The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-29
ITS DREADFUL ADMISSIONS.

A boxed editorin! In the church or
gan last night, on its front page, was
as follows, under the headline, 1.-The
Paramount Issue"
The organ Of the so-called American
party. in its issue Of October Il, declared
that there is no other issue here, this
year than the overthrow OF the CHURCH.
Here are some extracts from the Vile
editorial OF that date.
The paramount issue in Utah this year
is tho redemption OF this county from
the clutches OF trcaCherous, lawless, and
reasonable hierarchy But here In
this country we have a live. burning issue.
the question OF individual freedom, Of
civic supremacy over ecclesiastical pre-
tensions and dominance. Here we have to
emancipate the people from a corrupt and
vicious ecclesiastical thralldom The
question comes right home TO every clti-
zen, aud Is the only live. real issue that
IT now before the American people In any
fight anew the battle OF liberty. Nowhere
else In this country Is there an cccesias-
IDEAL hierarchy in control Of politics. OF
civil affairs, and claiming jurisdiction in
the name of God over the temporal at
fairs OF mankind. We have here a
live. Vital issue Of Immediate and tremen
this issue the fight viii bc maintained.
and we will fight until victory is OBJ
talned, We will obtain IT in this county
this year. and gradually Americanism
VIII spread Go the various counties of the
State until Utah is redeemed from the &C.
cleslastical clutches. from the dominance
OF the selfish, lawleSs, adulteroUS, rob
binS priesthood. And until that final victory
is achieved. IL is Idle to talk To the peo-
pie OF Utah about some wishY washy Ma
tional issues that are no issues at all.
Now, right here the News either CON
victs itself of transparent, unconscion~
able lying. OF else admits that the fight
TO deliver the county from the clutches
of "a treacherous. lawless. and treason
able hierarchy" is fight against the
church
The Tribune has not at any time "de
clared that there is no other issue mere,
this year, than the overthrow OF the
church, 1t has, on the contrary, most
earnestly and strongly declared against
anything Of this kind.
But the church organ says that TO
fight TO deliver the county from the
clutches of reasonable hierarchy ''is
to fight the church"
1t says that to battle for individual
freedom. civic supremacy over ecclesias-
tical pretensions aud dominance. Is to
fight the church.
It says that to fight anew the battle
of liberty is to night the church.
And it deliberately puts the church
on the wrong side Of all the great ques-
tions at issue here.
There is not the slightest reason
otherwise for its claim that we have
"declared that there is no other issue
here, this year, than the overthrow OF
the church,
The readers of the church organ can
see by its own presentation of the case
how 1t has put the church as the
synonym of treachery, lawlessncss, and
treason in its hierarchy; as opposing in
dividual freedom and the supremacy of
the civil power over ecclesiastical pre-
tensions and dominance. To emancipate
the people from "a corrupt and vicious
ecclesiastical thralldom; to fight anew
the battle of liberty, is 10 antagonize
the Mormon church.
This, no doubt, is the sincere opinion
Of the vicious organ of that church.
But we rejoice to say, thousands Of
honest, fair minded Mormons are not OF
that opinion. And the numbers of those
III the church who dissent from that
degraded, vicious, and criminal view are
increasing by the thousands yearly, and
presently they will increase by the ten
thousands, and will insist that the
church leadership and position must be
so changed that no such awful adms-
sions can thenceforward be made in its
behalf,