Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-17
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.
On the ground of religious persccu.
tor, the Jewish people of Salt Lake
have q great many things in common
with the Mormons who are being per-
secuted by the so-called American par
ty, which is parading under the ban
ner OF purity Of the homes" and few
other trumpcd-up catches that are mis-
leading.
The Jewish people have suffered from
the persecution on account of politics
loo. not only in Russia, but in the
United States as we'll. Politicians,
utilized the persecution OF the Jewish
race to their own advantage, and have
made this persecution an asset.
III Utah, the Jewish people sympa-
thze with the Mormons who are suffer-
ing the same trials and tribulations
that the Russian Jews and others have
suffered The Jewish people in Salt
LaEa county-and they are many-be
lieve that citizen is entitled to all
of tine privileges and benefits of re
lieicrs liberty. They do not think that
ans religious class should be attacked
because of its religious belief. and they
are even now lending their sympathy
to the Mormon people In the hope that
some day it will bear fruit.
TG use this religious persecution as
Tic chief asset of an organization that
calls itself political party, is re-
garded as dastardly, as harmful at
tack upon the very foundation of So
ciety.
The American party in Salt Lake Is
-I,., Inc nl.p-1niZatlpn earth tnat
should call itself political, 1t has no
more claim to being q party OF politics
thai. it. is of being an organized society
! for the uplift of the state OF ttah.
| Religious persecution Is the. chief tenet
| az the American party. This form of
| persecution has been marked on the
pa ecs of history in the past, but IN
| modern times tfliSH5has more or less
| died out Religious persecution Is not
one OF the favorite pastimes OF com
munities which are more fortunate
than salt Lake in being rid of a pest
like, the Kearns movement. 1t Is not so
rnuch throwing an aspersion upon the
state t. say that this is a community
which tolerates an organization like
that invented by Tom Kearns. as it Is
to say a word of compliment for the
pertinacity of the managers Of the
Kearns party. If the American party
would admit the truth of the situation,
the structure upon which the party Is
founded would necessarily fall of Its
own weight. To admit in this modern
age that the persecution of a re-
igiot.s class carried on solely for the
purpose of furthering the political aims
for cn'ice would be to speak the truth,
ii would blast the hopes of the Ameri-
can marty and would scatter It's fol-
lowing among the other parties which
arc, trying to gain prestige upon the
legitimate merits of political organ
4 .,,.jt1 A mi
ton and an appeal to the morbid sen
timent of enthusiasts arc the sole as
sets of this society for the culttva-
ton and incubation of native poison.
A good politician usually decides up
on something that will attract the at
tention of the people something that
will bring the voter who is open to ar
gument into the line Of march to carry
on his own political views but If Il
politician Is good as politicians go, he
will not take q course that will event
ually result in disaster to his state, OF
one that will be a calamity before the
coming OF the next generation. In
Utah IL religious sect has been singled
out by politicians who appeal TO all
new corners. and Who misrenrasent and
misstate the true conditions here. The
modelling methods are great and
irrerairable injury not only to the
class which they are attacking. but to
the whole state in general and they
intend TO continue until the very fabric
OF economic life is warped and frayed
by the onslaught. Every one Is entitled
to his opinion. every one has a right
to worship: every one has he right to
think and live as he sees fit, SO long as
that living does not come In contact
with the civil laws. But religious lib
erty Is just as sacred n possession OF
American manhood asethe right to vote
is sacred: as the right to life and hap
piness. in manner after ones own
choice.
The American party in Salt Lake
county is doing everything in its power
to make the name Of Mormon odious:
is doing everything in the wide range of
thought to poison the minds of nom