The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-02
WHERE THEY BELONG.

WHERE THEY BELONG.
There is no objection to the Tribune because of
its earnestness. There is objection to it on
count of what it regards it's strength. There is
a definite protest against it's insoent assumption of
the right Of guidance in every avenue of life; its
impertnent nosng in affairs which by con-
it; its malevoent attacks the private char
acer of whose only offense is that they do not
bow the knee to Tom Kearns; its brutal assaults
citizens moment they quit paradng the streets
with the Tom Kearns banner; its dirty delving in
nasty stories its lingering tapping in the malodorous
its persistent preference for the its
lasting pulling of dead-andburied men and measures
for the bewildering of the people of today!
That last is an especial abomination. Who cares
what said by earnest men-eyen if they
mistakenwho quit the sphere of earthly action half
century ago? Who asks what said in the heat
of debate at time? And, for the matter of that
who knows what the of life of the fathers
of this delectable gang that owns and directs the
Tribune? No goes farther into their history than
to look at their progeny; and judging by that the
staying of the hand of the investigator is act of
general good to the world.
This is the day of living and living issues.
And when man today sets himself up as moral
dictator other people, those other people have
right to his record If it be bad, they have
a right to decline to permit him TO make his own
the measure Of their behavior. And heaven knows
under the shining to point finger at the i'm
moralites of anyone, here elsewhere For their
own lives estop them from uttering condemnation
even if the course of the whole community were
wicked.
And they surely have no right to make of them
selves moral in Utah. With bad lives of their
own, criticism by them of anyone else. whatever he
may do, is the very height of impertinence. 1t is
the essence of insolence. For the makers of that
eXemDlars IF he very that S
bic IN human depravity and this fact is testified
by the thousands who know them; the thousands of
living men and women who have been witness to
their wickedness-and the many who have been suf-
ferers because of it.
Utah has problem to solve 1t cannot be solved
in hate and it cannot be solved by sefishness The
fight that the Tribune is waging is against the
mons, and all the disclaimers that paper can print
from to the crack of doom will not refute the
fair and honest allegation. The of that paper
hate the Mormons because the Mormons would not
employ the power of the church to send Tom Kearns
back to a senate he had disgraced from a state he
had dshonored That their sole motive in the fight
they are waging. And to the everlasting honor of
the Mormons be it said they did not yield to the
Kearns demand-and they never will
Never there such maudin, ELUSIVE nause-
ating praise of people that of Tom Kearns for
the Mornons when he wanted them TO forget his
record and return him to the senate. He knew
everything about them then that he knows now
Yet he avished his aduation upon them in measure
less masses. He held in his own home the caucus
which assured the election of Reed Smoot to the
United States senate. He banqueted President Jo-
seph F. Smith at the Hotel Raleigh in Washington
after Mr.. Smith had given his testimony in the smoot
case. And it only when he found he could not
cajole the Mormons into using their church into re-
turning him to the high office he had dishonored.
that he turned the mud batteries his paper against
them. Never till then did he utter the threat that
he would shake the everlasting hills" with the thun-
ders of his condemnation.
Friends of Utah. the Tribune is not working for
the betterment of the state In a small way it is
working for the money advantage of the owners of
the Tribune. They get dollar a line for city ad-
versing when they charge less than half that price
for the class OF advertising from anyone else
But in larger way, Tom Kearns still hopes to make
the people of Utah surrender to him. If he could
force his way back into political control he would
lay down his tomahawk tomorrow. Time and again
he has made overtures the leaders of the Mormon
church. proposing to quit the fight condition that
the church get into politics and to him the
power he has lost.
That is the whole trouble with Tom Kearns
That is at the bottom of the hatred of the Tribune
And the that paper demands at the price of
a Tom Kearns dictatorship in the political and bust
and social life the state-which may the good
But the problem is bigger than the interests of
any one man. 1t involves the future of the thou
sands who are here now. the millions who shall be
here if we of Utah do fair duty The first con-
sideraton is peace. There is no room in Utah for
man nor for paper declaring Utah is a COM
munity of criminals"-for that statement is false
as the black heart of the who uttered It,
No one asks the Tribune to print one word that
is not true. But the people have right TO demand
that it print word that is untrue and by that
untruth do manifest hurt to the state of Utah.
No one demands that it leave the American party
selfish and hypoeritical it's presence there GER
ainly is. But the people have right demand that
in seeking to advance the interests of that party il
shall not SANDER the people of the state nor assail
the character of any citizen.
There is no safe foundation of effort excepting
that of truth Let the Tribune abandon its present
fixed policy of lying its way through the seasons
and it viii achieve at least that measure of success
which is expressed in the respect Of the people Let
it tell the fair truth about the people of Utah, and
no one cares whit what is the name of the party