Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-19


bune party. So We have reason to be-
Elieve that 1t means oHIy the deadly sin
4 OF .unlangfal rehabilitation" It docs
| not mean THAT the West Side stocIsade,
erected at the suggestion OF an Amer
lean. CHIEF OF police must be closed. II
does not mean that the laws again sum
day frnusemeTts must be enforced. It
| must repent OF its lying and slanderlag
! and utilization and begin q new career
OF honesty and truthfulness Certainly.
not. There is in It's moral code, as
far as can be Judged from the columns
OF its pages, only one sin. and that is
"unlawful cohahitatt ION"
It is true that SUCH cases exist. No
attempt has ever beetl made to, deny
that truth. All the world knows IL,
and has known it all the time. It
was known during the time that thas
Tribune conspirators permitted peace to
reign here. 1t was known when ban
quets were prepared for Church leaders
and politicians sought their friendship
1t is therefore as plain as day thai
those few cases are not the real cause
of the Tribune warfare upon The
Church
It was perfectly we'll understood at
the time Of the Manifesto, that the old
marriage rotations should not be dis,
turbed as long as the laws against
poiyganny were not violated by the
Church. 1t was correctly argued that
time would remedy that condition as
it has done and is doing, and that
the wisest course and the best for all
anirnosities and to pull together with
n vfewto the future. We say, there
fore, once more. it is not true that the
few remaining cases OF unlawful CO.
habitatiorr" are the real cause Of strife.
Again, the Tribune claims that the
courts are being paralyzctl in BEHALF
of criminals. that the dead hand OF
Islam. whatever that means SHOULD |
he raised from Utah; and that the peo-
Pile must be free from prlestcraft, and |
SO on, ad nauseam.
All this twaddle reminds us of the \
criticism Of Rusltin, who, in a moment
of Weakness said OF Darwin that he |
was a dim comet wagging its tall Of
pllospllorescert nothing against the
steadfast stars" which sounds awfully@!
important and formidable, until you
begin to analyze the meaning of II.
Then 1t becomes clear that 1t means
nothing Then II is seen that
sibilltyS that a comets tail cannot be
made up or nothing: that the comet
does not wag It's tail, though a dog
does; and that the stars are not stead
fast. And so the Tribune twaddle
about paraly2ed courts the dead hand
OF Islam and priestcraft resolves itself
into absnrdities as soon as it is subs
1ected to even the most casual analysis.
Tie real cause OF the trouble is, as
none knows better than the Tribune,
the failure Of ex- Senator Kearns to Sc
cure reelection to the United States
Senate. But for that failure there
would not today have been any par
ulyzed courts. no dead hand Of Islam,
no priestcraft, in the Tribune columns.
All would have been lovely We firmly
believe that all those horrors would dis
appear tomorrow from the Tribune
pages, IL it were possible that 1t could
obtain an assurance that the people
Of Utah have repented OF the deadly Il
sin Of not re-electing Mr. Kearns to
the United States Senate.
But as that assurance can never be
given, peace must DO established upon
some other blsis-upon the basis Of
Justice and loyalty to the interests OF
he State. American principles must
be permitted to rule instead OF Tribune
selfishness and despotisn. And the
:itlzens Of Utah, and particularly of
his City, have it in their power to
= tablisn peace upon that basis. 1t will
y done IL the excellent advice OF Gov.
spry and Rev. Goshen, at the syna-
sogue. is followed.
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