The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-25
sMOoTITE HYPOCRISY,

Apostle Smoot s organ has abused
with poison of language character
istic OF the copperbcad every person
and every institution in any way an
tagonstIc to the apostle purposes,
And in tho instant of committing its
verbal assassinations it protests against
The abuse Of individuals BY other
newspapers.
Apostle Smoot has adopted the cheap
policy of criticisinG the very thing OF
which he is guilty; assuming--as most
hypocrites clo-that the public, noting
his reprehension Of n certain offcnse,
viii conclude that he and his agencies
arc free thercfrom. The error is
basic one Not only does it arise from
the natural hypocrisy of the cult of
which Apostle smoot is shining light;
but it comes also from the egotism of
that cult whose members feel that they
arc the representatives of divinity and
are beyond criticism.
According to this elf-important CON
ception Of the polygamous cult, and
their apologists and agents, they are
merely performing the work of God
when they deride every individual not
affiliated with them, when they cast
asperslon upon the purpose OF every
man who does not support them, when
they invade the sanctities of personal
relations and spread heartache and dis
sension among the victims of their lust
full rage But the moment one of them
is opposed, even by the quotation Of
his own utterances which expose him
to the just criticism of mankind for hls
law~breaking cffrontery or his false
hood, they begin TO howl about the I'M
propriety of personal attack.
1t has been the practice of the polyg
amous cult from the beginning to abuse
the whole world outside of themselves
and their immediate supporters. 1t is
common teaching TO their followers that
the Christian civilization of the earth
is permeated by rotten sin, that preach
ers are lecherous beasts, that govern
ments are administered by cruel ty-
rants seeking to imbruc their hands IN
the blood of sacred prophets. Such lam
guage is but quotation from the con-
stant inculcatlon by the polygamous
priests to the minds of their followers.
And their hypocrisy has availed them
something, in a small way, for they
have been able to make difference ia
vorable to themselves in the minds Of
their political allies and venal support
crs, between their untruthful attack
upon private individual and Christian
church and earthly government and the
truthful criticism directed against their
own crimes. Ask some one OF their
Jack. Mormon associates if it is right
to make conflict against the polygamous
cult and to quote their own utterances
to prove their ofrenscs against mankind,
and he will cry out that such attacks
arc injurious to Utah. Ask him again
if it is right for the church press and
its hireling liars to attack individuals
and institutions which are opposed to
the polygamous cult, and he will fall
into rapture of Joy, crying: "Give
it TO them; that is exactly what they
deserve!'
And so Apostle Smoot, who has en-
gendered directly or indirectly some of
tho most infamous assaults upon pri-
vate character and Christian institu-
tion in the land, has his personal organ
constantly protesting against the cruel
ty of such attack. Hypocrisy and ego
tism combined, characterize the atti-
tude of the Deseret News, the apostle IS
personal organ, and all the horde of
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money to support the polygamists and
! to defame every one else.