reference OF the Mormon Church, or
| any other church, In political matters
as any man who belongs to the 'Ameri-
can party, only | take the position that
Il Is something which has not become
wrong Just recently; IL has always been
wrong IL was wrong when my prede-
cessor sought that influence IN his own
| behalf TO further his ambition to u seat
! IN the senate of the United States. IL
Is wrong today, and il win continue 10
be wrong just az long as a government
| by the people depends for is purity and
| It's strength upon independently exer-
cised Judgment OF the people, But the