Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-18
NOT POLITICS

u De- ruthsr amusing Io notice The
Kaleidoscope reasoning with which
the auti-"M0mou' orrau tries to im-
prcss upon .ts duuas tho false asser-
zion that tUr church ntorferes in pol-
itics ana thnf DC De- necessary conse-
oucuuy to continue iu power the crowd
that is responsible for the financial
ruin of the city when it is unable
% provc chat the Saints devote their
ecclesiastical meetings 90 politics. or
that candidates for civic offices are
presented Co. the church Tor endorse
mont. % shifts ground and chaucJerizes
the so-callcd political rule as Church
interference. But WHOM 30 DEB proved.
as was done during the famous Senate
investigation. that thia rule De- uo more
than any church undoubtedly would
require its high officials 60 observe. %
shirts ground again and argues that
because the Dosoret News rrosumes 90
take part in the discussion OF current
political topics. therefore the church In
terforos in politics Here is a sample
of the Tribune reasoning
Take any issue Of che News and
Won viii see that Do is FUN of deuuu-
citation OF the American party. There
fore 10 must be- concluded chat the
American pariys candidates are not
the favoritca of the News. Meantime.
in any and ull of lts issues 10 bias Moth
ing but praise for other candidates. or
20 mentions them not at ali lu every
event 30 faNors another party ana all
ways Vlli0cs the American party. so
that the Deseret News has candidates,
The fact Is that we have treated all
the political candidates with impartial
fly. The columns OF the News prove
this The fact is. furthermore. that we
have neither vudcl nor denounced the
American party. with the party as
such we have mo- quarrel ~ some cit-
gems here associate themselves togeth-
on and agree Go carry ON campaign
against AN the other political parties,
and while doing so call themselves
American" 90 be- uo concern of ours
as long as they coudue themselves To-
political issues. although the appropria-
ton OF the name American to which
other citizens are equally entitled. is
arrogance ou their part But that is
not our affair We have no quarrel
with che party as such.
The so-caucd American party how
ever. has the misfortune of being IN
the clutches .r SET of men who have
entered upon a warfare against par
tlcular church. for what they can make
out of n for themselves These men
Hsalns
rave against tho United States Senate
for refusing % tear the Constitution 20
tattors in favor Of their petty schemes,
they pretend 10 Do concerned about The
morals Of the city while they are iu
political league with an kinds OF dens
that exist for TIE corruption Of youth
and Innocence; they have invented
falschood upon ialschood against the
Church and ita honored and beloved
leaders. and hcsitated at no eyil design
hy which peace good WILL and pros-
perity could Doe destroyed They are
the little foxes iu the vineyard They
are worse they are betraycrs of the
community m which they i've We
have vcnured % conflict with them.
hy throwing tho searchnght of truth
uuon their false statements and So
phistic deductions We have exposed
some OF their plots. ~ it De- mot our
duty 10 speak. when the church is MS
sailed and the rights ANA prerogatlves
az American citizens threatened. pray
what is tho mission Of a newspaper
that ever since Cos existenc, has nc-
cupiod "a place 1n the exalted platform
of truth and uberiy2
70 is 20 popularity of the mon who
have banded themselves together iu an
auti-"Aormou" league for revenue. %
claim that ;hey are the American
party. They aIc NOT They may DOM
iueer the party temporarily but the.
are not tho party no their auu-Amer
iconsim and hypocrisy are DHposei
that IS not an attack upon tHe party
Al one time anu-"Mormons used "a
claim to hc lna American people HH
10 speak for tho American FnFsIuma
and whenever they won. convicted n
some rascaufy they said fHe American
people or ho American Esr.Inm nj
had been assnued They Dau uH IHng
en- claim 90 rI.4k for rho rItInu aIt.
hc weu-lossrN.d rebuk. IH.t I0...t.
for trying to deceive tHn United sut.
senate. Hut trry slU claim tH H
Americans" pan exe0.'ae.. ll.I Oh
mouomauaes sometime fancy fa0m
selves to Doe great mI important. m
uumasa Tine hypner.Hy tmf ..t. ua