The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-20
MORE RAvING RABIES.

day madness In opposition TO the con-
vention of the National Education AS
sociation in this city. It must be a
degrading sort of programme that it
has to work out in this desperate eff
fort to hurt the convention and fright
on away tho teachers from this city.
1t is not easy to understand just what
it is trying to gain, but it is possible
that it may have plan of vicious ma
hgnity that would justify the rubbish
heap which it had upon its editorial
page yesterday morning.
Of course, it is plain that its effort
is directed chiefly against The Tribune,
which is ordinarily expected; but why
this particular outburst at this time is
not apparent, unless it is the fact OF
the sudden heat upon already excited
nerve ganglia. ?
The National Education Association
is to meet hero next month. 1t has
been the earnest desire Of every honest
person here that there should be q
harmonious, successful convention of
the Association in this city. This ap-
pears to be contrary to the idea OF
the organ, and it is filing its columns
daily with all sorts Of foolish and vim
dictive stuff about the convention and
about what some people in the East
are saying concerning it. 1t holds that
these people are using matter formerly
printed in The Tribune, which, of
course. they are at liberty to do. We
have seen nothing of that sort of thing,
and don't know to what extent or
how candidly the matter printed in The
Tribune has been used. But one thing
is certain; and that is that nothing can
be found in The Tribune against hav-
ing a 6rst-class, profitable, and largely
attended convention of the teachers III
Salt Lake City next month. Those
who think that they may profit In
getting up a scare against that, OF
course, have perfect liberty to do
it, as the Smoot organ is doing IN TINS
CITY. and as it is said others are doing
in the East. We do not see anything
to be gained by that sort of thing,
however, and decline to have any part
in that hostile work against the teach
ers.
SO far as the Mormon propaganda
in the East is concerned, or the anti
Norman propaganda that is something
which each side has perfect liberty
to engage in upon its own lines, with
State of Utah. Each has its own free
dom of speech, each enjoys the con-
stitutional liberty of expression for or
against. according to the prediction
Of each, under the freedom Of speech
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States,
In all of this, however. the State Of
Utah, civic entity, entirely divorced
from religious sectarianism and having
nothing to do with sectarian views
either for or against, is not concerned.
The State of Utah is not attacked when
the Mormon missionaries set forth their
utterances in the East, II is not at
tackled when opposition to these mis-
sionaries develops in any way. The
State of Utah, civic entity, stands
upon it's own merits, without regard
to these sectarian differences, propa-
gandas, or opposing contentious.
In like manner. the teachers con-
vention in this city next month has
nothing TO do with these things, and
if the Mormon propaganda as urged
on the one hand as affecting the teach
ers' convention unfavorably. OF, on
the other hand, if the opposition to that
propa ganda, as treated in the same way,
is affecting the teachers convention
unfavorably, those who have nothing
to do with either side of the fight know
that the contentious on each side have
no real aninlus against the teachers
convention at all, and are not, in fact,
doing anything that is likely to inter
fere with it in any serious way, The
propaganda of any sect and the oppo-
sition to that propaganda. must each
stand on it's own merits, without any
regard to the State of Utah or to the
teachers convention.
The true position for all friends Of
| Utah to take is to consider everything
| separately on it's own merits, and to
refuse to connect things with the teach
ers' convention that in fact have moth.
ing to do Herewith. But those who
wantonly stir up strife here that is
hurtful to the convention Of teachers
must answer for 1t TO this commu-
nifty.
EDITORIAL. EMMOVS