The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-18
BOYCOTT CUTS BOTH WAYS.

From time to time in the past the
Deserct News, in the interests Of the
law-breaking hierarchy, has under
taken to get up boycotts against The
Tribune. 1t has called loudly upon the
business men of this city to respond to
its frantic appeals and has walled with
unquenchable sorrow because the bust
ness men did not respond. From time
to time the church effort on this line
has received more or less countenance
from sycophantic uonMormons and
place seeking appetites that were will"
ing TO prostitute their manhood at the
command of their Mormon masters.
There are hints at the present time that
some of these sycophants arc willing to
step to the front and undertake the
work of imposing the boycott upon The
Tribune, which has SO dismally failed
when undertaken directly from the
church. The hope perhaps is that boy
colt IN the church interest by those
who might claim no relation with the
church, having the strings that guide
them we'll hidden, would be more effect
i've.
To all such persons The Tribune has
but one thing to say: No boycott Will
affect its course in the least But such
a boycott would draw sharp line Of
demarcation in the commercial interests
of this city that would be immensely to
the disadvantage of those who lnsti-
tute such boycott as well as those who
aid and back them therein. The Amer
lean part of this community is that part
that buys goods; it is the part that
does business; il is the part that boosts
the town, that makes 1t great and pro-
gressive That part of the community
will not stand for any boycott on The
Tribune, or on any political lines. That
part of the community will Withdraw
it's trade from the Mormon establish
ments and from their sympathIzers, if
anv boycott is undertaken, and will
make them understand very clearly that
q boycott OF this kind will not win in
this community.
The Mormon business houses are the
only ones in this city who have ever
undertaken any boycott or discrimina"
tion on church lines. They make it
point TO hire Mormons exclusively, or
if they hire "outsiders at all, it is for
some special work that they cannot find
Mormous ready at hand TO do, The
Tribune has printed the schedules Of
the employees in Mormon and non Nor
mon business houses in this city. 1t
has shown that tho Mormon houses en-
pIov very few non -Mormons. 1t has
shown that the non Mormon business
houses, however, make no discrimiDa.
ton; they employ Mormons that they
find fit for their work, and In the list
of employees in non Mormon business
houses it not infrequently happens that
the majority are composed OF Mormons.
Almost universally in nom Mormon busi.
ness houses 4 very large percentage of
the employees is Mormon. The showing
in this respect as contrastcd with the
boycott tactics of the Mormon business
houses in excluding Genti!es from their
employment is very marked. There
fore. there is ample opportunity here to
boycott on more than one side if the
Mormon intriguers put forward their
non Mormon tools 10 undertake any
such move against The Tribune.
There is not one non Mormon business
house in this city that would be injured
IN the least by any such boycott, but
large numbers OF their employees could
be so affected. There is not one of the
non. Mormon business houses In this
city but would gain decided advantage
if the Mormons melted their sycophan-
tic tools among the non. Mormons to
lead any such boycott; because the
loyal Americans of this city would at
once deprive the Mormon business
houses Of very large share of their
business, and this business the nom Nor
mon houses would get.
The Tribune is fighting for American
principles in Utah, It is lighting for
the supremacy OF the lsw, Tor the
prevalence here OF American institu-
tions and American thought. It's battle
is on high plane, and that battle is
supported by the vast mass of the pro-
gressiye inhabitants Of Salt Lake. We
reckon that there are fully fifteen thou
sand voters in this city of the Ameri-
can party. These voters are good for
trade OF double the amount per capita
for which the adherents Of the old
parties cap be counted upon. That
trade is a free, independent, un-
trammeled trade, 1t is not bound to
90 to Mormon houses, and IL will be
withdrawn from them if there arc any
efforts toward prescription in trade on
pretended claims of 4 persecution "
that has, Ill fact, no existence. They
will not stand for any. sort Of proscrip-
ton. They demand fair show and a
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