The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-01
SMOOTISM AND BOSSISM.

The present campaign Is essentially
Que of popular rights against bossism,
and against subscrviencc to monopollcs,
trusts. and the vicious aud corrupt ''in-
tercsts' that have been allowed fur too
much influence in the government OF
this country.
First Of all, we have church despot
ism in tins region that autocratically
rules in politics and civil affairs, FOR
its own advantage and without tho least
regard 10 party principles, party organ
izations, or party names 1t is lust as
free TO use the Democratic party rs the
Republican party whenever IFS inter
ests so incline The so.callcd Rcpubli-
can party. it is true, has the inside
track in the church favor because 1T
has been the most slavish. the most
| fawning. the most utterly indecent and
serf-likc in its abascment before, and
| lu Its anticipation of. the church dc
| mandS, II is a party that is utterly lost
to traditions of real Republican priu.
ciplcs, and has surrendered wholly 10 a
theocracy that is in an alliance with
all Of the most odious trusts and com.
mcrcial opprossivcuess throughout tue
United States. That thoocracv in it's
commercial activities is in close alliance
with the sugar trust, the salt trust, tho
WOODEN manufacturers trust, the cotton
trust tmadc so through Smoot * maligu
activities in combination with Aldrich),
and with every other trust that il could
ally itself with, Consequently. the
church has surrendered itself to Rcpub
-liranlsm. and might as we'll be called
the Republican church aS the Mormon
church. On the other hand. the church
leaders for their part bolster UP the
Republican political activities and OPP
crate through the Republican organ
ization, making themselves a malignant
and oppressive combination to rob man.
kind in this life and send them either
TO lamnation or a life of brutal, son
sual bliss in the world 10 come,
The free American citizens of Utah
combine with the better element in the
Mormon church. that wishes to free 1T
self from the awful tendencies of the
corrupt and tyrannical leaders, and are
irving to wrest from the church the po
litical control which by right belongs
to thc people and not TO the theocrats
That is the groundwork of the activities
in this campaign. II the people would
be free, 1t is their right and their duty
to vote the American ticket from top
TO bottom in order to emphasize their
disapproval of the church tyranny. anc
TO emphasize their determination to as
sume control y their own pubic al
fairs in their own way, unmolested by
n corrupt and law-defyiug theocracy
which in the name of God aud under
the guisc of ''living oracle - church
mas fastened itself upon the communi.
tics of this mountain region worse than
the Old Man of the Sea fastened him
self upon Siudbad. IT is the most cor
rupt. shameless and arbitrary autocracy
that exists anywhere in the world and
the anomaly of such Il despotism exist
ing IN the midst Of the most cnIight.
encd. aggressive, freest people, in this
age of the world, is one of the wonders
of the age, one of the anachronisms OF
history that is hard to explain
But the people arc determined TO be
free. They know the way and they will
follow that way this year.