Show AMERICAN PARTY CAMPAIGN alio salt lake tribune outlines aid future work of the americal Ameri caa party in the editorial la this mornings issue 0 that paper one gentile business man said on the street yesterday the tribune and the american party have got what they wanted now let up on the roast another prominent gentile business man said on the street yesterday within five minutes of the first speakers remark thank god for this victory I 1 hope that the american party and the tribune will their splendid battle until this great fight tor freedom Is won throughout the state which 0 these two men expressed the right community sentiment can there be any question on that point with the high minded and patriotic citizenship iz of athla community the american party came into existence not to obtain offices for anybody but to set a people free it ha repeat adly avowed its purpose and in this the tribune baa been a daily boico to wage the battle until honor before the nation shall be redeemed by the fulfillment of the pledges which were made to obtain her statehood the winning of salt lake city at the polls was a mighty means to a mighty end without political victory tor the american party it Is impossible to destroy the political autocracy ot the mormon church and therefore impossible to compel the fulfillment of tho covenants made by its leaders and accepted by tho gentiles who gave their own word to sustain tho sincerity of the ecclesiastical pledge step by step we advance and not like foolish victors ot a day sit down to beast at night permitting the enemy fo recover his scattered forces and descend upon a banquet camp to win back again the ground blab he bad lost tho tribune does not feel that its duty in this great cause has more than just begun in its olden days it fought for a quarter of a century in the present time it will not counsel nor even countenance any delay in the warfare merely because the capital has been won it we were to rest here the great end of enfranchisement for utah would bo indefinitely postponed esven if we were to hold salt luke continuously the hierarch arch could build upon bis power in tho provinces and through the legislature could destroy in a large degree the value of american work ia the capital city of his ecclesiastical kingdom tharo is no mistaking what ahe foregoing means the americal Ameri caa party lias decided to carry ia war inlo other parta of the state it Is openly stated that weber county Is to be invaded and the peace and quiet of ogden converted into a bedlam and all for the political advantage of somo men and the deposing from favor ot others religious warfare at best Is an incentive for the arousing of some the worst passions of the human soul we have seen the hatreds 0 an A P A agitation when catholics were ostra cased because politicians had asserted that the pope was attempting to rule the united states during tho excitement cit ement millions of well meaning americans believed the stories of church interference in politics and voted to mako catholics a proscribed part 0 every community but when the second sober judgment of the peo pie dethroner dethroned passion the religious crusade passed away in all history there are accounts of just such outbursts but with the progress 0 civilization the hatreds are less in evidence until today the great majority ot the people are prepared to allow commercialism commercial iBm to cure what in the past called for the fire brand and the sword |