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Show sett'.ed there. AS a matter of fact more fanners In Utah own their homes than in any stats In the I'nlon. There is less poverty pov-erty here. There la less Illiteracy. Its school system la the etj-al of any state In the east. If they teach Mor-moolam Mor-moolam In some of the public schools we don't know if they do or not why shouldn't they If they pay all the taxes In support of such sehiMila? The Tribune knows It utters a lie when It says more young people are entering polygamy than ever before. Whatever new cases of polygamy ' there may be are In out of the way ' communities or in Mexico, and do not 1 have the sanction of the church. If thore are a few old polygamlsts living I with, plural wives, It need disturb no one. They will pass away In a few i years and with them the last defence of polygamy. The church has denounced It; the experience of civilization is ( against it and It Is bound to go If the i Tribune never uttered a word against It. , , If the Tribune simply denounced the , hierarchy It would not be so bad it , couldn't hurt them, and might make them cautious, but It denounces the whole Mormon iieople. And what has It accomplished In Its , flvaears warfare? Absolutely noth-In noth-In txcept to get a few officea in Salt Lakojcity. The "hierarchy" whom It ' hasitbused with coarse vituperation and cartoons day after day stands higher in the confidence of the Mormon, Mor-mon, people than ever before. The tithing system which It denounces as "graft" yields a larger Income than ever before. Abuse has only brought the Mormon people closer together 1 andvhealed any minor difference that might have grown up. They are probably prob-ably more united politically than ever before, and who can blame them for uniting against such a "bunch" as the Tribune represents? What difference la yre anyway between the two na-ll(Thi na-ll(Thi I'artle8 t niake any man In U :f.,ye for pn. tyher than the oywwhen taa .-; . u o self preservation If we are to believe the Tribune? It needs no commands of the "hierarchy" to make the Mormon Mor-mon people see where their Interest lies they have common sense. If conditions In Utah are as represented repre-sented by the Tribune there are only two ways to remedy them. One Is by a fair and unprejudiced statements of the mistakes the leaders of the Mormon Mor-mon church have made and they have made them and creating a demand for a change from the Mormon people themselves. The other is by an Influx of Gentiles into the state, and the encouragement en-couragement of business, commercial and social relations between Gentile and Mormon which will Inevitably result re-sult in mutual confidence and goodwill. good-will. The Tribune's course defeats both methods. How many Mormons read the Tribune, or If they read It, how many believe anything it says about them or their leaders? It simply exasperates exas-perates them and make them stand more firmly together than ever. Its defamation of the people of I'tah retards re-tards Immigration and friendly association asso-ciation which would soon make the Mormon people no more "peculiar" than the Quaker, Catholics or other denominations. There Is no doubt that the work of the Tribune was the cause of the fall ure of the land excursion to Lynndyle In this county last upritig. The same l'Ople who had advertising charge of the Idaho land opening, w hich brought thousands of people to that state, had charge of the Lynndyle project and spent $.10.00" In advertising It. lint It fell flat. The Trunliune's knocking kept the people away in pite of the surpassing advantages we had to offer. Gentlemen of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, and you Irrigation Ipd, land companies of the state, how long are yixi going to let the Tribune continue to counteract your effort to build up Utah? WHAT'S WRONG IN UTAH? Utah is All Right if the One Persistent Persis-tent Knocker can be Suppressed The census that has Just been completed com-pleted shows that during the past ten years the population of Utah haa Increased In-creased 35 per cent. In the same time Idaho has Increased 101 per cent, Nevada Ne-vada 93 per cent, Arizona 66 per cent, New Mexico 67 per cent, Wyoming G7 per cent, Montana S4 per cent and Colorado 4 per cent. Salt Lake City baa Increased 'CO per cent and the Tribune uses these figures to prove what "American" rule has done for the metropolis, while "communities afflicted af-flicted with Morman policy of retrogression retro-gression suffer by comparison." Yet Salt Lake has followed the general rule all over the country, that the cities have grown faster than the country. coun-try. Other cities In Utah that are not "afflicted" with American rule also show greater gains than the country districts, as la the caso In every state. Yet Salt lko City, for all Its boasted "American" rule has not shown the same Increase aa other western cities. Portland, Taeotua, Spokane, Seattle, Los Angeles, and many smaller western west-ern towns have made much larger gains. Why Is it that the cities and counties coun-ties of Utah show smaller gains than any other state In the west? There is only one reason, and that Is the persistent persis-tent and Implacable knocking of the Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune got out an excellent New Year's edition showing the material advancement of Utah during the year, but even In that Issue It could not refrain from knocking knock-ing the Mormons. During the past year the Commercial Club of Salt Iake City has sent out thousands of booklets book-lets and circulars advertising the won-derfjj-J resources and advantages of Ut ;ii. Itut of what use V Uy ao Nrr"jl tilt' Til tin ni coniiftues to denounce de-nounce (he people of Utah lh 360 issue of that paper every year? Not only does the Tribune defame Utah, but it puts Its articles Into circulars cir-culars and sends them by the hundreds of thousands throughout the east. It states that "community conditions In Utah were startling and awful." That Utah Is a community of criminals; that Gentiles are not wanted In Utah, and that the Mormons would not sell land to Gentiles; that "there were more young men and women in polygamy In the Mormon church today than ever before in the history of that organization"; organiza-tion"; that the masses were Impoverished, Impover-ished, and in their old age the members memb-ers of the church were compelled to( go to the poor house, where they were sustained by public taxes largely paid by Gentiles; that tho Mormon church teaches treason and Its leaders are traitors; that unless the Gentiles of Utah shall be protected by the ower of the United Stales they will either suffer ruin or exile at the hands of the hierarchy. These are only a few of the defamatory things It says of the people of Utah. Now no Gentile who reads the above statements and believes them Is going to settle In Utah, no matter how salubrious Its climate, how fertile and cheap Its lands, or how bountiful Its crops. Until the Commercial Club and other organlzitlons who are Interested In the growth of Utah suppress the Tribune or stop It lying about the state that gives It sustenance, their advertising of Its resources and attempts at-tempts to draw Immigration will be in vain. The Commercial Club and the advertiser In the Tribune could stop its work of defamation In a day If they chose to do so. I ft because tbey are afraid of Its abuse, or hope to gain some petty advantage from "American" rule, that they do not-tf so? It looks like it. (i ' ' - V V The editor of the Chronicle J Gen tile. He ha lived in Utah Ur twenty year. He hasf lived la vntll and Mormon comnny-jties. He' has done business with both alike. He haa found the Mormon people as fair and nonest and law abiding a In hi native na-tive state of Illinois. The Chronicle I published In an almost exclusively Mormon community. It couldn't be more loyally and generously supported if the editor wa a Bishop In good standing. He has a farm down there and In all his business relation with the people he has found them hotiett and hospitable. We think that would alo be the testimony of the Ohio and Nebraska farmers who have recently |