The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-30
dous new industry and trade for the
State of Utah.
THE AMERICAN vINDIcATIoN.

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the American city administration by an
impartial checking up, made under the
direction and supervision of the News 8
own special candidates and officials,
But il is something AT least to have the
News print the fact of this financial
exoneration. which it seemed very much
disinclined TO do, and even now, while
doing it, cannot refrain from bringing
forward some old matters that have
! been thoroughly cleared up, and that
have been passed upon to the satisfac-
tion OF the public long ago. This, how
ever is TO be expected as a character
istic of that yellow organ. But the
fact that the church organ was about the
worst Of the vilifiers of the American
party on financial matters, the widest,
most reckless, and unscrupulous of any,
is we'll within the public recollection,
Since the church organ is unable TO
say anything that sounds even to itself
in the least effective against the finap.
cial investigation and clearance, II
rakes up an old redlight district mat
ter. and says that The Tribune was
I''forced y to say.
We cannot believe that any officials
OF the city will so disgrace Salt Lake
and themselves as to become RESPONSE
district. For such an act would be a
| clear breach OF the law. and so scan
dalous In morals that the smirch would
never be removed.
And the News kindly suggests that
this was said because the overwhelm-
ing public sentiment was against the
| redlight district, (Which both that
American administration and it's
organ impudently defied, notwithstand-
ing the appearance of decency assumed
in the paragraph quoted. - Inasmuch,
however. as The Tribune, from the very
first suggestion Of any such rcdligbt
district, made originally by Chief Of
Police Pitt, and since it never ceased
to oppose and denounce as both unlaw-
full and detestable the creation of any
such district, the indecency and impu-
dent mendacity which the News dis
plays in undertaking to place The Trib-
une in false position in this matter,
is made very clear. It is q case,
however, where maevolent malignity
has overreachcd itself, for The Tribune
has an absolutely clear record on all
that matter. And why it should be
"impudent' for The Tribune to OPP
pose consistently and from the first
redliGht district, because the public also
condemned such district, is due to the va
garies Of reason so common to the
church organ.
Then the News passes to what it calls
81 the anti mormon warfare carried on
principally by the American organ IF
it means The Tribune by this, as it
probably does, there is not the slightest
foundation for it, because The Tribune
has never conducted any anti Mormon
warfare. nor has the American party
ever been an anti Mormon party. The
fact is. that large numbers of Mormons
were members of the American party,
and acts as ANYBODY.
In this connection, the News refers
TO a speech from Senator Frank J. Can
non, in which he spoke of law -defiers
and dealing with them This. the News
now states was proposal ''to send in
nocent men to Jail, or into exile In
what manner it would be possible to
send innocent men to jail or into exile
is not explained The truth lis that
there was in utterly foolish and ridicu-
Ious scare got up about the Cannon
speech which the language and senti-
Justify, The talk about turning the
penalties of the law loose upon inno-
cent men is too ridiculous to speak
about in this enlightened age; it is the
merest vulgar claptrap.
Finally. the church organ says that
"there should be no attempt to gid
over the hideous past But the church
organ itself is the very one that is
most anxious to gild over offenses and
crimes, Of its own following, while dis
honestly and falsely charging Of,
fenses upon others. And if there
is TO be continual harping upon old
scores, it will be quite impossible to
have that harping all on one string.
For the law-defying sentiment Of the
past here is something that cannot pos
sibly be ignored in any discussion of
past events. nor is il possible to offset
the outrages and lawlessness of the
one side by furious and malignant
charges upon the other, which have no
better foundation than this absurd one
of making out a grievance on the al
| legged but uonsensical plea that "inno-
cent men were TO be sent to jail or into
exile. There is no law permitting
the exile Of ANYBODY, aud there is no
| Law that would send 10 Jail any but
those convicted of crime. Actual out
RACES and crimes on the church organ s
side of the fence cannot be compounded
for bv such uusubstantial rubbish as
that organ brings forward.
The church organ is such a cheerful
and voluble liar such malicious and