The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-01
Mr.. Ferry and Judge Weber nude
strong speeches.
WOULD INVITE PARALYSIS.

triumph of church policies and church
, politics at tho ensuing municipal elcc'
\ tion. Those who have lived here n rea
sonablc length of time know precisely
what would necessarily follow. The re-
dictionary element in the ranks Of those
| who would coutrol Is always tho cou'
| trolling element. by reason Of its in
Sistencc and its superiority i'll numbers.
| There has never been time when
that element was willing 10 have mod
crn progress. modern utilities. aud mod
crn appliances for beauty and sanitation
III Salt Lnkc. There has never been a
time when they did not oppose all these
things and Fight them to the utmost cx.
tent OF their power.
The react iopary element in the church
ranks is always the element that has
its way. 1t is the fanatical element.
the clement that is opposed TO every
thing modern. and that rcsiSts every in.
noyaIion and anything in the way of
modern improvement is an innovation
TO be fought
With the election of the Park ticket
there would Inevitably be return TO
| this coulrol. The fact that the church
was using its organization TO help Mr..
Park was suddenly and startlingly
proved by the result of the primary
| election on October 9th 1t has been
Justly said that. under the law which
WAS passed by the Utah legislature last
winter. ii would he impossible for any
candidate to make progress at the pria
marics without some organization at his
back. But, the big organization of all,
the church orga nization, which is used
conveniently by Smoot and others as
their political organization, was the one
that backed Mr. Park and got him his
votes that put his name upon the
ticket. Then. there is the address OF
Elder Knight III the Eleventh Ward
meeting house expressly calling upon
the Saints, os church members. to come
TO the support of Mr. Park. There is
the Tiugcy address in the Seventeenth
Ward TO the same purpose There is
the address of Apostle Peurosc in the
tabernacle last Sunday triumphantly
announcing that we have the mower
and We must use it, How? Certain
ly not for the election Of the American
ticket. The only other way in which
that power can possibly be used there.
fore, is in support of the Park ticket,
DqUestionably this is what Pcnrosc
meant, and To the support Of the Park
ticket ne then and thcrc pledged the
vote of the church so far MS the &C.
clesiastics could control that vote, and
they do control a vast number Of their
followers in their voting
All this means a desperate purpose
and effort on The part of the reaction.
aries 10 gain control of Salt Lake City
and stop the advance that has taken
the control out of their hands, The ad-
vance that they want is the advance
under their own direction, not an ad.
vance ,that is free from their control,
When tho newcomers will submit TO tho
priesthood, and allow that priesthood
TO dictate, then all is well; but a growth
of population that takes the control of
the city away from the church is nm
welcome TO the church leaders, and
they oppose it with frenzied vchemcpce.
Their organ and their speakers take
pains TO vilify, abuse. and falsify the
acts. words. and purposes of their op
ponents, hoping thereby to create a
prejudice that will bopcessly divide tho
weIl-mcaning, aud give the city set
back
They cry out for harmony, but all
tho time what they mean is the har
mouy of complete suhscrvicucc to
church dictation. And that dictation
always means paralysis the pushing TO
the front of lawdefying means, meas
urcs, and activities and tho appearing
of standard which requires that no
one shall make himself Jealous in the |
service of the law, but shall leave every
especially i'll certain lines. |
10 be q law unto himself. In short, |
the polygamous leaders of the polyga-
nous church fear the application OF |
the law TO themselves in their guilt, |
and with a continued growth of Salt |
Lake City they despair of perpetual
ing the same laXIty of law which cx.
cmpts certain class OF offenders from
punishment, while allowing those Of. |
Tenders to pass as great moral cx-
cmplars. and TO demand that every |
other transercssor than themselves |
shall be rigidly and severely punished |
1t is an unhealthy sentiment alto
gether that these law breakers and |
usurpcrs of power would foster aud |
establish. Their malign influence would |
he especially directed, as it always has
been directed, against the free growth |
and advancement of Salt Lake. and |
the fact that they have hope of sue
cess at the ensuing municipal election |
is the greatest menace that now cou-
fronts this city. 1t will bc for the
free. law-abiding citizens, the progress /
I'VE clement Of this community, to rally |
To the standard Of Salt Lake and fight
off this menace so that the ctv shall
be allowed TO proceed in its glorious
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