The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18
THE GAME WAS OVERPLAYED

THE GAME WAS oVERPLAYED.
No doubt those who are responsible
for the shutting out of the non Mormon
ladies of this city from their proper
part in the reception of tho visiting
ladies of the national and internation
al organizations, think that they were
Fright cute - in playing the trick they
did But it was shabby Mormon
trick. Just the same. To expedite the
coming of those visiting ladies by one
and a half hours, notifying all the
Mormons concerned and negIecting to
notify the non Mormons, was such a
piece of treacherous dscourtcsy that
| 1T will always he rcproach 10 those
engaged in it, While the parading of
the poIygamous law defiers in the pres
cncc of those distinguished women was
an insult TO those women and black
shame to Utah.
The firm, consistent and admirable
stand taken by Mrs c. f.. Allen of this
city must be indorsed by every man
and woman who abhors poIygamv and
stands for the Christian home OF
America. There can be no possible mis-
take about this. She did absolutely
right in refusing to have anything TO
do with the polygamous law.dcficrs, cs-
pecially as they had no rightfui place
on any account in this function. To
bring these foul lochers into the ccrc-
monies was something abhorrcnt to the
natural sense of common decency, to
say nothing of Christian civilization.
1t is a marvel that any one should have
had the moral callousncss TO have
thought Of such thing, or the of
frontcry TO carry it out.
The trick did no good to the Nor
mon cause after all, for the visiting
ladies saw what was being done and
all of them were made to und dcrstaud
it before the occasion was over, and
resented the trick played upon them
And especially do they resent the shut
ting off of Mrs Grannis from her ap-
proprlate and announced participation
in the speaking. The Mormons were
preiudiced against her because she has
been Jealous in her opposition 10 po.
lygamy, and especially did she make
her position manifest when Brigham |
II. Roberts, who was a polygamlst, was
prevented from taking his seat in the |
House Of Representatives of the Ma |
tional Congress, she taking an active
part against him. and also because of |
her participation in the fight against |
Smoot, who is representative of the |
polygamsts in the United States Sen
ate This discourtcsy to her is not !
alone a show of personal vindictivc-
ness. but gross insult to the great as
sociation Of Christian women that she
represents The probability is that the
Mormon bigots who played this trick
and who insultingly pushed themselves
to the front in order to do their cause
a service, have sown crop of dragon s
teeth, the harvest Of which will be their
undoing.
1T has been suggested, and is doubt
less the fact, that the reason why this
high handed usurpation was under
taken was to make favorable impress
sion upon The ladies from Europe.
where so many Mormon missionaries
are stationed all the time, and to I'M
pose upon them the belief that the Nor
mons are the great people here, none
others being worthy of consideration;
the hope being that if such impression
could be created, those ladies might be
better disposed toward the Mormon mis-.
than heretofore. But here
again. such hope is vain, for the Tick.
cry and bad faith shown were so evi-
dent that the impression created in the
minds of those foreign ladies was dis
tinetly unfavorable and contemptuous
The Mormon game was ovcrplaycd.
with the result that the game was lost.
and the impressions created all along I
the line were exactly the reverse of
what was sought.