The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-07
WHY PERSIST IN WRONG?

There is a good deal Of insistcncy IN
the opposition press, and especially IN
the chief church organ. from time TO
time, upon the dcsirability OF abatIng
strife here, Of restoring peace and
Of establishing reign of harmony and
good viii The loyal people of Utah,
however, have been betrayed into that
sort Of an era, and are justly insstcnt
upon guarantees That ''cra Of peace
was used so that the church might take
advantage Of it to ostracisc and punish
every one that it hated, and TO cstab-
lish polygamy and church dominance IN
civil alTairs on frmcr basis than ever
before; and all this insoIcutly, insult
inply, and despotically; SO the Amcrl-
can citizens may well be excused from
entering unwarily into the spider 5
parlor again.
But who is it that is keeping up the
strife? 1t surely cannot be charged
upon the Americans, for all that the
Americans desire is thc very things
that the church chiefs pretend to favor
and TO bc acting upon. lt IS because
the church leaders do not do in fact
wba, they pretend 10 do that there is
strife. The real strife breeders, there.
fore arc the church leaders, who say
one thing with their mouths and do
another thing with their hands. They
betrav their own professions. and belle
their own protestations
Another thing that keeps up the
strife is the constant misrepresentation
Of the American party and us aims and
purposes, by the church press and
church speakers. The American party
is habitually spoken Of by the church
organ rs the antjMormon party. and
vet the News knows perfectly well that
there is no such thing as an anti Nor
mon party. In continually harping
upon this form of describing the Amer
lean party the News discrcdits itself,
and shows forth to It's own readers the
falsity of it's positions and its claims.
Thousands of Mormons arc coming to
comprehend fully the vicious and un-
truthful attitude of the News in thus
describing the American party. They
arc coming TO understand, as the Tat
Is, that the American party is not IN
The least an anti Mormon party, is not
a party that takes account OF any one $
religious affiliations, bat invites all to
come upon the platform OF American
freedom in the support of American
institutions And hundreds of good
Mormons voted the American ticket at
the recent election, which they could
not have been induced 20 do If they
believed il was an anti.Mormon ticket,
Another thing which tends Ito prcju-
dice the people Of the community IS
the News 5 constant reference 10 The
Tribune as the anti-Mormon or anti
church organ. OF course The Tribune
is nothing of the kind II is simply the
organ OF American principles and oil
| American freedom. IT makes no war
upon the Mormon people: IL makes no
| war upon the Mormon church. 1t docs
despise the tricky leaders that are con
! stantly betraying the people, and who
have constantly kept Utah in turmoil
OF usnrpntions of political and civil
authority. These leaders claim 10 speak
| by divine authority. and claim the
right to direct their people in their .vot-
/ ing. in their civil affairs, in their busi-
ness. and IN their social relations. As
Joseph f. Smith proclaimed the doc
trine in his Provo speech. the man who