The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-10
HOW THEY HOWL.

Every Ilulo all oTlSluul ChdiBo 10
made of wrong doing in this commu'
nifty you hear a squeal from the
Smootlerites like that of stuck pig.
1t is like throwing a rock into crowd
and finding out who is hit by listen
ing for the yell Of the wounded one.
Every time definite proof is afforded
that certain agencies here, which
should be loyal to the welfare Of the
city and State, are defaming both and
are seeking to stay the irresistible
march Of the glorious modern progress
of Salt Lake City and Utah, the
Smootlerites have convulsions, They
know that they are guilty of knocking
and their defense is to belatedly at
tempt to turn the same charges against
the American party and the cause of
uplifting in this community.
When the women of the Nation, in
Guiding GENTLE organizations in Utah,
arraigned tho Smootlerite crowd for
the gross onrenses against home, against
law, against God, which are being per-
petrated here in the name of religion
by pretended prophets-after a howl OF
anguish from the wounded wretches-
the Deseret News and other organs of
Smootism began to defame the women
and tho preachers of/the country, say
ing such things Of them as would have
resulted in an application Of lynch law
in many States of the Union. So pal
pably guilty and so entirely unoriginal
are tho Smootlerites that their groans
confessed their crime and their foolish
return of the charge of immortality was
the only reply they could make.
When it is discovered that two of
the chief Smootlerites-the Attorney
General of this State and the United
States Marshal for Utah-have been
guilty Of gross attempt to coerce one
of the district courts for the partisan
and personal purpose Of Smootism, and
when the exposure Of their atrocious
ohense is made public, all the Smoot-
lerites run yelping in spasm Of rage
and fear. When they recover their
small equanimity the best that they
can do is TO rake up pretended
charge of contempt of court against
somebody else and attempt to substi-
tute false accusation for a true one.
When it is shown by the public rec
ords that pet officials Of the Smoother
ties, particularly some of those entrust-
ed with the care of county funds and
property, have looted and booted and
stolen and forged, and when there is
danger that public opinion will drive
vol, 1pT1 amt h ltn yn
activity against the thieves, the Smoot~
lerites moan in their agony-acknowl-
edglng that they are stricken nigh unto
death. After o. while, when their little
weak pretense of courage revives, the
only defense they can make Is TO rush
into public print with ridiculous ac-
cusation against members of the Salt
Lake City Council, charging these
Councilmen with impropriety and mis-
appropriation Of public funds, although
so far as shown-both the law and
! the city ordinance are strictly on the
| side of tho Council and neither wrong.
| full act nor wrongful intent is mani
| fest.
They are cheap lot, these Smoot
| lerltes-cheap and nasty. Utterly un-
able to originate anything, they fol-
low after the real charge and the real
| proof with petty, nonsensical accusa-
| tlons which only serve TO disgust the
| public and serve to demonstrate how
| littlo real merit there is in the Smoot-
lerite controversy against advancing
civilization.
They never find anything new. they
| have not even the poor merit Of orig
| inality in tho conception OF their
charges. The best they can do is to
meet an accusation of real offense by
a petty. fictitious accusation Of the
| same olfense.