Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-28

leaders managed to get the measure
sidc-tracked. so that 30 asa NOT come
Go vote There ls mo- doubt that tho
resolution would have passed VITA an
overwhelming majority since % WINS
merely declamtorr of a condition RI
ready existing but not generally
. known to the public
Some of The members or tho "Amcr-
. ic1n' party hute become rcguvo. 20
is said since tho disclosure of the faot
I that their taxes gro being paid and
. uIeo rapidly raised oach year, urim-
or..g for Jhe hiring of men to vote the
American uckct qua only ueid.n-
tally for Che Improvement Of the Dty.
The leaders of ihe American party
howe therefore b,stiuc4 Themselves o.
justify FOO ihc voters OF this clty their
'N"Ntd purpose of using th. peoples
i'..- IH ihe express purpose OF hiring
mon io vote chat porlya ticket
evidently. only orn COURSE sla open
'a1eht ci-hfud.I iu hI. ace of rrac-
uHI'' stealing the peoples money and
using Dc for party purposes. the leaders.
through their organ. cry ont ihat thcy
know 1i other people. who. they claim.
do almost as bad. They claim that ccr-
nin Mormon cooperative concerns
although how @ religious torn can Dee
applied to O. secular business Is mys-
icr} do NOT employ 8s large Ga porcen-
take of none Mormons' as certain
'Gcn.le firms do off "Mormons" This
rmay ur may uot Doe true. but the point
is that private enterprise simply cm-
ploys those whom 90 cam got. those
who seem FOB render che best service.
those whom it pays to employ. and
those best known to the management.
Moreover % man or private company
uses only Individual ur private money
and property with "a mans own mon
cy ha employs whom he wul-chiony
those with whom ho ls best acquainted.
And this .s the safe and approved
course of am business
Had the organ tried To- show thar the
Morris administration 70 iu power.
would bel likely Co pervcrl the expendi-
tura of public money Boz this way. or
that the Plummer administration
might probably proceed to loot the city
treasury for the same purpose then the
argument would have had bearing
upon the question at issue.
but the mere assertion that certain
persons or firms do or do not employ
as many "Mormons" or "GentHes" as
the organ thinks they might probably
employ. is totally foreign To- the ques-
ton now before voters That question
is whether or not the American" party
should Doe endorsed and approved by
the taxpayers for using the public
treasury as party campaign chest
When. therefore. Zoo q vast display OF
black-mced type the American" orr
gan attempts 90 nEcuder and uname
hatred against the Mormon" people
by declaring that certain Mormon"
Institutions do not employ s0 large
q proportion of "Geuulcs" as certain
Gentle" Institutions employ OF Nor
MONS" 90 is merely seeking to justify
the corruut conspiracy of IFS leaders
in using the public taxes for the pur-
pose OF hiring men TO vote its party
ticket
But the eHroutery Of a partys ape
peal TO the people Tor their votes upon
the ground that certain firms with
their own money employ mainly certain
classes Of persons while that party
openly boasts that it win employ with
the peoples money only such of
the people as viii wear CTS yoke, app
prove its policy. and vote its ticket
such rank and brazen declaration Of its
real aim, we say should open the eyes
OF every voter