The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-03
wooLLEY's WooLY BANTINGS'

70 Risbon Marcellus 5. Woollcy. OF
the Twenty.brst ward in this city' IL W
he believed it is no wonder that tno
Mormon ecclesiasts so misinterpret Inc
Tribune s position. and lie about u, aH,4
about what il stands for. Bishop No"l'
lev saws that no Mormon reads DC
Tribune. Of course, il this is tFn''
then the Mormon elders who hc ABOUT
il do so ignoraptly, and thoy s'andeI
their neigbbor through puro Gulle ana
nreiudice. It was Illuminating attl-
| tude in which Bishop Woolley placed
the priesthood, which has been so re-
| narkably free and voluble in Its crltl'
cism Of The Tribune, when he says that
this cricicism is ali worthless. being
mere ignorant gabble, without any
knowledge and without any accurate
idea of what The Tribune really Is
saws or represents. II was not surprls'
ing. therefore, that Bishop Woolley
himself got of entirely wrong on the
question, since he, Mormon, does not
read The Tribune. It was not surprlsins,
either, to End him so densely ignorant
and basely preiudiced as TO say the
things here following. DO speaking
about the American party:
They captured the city two years ago
and what has II meant for the city, LOOK
! about you and the question " answered.
| Look at the dens OF vice which are al
lowed 20 flourish without the slightest
attempt 60 put stop 10 them; LOOK az
the wide open city. where everything
which makes FOR tho degrading OF the peo,,
PIE is allowed 10 grow and prosper ana
open arms 10 their ruin. That Is what
will happen on a larger scale IL the Amer
lean party gains control OF the -, county
And yet the American party and The ITi-
bune say that they VIII gain control OF
the county this year. and In few years
viii have caught In their net the other
Then, with them in control, what will
happen You will be banished 10 Mexico.
hind iron bars to lansuish and die. Think
Of the awful infamy of 1; al. All. my
people, this condition OF aftairs cannot
exist There Is mission before Va, and
ing before II Is too late.
1t was three years ago. and not two.
that the Americans captured the city.
II is not in the least true that "deps
of vice are allowed TO flourish without
the slightest attempt 10 stop them. F"
The American party has kept those
''dcns of vice. pretty we'll suppressed
until Sheriff Emery, under the patroniz-
ing guidance of Governor Cutler. dug
them up aud scattered the inmates all
over this city TO be pest and nuisance
to all pedestrians. 1t is not in the loast
true, as Bishop Woolley's talk indi.
Gated, that prior to the control of the
American party IN this city those
''dens of vice. were eliminated, or
even kept within bounds. They were
more open, more dagrsnt, and probably
more numerous under the old church
control than they are now, Certainly
nothing for many years has ever
equaled the brazen insolence with which
those ''dens OF vice. paraded them.
selves in this city when nothing but &c.
clesiastical control was known. 1t is
further 10 be remembered that during
the latest ecclesiastical control OF the
city. Just prior to the capture of the
city by The American party. those
"dens OF vice. open, fagrant. and nu.
merous. were supplemented by open
gambling deus. where laboriug men
were run in and robbed every Saturday
night We ali remember the RED
Onion the "Green Dragon" COR
something like that.) aud other open
gambling dives that were run under
the patronage OF that ecclesiastical ad.
ministration, and nothing that could be
done served TO eliminate those dens or
10 decrease their activity. On the con.
trary, they were actually encouraged,
and the votes Of their managers. at.
taches, and 'runners, were eagerly
solicited and obtained for the reelec-
ton OF that ecclesiastical admiristra.
ton.
But Bishop Woolley succeeded in
making himself humorouslv ridiculous
when be gave IL his belief of the pine
dream of Sol Kimball about being ban
ished to Mexico, and that he. with
other church leaders. would be "lodped
behind iron bars to languish and die. -
IN case of American victory We have
not heard any intimation prior to this
that Bishop Woolley was IN polypamy
If his language here is to be interpreted
as confession Of guilt in this matter.
then OF course he might reasonably
have some fear of being sent 20 iail
IT. however, he is not polygamist, il
Is absolutely impossible to imagine any
reason why he should fear beipc
lodged behind iron bars to lauuisb |
and die
lhe Klmball circular, which was cir. |
culated by the hundreds in this c;tv ,
Yesterday at all principal street corners
!enos sort Of plausibility
10 'he idea that the silly
useIs 0t this nonsenscal story !
mink they arc making something by it's
use It is pretty hard, however. to i'm. i
ag'ne any intelligent person paying any
attention to it. Therefore, those who
use TINS story are paying very poor
compliment to the intelligence Of the
persons whom they hope TO influence bv