The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
DANN|NC Of NEW
LIGHT IN UTAH
Courage of Saints in Oneida
Scandal PreSages ReyOlu-
tiOn Of Sentiment.
WILL GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT
TO PURSUE CASE IN COURT
Senator SmOOt Soon FOrgets
Spartan Service Rendered
for Beveridge.
BY MAC.

The defeat of President Parkinson /:
distinct triumph Of the advance
agents of progressive Utah. A few
years ago it would have been n danger
ous thing to Interfere with so power
ful n ring AS Parkinson, Hart and Chad
wick. But The Mormon people arc be
coming familiar with the mcrcenary
methods of some of their file leaders
They are coming to know that The
Tribune is really fighting their battles;
that it is not their enemy; that 1T is
steadfastly working to make of Utah
state wherein law reigns and right
prevails
Parkinson is desperate criminal.
He is unusually cunning and unusually
bold. lie has kept Il community, over
which he was detailed as guardian, In
a state of uneasiness and terror, Men
who have sought to checkmate him have
been mercilcssly nssailed Women
were threatened with ecclesiastical
,chastiscmcnt and social ruin unless they
persuaded their husbands 10 cease their
opposition to the stake presidents; I'M
less they permit Parkinson to continue
his criminal rcvcls.
But men grow bold under persocu-
ion, and as the weaker fall by the way
-
them additional courage. 1t has been
thus with Bishop Callan and John Tay-
lor and others, who finally brought the
arch criminal 10 brook, They refused
80 be browbeaten or bought. They
made their case and ii was SO over
whelming that even biased Hcber j..
Grant could not Withstand the pressure.
Now that additional strength has
h, Ex,hf -,
the Oneida ditch scandal by the re-
port of the ecclesiastical board, the
civil suits should be pushed with added
gigor.
The financial suffering of the farm
cIs of the district should be relieved as
much MS the law permits. Those who
have robbed the district should be made
TO disgorge and then they should go
TO prison where they so richly deserve
to be.
II bonds have been issued illegally,
as charged, they should be cancelled,
and honest men placed in charge of the
d;strIct-men who will bring success
out of the chaos.
The Oneida ditch scandal should
serve as warning to others. 1t is not
of so-called "shepherds of their pco
plc" " The Alpine case is different
only in details and degree. The State
Land Board is in a measure party to
other swindles. Some of these rubber
companies are gigantic swindles. In
fact the avarice of some church lead
ers who seek riches at the expense Of
trusSful men and women in the church
Is so shocking as to be almost incom"
prehcnsible.
Senator Beveridge served Reed
S'noot with much zeal as paid attor-
ney during the hearing of the protest,
but the apostle-senator has forgotten
this. lie holds the verbose Hoosier
statesman up to public ridicule and
seeks to read Mr.. Beveridge out of the
Republican party because Mr.. Bev-
eridge has had the temerity to antag-
onize Aldrich
Let IS see: George Sutherland is re-
ported TO be senator from Utah, but
is he?
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
with good opinion of the law" That
anti pool-selling ordinance, recently
passed by the council, has put terror
into the hearts Of lot of race track
gamblers.
hooc oSuSh SdlHDiCIS WeUL LOO IdT
that was the cause of their downfall
Treated with a certain leniency, they
held this to be license. Thus they CON
strued it 10 be right. But the public is
mighty, and public sentiment, once
aroused, is as an overwhelming flood
It's a dangerous thing to attempt to
foster gambling in community that
is unwilling. Ogden's raid illustrates
this.
1t is not becoming for Secretary w.
j. Lynch of the State Land Board to
deny n taxpayer TO inspect the public
records. His conduct few ycars ago.
when he carried public records to his
homo and hid them In a closet, is not
forgotten. Neither is the fact that after
he was obliged to return the records
they We're afterwards stolen, forgot.
ten.
OF all men in public employment,
Secretary Lynch should refrain from
so reprehensible "A thing as to with.
hold or attempt to withhold records of
transactions with which he is officially
connected.