Show IT IS S A WAR AR AG AGAINST UTAH UrAH Tribune February 2 22 Smoot remains In the tile United States senate there Is a tl living evidence that tho the war Is ii necessary not necessary not ar-not not mel merely ly because e or of Smoot but because be hc- e cause of ot the community disease of or which Smoot Is a a. symptom 1 A community disease then tilen Is to be the keynote of or the Kearns Kearn It really has been In the past J JIs It Il 4 fl fight ht In future as L L. Is lt not a fight right particularly directed against ag Senator l Smoot It I Is not IlOt a fight against tho the Mormons wh who are aro really recognized by b the Kearns crowd as citizen i of or Utah and of ot Salt SaIt Lake e. e much like tho the rest of or tin tilt people here It Jg s not even a fight fEht against polygamy which tile the the Kearns K arns crowd knows Is dead or certainlY certain y i- i dying i Utah It Is a continuation of But It Is a fight on th the policy to Increase e the tile number of or great grent papers In Inthe the the East gast that will utter the slanderous falsehood of or the New York TOnes Times Utah is a community of ot t criminals criminal criminals I I t. t e We Ve had ha hoped the tile I Kearns earns crowd would have sense enso enough even if it thc they did not flot have patriotism enough F J to give o up the tile fight when hen the they lost It H. They need not notS 11 S have ilae prolonged that conflict There has been no time lime since Inco the original riling filing of or tho the protest against ng the tile J Itt s seating of or Senator Smoot when the thc they could not have hove 05 r Jo f had a 11 vote ote In the he senate But they knew the they would woul t lose Jose as things thinS'S stood at ever every successive sl e stage oC or the tile Inquiry So they postponed the voting yoUng by senators Thc They floo flooded ed the country countr with the Salt Lake Tribune k i teeming In lii every column with false and malicious 1 1 1 slanders ors of the people of r Utah They sent their Clemen- Clemen sons anti and their and their through the country country coun coun- try with lectures to good but cre credulous ulous people and raised a no monstrous corruption fund with which the they paid pal for t the treason the they were cre propagating They provoked the tile women of or the tile nation to a state slate of or frenz frenzy In which the blind demand for Senator Smoots Smoot's expulsion was as violently made without a knowledge of or the fact that Senator h f Smoot was not a n lol polygamist They rhey reiterated the charge r that President no Roosevelt velt s. had bartered tile the ho honors ors and powers of his high office in an Infamous trade for forthe Ol the support of or the three little votes of Utah UTAH A IU I COMMUNITY ITY OF CRIMINALS And with er e every da day that passe passed the they sought ht to convince con- con vince Ince the tile country countr that Utah was In a state slate of or revolt I against the government of or the tile United States that this tills i I was a community of or criminals of ot perjurers an and traitors r that life liCe was unsafe and an property Imperilled In all the tho 2 state of or Utah t r That at Is the sort of oC campaign the they have prosecuted prosecute for tho the past pat four Cour years years until until the tile public estimate of or 1 Utah has Ilas been lower lowel and lower with each dawning dawning- da day ao and all through the labors of men who live Jive In Utah And the the to continue tile the t. t i j now they sa say they are arc going g 1 warfare that they are arc going to prosecute their fight even more bitterly that they aro are going to follow with 1 vengeance every man In public life liCe who refused to be lie stampeded tamp de by ly the defamation of or Utah They are arc going going- to to turn the tile state of or Pennsylvania against Senator Knox i I They are are going to set the tue prairies of or Illinois afire with punishment for Senator Hopkins The They are going to make malee i Senator Foraker Foral el odious in the eyes of or Ohio men menn and n women rho They are arc going to tt blast the tho name of or Dolliver In In lU Iowa and farm The to over every village mag They are arc going go farther an and visit their theil wrath against President Hoose- Hoose 0 j I veit l' l Now The Republican makes the tue tre prediction that the j I p people popie will not sustain the Kearns Hearns crowd in that kind hind of ofa a n policy Tile The people of or Utah want peace This Tills case caso started t b by Tom Kearns for purposes of or vengeance has ilas ilasi 1 i J gone enough It H has been threshed out In III every cry city S. S and town from the tile Atlantic to the tho Pacific Every agency that money could b buy Y or falsehood could persuade e has been lieen active for the tho abasement of ot Utah And It has failed c- c If H Utah men will stand together and an work together tog there Is a n great and anel splendid l future for tho state There Thero are resources here that need developing un mid and the rest o othe ot of the country countr would be read ready and willing to contribute their share to that development They can not be ex ex- to Invest el very readily In a stated state enterprises when that state Is declared b by Its own citizens to be bo a community community com com- of or criminals A Utah will stand stan there will be If Ie men together an Increase In Immigration which will double the tile Population oi of Utah tah In five Ove years years' time has never been a da dat day t j when hen people of or the Eastern states could coul remove to th the West Vest with so man many reasonable hopes for Cor pro prosperity S There Thero Is not In all the bounds oC of our nation a u state which 1 offers to lo newcomers so many practical possibilities Th The i i effect of or the fight light Tom Reams Kearns and his crowd Insists o on J J continuing continuing- will he be to discourage investment In to divert diver l Immigration It f SEEKING TIlE THE DESTRUCTION OF UTAH H J If the tho utter destruction of oJ the state were tho the sincere wish of Tom Torn Kearns and his Ills crowd th lr processes would woul be ho precisely ely what the they are arc now One can justly conclude that Tom Kearns is trying to make o. o wilderness of or Utah I that he lie Is striving strIving- to write Infamy over the name namo of or over oven every I 1 Utah man that ho he I Is determined to destroy ever every Interest of the state paint black in the record of the century th the 11 1 devastation expressing Tom Kearns's pitiless s punishment That war will fall tall Every Even step in the I Kearns program pro pro- i gram cram has been een marked with defeat The Bible Biblo sa says sars that Wicked and deceitful men shall not live lI out ha half hair their days as a's Th They y need not die to make maim that prophecy 1 true Tom rom Kearns Reams has hns cut short hl his career B By Invoking tho tue hate of the world worl for the tho state that made him h he destroyed half hair his ills days das He half haIr his nights night t Ho lie has poisoned the mind of half bait the people He lie has Short shortened rie ed tho th prosperity prosperity- of or half hl his neighbors Ho lie has hus d' d I LJ y c 1 taken out of his life liCe half hair the blessings that make life i worth living Jiving j jAn An And for fOl what I Because four Cour years cars ago o Utah dl did not return him t to the tile senate enate of ot the United States He had held the tile office and had disgraced It He had asked aske for fOI election re-election and an anthe anthe the tue state had hall declined again to honor him He lIe ha llad helped the election of or Reed Ree Smoot to the tho senate knowing then that Rel Reed Smoot Snoot was an nn apostle of or the tho Mormon church knowing church knowing everything about tho ho present senior senator from Utah that thal ho lIe or nn any other man knows know today And In spite of his Ills own efforts for the tho of or Reed need Smoot to tile the highest legislative bod body In th tile the world ho he discredited himself b by the treasonable ha bad faith of turning against the man he ho helped elect and In or order orde er erto to punish him levelled his hatred a against the tho state stale That Is what this war now means It Is Js a wa war against ag Utah Reed Smoot Is not nol on trial He lie never ha has been It Is I the state of ot Utah that is attacked And in intile tho tile continuation of ot that war Utah most greatly must mus suffer TilE THE WANT PANT OF OP OFFICES The Tile process of the war declared re h by Tom Toni Kearns Involves a n demand for public office Ho lIe has Invested I perhaps half n n. million dollars In iii what he ho calls the thol American party of ot Salt Lake He lie has captured a n. tran- tran tenure of oC the tho here Ills his henchmen have ha I abused them with their incompetent handling handling- an and their thel plait plain dishonesty The war var that should have ended las Ve Wednesday nesda can be prosecuted only the help hell o or Of public ollice here in III Utah An And Tom Torn Kearns s will ask themen tho the thomen men he lIe is defaming for tho tile Votes voles that alone will give his a It new lease of political life liCe That is what they are lighting for The Tile offices Deprived Do- Do of rC plunder Tom I Kearns earns will have hn to quit lighting fighting Fed fat Cat with spoils snails he lie can cnn continue indefinitely his ills battle for the defamation of ot Utah lIe He may call It a struggle for COl the tho uplifting of the tue American home Tom Toni Kearns can can nn not add purity t to anything Ho can cnn not Ilot and he never hns' hns uplifted has uplifted homes He lie can not and he lie never nover has lias done aught for fOl tho tile purification of or a n. home lIe He can not better In Ill the slightest particular tile the life lire of ot his state slate or orthe orthe orthe the condition of or his Ills fellow tellow mon men And if Ir Utah's citizens shall decline to back him in his purposed schemes for forthe forthe the tile ruin of ot Utah he will have to his Ills struggles and devote devoto the tho few remaining dollars that kind fortune has lias given him him to U the tiie e maintenance of ot a u gentler life liCe than he ile has haM for years cars been living This war Is against Utah and nothing else There is no nee need for strife between Mormon nn and Gentile and there will be none excepting that which Tom Reams Kearns makes There Is no nee need for tor religious warfare between any sects There Is no need of or fights between an any elements elements ele ele- dc- dc ments of the citizenship of or Utah There Thero is no warrant for Cor It It nothing to be gained by It Tho The men behind him are not fit to uplift the tile womanhood of America or to rescue virtue from any peril Ills His record an and theIr record are arc against a it THE TIlE PEOPLE OF UTAH WANT AIT PEACE The They have been beaten The They have havo dell chosen to continue the battle They The have loudly ou ly announced announced an an- that the they aro are for war The They will be bo given all they want of it The Tile Republican is for peace In Utah The people outside out the tho Intolerant circle controlled by II Tom Reams Kearns are arc for peace In Utah The men who are spen spending pending their mone money here are for peace in Utah Tile Tho Thomen men who are arc making making- their mone money here are arc for In Utah Ever Every Interest of or business of or social life of or re- re lous advancement of private ato purity nn and public service ser services Is s for tor peace pence In Only Daly Tom rein Kearns Reams Is for war It Is a n good time to quit him The unprejudiced nation has heard hear tIle the evidence anti and has pronounce pronounced its confidence ence In Utah The unprejudiced nation has lI listened tenell to o tho the protests to tho the defaming of this state BY SONS OF THE TIlE STATE and has declared that Utah does oes not nol e the Iho fate Cato its accusers demand Co for I It IL Tom Torn Reams Kearns Is fronted with fa failure 11 me Ills His cause e Is bad ad Ills His defeat Is certain Men Ien who have pinned their fa faith alth th to him have ha got Jot nothing for their pains Tho Titu stats that that hat enriched him bun is tho the worse for his labors Tim future can hol hold nothing for Cor him Illin that the vast past has has not yielded Let us have peace penco In Utah I IWar War Val means loss to every ono one but Tom I Reams Kearns carns and be l pestilent crowd that has lIas with more or 01 le less lees s sincerity followed his 1115 fortunes thus far |