Show An Open Letter to the Commercial Number 8 Gentlemen of the By your adhering to and standing by the Salt Lake Tribune in its campaign of of while at the same time you are pretending to boost our places you in a very light and many leading Gentiles of Salt Lake are wondering where you really whether you are trying to boost Utah in reality or whether you are boosting the You cannot boost both and e Your advertisements in the Tribune are direct evidence that you are helping that That Utah has been greatly injured by the Tribune is in With every natural advantage m Utah's favor in inducing settlers and capital to our Utah only increased 35 percent population during the last decade while Idaho increased and the Tribune is the direct cause of our falling so far Inter-Mountain Republican laid the matter before you on May 1906 and told you what would Here is what the Inter-Mountain Republican said to you Afraid of the Has the Salt Lake Tribune told its eastern readers e good things or the bad things of Has it given the state a fair name or a foul Has it made men want to invest money Has 11 Jed women to desire a residence Has it impressed on children beyond the mountains a or an unpleasant picture of this as 14 written commendable things into the current U i of the touching Utah or jested the name of the state with or has h if 1 M you are a little the worse for its L Your property is your business your income your prospects just in proportion as the power of the Tribune has been Are you helping to hurt Are you strengthening the hands of the Are you contributing to the agency which curses local which vilifies which repeats with obscene rage its own created Are you helping to enrich the paper which keeps capital out of the which dissuades good men from coming sends the larger part of its circulation to Eastern people and feeds them on the slanders your patronage pays Men of Salt An of that paper answered question he continue its present and the business men will stand for because they are afraid of the Tribune Are you afraid of the Some of you really believed that- for the past few weeks the Tribune is trying be Under its present ownership and editor it can never be If it is ever stopped it will have to be boycotted to and it is up to you to do That Kearns intends to keep up his anti-Utah campaign is in direct evidence in the following interview in the Los Angeles as published in a Salt Lake March 1 says that he has been conducting a fight for some time to get conditions and that in doing so he has incurred the everlasting hatred and enmity of the Mormon and again in their conventions they have covertly threatened me and advised me to leave the state for a while if I Kearns in the says wished to keep my The time was when they would turn their backs on me in the but they cannot frighten and they know I have the necessary courage to go on with the fight I have and I have a powerful newspaper-to help me in the Wants Anti-Utah Magazine Articles Kept sincerely hope that the writers of the country ij will continue the fight they are They should keep up the fight in the newspapers and magazines against this menace until it is instrumental in influencing the minds of the American When the people know the facts which have not heretofore been showing the power of the Mormon they will be willing to do almost anything to this menace from the American New Polygamous declares that new polygamous marriages are constantly being and that it is impossible to punish the He declares that the women of Utah are under a white slavery much worse than that which the nation is legislating and that the judges and other officials of the state owe their positions to the Mormon church and that consequently they will not prosecute the Mormons for their Evading the Little Utah School Children In have a hundred ways of getting around the said even the little children in the public schools of Salt Lake are being in many by polygamous went into much detail concerning the conditions which he says exist in the state of said that it was a crime against civilization that these things were He declares in many women are deceived and left destitute by their Mormon Kearns Interview Creates Feeling Against interview has caused a great deal of feeling against Salt Lake and Utah among the people of Los As he referred in his interview to the articles appearing in the magazines concerning his remarks have stimulated the sale of them Kearns Recommends Frank J. Cannon's Infamous Anti-Utah those who desired more information than those appearing in the set interview in the Kearns recommended the articles by Frank J. Cannon appearing in one of the He said that Cannon was thoroughly acquainted with conditions and that whatever he wrote about Utah could be accepted as the Gentlemen of the Commercial don't you know that your little Utah booklets are only small paper wads when placed beside the above Kearns interview and the Tribune Here are some more of the Tribune statements that are now in tract form and that are now being Tribune is but a to the Mormon in its establishment of a theo cratic kingdom under the flag of the republic and is spreading plural marriage and plural mar practice throughout ranks of the church its it dominates the polities of v and of every county and city in the state- 1 its- power is spreading to other commonwealths exerts such sway over officers of the law i the hierarchy and its favorites cannot be the hand of v is master of state legislature and of governor means of its immense collection of tithes and large investments in commercial and financial enter it dominates every line of business in Utah mines and and these latter it influences by means of its control over Mormon lab and by its control of legislation and franchises holds nearly every Gentile merchant and near every Gentile professional man at its vengeance b i its influences over the patronage which he must have in order to be corrupts every Gentile who is affected by either fear or and makes of him a part of its power to play the autocrat in Utah and to deceive the country as to its purposes and its Gentile who refuses to testify at its request and in its behalf becomes a marked and endangered man in the It rewards and punishes at its And the Gentiles who have gone to Wash-ington to testify for Smoot are aware of this Tribune Appeals for Outside the Gentiles of Utah shall soon be protected by the power of the United States they will either suffer ruin or exile at the hands of the Tribune Says that There Is a Reign of Terror in M case demonstrates all the elements of a reign of terror in is an empty word while these things can before the is a devilish satire while these things can is as remote from us as it is from the Zulu tribes while these things can Mormon church hierarchy has set up in this state and in this republic the kingdom of God on the power of which it exercises with such relentless absolutism that no man dare offend lest he be made to perish in goods or chattels in means of maintenance-in all those worldly things which make life desirable or even possible in the Tribune Affirms Its Own There is not one ward of in all the It is presented to the American people for their Utah statehood is a tyranny for all who do not serve the Mormon Tribune Appeals for More the Government of the United States help us' Will the American people protect us arid demand justice for The Third Tribune Appeal for the name of all that is glorious in our ln the name of Ave appeal for Gentlemen of the Commercial if you io come out and publicly condemn the above Tribune I tracts it plainly shows that you stand in with the Tribune to injure this state or else you are the Republican afraid of that Come and let us know where you Yours V. 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