The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-10
.obbcd his people of to lay up for him
elf treasures in foreign countries!
AMERIcANIsM SPREADING.

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velopmcnl, advancement, population
and wealth, as opposed by hierarchi'
sluggishncss which desires tc. holc
everything rs il was. a paralyzing
pricstcrart which wants nothing done
that it cannot control and bleed, and
that, content with things IT holds for
it's own advantage, denounccs change
for fear that it may lose its merclless
grip upon the hearts and fortunes of
the people,
Americanies wants change, advance
ment, developments; priestcraft is con
tent with smggishncss that yields To
It's purposes. aud breads progress, seeing
in this It's deadly foe. 4 lcthargic pco'
pie, obedicnt, sacrificing TO the priest
" demand suits the hicrarchic scheme
perfectly The alert, pushing. prog
ressing people. that comedies all prop
er rights 10 the priesthood, but that
refuses to be dominated by it IN
business, in politics, and civil at
fairs, is "A people opposed by the tyran-
nica hierarchy of Utah, which has
| for so many years held undisputcd
sway, and that rcscnts with calumny
and abuse every effort to abridge Its
unwholesomc and paralyzing intrusion
into the affairs of mankind where 1T
has no rightful scat of authority.
The American party propaganda is
waking the people up to the line of
demarkation that it is proper to draw
between ecclesiastical aud temporal
affairs, and more and more they are re-
belling against the doctrine put forth
by President Joseph Il. Smith, that
when a man acknowledges his right to
rule in spiritual affairs and denies his
right to rule in temporal affairs, he
Giles in the face of Cod That is
precisely whore Americanism joins is
sue. And on that line the American
party is prepared and determined to
fight it ont not only all summer, but
all the year, and for rs many years as
arc necessary TO win the glorious VIC
tory for freedom which is as certain
to come as that liberty reigns in this
Republic.
The Tribune has just presented the
progress of the splendid enterprise near
Gunuison, in Sanpete county, where
thousands of acres are being planted IN
apple trees. There is Il plan hereto"
fore recitcd in our columns for water
ing large tracts in Grand and Uintah
counties from the Grand river. There
are the San Rafael propositions, three
Of them in all in that region. There is
the Oasis enterprise in Millard county.
There is the Pcacharosa project, just
below the Green River crossing on the
cast side OF Green river; there is the
Island Home ject; and there are no
doubt others, comprising general wax
ing mp in the development Of the State
on new and independent lines. All of
them can fairly be traced to tho mighty
American impulse, and claimed as the
offspring of that movement.
"What!' we hear this opposition
cry, ''do You claim that all who are
engaged in these new and desirable
projects are American party People!'
To which we caudidly reply. ''By no
means; we know the contrary; but the
vital. pushing force back of it all is
the American lcaven which is at work.
that had it's origin in the declaration
and enforcement in this city of Ameri
can principles and American ideals.
This is so plain a proposition that
on the mere statement of it, its truth is
recognized by every observing and can
did mind Just as il was not every one
who joined in the gold rush to Cali
fornia that were Forty.niners, but rs
all who joined in that rush took ad
most extent that they were able 10 do,
so every one who can is now avail
ing himself of the impulse toward
progress and prosperity TO which Amer
icansm has opened the way, And this
not only in Salt Lake City, but through
out the State; just as, after the dis
covery of gold in Suttcr mill race, sue
cessful search for it was made all
over the Western slope.
No one sensing The situation and
discern and analyze what is easily in
view all about MS, can have the least
doubt on this point. Amcrcanism is
vital, both in a business sense and in
political sense, to this city. No we'll
wisher Of Salt Lake could possibly
view in any other than the most dis.
couraged way, the cessation Of Ameri-
can rule and progress here and the re-
storation Of the old reprcsscd, reaction.
ary regime. And so it will be in the State
at large. once the people fully sense
what Amcricanism really means for in
dlyidual liberty, for progress. for bus.
mess. and for carrying on the develop-
mcnt and building up Of the State be-
yond the limitation point which the old
order seemed both incompetent and un
willing to pass.