Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-23
DEMANDS

"Thc NcWf last night continued us
wall asking help 90 the business mon
O. nrht its battles. ft claims tu be for
harmony and peace. and yet when We
had harmony and peace. when the era
OF good feeling came with n general
assent 90 Statehood and 90 the burylng
Of the hatchot, the News continued ita
vindictive warfare Just the Same, and
demanded that everybody should sub
mt 90 priestiy rule, and that polynmy
and the priestly autocracy should Do
thrust down everybody's throat '-Iri-
bune, April ~.
Thus our contemporary cmlts an
other "wai" on hearing q note Of har-
mony and peace. Tho very thought Of
Il is torture.
There are two distinct falsehoods In
the extract quoted And they are OF
the deliberate kind. stated FOR the pur-
pose or docc.vlng the crcdulous among
the Tribune readers
The FIRST Is that tho News" is ask
ing help OF the business mon 20 fight
IT'S battlos The "Nows' is not ask
ing anybody TO help lighting ITS bait
ties This is the peoples paper and
its battles are tho peoples We plead
for peace and harmony and tho estab-
lishmcut OF normal. truly American
conditions IN local politics. in the in
tcrcst OF an the people. without eXccp-
tion. and we have appealed to tho bust
ness men especially because o. no class
are such conditions more Important.
They have absolutely nothing 70 gain
by "a policy Of hatred kept alive by
worthless office hunters. but they are
the losers as we have proved. Further
more. they have % in their power 70
stop the knocking. " they make up
their mind TO do 3d. And. 20 begin
with. they might register a condcmna-
ton OF o. newspaper that Il a Islander
or and openly proclaims that &c finds
announcement IN slandor and abuse.
The second falschood contained in tho
extract s. this, that the ''News' at any
time has demanded that everybody
should submit 10 priestly rule on that
"polygamy and tho priostly autooracy
shonld be thrust down cveyybody's
throat" There Is not word in the
''News," at any time. that justices the
daily slanderor in that malicious out
burst.
The News has never demanded
anything but that the rights OF Ameri-
can citizens be respected, regardless Of
their religious beliefs and affiliations.
IL has never demanded that anybody
much less everybody. submit 70 priest
Is rule" What we have demanded n
the past. and demand now. is that tne
American spirit Of tolerance he PER-
mitted TO move upon the troubled va
ters and bring order out Of the chaos
that has been caused by Inscriptions
demaEogues. We have no other de-
mand. As for polygamy, that question
was settled by the courts and the Man
ifesto. Il belongs TO the past, and we
brand as perfidy the renewal Of the agi-
tation that pretended 70 have a moral
motive. while il was dictated only by a
desire for personal revenge.
The Tribune employs tactics similar
to the instigators Of the present revo-
luton in Turkey. There the rumor was
given currency among the fanatic sol
oilers that the Mohsmmedan law which
prevails in both civil and religious mat
ters, WAS about 10 be abrOgated That
had its effect. Soldiers. IN the delirium
OF fanaticism, rebelled az Constantine
pie. and In Asia Minor Kurds flew al
the threats OF their Christian noighbors
The runor had no foundation In fact
But Il served the purpose Of the agita'
tors. such miserable tactics OF de-
ceptlon and appeal to the lower pas
slons the Tribune employs every day
Fortunately, the influence Of the papei
is waning and its power for evil is no
as far-reaching as It used to be. Tn
public is pretty well aware Of its mo
| tives.