The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-02
TIE CHURCH ATTACKS.

The Descret News last night had
long editorial "To the Voters" The
drift of it was a protest against what
it claimed to bc an anti.church sentl
meut, an effort to prescribe the churcf
and the voters Of that church. IL
aske ''Do YOU honest men and women
of Salt Lake City approve of this anti
church sentiment that is relied upon tc
carry unworthy men into high ofhcei
and il went on to suppose lot or rup
bishy stuff that is not supposablc.
Now. in all candor and fairness, We
should like 10 ask who if is that mas
brought the church question into poli
tics this year? Was there anything said
or done about this matter until the
| church authorities and speakers brought
| it in? The church delivered ITS politi
cal blow in the dark at the primaries
| Apostle Penrose in the tabernacle las'
Sunday expressly called upon the peo
pie TO vote against the American ticket
We saw this because. undcr the neces
sary exclusion that must be observed
in this matter. that was the only tnlne
that his language could possibly mean
No one was so idiotic AS TO suppose tor
one moment that in calling upon the
people To vote .' for good men, ZEN
rose meant anything else than that they
should oppose tho American candidates
The idea of affecting TO believe that tue
American candidates are unworthy
- lao, the
quotation rivcn, or that would he I'M
Piled in tho suppostion that Penrose
Was not speaking for the Park or
church ticket, is impossible. Tho 1nev'
liable. the necessary, conclusion All
through is. that Pcnrose meant his har-
angue to he a political harangue dree-
ted against the American party. Any
other suggestion in this behalf is i'm
bccility, and dishonest imbecillty at
that.
In like manner Elder Knight in the
Eleventh ward. and Bishop Tingcy In
the Seventeenth ward. came ont di-
rcctlv and openly telling their follow
ers to vote against the American ticket,
But, since they arc "couDscled to
vote against tho American ticket. there
is only one ticket for which they can
vote, aud that is the Park ticket. There
is no possibility of whiting or evad-
ing on this proposition. Heretofore
when the church counsel has been prac-
tically the same. there has been always
an opening TO bubble and deny. There
has been a choice Of other tickets be-
sides the American ticket, and the
church writer's and speakers have al
WAYS been very adroit in lodging and
sdurmlng in the hope of avoiding the
responsibility for the church counsel IN
politics. while all the time the brethren
and sisters knew perfectly we'll what
the intent and meaning Of the speakers
was.
But this wear there is no possibility
of any lodging or evasion. The Park
ticket is the only ticket that can be
voted by those who arc "counscled
to vote against the American ticket,
and that is the only ticket that can pos
sibIv be meant by the church authori-
llcS III tDClT cOHHScI. ANU so lnG
responsibility Of the church is this year
fixed. and absolutely made so by their
speakers
What sort Of candor or honesty,
therefore. is there in the claim of the
News III its editorial last night that
somebody is making war upon the
church? 1t is the church that is max
ING war on its own account, a political
war, against political party, To have
the organ Of that church now turn
around and claim that the church Is
abused. that somebody or something is
making war upon the church. is such
monstrous pervcrsion Of the truth.
such "A dcccitful effort TO change the re-
latious and terms Of the true situation,
that one can only be amazed at the
cffrontcry Of it. aud sorry for those
whom it may deceive.
The church makes the political at.
tack. II is resisted. Then the church
organ cries out that the church is at
tackled The plain meaning of which
necessarily is that when the church
moves III politics all must hunt their
holes. But IT is different with Amcri-
rams. when they arc attacked, they
fight back. and no whine that in defend
ing themselves they are attacking the
church will avail.