The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-24
GIVE THE TRUTH A CHANCE


If the prominent citizen" isn't
worked to death this campaign he is
likely to be Frustrated with brain fag.
nerves, hypochondria and the jumps,
just from reading the wierd tales of
designs, bold, dark designs on his purse
or his character. One political crew
tells him he is being followed by The
Never-Sleeps. and that if he dares eat
bacon and eggs for breakfast or smoke
a black cigar after dinner he is in dan
ger Of having the fact published to the
world. Or, if he doesn't look out a
bold, bad hierarch will get him by
moonlight and ask him to vote a type
written ballot this fall instead of push
ing the button on this new-fanglcd
machine that Kinky and Kurly have
imported. Or, unless he is very care
full, the Democrats will nab him at his
front gate and scare him to death by
urging him to come around to q smoker
Saturday night.
To read some of the stuff the afore-
said prominent citizen is asked to be-
lieve in the guise of political dope"
-
whole congregation had got away from
Happy Hooligan and gone to writing
fairy tales for the Republicans and
Americans" who retail these yarns.
1ncoherent, obviously unbelievable, they
are as absurd as Munchausen and as
ridiculous as some of the paleortolog-
zeal discoveries Eugene Field used to
In nd ,,-f% h.,
the excitement of campaign some pol
tticians can believe almost anything
and try to make others believe it, but
at this particular juncture there seems
to be an epidemic of fool credulity or
fool mendacity, possibly of both. that
calls for an inquirendo and a few COM
nlitments to the foolish house until
after election.
The average citizen need only exer-
else little of the common sense ne ap-
plies to his everyday affairs TO discern
the real issues and settle them for him
self on a cOmmOn-sense plan. What
ever Is best for his state and his CITY
Will be best for him; and he would
hardly cntrust his personal welfare 10
men who would circulate such rot as
he is asked to believe by both the Re
publicans and Americans"
In their anxiety to create a division
or religious lines, the Republicans are
asking the people to believe that J. II.
Moyle, Judge King and l. r Martineau
are bent on DISTINGUISHING the Morrnons
of Utah. A jackass full of loco weed
couldn't make much more of a specta-
Gle Of himself than the man who would
print seriously such an obvious false
hood The Republicans themselves don't
believe word or a syllable of it. but
they are willing to let their rcwspaper
repeat 1t, parrot-like, day after day.
with such trimmings as ingenious men
dacity suggests. A gang that would
father such imbecile rot isn't ut to be
trusted with anything, much less with
the honor, the property and the pros
perity of a whole state. They might.
with as much propriety and decency.
suggest that the Democratic leaders are
going to burn all the Mormon homes in
the state since they would be as likely
to commit arson as deprive their fellow
citizens of the franchise.
Exactly on a par with the Republican
policy of mendacity and gun-shoes is
the American" policy of defamation
and Misrepresentation. The "Ameri-
cans" would have the people believe
that the Democratic ticket is named by
Senator Smoot. that the Democratic
leaders take orders from the Republi-
can committee, that every declaration
of the Democratic platform and it's can
didates is inspired by the Smoot ma
chine The Americans" themselves
know better, their leaders know better,
the people know better, yet, day after
day, the Americans repeat the as
sertion and ask honest people TO believe !
It is true.
The simple truth is that the Demo- |
Gratis occupy exactly the same position |
they have occupied for eleven years; |
they oppose ecclesiastical influence in !