The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-21
IT'S MALIGNANT PURPOSE.

IT'S MALIGNANT PURPOSE.
The snarling of the Smoot organ at
the National Teachers Convention can
have no other effect than possibly TO
deter those abroad, who may happen to
see it, from attending the convention.
| 1t appears to be the desire of the Or
gan to make the convention of as
small proportions as possible, and to
head off any good effect that the com
ing Of the teachers to Salt Lake City
might have
1t is a mystery why this malignant
programme should be so persistently
pursued at this time. There is no cleo
tion this year that would effect any
general or National purpose or involve
anybody's political ambitions, 1t is
possible, since Smoot's Senatorial term
is to expire in March, 1915, and since
he will have to submit his claim for
re election, in case he wishes to be can"
didate again at the election next year,
that the organ may want to get up
sort Of religious row in order to solid.
ify the church vote for Smoot, But
if this is its purpose, the plan it is
working upon is so exceedingly awk-
ward and malignant and so far from
the real purpose in view, it will be diff.
to the church politicians the opposition
it is showing to the teachers conven~
tion in order that the church vote NAV
be thus made solid for Smoot next
year.
However that may be, there is no
question but that the malignant strife
which the Smoot organ is trying to
stir up this year is looked upon with
disfavor in this State. We doubt if any
newspaper of the least pretense to re-
spectabihty or decency is following
that organ in its present malignant
campaign, no matter what the ulterior
purpose Of that campaign may be- So
far as present appearances go, the fol
lowing editorial expression in the Og-
den Standard probably states that
opinion as we'll as it could be put, un-
der the heading "Prodding the Salt
Lake Tribune although we by no
means consent to its judgment ON what
has appeared in The Tribune:
Every reader OF The Salt Lake Tribune
must have discovered within the past two
years a great change In that paper s
treatment of the Mormon" question.
There was a time when The Tribune
batting. The cartooning was coarse and
the editorials scandalous. Then there
came a rlght-ab face, and the libeling
of the State ceased.
Lately there has been evidence In GER
tain quarters TO nag at The Tribune and
provoke a return OF the campaign of de-
nunclation. This harassing should be
frowned down by the business interests.
establish good will in Utah, so that a
united people may go forward 20 the &C
compishment Of better things and the en-
joyment OF mutual trust encouragem |
should be extended
OF course It is capital for certain news |
paper rivals Of The Tribune. this reviv- |
ing Of deep prejudices and animosities. |
but the people should rebuke those who, |
to gain an advantage. would involve the |
whole State in religious turmoil
during the past year. the people OF
Utah have been progressing toward
better understanding of each other and
old differences were being effaced; and |
10 upset that condition for selfish pur-
poses is crime against the peace OF the
1t is, of course, apparent that the
Smoot organ wishes, as is quite com
mon with 1t, to stir up some kind of a
row with The Salt Lake Tribune. This
is explainable, so far as we can see it,
on the perfectly plain basis that the
organ attributed to DR.. Paden a lot of
things that he did not say. He made
explicit denial of the organs state
ments, but the organ entirely ignores
his disclaimer; The Tribune accepted
his denial in good faith, and this
seemed to anger the Smoot organ be-
yond all reason, putting it into a
frenzy of envenomed rage beyond all
The daily outgiving of the organ is
not only malignant and false, but it is
4 sort of weak twaddle which amounts
20 nothing, even for the purpose of
prodding The Tribune" We care
nothing about any assaults that the or
gan can make upon this paper, but if
is assaults were in fact to the harm
If the teachers convention, as it evi.
lently desires TO make them. then in
Iced we would feel cause for resent.
nent and castgation of the organ. But
'ince the whole series of publications
n the organ are as silly as they are
Malignant, as weak as they are evil
minded, and as little likely to do real
larm to the convention as they are to
listurb The Tribune, we are content TO
ook upon the antics Of the organ with
forbearance it does not deserve, and
o congratulate the community that
'othing which it can say will be of any
eal effect in the line of its perverse