The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09
CAUGHT IN ITS ISLANDERS.

1t is IN old and wise maxim, that
those who plead for equity shall do
equity; that one coming TO the bar Of
justice, must come with clean hands. So,
when the church organ appeals for
candor and the recognition of the good
work done by the pioneers, il should
bc prepared to be candid and truthful
itself, and 80 recognize the good work
done by others than those of its own
following. The church organ cXclaims,
"Why not try TO be fair in the treat
ment of even an opponent?' Why not,
indeed? But TO do this, while a char.
actcristic of The Tribune is thing
far from the Nows office. No one over
there has even a looking acquaintance
at such, fairness. Aad in the long life
Of the News, that principle has never
been known to exist there. An the
News means by such appeal is that due
credit shall be given it's side OF the
house BY all-novcr that it shall give
the least credit itself to any one on the
other side.
Even in the editorial of Friday night
which was such fervld appeal for the
recognition Of the primitive progress
made by the Mormon pioneers. it as
sailed with bitter abuse and vile
ISLANDERS the work, the purposes, and the
personality of the American party and
lis officials whose triumphs and good
work were the origin Of the magnificent
building activity and the advancement
which We sec on every hand 1t dc
MED that the American "crowd' had
been elected by the people; falsely
charged that. the municipal officers of
the American party had used the money
borrowed contrary to the pledge made;
claimed that the public money was di-
vcrtcd from It's proper use and applied
to the pcrpetuation of that crowd in
power;' and that the American lead
crs had stirred up strife and told to
the world "infamous falsehoods' about
Utah being a prcst.ridden, sins soaked
commonwealth in which decent people
cannot live OF course, even the
News must admit that the final por.
tion of that quotation is a stupid faisi-
fcation of its own, No one has claimed
that decent people cannot live here. On
the contrary, everybody, not only ad
mits but claims, that Utah is full of
decent people who live good, honorable
lives. But it is sad and iudsputable
fact that the State is priest ridden, and
g sin soaked so far as u lccherous,
reckless, law dcfying hierarchy can
make 1T so. And that criminal hie-
rarchy, which has openly testified in
the face Of the whole American people
that ii is living in defiance of the laws
OF God and of man, furnishes the living
testimony of its own vile and shocking
misdecds, il is this priestly hierarchy
which has given Utah its black eve
among the States. 1t is the lives and
the defiance of decency by those priests
that has '.madc Utah a hiss and a by
word IN all the world,' as the church
organ expresses il in its foolish as.
sailing of The American party and
American party leaders. If it had not
been for tho vile and scandaIous lives
led by the priestly oligarchy, their de-
fiancc of law, their usurpatons of tenn
poral power. their arbitrary and heart
less tyranny, 1t would have been inn
possible to put Utah where the acts
and words of that priestIy and lawiess
tyranny have placed it, No stories, no