The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-03
BELATED WORRY.

The Deserct News and its allies CON
tinue to be very much veXed because
some unnamed gentleman does not like
the commotion'i in Salt Lake and
refuses to reside here.
BY intimation the entire press bu-
reau Of the Mormon church argues that
the unpleasant conditions here which
have warned away one man are the re-
suit Of American party warfare.
Why this belated anxiety about tho
loss Of one family to the population OF
Salt Lake! For one who goes out today
score are coming in; but two years
ago for one who came in a score were
going out-thnt was before the Ameri-
can party was triumphant and that was
before the Mormon church organ and
its allies had any anxiety about
whether there was any population OF
any kind except adhercnts and syco-
plants of the church. In explanation of
this it should be said that the effort of
the hierarchy TO keep Gentiles out of
Utah was not an anxiety, but de-
termination.
It is folly. falschood, and injury TO
Salt Lake City and Utah. and a COM
munity crime, for the scrvile and meu
dacious journalistic representatives of
the church TO charge that conditions in
Salt Lake are uninviting at this time
when more forces are convcrging to
make Salt Lake great, TO build up her
business than ever before in her his
tory; when there are more people with
means coming from other parts Of the
world than ever before since the first
plough was thrust into the soil Of this
valley, The only people who will tell
such things are those who desire TO stay
the population Of Salt Lake City, lest
the increase of Gentle population shall
further endanger the church autocratic
rule. To show that it was the Mormon
tyranny, and not the American party
resistance TO Mormon tyranny,
which caused The migration from
Utah, The Tribune relates an in
cident recorded in this paper on the
18th of October, 1904 A prominent
gentleman Of Salt Lake, q Gentle, but
not at that time allied with the Ameri-
can party, visited The Tribune office,
bringing with him q foreign capitalist
who desired TO make presentation of GER
tain views concerning electric railways
in the State. The Salt Lake man de-
plored the agitation of the times, and
said il could not fail to be hurtful to
the business interests of the commu-
nifty. He thought the American party
fight would drive away certain valued
elements of our then population and
would prevent that class of people from
coming within the State. Ne remarked
that during the month of August pre-
ceding (being August, l904,) forty-6ve
families had left the State of Utah to
take up their abode elsewhere because
they did not like the conditions here.
That distinguished gentleman was pal
sled when Tribune man turned to the
files of the paper and showed to him
that the American party was not or
ganized until September IA, 1904. two
weeks after the period cited by him as
one of heavy migration from the State.
He stammercd, flushed, turned pale and
refused to continue the argument when
the fact was brought home to him that
it was to stay this very ruin of Utah,
this depopulation by the best element,
that the American party had entered
into the arena OF conflict.
The Deseret News and its craven sup
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