The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-31
The Copperhead Brand.


lygamy. and a polygamous ollgarchy as
the copperhcads would have compromised
with slavery and slave oliCarchy, when
every sensible mnn and woman here
knows there can be no permanent COM
promise. nor lasting peace, until Amerl
can law. and American politics shall
reign in Utah unchallenged and unde
filed by prieStcraft. The conflict between
polygamy and secular ecclesiasticism.
and the great moral forces which preside
over human progress. and which mould
our civilization, is as irrcpreSsible as was
the conflict In other days, between siav-
cry and freedom,
Ordinary Politics Futile
The ordinary controversies OF Amer
lean politics have no pith or moment in
the scope and view OF this controversy.
Whether VIC shall have q high protective
taTa iaT for or revenue iem SnG ' @ trade or "a
just what are the powers OF the federal
government, and Just what are the pow
crs reserved TO the states and TO the
people by our constitution. and the thou
sand and one questions OF administrative
policy which pervade our politics, are
questions about which fair-minded men
which great names and high arguments
initiate. but these Utah issues are Ques-
tions about which sclf-respectng RE-
publcans, and se!G-respecting Democrats
must forever be at agreement. They
have 10 do with sentiments which are In
grained in the customs the habits. the
country and our race We cannot, there
fore. restrain our insistence on their COM
plcte ascendancy In the government of
the state. nor rcpreSS their spontaneous
utterancc by our votes on election days.
IL the Republican or Democratic party
organization does not enable you 10 thus
express your sentiments. you must per
force seek that organization which win
afford you that opportunity and that
privilege. This is so because your Gus
tomary party organization has failed You.
IL 10 4 N NJ nah
high public concern, you then owe 1T 10
duty and no allegiance. To tic eye OF
reason your country is the essential thing:
your party Is but the agency and instru-
mentality by which you hope 10 achieve
your countrys good IL It he nothing
more than n stepping stone Of cheap
oflicehoders TO place and power, 1t use
lulneSS is gone.
The City's Great Growth.
Salt Lake City is by tho votes Of its
free men and women an American town.
Since II has been made so. it has ad-
vanced in wealth and population to an
great stride forward in all those mental
and moral and material things which add
10 the comfort. and which adorn and en-
belish civilized life.
Shall IT be said that an American town
has taken q step backward? Material
good must follow. and Is Indeed compaU-
bic only with the predominance OF those
mental, moral and spiritual principles
which recognize free men and women
as he highest beings OF which wn can
have any positive knowledge For if
man shall become or remain slave 10
the superstitious or the vices of hts an
ccstors, If ne shall surrender his tenn
poral and spiritual lifc to the keeping
OF those whose interest II Is 10 dominate
and dcprcss him he must pcnalizc that
freedom. that high courage. that noble
imagination which shall enable him TO
direct his race to winer moral, intellect
ull. and material horizons. 60 higher
hopes, and 10 better GcStluiCS.
Administration Justified.
Ghc American party. in its administra-
tlon Of the government Of salt Lake CITY.
hns justified Its high principles and pro-
fcssions 1t has administered lis If
fairs without tuiut Of corruption. 1t may
not have expended every dollar in the
most exactly ludicious manner. but Il
has done Il with integrity and an cyc
single 10 the public good. The certain
facts which provo il are set forth in
the admirable speech Of Mayor Brans-
ford, and no man can successfully asSail
the rocjitude of his Intentions nor inn
peach mis- truth and honor as n man
therefore. my friends. VIC defy those who
Willy tho American party and who i'm
pucH the righteousness Of It's motives |
and who slaudcr and dcriio It's cundl- |
dates. aud y0u may be sure that tho ]
perpetual memorials OF its achievements |
Tor the good ot tho people OF Utah. and !
Of salt Lal5c. in moral IN intellectual and (
in nlat"Ii1l Development. viii rcmaiis aud |
hc a hefitagc TO Your c!lildrcn's children |
long after these cph"mcra traduccrs !
shall have mnldcrcd in forgotten graves, |
and when their names. and their works |
and their memories. aud their cpilaphs /
shall have vanished utterly.
Tho Opposition.
Consider row tho various political az. |
grcgatious which arc now opposed 10 the !
American party. First there Is Re- !
publican party. 50 called, which s. I'm |
poW"r At ihs Suncrnuc" Of the priest !
hood; second, 4 Democratic parity which J
has been corrupted I'm TN" past and hopes |
to he bribcd again hv tho sam" mallgu |
power; third. there II q Citizens party. !
which stands for nothing. and was in
tended for nothing but rs a h.-am"nt 10 |
bind tn" corrupt Republican and Demo |
cratic Siamcsc twins in an effort TO de- /
.cat the American party. Under such |
conditions what man or woman OF sense |
Is there among YOU who Will hesitate Ia |
yot" the American ticket? Your plain
duty 10 yourselves, 10 your children. 10
your town, To your country, and 10 civil
izItion IS. ON election day. 10 rally around
the flag once mor"l and for that nothing
Is more certain than that YOU shalt in
countless ways receive the reward Of
duty well pcrformcd and when In years
TO come the true meaning ana the fall
measure and fruitaSc OF your sacrifices
your struggles. and your victories, shall
be truly told il must bc said that under
such dctraction andVabusc. against much
reaCtionarY power. without alloy Of sell
cshDess. You wrought mautully and el-
:ectually for the progress of your race
and the highest public good.