The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-31
Palmer Says Business Methods
Should Apply to Conducting
Standing Army.
RAILWAYS ARE DEFENDED
Farley l.. Williams Says Enough
Restrictions Already Have
Been Imposed.

people. between whom there exist some
differences. All are agreed that these
local differences. and our manner OF
treating them, are injurious to The ma
state.
Utah is not surpassed in natural re-
sources, in the great variety and wealth
OF them. In climate, in coign OF vantage
from continental position. in historical
and romantic interest by any OF the
western mountain states.
In the light Of these facts. the recently
reported national statistics for the
humiliating. for Utah. with all her
superior resources. advantage Of position,
and age of permanent settlement. is out -
stripped by all the other western noun
tain states and territories in tho increase
OF population, and presumably in other
respects which mark at least material
progress. All other mountain states. save
only Colorado and Utah, show an in
crease of over 80 per cent in the last
decade.
Strife to Blame.
This failure to keep J'Icc with our sis
ter mountain states in the increase OF
population Is due, in part TO the fact fact
that Mormon settlements in Utah have
been the hives whence swarm after
swarm of our people have gone 10 take
up their abode in surrounding mountain
states. But all this granted its full
value. Is there any one who doubts that
but for our unhappy local strifes between
Mormon and non Mormon Utah's super
Tor and splendid resources and advan-
tases would not have caused her to have
led the western mountain states? think
there is no man who doubts II.
| hesitate to say that our Mormon and
non Mormon differences and conflicts in
Utah are a question for craftsmanship.
The principles in our controversies are
settled and agreed upon In the matter
OF Mormon plural marriage. for instance,
so far as the right to practice II Is con-
rernpI "a hW ha l,ttf
manifesto. and the state constitution.
which. in harmony with the requirements
OF the enabling act. forever prohibited
plural marriages, Equally we'll settled
by the repeated declarations Of The domi-
nant church. and by the constitution OF
the state. accented by the people OF this
state, is the principle of the relationship
of the state ard the church And what
Is directly forbidden by the law 10 be
done. may not be done by ndirection.
by cunning or. subterfuge. 1t is the do
ing OF the thing that is forbidden, not
the manner Of doing IL
Thus. stale is pitted against town, and
| town against state, our mutual virtues
we write In water, our mutual faults we
enSraVe on stcne, and with an iron pen.
First Trouble With Saints
The first difficulty. as usual. is with
the Saints" The Saints" dear souls.
all unconscious to themselves. have one
fault-thc greatest the most difficult to
deal with, of all human faults, to wit:
they are conscious Of no faults at all In
themselves.
On the part of the Sinners" the diff
,cultles lie in the opposite direction
fully and frankly alive to the existence
OF OF Their own shortcomings. they sec all
too clearly the shortcomings OF the
Saints and conclude that hypocrisy
prompts all their actions.
Well. under these hard and unreasona- =
bic conditions, how shall we Jtoceed to
an adjustment of our troubles Mr.
Toastmaster. | know at present OF but
one procedure that is open to MS: and
that is an appeal TO this Commercial club
OF Salt Lake City.
Captain John NJ, Palmer, responding
TO the toast, "The Army attacked