The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-08
ITS FALSE, BASE POSITION.

The church organ denies that the
Mormon leaders demand special con
sideration for the pioneers of Utah as
prophets seers, and revelators. And
right upon the heels Of this il puts
forth the claim that they were prophets
seers and revelators, and as such far
above ordinary men. 1t denies that
special consideration for them is de.
manded of others on religious grounds
and immediately asserts that they are
Especial instruments of Providence, -
Ii demands "that the great pioneers
and empire builders be honored as such !;
| that they be treated with the same
consideration as the first builders of
other States. and Of this Republic; -
but ignores the fact that no claim of re-
| ligion, divine authority, or special IN
struments of Providence is pleaded in
behalf of the pioneers of other States
The organ thus refutes itself and con
POUNDS its own position. And every.
body who knows anything about the
case knows that il does this in a futile
and impossible attempt TO deny the
been content to rest the claims of the
Utah pioneers on the same basis as the
claims of the pioneers of other States,
but have always and imperatlvely in.
sisted that Mormonism must be hon
ored in their persons whenever any
honor to them is in view.
The ORGAN finally shifts to the oups-
ton of the stockade, in the same arti-
Gle that it deals with the pioneers; but
what relation the two subjects have is
hardly clear TO any one, unless the
writer in the church organ desires to
refer back TO the old saying of an
offspring of Brigham Young, that all
this city then needed was roof to
be complete In that line AS to the
stockade, the church Republican Off
cials took it in hand, razed it to the
ground, and proudly declared that it
should never more exist in Salt Lake.
their word. If they have not, they
must answer to the people for their
failure to carry out their pledges and
to maintain the standard OF morality |
which they set up and acted on for a
time.
If the writer of church organ edi.
torials knows of any violations of the
aw In setting up stockade, or of i'm.
noralitles therein, it is his duty as a
good citizen to make the proper legal |
to the end that the evil be
rooted out. He has no doubt at his dis
1osal the testimony of various bishops
md elders who testified so freely bith.
,rto of their oft frequenting of the
enderloin and their familiarity with
what goes on in the dens of sexual vice.
And while it is so busy with the female
we trust that it will not
all to bring into deserved public op.
'robrium the male prostitutes, whose
ensual adulteries of polygamy and un,
awful cohabitation are equally under
he ban of the law as the kindred vices
f the female prostitutes. Let each
inner answer TO the offended law, re-
ardless of sex, and perhaps the pub
c, comprising in it the Mormon people
S well as the non-Mormons. will have
learer view OF the lawful and proper
clation of conditions as they exist.
The organ of the church adiudges
hat The Tribune "has. absolutely no c
oncern for morality no doubt for the t
eason that we refuse to condone the
exual vices and adulteries of the male 5
rostitutes. But The Tribune stands I
or cleanliness for both sexes; for the '
ue and right enforcement of the law. c
nd all the law. upon every offender '
like, without regard TO alleged stand !
ng, special privilege or plea, or claimed c
from any cause. All alike l
nould answer TO the laws which they S
hend. This is and always has been /
ur position. To say that in this we d
ave no regard for morality is only T
ne base judgment Of the organ Of the r
lale prostitutes, who attempt TO set u
lemselves above the law and to hold II
lat vice is not vice when INDUCED in Il
y them y