The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-05
THE CONDITIONS STATED.

The church publicists and speaker!
continue their angnished pretense thai
the American party and The Tribune are
conducting a campaign of slandcr upon
the Mormon church, and that this is a
means of injury to the State. But that
is base perversion of fact and wholly
insincere on their part. The fact is
that the American party and The Trib
une are the sole hope for Utah. Away
from the American party and it's direct
influence, the communities are stag.
nant and the church magnates are dead
In sin. 1t is only where Americanism
has vItalized the community life that
there is any vitality or any inducement
for new population or capital to come,
Salt Lake City was actually retrograd-
ing until the American party triumph
here in 1905; but with that triumph
came s-lendid change which has given
the city new birth in progress and
advancement, until 1t is the pride of all
of It's progressive citizenship, the glory
of all this region for FIVE hundred miles
IN every direction, this being the natu
raj center of all that area, center con.
tanning within its immediate surround
ings immeasurable resources in natural
wealth and tactical supremacy for
transportation and commerce.
With respect to the vital issues that
divide us from the reactionaries, The
Tribune has always been A better
friend to the Mormon people than their
own leaders have been. We have only
insisted that the aRte-Statehood pledges
made by the leaders of the Mormon
church in behalf Of their people, and
by means of which sovereignty was
gained, be kept inviolate. The effect of
those covenants, If put into faithful
practice. would have been to make Of
Utah an American State-a consumma-
ton that every good citizen should de.
sire. The lnjustices against which we
have complained, and AGAINST which we
have waged battle, may be briefly
up in the following:
The use Of church property in viola.
ton of the conditions upon which it
was restored by the Nation.
The renewal of plural marriage.
The continued practice of polygamous
rohabitation.
The gathering of one-tenth of the
people s increase without any account
ing; leaving the several stakes and
wards to build their own meeting
houses, to support their poor, 10 main.
tain their many organizations without
help from the tithes exacted from the |
people, the whole constituting a disas |
trous sapping of the community re- /
sources.
The commercialism of the hierarchy.
which devotes itself to the management
If vast concerns, largely for the pri.
Iate profit Of the leaders of the church.
The hierarchy's competition, by help
# the tithes, against the business of
1.-THE payers, and others not of the
.hurch
The hierarchy's interference in poll
ics.
The h-erarchy's domination of the af
airs Of the State.
Sending from Utah large sums of
money, produced by the industry of this
state, and utilized by the hierarchy to
'rocure principalities in foreign coun.
ries,
1t is no slander upon the church
eaders to state these conditions, be-
ause they are true, and truth is no
lander. 1t is no injury to the State
o call attention to the evils affecting
t, in praisoworthy effort to remedy
hem. 1t is righteous to endeavor to
rec the Mormon people from the bond
ge into which they have been thrust.
1t is duty to protest against bleed.
1G the resources of Utah for the pur
ose of establishing foreign refugees
OF criminals.
No good citizen will cry out against
ne American party and The Tribune
hey are striving for the betterment
the State and the true enfranchise.
tent of its citizens. I