The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-02
IT'S FANATICAL RAGE.

We notice that the Deseret News,
spurred TO a reluctant appearance or
fairness bv the criticism of The Trib'
me. now acknowledges the editorial in
the Outlook opposing the curious sort
of pro. Mormon communication written
by Frank Vining Fisher OF Ogden IL
undertakes in it's usual way TO re
fute' tho position OF the editor or tue
Outlook. hut, Of course, with no success
whatever. It's bald, stupid denIals OF
weIl-cstabished facts amount to moth
ing. As we showed yesterday morning,
the editor Of the Outlook is absolutely
on solid ground, and there is no possi'
bility of the News making anything by
it's foolish refutatious,'
The News devoted nearly column
and half last night TO the editorial IN
the Outlook In another editorial IL
froths with rage Mt The Tribune's plain
statement that nobody is prosecuting
the Mormons. and nobody is wanting TO
persecute them. 1t goes back as far
As the beginning of its string of lies
against The Tribune, exploits them all,
and accuses this paper of insineerity
aud hypocrisy when we say that nobody
is prosecuting the Mormons and nobody
wants to persecute; that everyone
wants to do them good, to help them,
and to bring them to a better plane
Of American citizenship. This sets the
church organ wild, and it brings for
q
The Tribune which would be ridiculous
on any account, and Is absolutely silly
and putSd, coming from the filthy col
umns of the News.
We said, and still say, that there Is
no trouble in Utah except the deter
mined hostility of the church leaders
to American institutions, and their set
purpose 10 keep the Mormon people
ga peculiar people, aside from the
citizenship of the. Republic, and op-
posed to any amalgamation with the
American people. That is the plain
fact The reason why there is trouble
here, why the Nation has not impressed
itself in Utah as IL has elsewhere, is
Mormon chiefs TO the salutary instltu-
tions of the United States. They have
put up an opposing front night along
and continue to do so. They control
their people politically, socially, and
temporarily. They shift thousands of
voters from the party in which they
claim mem bership to the opposing party,
this openly and ostensibly in the 1n.
terests Of the church. We all remem-
Der the campaign of Nephi L. Morris
in 1908, when he openly charged that
anv Democrat who refused to desert his
| party and support the Republican local
| ticket here was traitor to his church
| The facts are precisely as The Trib-
une has stated them moderately, can
didly, and in a friendly spirit. There is
no vituperation in what we say, there
is no persecution nor intended persecu
ton To the charge that The Tribune
and the American party would wish tc
disfranchise the Mormons and disqual
ify them from office, we point to the
fact that large numbers Of Mormon
L
voters are in the American party ranks
and a goodly number of Mormon off
Gals in office under the American ad
ministration That is a complete an
swer to the Deseret News S falsehood
on all this point, It's vituperation, basec
on untruth, doesn t count. The truth i
that the church organ is thorough,
crazed with prejudice, venom. and hate
sentiments which it is inhuman and un
christian to attempt to attribute b,
way Of transfer to others. II canno
bear the idea Of a candid statemen
in the interest of the common advan
tage, and for the advancement of th
common veal. Under pretepse of beiul
the special champion of Utah, it is now
as 1t has been in the past from tn
very time of its foundation. the grea
and misleading enemy Of Utah and tn
betrayer of its people through all tn
years.