The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-03

of the state | feel it particularly my
duty and my high privilege, as gov
ernor of the whole state and of all
classes of its citizenship, TO deny these
false accusations and make tie denial
as emphatic and spread it as far
abroad as possible. And this is ire
spective of the religious or political be-
lief of the citizens attacked through
false report. If they were directly OP-
posed TO me in religion or politics,
should still feel il my duty to defend
them with the truth.
Pastime to AssaiI State.
THE time seems opportune for me to
say q word now along these lines. You
teachers are from all parts of the state
You are. / suppose, of many religious
faiths. Your political faiths, no doubt
vary. No matter of what religious or
political persuasion, you have doubtless
lived on terms of close acquaintance
with members of church which il IS
a favorite pastime with some people
to assail; regarding which false state
ments have. been frequently made in
certain Utah newspapers and cuoLed
by journals IT. other states. The peo-
pie who have read the reiteratiOn Of
these charges rarely read the refuta-
ton that can easily be and has been
made, because they read only the pa
pers making the charges and those that
quote from them. YOu' have livod
among the people referred to- You
have had the opportunity of visiting
with the members of this religious
faith. You have partaken. no DOUBT,
of their hospitality; you have taught
their children; you have seen their
family and community life; you have
probably visited their churches. And
you have been able to judge from tHese
things the kind of people they are.
Asks a Pointed Question.
And now 1 ask you a question: Do
you think that these people are capable
of the stupidity OF the criminality, or
both, attributed to them? Do you think
they can be 50 wicked as to connive
at crime or 50 weak as TO submit to
corrupt domination? Are they so
stepped in evil as to commit or to wink
at the deadly crimes charged against
them and their leaders, or so blind as
TO follow base and wicked leadership :
Are they murderers, adulterers, liars,
thieves, OppressOTs, haters of good, low
ers of evil? Do they seem the kind of
people that would support as leaders
men of this kind? Are they so lacking
i'm intellect or will power that they
would place themselves absolutely IN
der the sway of corrupt and tyrannous
men? / am asking -hese questions oil
rectiy and fo~cibly. Answer them TO
your own consciences. If the answer IS
affirmative, then consider that you are
justified in shaking from your feet the
dust of so corrupt and terrible COM
mOnWealth. If negative, then it is not
only your privilege, but your duty, as
teachers of the young and builders of
the coming citizenship, to meet these
,lahders and proclaim the truth re-
garding the state in which you live.
Stands UP for Utah.
The true answer is negative. Ac-
cordingly, l have always proclaimed TO
the world the loyalty and the excellent
condition of Utah, on every possible
occasion. 1t is always a pleasure to
do it, because it can be done truthfully.
Evil witness against Utah is essen
TALLY false witness, the more ineXcusa-
BILE when perpetrated by citizens of the
state. For the sake of your own satis-
faction and the citizenship you are
helping to shape, | ask you teach srs
not to aid in any way in the disssm-
nation of these misleading statements.
ask you. for the sake of thase future
citizens, TO impress upon their minds
the factor it is a fact-that Titan is
in every essential particular one of the
most desirable communities on earth. -
Many Attend From Salt Lake.
Three hundred Salt Lake teach srs
and $50 ogden teachers went to Provo
yesterday on special train over The
Rio Grande to the Utah Teachers asso-
citation annual convention. large
number Of teachers went to the meet {
ing from the southern part IF the state
swelling the attendance to about 500