Show WHY THE TRIBUNE RAVES inan in an editorial addressed to yount young utah the tribune of july 21 talks to tc the younger voters of the mormon population in a seriocomic serio comic way about their duty of voting with the alleged liberal party one would think that after young utah replied to the editor of the tribune in the delegate election last autumn in such volume of voice and storm or of ballots remanding him to tc private life he would not soon attempt the old role of adviser to young utah but it is another evidence that some men never profit by experience the tribunes solicitude about the little sisters of young utah in its fear that they will become polygamous wives by and bye is to be matched only by such an anxiety as mephistopheles may be supposed to have h ave expressed for young margaret when be bought faults soul and in payment gave him film power to seduce that same fair maid this insistence istance ins ind stance of the tribune upon its ita statement that the mormons cormons have not given up the practice of polygamy that they are still carrying it on in secret is becoming monotonous it is in the insane drivel and screech of a man who cannot stand defeat there are such each people in the world they are self made men who spend their lives devoutly worshiping their makers their egotism is so mountainous that unto all who will not so to speak fall down and worship with them they become actuated by by a spirit of vengeance vege ance ence they will wiil be content with nothing less than the eternal damnation of those who will not recognize them at their own estimate of themselves the tribune has assumed ever since its founder E L T harrison harrisod was forced to leave it and lose every dollar he had in the world because he wanted to be honest and truthful towards the mormons cormons Mor mons that the latter had no rights that it would respect it has assumed that because the mormons cormons were unpopular with the dominant sects they were legitimate game for any who would woud shoot at them it has stood towards the mormons cormons as though it believed that it would be I 1 in a no wise wrong to rob them of everything and it has hated them because they have defended themselves because they have refused to be driven the sixth time birom their believing that the constitution of the united states gave them the right to practice any and all religious doctrines of the bible the mormons cormons adopted polygamy they did it that all of their women might fulfil fulfill the object of their existence and aid in the peopling of the earth the nation declared polygamy a crime the mor mons denied the action of Con congress grees and tested the question in the courts until at last the supreme court of the land ruled against them then they had bad to get out of polygamy a much more difficult task than was the getting into it As aa soon as the way appeared to them however they relinquished it they did this publicly solemnly in a religious convention representing the whole mormon church A quarter of a million people said that since the nation commanded them to give up polygamy they would obey it because god had commanded them to submit to the laws of the nations in which they should dwell they have put themselves on record the nation has their pledge if they violate it the nation will then have ground upon which to stand and say 1 l you cannot be trusted you attempted to play us a trick but until the mormons cormons do so show themselves false the nation is bound to accept their action as sincere but the tribune seeing defeat star ing it in the face knowing that if the nation accepts the act of the mormons cormons as sincere there will soon be no longer anyplace any place or use for the tribune and it will become a losing business to run it insists that it knows the actions of the mormons cormons in giving up polygamy to have been a trick jap M and becomes more rabid iu its denunciation of them than before at home that sort of talk makes no impression because we all know the tribune and its motives mo but abroad it is different the only harm the tribune can do to is outside of utah and something should be done in a systematic abic and determined way to show that that paper is actuated by ignoble motives and is utterly untrustworthy its assumption that the mormons cormons Mor mons are lying when they say they have given up polygamy is precisely the same as it would be to insist that the Calvinist calvinists seio et al are lying when they say they have given up the old belief in infant damnation that hateful and hideous doctrine preached for centuries has been outgrown by the people and condemned by a large part of the calvinists it is tacitly condemned by all church members it would be RS as mean to accuse them of lying about it and of secretly keeping alive their old belief that god will burn little babes eternally in hell bell as it is to accuse the mormons cormons of wholesale lying in having given up polygamy the tribunes vanity makes it assume that nothing occurs in this world without its knowledge and consent and as the mormons cormons did not we see fit to consult it as to what they should do therefore they have done nothing and are lying about id it of all the blank fools in this world the blankest blank fool is the egotistical idiot who like the tribune scribbler assumes that he is any less a I 1 scrub than any one of the people for whom he entertains such burning animosity CHARLES ELLIS |