The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-08

Living in a neighborhood pestered with
! the presence of some scand al~monser, -
we have only to refer to the record to
show that the News is that pestiferous
nclghbor. There was a time of good
will, amity. and friendly REGARD here.
| 1t was hoped that that condition might
be permanent in Utah, but the News did
! its best to break it up. Through all
that period of harmony and good will
| the News was insistcnt that the Nor
mon rule must be dominant. ii beratcd
the Christian ministry without mercy
or cessation. polygamists were every.
where Extensively put TO the front. and
the News insisted that Utah for the
Mormons WAS the correct principle and
those that did not hike it had better
get out of the State. The years in
which the News kept up the fight when
nobody else was fighting were dismal
years for this State, humiliating for
every man Of spirit, and arc even yet
an abominable recollection TO every
patriot who passed through that gloomy
period. If there is any one "scan-
dal-monger' that is responsible for the
breaking up Of the harmonious rela ations
that 1t was sought to have established
here, that scandal monger' is the
News. 1t was instant In season and out
of season in telling lies about loyal
people. bearing false witness against
ministers OF the gospel, and truculently
and insolently insisting that its par.
In ~
cry enterprise, must represent the State
on all occasions, and must be in con,
troll of every thing going. And that
is the sort of a peace maker that the
News was at that time, and that is the
sort of paper that the News is today.
1t wants peace which will give ii uu-
disputed control, and put all ''cnc-
mics - under its feet.
The final paragraph of the article,
in its appeal for peace, inevitably sug-
gests the query: "What kind Of peace
is wanted, and under whose dominance
is that peace TO be maintained 90 II
1T is the old peace of RELOCATING all
loyal sentiment 10 the rear, abusing
Christian ministers, insisting that the
peace must be under the direction and
control of the Mormon ecclesiasts, that
polygamsts must be given control IN
all public affairs, that none but the
basest servitudc on the part of Gen
tiles or independent Mormons will bring
any civic rewards, then we say as TO
such peace, a thousand times No, we
want none of it. There must he peace
that secures equality among citizens,
of equal rights to ALL with obedience
to no cult, no priesthood, no clique OF
law-defying traitors, no faith break
ers, no dishonored regulators of their
plighted faith, no dominance Of men
who In other States would be relegated
TO the lowest depths Of social infamv:
these are not the proper men to con-
troll public affairs IN Utah. There can |
be no peace with that malignant gang |
In control of civil and political affairs. |
Just as soon as equal rights are ac-
corded TO all, special privileges to none.
with no overbearing, crafty priesthood |
TO claim immunity In crime and pre- /
,edence Ill politics and in civil affairs !
by reason of their standing in a church |
organlza tion, then there can be peace
hat viii last, peace with honor and
peace III which every self.respecting.
oyal citizen can Join; but not until
then.