The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24
MURDOCH WINS BIG
CROWD AT THEATRE
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superstition; but other forms, quite as
foolish have in time been invented 10
take its place. In this locality the
modern kind of brainstorm takes the
form Of 'hierarchfObia,' which may be
defined as an insane deluslon OF the
subject on the existence and perform
ances of mythical parsonage or
strange appearance, inhabiting wild
and desert places, and commonly called
the 'hierarch.
Tribune's Hired Prevsricators.
and so. when anything occurs in
this citv which does not happen TO suit
the fan Of the leaders of the Ameri-
can party, we have a set of misguided
and self-righteOus lunatics, principally
composed of the owners. managers, edi-
tors and hired preVaricatOrS or the salt
Lake Tribune-tlaughter and loud aD-
plause)-a newspaper which regards
the naked truth as a somewhat i'm
modest institution daughter and ap-
plause) -calculated to corrupt the NOR
ais of society. and which it, therefore,
consistently refrains from publishing
who proceed TO have an attack Of acute
hysteria, and go W and down the land
armed with a search warrant for the
'hierarch.' and whatsoever denies the
'hieraTch' denies the faith, and the
anathema is pronounced against him as
an infidel, a hireling a Jack Mormon,
a ferocious, triple curse which makes
an indictment for murder in the first
degree look like a compliment and a
Christian blessing. He who hesitates 70
join them is lost, and he VINO doubts
the wisdom Of their disturbance is
damned. while he who joins with others
in an effort 20 dispense with the NUS
ance deserves TO be hung for treason.
Now, my friends, let US suppose a
case. Suppose that, four or five years
ago, a large number of MOrmOns had
organized a party for the purpose of
fighting the tSentileS Suppose they had
ri II
and had adopted as their standard the
American flag, which they might have
done, because anyone may steal the
livery of patriotism 10 serve the devil
or Intolerance; and suppose they had
declared that If they were successful
at the polls no Gentle need apply.
How long would it have been. do you
think, before all the GentileS and all
the fair-minded Mormons would have
united together and have made COM
mon cause against such an n-Ameri-
can institution
IF such an organization had been
effected with such an object in view, /
! believe it would have been the patriotic
duty Of all decent thinking. fair
minded people to have united for the
purpose OF putting that sort of an aS-
Gregation out Of business. and there is
not the slightest doubt in the world
that it would have been done.
The Right to Fight.
Now. my friends, the question is:
Does the fact that the shoe is on the
other foot in any manner alter the
quality of the leather? The American
party was organized by the Gentiles for
the purpose of fighting the MOrmOns.
In the case ] have supposed the Nor
mons are organized for the purpose of
l fighting the Gentiles. If 1T be right
for Gentiles and fair minded MOrmOns
to fight back in the supposed case,
upon what theory can il be wrong for
the Mormons and fair-minded Gentiles
to unite for the purpose of fighting
back in the real case?
Now. l don't know what you think
about il, but l think that any Mormon
who would not fight back under these
circumstances, and Eight the most effec-
tive way to win, is beneath contempt. and
vet our American friends seem TO think
that while il is entirely proper and patri-
otto for them to heave stones at the Nor
mon, for the Mormon to return a brick
bat If he can get his hands upon one. is
a distinctly ungenerous and unchristian-
like performance. Laughter) Suppose.
for the sake of argument, that the AmeTi-
can party is right, yet is it not the verv
depth of intolerance for them to attempt
TO deny to other people the RIGHT to dis
agree with them?
Suppose again. that q man agrees with
them, that there are certain evils in this
community that ought to be corrected. but
he believes that those evils can best be
corrected through the instrumentalitv II
great national party rather than
through a narrow, bigOted local organiza-
ton which he believes was conceived III
disappointed personal ambitions and
brought forth hate and bitterness-(ap-
plause)-it is possible in this free reDub-
lie of ours that he may not exercise that
honest preference of methods except at
the cost of being asSail1d as tool of the
Mormon church. a Jack Mormon. and ov
other gross and abusive epithets? NV
friends, such warfare is neither decout
nor inspiring, and there are only two
classes of men that resort to them, the
born BLACKBOARD and the bought black
guard.