The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-29
HIS REVERSAL OF FORM.

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| We in Utah arc pretty we'll used TO
the form of anti logic known as imput-
| ing blame to those who insist on cor
rccting evil conditions rather than upon
those who make the evil conditions that
arc complaincI of; but this view is new
and uuwclcomc in Pcnusylvauis.
good deal j. said in Utah about the
| failurc Of the law TO reach tho lawless.
| We have always insisted that the NV
ing germ Of this trouble is found in the
resistance 10 the law by the polSgamous
class of the population. This class Is
both numerous and powerful, 1t Is able,
not only TO set the laws at defiance,
but TO raise up clamor against those
who object 10 its lawlessuess aud I'M
putc TO them the cause of whatever
! difference or contentious arise IN TINS
community. To object to those lawless
| conditions is held 10 be knocking
the State. and obnoxious 10 The public
interests. To the reply that II is those
who make these laUlcss conditions that
ought 10 be corrected, the coutcmptU-
Gus snocr is returned that those are
men who are above reproacb, to sssail
whom is practically to assail the State
itself. And so the call for Justice and
the equal enforcement of the Lave fails
because those TO whom it is addressed
are able 10 smother il through influence
and the controlled vote they have at
their command. The blame, therefore,
of any criticism, Is always laid upou
those who stand for tho law, and not
on those who break it.
\ precisely analogous condition has
arisen in PENNSYLVANIA. 1t Will be re-
mcmbcred that few wears ago there
WAS a tremendous outcry against graft
in The buillnc Of the capitol o! that
state Dollars were flched from the
capitol fund where cents were pad
Justly There was an uphcsval Of pub
lie resentment in the State, a mum
Der Of the graftcrs were caught, con-
vlcted. fined, and sent TO the State 8
prison, The righteousness OF the CON
victions has never been doubted, nor
She guilt OF the craftcrs put IN ques-
one who does this is the former Gov
crnor of that State, Samuel w. Penny
packer. who has written a pamphlet
which he calls '.The Dissertation and
Proclamation of the Pennsylvania Capt.
toll - in this pamphlet the former Gov
crHor plainly states that il is not the
graftcrs who are to blame in regard
TO this whole matter, but those who pre-
cipitated the disclosures and arel
the stealings in public and in the
courts, TO the great injury and damage
of the State. as Governor Pcnnypacker
claims. The Ex-Governor, waving all
the facts in the case. disregardipg the
| conviction and Imprisonment of those
| found guilty, insists that the clamor
made on those exposures has woefuliy
| injured the State in its standing, in its
morals, and in its good name. He hol is,
in spite of all the facts proved In the
| investigation and the trial. that the
State capitol is all right; that the men
who built it and furnished it were all
right: that il was "thcir sccusers and
!
world The chronicle of their misdccds
that we're the real wrongdoers and the
authors of irrcparablc harm to the name
and fame OF the commonwealth.
How familiar that all sounds here in
| Utah Precisely the same outcrv is
raised on precisely the same grounIL
The evils that are complained OF here
arc open. notorious, they are in many
cases actually confessed; and vet IT Is
almost like treason 10 the State TO
! speak Of them and it is held 10 be the
duty of all pcaccabe, good citizens TO
ignore these things and pretend TO the
| world that nothing is wrong, and that
there is not only nothing TO complain of
in Utah, but everything TO praise and
| uphold Just so. former Governor
Pennvpackcr SAYS that the real offend.
crs are not the graitcrs, but those who
made fuss about the CRAFTS.
The analogy between the defenders
Of evil conditions in Utah and the po-
sition OF former COY ernor Pcnuypacker
of PENNSYLVANIA is so exact. the arGu-
mcnts 50 literally alike in the Pcnnsyl-
vania case as in the Utah case, that
it would bc sin not to put the public
Of Utah in mind of the Inconsistency
shown through this parallel of those
who would dcpv or ignore wrong coudl-
tions and blame The trouble arising
from those conditions on those VINO
would correct them. rather than on the
offenders whose -,ifnrckedncss causes
all that Is wrong in this state.
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