The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-22
ITS CONTINUED FALsITY.

harmony and peace, and yet when W,
had harmony and peace, when the era OF
good feeling came with general assent
10 Statehood and TO the burvinc of the
hatchct, the News continued its vim
djctlvc warfare Just tho same, and de
mandod that everybody should submit
10 prlestly rule, aud that polygamy and
tue prlestIy autocracy should be thrust
down everybody's s throat. It continued
IT'S VlndlctIve assaults upon tho Chris.
tlan ministry, it demanded that every
ono should come into the Mormon camp,
that thcro should be no opposition to
Mormon pricstly dominance. and gave
| out tfe general idea that those who did
! not ukc the way the priests were run
ninS things here had better 90 else.
Where. There was no 'pcacc and
harmony doctrine preached then by
inc News. That is. the News was a
rampant, malignant fighter when there
was no fight on. but now that its in
| tolerable bigotry and the usurping
domination of the priesthood compelled
the reopenlng of the open resistance
against ecclesiastical tyranny, it howls
for peace. And if it had peace, then
1T would begin its warfare again lust
as before, and demand that every one
must submit to the rule of the priest
mood, 1T would assail the Christian
ministry with malevolcnt falsehoods and
shameful accusations, and it would os-
tracise everyone who showed the least
spirit of independence. it would de-
mand that its own particular clique and
following should have the cream Of
everything in business. in politics, and
in civil rule.
1t claims that The Tribune thrivcs by
stlrung up contention. But who is it
that is responsible for the conditions
that have to be contcndcd apainst?
Why is it that there has to be conten-
tlonf Simply because the priesthood is
determined to be a law unto itself. 10
spurn the laws of God and Of man, TO
Cypress those not Of its following,
deny them their rights and privileges
as American citizens, and rule every
thing with high hand for the priestly
sectarianism
1t is quite true that we contend
against that priestly usurpation, that
we resist the efforts TO quell indepen-
dent thought and TO subject everyone
here 10 the hierarchic rule; TO make
eccleslastlcism the temporal. as well as
the spiritual, kingdom in Utah.
The church organ claims that "tberc
or N1,
as the establishment of truly American
conditions here. - Which is. of course,
such feeble begging of the question
that II is indeed contemptible Who
would establish American conditiopsD
here If not the free American people
Certainly it would not be the ecces-
asts. We have seen in the past the
sort OF American conditions'' that the
hierarchy established. Those conditions
debased every man and woman at the
feet of the priesthood, and demanded
that all persons and property shall be
made the tool and prize of ecclesiastical
avarice and greed. Every one knows
what the priestly claim in this is-that
all shall be subject, shall render com
pletc obedience and be profitable TO the
asking no questions as TO
what the hierarchie rulers do or how
they exercise their power and spend the
money of the people. That is the sort
of American conditions that the
priesthood would give rs here if they
had their own way now, precisely as
those fto rnnIit,nn- IL
gave us when they did have their own
way. To talk about a surrender to
pricstly domination bringing about
" American conditions here is exactly
as If one were to throw lamb into
den of wolves to give it protection.
The ravening wolves of the priest.
hood rend and bleed the people at will,
and their greatest anguish is that they
cannot do TO all the people as they
do to their own particular following,
And that is ''the kernel in The nut
That is exactly what they want. and all
resistance to that power they attack,
and dcnounce as stirring up strife and
contention. IL everyone would lie down
quietly and let the priesthood walk over
them, use their persons and property as
they saw fit, then all would be serene.
except, perhaps, a protest once in n
while from those who were out and in
Jured by the priestly oppression and
cxtortlon. And resistance to that sort
OF thing is called by the organ of the
priesthood "stirring up strife and con-
tentlon.' But the priests will ALWAYS
find that strife and contention opposed
to them until they give up their despotic
claims, release their people from thrall-
dom, and give up their efforts to reduce
the whole community to a mass of sub.
servient contributors to priestly ambi.
tion and greed.
So far as the News is concerned, if
1T had It's own way there would be no
business men in this city except those
commissioned to do business by the.