The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-01
ITS DIsCREDITABLE CAMPAIGN.

1t is difficult TO understand how the
Smoot organ expects to impress the in
tcIligent people by the sort of campaign
that il is making. It's assertions day
by day arc wildly reckless and false.
They contradict each other. Statements
on one page arc nullificd by statements
on another The editorials will state
that the taxation has been increased
every year by the American party ad-
ministration while its tables of taxation
on another page show that this is not
true. And that it is not true is the
fact.
Just now the organ is engaged in a
desperate attempt to show some collu-
sion, connection, or bargain between the
American party and the Democratic
party. This is such an cxtravagant
piece of foolery that even the yellow,
ridlculously traitorous, hypocritical
organ. in.chicf of the Mormon church,
refuses to give it currency. OF course,
there is nothing whatever in that silly
nonsense, Every one concerned has de.
MED it, personally aud officially. Every
one knows that there is absolutely moth
ing to It,; and yet the organ wastes
big type broadsidcs every day reiterat,
ing the falsehood.
II says that The Tribune is defend,
ing Elder Roberts, when. as n matter Of
fact, The Tribune explicitly disclaimed
any defense Of Roberts, and has not
made any. w have stated right along
that Mr. Roberts is able to take care
OF himself, and must do so so far as we
are concerned. It seems, however, like
sma shing d flea with a sledge hammer
to think of Roberts in defensive atti-
tudc us against the small fry of the
organ that is attacking him. We dealt
with one phase of the organ s assault
upon Roberts, not IN any way in per
sonaI sense, but in a community sense,
where it called Roberts to account as
Il polygamist We stated then, and We
state now, that we see no sense III un-
dertaking to make polygamy Il political
question, and to say that Democrat
must be arraigned and denounced for
being Il polygamist, while so many Re
publican poIygamists arc held in honor
and urged upon The public as eminent
examples of good citizenship. We have
stated. and state again, that poIygamy
is matter that cannot divide on party
lines. We cannot put Democratic
polygamists on one side Of the
line and say that they are goats, and
the Republican polygamists on the other
side of the line and say that they are
all good sheep. They all bel ng in the
Soc pen, They are all equally law
breakers, and arc all equally rcprobatcs,
on precisely the same ground,
When it comes to the question of tax
alton and the benefits that the people
receive for the taxes they pay, the or,
gan shamolessly and foolishly denies
the American benefits conferred upon
the people of this city. that are positive.
that arc actual. that every one can see
and enjoy for himself; while on the
other hand it fakes alleged benefits on
the county side which are altogether
ims ginary, to offset the facts of Ameri-
can good and beneficial administra-
ton in the city.
Yesterday morning the organ was full
OF abusive rubbish, some of it indecent
y obscene, and all of it subject to cen
sorship on account of public morality
and deccncy if we had such thing as
Il censor that would confinc newspapers
10 deccncy, good faith, and facts.
1t is not subject to the least doubt,
however, that the course Of the organ