The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-07
LET us PULL TOGETHER

A Utah contemporary, under the
| above title, reads lecture to those
people Of its town who decry the merits
of one portion of the place and boost
| the particular section wbere they live
or own property. 1t truly says that
such conduct is small and mean, and
that it docs the place no good in the
eyes of discerning person who con-
templates purchase of realty or settling
there. And it rightly calls upon those
who are engaged in that sort of injuri-
GUS work TO stop it.
In a wider sense the sentiment is Just
as true. AS there are those in the place
referred to who defame all but their
own narrow interests, so in this wider
sense there is a clamorng, selfish or
eanizatiop in dominance in Utah
which claims everything for itself, and
demands that all else shall be suhor.
dinated TO its narrow and selfish inter.
csts. II denouuces all who do not agree
with it, and claims that all virtue. all
good qualities are its own, and that
those who cannot agree with it are Cen
emies,' to be rallied at, punished, and
DETAINED. If any of its membership,
with clear eye TO the present benefit
and lasting good of the State, has the
independence of character and discern
ment of mind to see that the narrow
and malicious assaults of the domina-
ting sect upon all not of its inner circle
are hurtful TO the State, and takes his
stand against the factious policy and
bisoted malevolence Of the dominant de-
famers, that person is forthwith disci-
pllned, and unless he retracts and con-
sents to serve the narrow and fanatical
interest instead of the broad and liberal
minded view of the situation, he is
communicated. ostracised. his business
attacked, his social relations cut off, and
the gates of hell are opened for him.
Now, the wide question is before the
people, All are agreed that we must
pull together. But in what direction7
Shall it not be in favor of the broad
standard of the freedom and individual
liberty guaranteed by the Constitution
of the United States, and for the gen
eral good and advancement of all, rather
than for the interests of the special
class which is engaged chiefly in the
establishment of an iron-Tuling theocra
cv, that seeks 10 draw all benefits to it
self, TO the disparagement and disad-
vantage of the general citizenship of
the State. This theocratic dominance
has always plumed itself upon its with
drawal from the general run of man
kind; upon moulding 70 its purposes a
peculiar people; and upon considering
all who were not of its cult as "en-
emies. - Shall the pull together be in
the direction OF that cult, and 10 min
lister to the arrogance and the avarice
OF its leaders, Ii so, we may all as
well join that church at once, and give
up our independence and manhood; put
cur temporal and spiritual affairs into
the hands Of those who assume the right
10 control them, and count our Ameri
can citizenship and our political, re-
ligious, and business affairs as nothing,
mere negligible quantities compared
With the inestimable privilege of sur
rendering all into the hands of the
agents of "the Lord And thus will
all be made harmonious. the wolf and
the lamb will lie down together in
peace, but the lamb will be inside the
wolf.
But if. on the other hand, We pull
together in the direction Of patriotism,
lava bidingness, honesty, honor, good
faith. and the best good of all, we
must pull for the general interest and
FOR the preservation of individual free
dom and community and personal ad
vancement. If the dominance which
has heretofore opposed this united pull,
this harmonious pull together for the
common interest Of all and of the com
munity at large, win cease its vicious
tearing down Of interests not its OWN
its oboquy directed against those who
oppose its Tapacity and eXcusiveness.
and win come genuinely into the har-
monious pull for the public welfare. we'll
and good: such action would inaugurate
a noteworthy and wonderful change.
that all would appreciate at its highest
value. But If il Will not do this, insist.
inS instead upon pursuing its self-cen-
tered and ravagipg course, then il must
by all he recognized openly as the real
and true foe of Utah, and all Of its evil
doings, it's tactics obstructive Of pro
gre5s, its lawlessness which is re-
proach to the State, and its evil vigor
which snuffs out progress, must be swept
out of the way Of Utah's triumphant
forward march