The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-17
harvest proceeds, there should be big
revival OF confidence
IT'S FORECAST OF GLOOM.

The Smoot paper here is inconsola bic
because President Joseph r. Smith has
been called as witness in the Sugar
! Trust investigation, II had long in.
coherent. self,contradictory editorial
Yesterday morning on the question. in
the course of which the following ap.
pears:
The committees desire of course. is
! 90 put The head o1 the Mormon church on
/ lho srill and compel him 10 say. ii posi-
| Ole. thst The church dominates business
| IN Utah The investigating committee
| probably has no desire TO iniure this
state. or IT'S people hut as Utah ls n Re
publican state and viii return two Repub-
| hcan congressman = the next election.
md VIII give the Republican nominee for
President its electoral votes, the Demo
Gratis naturally desire ~ change things.
| The committee would he pleased TO stir m
such a fuss that two Democratic Con q.
greSsnen VIII come instead. and that the
| Eourhon rider who mounts The donkey for
the Presidential sweepstakes shall get
some help In Utah.
Now. there is No reason whatever to
assume any ulterior or partisan motives
on the port of the investigating com
mnttee, Joseph F. Smith is NOT called
for IS witness because he is the head
of the Mormon church. hut because he
rs the head Of the local sugar trust,
and hy reason Of that trust s affilia.
ton with tbe big sugar trust. The Nor.
mon church is not in the least involved
IN this matter. save rs Joseph f. Smith
himself involves it, He is the head Of
the local sugar trust, and also the head
nF Is,
thing for which the committee is. in
any way, responsible. No one is re-
sponsible for that except Joseph +.
Smith himself.
Neither is there any reason TO sup
pose hat the calling of Joseph F. Smith
as a witness in the sugar trust case is
gong 10 be a change compelling politi
cal factor in this State; or if so, that
the committee can be held responsible
for II. In so considering, the Smoot organ
expressly assumes that the Republican
party rs at the back of this trust. and
that anything that hurts the sugar trust
Will hurt the Republican party This
is a most remarkable position for
party organ to take; and vet. it is the
position taken by the Smoot organ, as
IS evident in its comment on the call.
ing Of President Smith as a witness in
the sugar trust investigation. We do
not think that any partisan Democrat
could bring a more sensational arraign-
ment against the Republican party in
this Stale than the Smoot paper has
done through IT'S assumption. and, in ef,
feet, confession in this. its comment.
that the sugar trust investigation is
likely to defeat the Republican party
IN Utah and send two Democratic Rep
resentatives to Congress.
II II is indeed true that the invest. |
CATION of the sugar trust. which in
wolves an inquiry into the local trust. |
OF which Joseph +. Smith is president. !
IS necessarily destructive TO the Re. |
pubhcan party in Utah. then it seems |
to us that all good citizens must unite
IN saying that the sooner the Repub-
ilcan party in Utah is DESTROYED the
better, Such party as that is clearly
menace TO the public. and an outrage
upon free institutions For. when a
party is so closely allied with a vicious
monopoly and trust like the sugar com.
oine, that an inquiry into that monon.
'iy Is held by the organ of the party
10 be an attack upon that party. then
surely the party's doom ought to be
sealed.