The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-23
THEIR RUINoUs STRIFE.

| 1t says;
In the interest of Utah the long drawn
| out agitation should end as soon as pos
! sible. and end In the defeat of tho gang
| who are incapable OF appreclating any
| higher motives than those inspired by
| selfshness. The business interests OF
| this city and State are but III served by
| contention and strife.
After forty years Of bitter warfare
against the Government of the United
States, the hierarchs of the Mormon
church, and the church organ which
represents them, were willing TO lay
down their arms, and they professed
deep gratitude for the favorable terms
upon which they were permitted to do
so. Then was the strife ended, and then
began the era of peace and progress for
Utah and for all of her citizens.
| Who was il that re-established the
enmity, and who was it that began anew
| the contention and the strife against
which the News decaims' The hie
rarchs Of the Mormon church in this
| day have recreated for themselves the
old unconstitutional and lawlcss condi,
tion and attitude which provoked war
fare III former years, and the church
organ continually snivels out its phari.
saical whine against the Just opposition
| which they have thus aroused against
| themselves.
The ecclesiastical dominators of the
church directed and procured tho ccc-
tion of polygamst to the Congress of
| the United States, contrary TO their
| pledge of noninterfercnce in politics
and in defiance of the monogamistc
sentiment of the entire country. By
this act the Mormon church engcndcred
| contention and strife in the Nation.
BY this act-willfully and brutally
communicative ecclesiasis directly at
tackled the business interests OF this
State. That polygamist, Brigham
| II. Roberts, was sent home in
diScredit, and the Deseret News
and the Mormon church were compelled
| 10 accept that result. knowing full well
that it was but an act Of Justice. The
fact that they have not since attempted
| to insult the Nation IN a similar way
is evidence that they were then con
scious of their own wrongdoing. But
| the effects were long and painful. The
country was willing to have quietude
! when Roberts was expelled and sent
home, but the Mormon church continued
its frenzied foolishuess concerning the
invasion of its constitutional rights.
However, time covered the case with
! one stratum Of the ashes of forgetful.
and fbnn bo h.,
tent with the peace which came. con.
cludcd 10 contend and strive with civ
iliZation once more. And they recog.
nized new Polygamy in the church; they
began anew their domination Of the pol
itics of this intcrmountain country;
they injected their alleged religious or.
gauization into the commerce Of this
region; they have broken their solemn
pledge 10 refrain from polygamous liv.
| ing. These were the practices which
created former warfare against them,
and which they promised to abandon as
condition of peace for which they
humbly Supplicated.
Pursuing their practiccd determna
tion to jntrude themselves into all Of
! the political and material affairs Of this
region, and of the whole Nation if posi-
| Bile, the ccclesiasts selected an apostle
| Gone of their own hicrarchical govern.
ing body) for Senatorship, and they
| procured his election to that place.
By this act they deliberately made
contention and strife with the Nation.
! BY this act the ecclesiastical gaDg-in-
capable of appreciating any higher mo-
tive than their own sexual and sordid
elhshuess-directly attacked the busi.
ness interests Of this State. To show
that their performance was willful-
viclously willful-after the storm Of
contention had reached its height their
preachers began an inculcation anew
of the doctrine from the pulpit to the
people. that warfare with the world
was essential TO their salvation and
that peace with the world was TO their
discredit as Saints of God. And so the
sbject following was counseled and
compelled TO support the vicious HE
rarchs in the contention and strife
which the News inadvertently repudi-
ates.
The business interests of this State
viii be enhanced when peace shall re.
turn. but that peace will never come
satisfactorily TO American citizens on
any other terms than those which have
always been the basis of settlement of
Mormon difficulty: The hierarchs must
! yield or fee. In all their wears of cx-
pericnce they have never Won victory
against the Nation; with all their pre-
lenses of divine support they have al.
ways fallen in the fray; with all their
prophecies of triumph still sounding
from the lips Of their bogus priests they
have been compelled TO solicit mercy
as basis of settlement Of contention
and strife.
The leaders of the Mormon church
have broken every pledge which sixteen
years ago brought peace to this State
and they are today, with the help of
the Deseret News, fagrantly and ma
liciously engaged in practices which