The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-25
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and congratulating that city on its
progress in spite of the earthquake and
the bubonic plague and the moral rot
tcnDcss in high places says that as a
saving factor San Francisco has not
/ had the incubus Of political party
engaging in the business of viIifying
the city abroad Which is a sort
of ambiguous expression. Probably the
News meant TO refer TO the American
party in this direction, but in fact it
is the News and its party that has
been specially engaged in vilifying the
city for the past five wears. There
has moi been any period of time of
church control was thrown from the
city that the News has not lifted its
voice in wailing and depreciation Of
| the American party administration.
Nothing has contcnted it. Nothing
has earned It's appreciation, From
| first TO last the city government OF
this city has been revilcd. sIandered,
and misreprcsented by the Dcseret
News 1t sees no health in the body
polite, and no saving grace in the good
works of the American party admins
iration. And so while the church or
gan speaks of ga political party en-
gagged in The business of vilifying the
city abroad - aud while it undertakes
to fastcn' that stigma upon the Amcri-
can party, it actually fixes it upon the
church Republican party TO which it
belongs, and Of which it is the princi-
pal mouthpiece. No other party, no
other agency, has been engaged in vlh-
fying the city. either at home or abroad,
save the Descret News and its own
political faction.
The particular stress laid i'll tho
church organ IS editorial on pulling to-
cether might be taken by itself to
heart in the way of a lesson In con
duct. if il were not so preiudiccd and
vindictiye in its opposition TO the
American party. it is itself more cui-
pable in pulling apart rather than pull
ing together than any other paper IN
the city. 1t is never willing to pull
for ANYTHING that the American party
proposes, though that party STANDS
for Justice and equality for all, 1t IS
never willing to give fair or even
decent credit to the American party
for its good work. All that it wants to
know of any proposition is that it is
an American party proposition, and IL
denouuces it at once without sense or
reason.
The church organ has always up
posed public improvements. IL has
pulled backward, has been especially
the reactionary organ of the city, and
has always stood for opposition 10
progress and. been damper on the
push, enterprise. and public work. 1T
now asks that the people pull together,
but is it willing to pull with the pro-
eressive element of the city, whereas
it has always pulled against that ele-
ment' Why should the progressive peo-
pie of this city always be called upon
to pull backward and to oppose prog"
resss Why would it not be well for
the News to change its policy for once
and pull with the progressive factors
of the city for public Improvements,
for the municipal good, for the public
welfare and advancement! Now that
the News has made its demand for a
pull all together, why should that pull
not be forward instead Of backward?
Why should not the News quit assail-
ing and lying about everybody who
does not Join its church or come under
the influence of the priesthood, consld-
ering all ''outsiders' as "our enc
mies''7 Why not stop the fanaticism
and bigotry which has made SO much
trouble all over this region, and let the
people be united community pushing
to the front, not pulling to the rear,
and taking decisive steps forward,
all heartily patriotic. helping to do
everything possible in the way Of push
ing the citys improvements, its bust
ness. and its good reputc?
If the News will simply take 4 little
of its own advice. and give the people
an example Of how a united community
can forge to the front by ceasing its
opposition TO progressive policies and
allowing the city TO march forward IN
disturbed, then its lecture about pull
ing together will have served a good
purpose, and the whole city will re-
ioice But TO demand that the pull
together shah always be its pull, and
that nobody else shall have any say
about it, is a little too much TO ask,
especially since the News's pull is
always TO the rear, and its voice con
stantly in opposition TO the public good
and the public advance. Let us have
u pull all together, but let it, be
pull that will do somebody some good
other than the reactionsries, whose only
interest in the city appears TO be TO
nave their own bigoted and unenlight.
ened way, and to hold back on every
project that is sprung for the benefit
of the public. Let us look forward,
and not backward Let us advance and
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