The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-19

! furious demand which was made by
the church politicians through the De
| seret News n little over two years ago
II was during the first American cam
paign, and the ecclesiastical plotters
feared that the "smelter Vote might
60 TO the American party Conse-
quentlv. they felt that they must get
no diversion to scare the smelter-
men from Joining the Americans, There
WAS, of course, no intent nor purpose
on the part of the smeltermen to take
any part in politics, and the returns OF
the election shows that they did not
then, nor have they done so at any
time since. But the politicians for the
church were afraid, and they put forth
in the Deseret News Of October 81.
1904. an editorial full of venomous
rage and spleen. These paragraphs
from that editorial show lis frenzy and
its maevolent spite, while the date of
il discloses the political purpose
The people Of Salt Lake City arc waking
up TO the realization OF the trouble Of which
our cousins olt in the country arc com
plainn1.
Tho fact IS this smel,er smoke will have
20 20; there is no mistake about that ~
the smcl;ers cannot consume II they VIII
have TO close up.
n the companies that control those works
will not or csnno, dispose Of rhc poisonous
metallic fumes that pour out Of their smoke
sracks, tho hrcs will hive 10 be banked and
the nuisance suppressed.
1t looks as il the courts will have TO be
.1nl rfnn fnr
ages already inflicted. Also that they VIII
have 10 be applied 10 for injunctions against
the continuance Of The cause OF the trouble
we think there is law enough 10 pro.
ceed under. But il that Us not the case
then legislation must hc had 10 fully cover
the ground.
We join with those of our citizens who
intend that this beautiful part Of our lovely
State shall not he laid waste. even n Inc
only cure is the suppression OF tho de
stroying cause. This may well bc under
stood first as last, Unless pracucal meas
ures are adopted 20 abatp tho evil. active
proceedings will have TO he taken and pushed
20 the utmost. 10 remove entirely the root
and branch and trunk and body OF this tree
Of destruction.
No more vicious, ansrchistlc editorial
has ever been printed in an American
newspaper.
But ius sentiments arc now repudlated
even by the farmers who allowed them
selves to be stirred up and to begin
this war, under the evil counsel and
pressure which were thus conveyed
through the News; the successful out
come OF which may bear hard upon the
smelters for time. but which, il the
smelters are compelled TO move, will be
sad outcome for the farmers for al!
time to come
1t is Characteristic of the church
schemers TO hurt themselves in the long
run more than they hurt "their en-
emies, - by their evil course and their
ill.digestcd, malicious plots. And this
anti smelter warfare is q case directly
in point. The farmers make no echo of
that fierce demand in the News that
- the smelters must 60. On the con-
trary, the farmers don t want the smclt
ers to go. but the trouble is that theY
were rather late in finding out their
real interests on the question. And
now they find themselves the victims
of crazy political fear that never had
any foundation for its existence. and
that is now for two years dead.
Now that the farmers begin TO sec
that they will not much longer find il
possible 10 market their crops at good
prices and also collect damages because
they were destroyed. perhaps they will
want 10 sell out and move. If that
should be so, and on any extensive
scale, possibly the smelling companies
could find solution TO the problem
other than by sbating the smoke and
fumes (should such abatement be found
impracticable) or by moving their
plants. in buying the farms Of the own
ers who have made this fight against
them And that is contingency which
offers third possible solution of the
whole matter.