The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
WHAT THE MATTER IS.

even went SO far Mt ono time AS 80
endeavor to stir up mob to have The
Tribune Offices destroyed. The church
organ has been getting some pretty
hard chastisement from Tho Tribune Of
late, and not unexpectedly on Friday
evening il took its old-timc tack of de-
manding that something should be done
by way of making The Tribune quit or
be squclched.
Its argument was that The Tribune
has made practice of belttling the
work of the pioneers and first set
tiers and insulting their descendants.
This probably means that The Tribune
has successfully met the assaults of
the church organ upon those who are
not members of the Mormon church
and has been able TO show that the
advancement, the progress. and the vital
growth of the city. and the oncrgizing
Of business here have been done by others
than the Mormon leaders and their fol
lowers. We have shown that it was the
coming Of the mines here that lifted
the Mormon populacc from their squalor
and misery. The California omigra-
tion was the first great lift that they
had towards even a possible existence
here under their methods. Those emf
grants supplied, sometimes voluntarily
and sometimes involuntarlly, large num-
bers of horses and cattle that were of
great value to the pioneers here. The
mining enterprises Of Idaho, Montana,
and Nevada supplied markets for pro-
duce raised here which was otherwise alb
solutely unremunerative. And so far
as this city is concerned, it was the
mines that first gave it real start
as a city; and it has been the newcom-
ers, the Mormons, who have pushed
the city to the front in enterprise, prog
ress, and by way of rcmodeling and I'M
proving the municipal government and
municipal betterments.
The church organ says that nowhere
else has campaign been conducted rs
The Tribune has conducted tho cam
paign for right and for progress in
Utah. Which is probable enough. al
though perhaps something of an eXag
geraiion. But nowhere else In this
country did any sect occupy n region
as this was occupied. Nowhere else
did the first settlers claim an absolute
right as of inheritance in, indefeasible
and exclusive occupancy Of, vast re
gion of the public domain. Nowhere
else did any sect with organized lead
ors to direct it, make opprobrious,
violent, and murderous resistance to the
incoming of citizens of the United
States. Nowhere else were citizens of
the United States, coming upon local
ity within the jurisdiction of the Unit
ed States and open TO all, insulted by
being called intruders and outsiders and
warned TO get out if they didn't like
the way things were run. Nowhere
else did the first settlers or pioneers
Of any region claim that nobody had
any rights there but themselves, and
visit abuse, calumny, and insult upon
those who wished to settle there and
exercise their rights as American citi-
zens. Nowhere else was there n pre-
tended church organ which made it its
business to vilify and ostracizo Ameri-
can citizens merely because they re-
fused to come under the dominion Of
the priesthood OF its sect Nowhere
else has there ever been journal ready
TO condone every rascality among its
own sectarics and TO denounce honest
people who were not Of its own faith
as necessarily rascals for that reason
alone Nowhere else was there ever
known a journal that openly pro-
claimed that it would rather have its
own scctaries in Office even without
bonds or responsibility TO the taxpay~
ers, than have those not Of its sect
bound firmly in bonds for their faith
full service. Nowhere else was there
ever journal that made it its business
to vilify and slander good men simply
because they refused to join its sect or
to be subject to the leaders Of that
sect. Nowhere else was there ever n
journal that stood ready TO abuse
city administration without the least
cause, to assail it collectively or in
dividually as unworthy, as rascally as
grafters and thieves, all without cause
and without one shadow of substance
TO back it, save only that it refused to
render obedience to bogus priesthood.
And to cap the climax. nowhere else
was there ever journal guilty OF all
that rascally abuse and sectarian
bigotry such as the church organ CON
stantly manifested from the first day
of its issue, sneaking and cowardly
enough to call for the suppression of
an opponent for no reason other than
that it was unable to hold it's own
against that opponent.
And yet, we do not call for the sup
preston Of the Desert News. On the
contrary, we should be sorry to see il
wiped out, or discontinued for any
cause. We consider the church organ,
as it is managed and has been man,
aged, one of the most potent infln-
ences for the advancement Of the Amer
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