The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-11

| party allegiance of those voters. Mr.
Dresser asks how can the church pre-
vent any Mormon voting rs he wishes
The answer is plain The church pre-
| vented the Mormon Democrats from
voting the Democratic ticket by saw
agcly proclaiming that any OF them who
did so would be "traitors to their
church, And every one knows what
that means among the Mormons. a
traitor 10 the church is lost man, He
is ostracised, disfellowshippcd, and is
| Dresser in all this seems to show n
singular misapprehcnsion Of facts and
failure to understand conditions here
that is very astonishing in view Of his
long residence
His reference TO not having heard Of
Roberts being ''churched is a little
hasty. There is plenty of time for that.
In the meantime. many Of the Jealous
brothers are putting Elder Roberts on
the rack, denouncing him as on the high
road to apostasy, and circulating all
sorts Of vicious stories about him. II
looks as if the "churching'' would
come about in due time.
Finally, with respect to the tfool
break Frank Cannon made VIC can
only, say that that "fool break" was
far less heinous than the fool rubbish
talked in connection with it. AS a mat
ter Of fact, it was not anything that
Frank Cannon said that the Deseret
News and other church "mouths' used.
IL was. on the contrary, an extract from
the Herald, which extract was merely
the statement of reporter of that pa.
per as to his understanding Of the
meaning of Cannon 8 words The quo
tation as made IN The News from time
to time was from tho Herald, and that
quotation did not In any way under
talIo to give Frank Cannon s words.
OF course. neither Mr.. Cannon nor any
one else would have the slightest idea
in tho world Of falling or banishing
anybody who is not guilty of crime.
The idea is TOO preposterous to
think about. Nobody can be jailed
or banished in this country, eN-
cept for some breach of the law that
he has committed. But If he has Vio-
lated tho criminal law. why should he
not answer to the criminal law? What
is there in position or station that eX
empts any man from responsibility 10
the law and from the requirement that
all shall live aw-abiding life3 1t is
the glory of republican institutions that
no one is too high 10 be reached by the
and nn * 1pJr- hut ha
entitled TO receive the law S protec-
tion. Tho history of the country has
many examples of men in high posi-
tions heirg called before the bar of
the courts to answer for breaches of
the criminal law. Any one who has
broken the law should be responsible
to the law That is all there is about
IT, And that is all that Mr.. Cannon S
speech meant, and all that anybody's s
speech could mean in any such conncc-
ton, The nonsonsical rubbish talked
about that speech was unworthy of in
telligont men, and 1t is direct i'm
of any one S intelligence to
rake up that now, after election.
Mr.. Dresser should know better than
to charge The Tribune with "abuso
against the church, - for there has been
nothing of the kind by us. 1t is not
fit, either, that he should speak of our
denunciation Of the law.defyipg lead
ers of that church as "bitter" or ''vin.
1ictive.D There is not the least BIT
5erness in it; there is no vindictive-
ness. We simply desire to protest
against set of confessed criminals
posing before tho community as lead
srs of religious sect, claiming TO be
exemplary citizens and TO be entitled
% wear the mantle OF holiness. This |
IS not only our right, but our clear
luty to do, and this we shall continue
o do in the future as we have in the |
past.
We arc glad of the opportunity to
print Mr.. Dresser's letter, and to set |
some things right upon which be |
ouches, And, further, to give the as
urance to him, as well as to every one
Use, that there is no letup in the
American war for Americansm, and for
nc implanting supremely in Utah of |
American institutions, American free.
lom, and individual liberty. During
he recent campaign it was the lament
# Governor Cutler that the time had
lot come for man in Utah TO take
IN independent position in politics, II
s the mission of the American party
o bring that time about, And that is
precisely what il is going to do, and
here will be no lctup in the war I'm,
II that Is fully accomplished