The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-16
THEIR IDIoTIC CAMPAIGN.


among intelligent people is the on
which the Smootite gang nre waging il
Utah this year. They betray Taft an,
abuse the Republican Americans 10
insisting upon their right TO vote
straight ticket for Taft and the loca
American ticket. They get mp bogu
"planks' - for the American platform
that every one knows are not in tina
| platform. They claim that they are in
suited, when in fact they are insolen
aggressors. They put on injured airs o.
| being prescribed, when they arc the
only ones who do any prescribing, They
| trump up shadowy fears Of what the
| Americans are about TO do to then
when the church crowd is put out OF
Office and Americans take charge, when
it is themselves alone that violate the
law and use the public places and the
public money to carry out political con
spiracies. They whine about an I'M
aginsry oppression, when they are the
only ones who have shown any dispo-
sition to appress, in their assaults upon
people who do not agree with their mar
row, bigoted, and partisan schemes and
manners. They have put out, ostensibly
in the name of the Jews here, the stu
pendous nonsense and criminal false
hood that the Mormons are being pcrse.
cuted here as the Jews are IN Russia.
But inasmuch as the Mormon officials
arc in complete control here, and as
there is not the slightest disposition on
the part OF anybody TO do them the
slightest injury, it must be that the
writer of this nonsense as from Jew,
in behalf of tho Mormons, considers tho
accounts OF massacres, imprsonmcnts,
lashings, and robberies of Jews by Rus
sian fends, TO be wholly fakes, He does
not believe that there was any massacre
of Jews at Kishineff; that q young
Jewish girl was outraged by Russian
officers in Russian prison, and logged
to death; that Jews are restricted as TO
residence in certain localities, and put
under severe official disabilities in their
settlements, business, and daily lives
and occupations, We say that writer
does not believe the accounts of these
things, for il he did, be would be
obliged to cite like things, done TO Nor
mons here in Utah, i'll order to make his
parallel good in hkeuing the treatment
of Mormon here 10 that of the Jews in
Russia But of course that is not only
absolutely Impossible; it is unthinkahle
And when that writer proceeds further
to impute religions persecution or big"
otry, or any form of religious proscrip-
church or the Mormon people as mo-
tive, object, or aim of the American
party, he is guilty of sheer lying
fakery There is not the SLIGHTEST, nor
the possibility of the slightest, basis
upon which to found any such charge,
On the contrary, the American party
has positively. clearly, and in most I'M
terms. affirmed, and re-
affirmed, it's disclaimer of any such
ideas, intent, purpose, or programme.
The pretense that the American party
is now, or at any time has been, a party
Of prescription, intolerance, or RELIGIOUS
aDtagonism of any kind or directed at
any church or form OF rel'~;nn is the
dishonest invention of a reasonable,
aw- w-defying, lawless living hierarchy,
IN the hope that It's dishonored pledges
md manifold ofrcnses against God and
man might be lost sight OF in the dust
il might raise by its false cry of re.
igious prescription or persecution. And
those who echo this cry are either dis
louest aiders and abcttorS of the trea-
son and lawlesspesS Of that adulterous
md robbing hierarchy, or else they are
too stupid and ill-informed TO receive
my other consideration than contempt
for their ignorance and prcsumDtuous
10 deal with a question of
which they have not mastered the first
principles. There is yet another spe-
sies. however, the hired liar and ma
icious vendor of stuff we'll known by
he ones who put IT forth, To be untrue
'ecert charge against the American
)arty in this regard is conspicuously Il
member, though by no means q brilliant
me The fact that the Deseret News !
vas able 10 print that mendacious in !
olence, even before the publication was !
ssued To- which it is credited, is suiii- |
lent TO indicate the melting spirit of !
he screed, and what caused il to be /
written. No doubt a draft on the tith-
ng fund paid for IT,