Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Communication 4 Gentlemen of the Commercial Club In continuing my letter of week to I will say that the the paper you has continually railed at the people of Utah because they are behind the times is fostering and wealth-producing the Tribune thinks that you are idiotic to believe such The greatest wealth-producing industry in outside of the Utah Copper company is the Utah Sugar a purely Mormon with Joseph F. Smith as its president and Thomas E. an ex-Mormon as its general manager and absolute boss of all its People who thought that they were real wise laughed at the fool as they called for throwing away good money in building the factory at But the Lehi factory paid almost from the beginning in it set the pace for all beet sugar factories in the United because it was the first one to pay a the success of the Lehi David a good whom the Tribune says lives his and a few built the Ogden which paid big from the Then the Garland factory was built in the most fertile beet producing valley in the then the Logan and the Lewiston and the auxiliary stations for the Lehi And now near Monroe in Sevier the county so recently condemned by the Tribune for its has commenced the erection of a million-dollar Then look at the condensed milk factories and the great number of canning 95 per cent of which were built by the and back-number as the Tribune calls the people of The Mormons not only established sugar factories in but it was these despised followers of Joseph as the Tribune calls that have established a chain of factories that have so greatly added to Idaho's wealth and It was Thomas R. Cutler and George two who started sugar making in as president of the Greeley showed them how to finance and build a sugar while Austin taught them how to raise beets and turn them into A 1 granulated Gentlemen of the Commercial it is not my object in writing these letters to you to praise the Mormons because they are or to overlook any overt acts or omissions that they may have been guilty but some one has made Utah one of the greatest states in the it is a veritable hive of and outside of Salt Lake City the people all have enough to do and to drink and and 90 per cent of them own their own homes and 89 per cent of those homes are free from If that don't make a happy and prosperous what The Utah Independent has no religion outside of the Golden and to do right because it is but if in defending Utah from the vile and uncalled for acts of the Tribune we praise the or any other religious we plead Gentlemen of the Commercial have you noticed how the has laid on the hierarch and the Mormons for the last few That which for the last decade has ben bubbling and boiling over in every issue on the has suddenly cooled and its anti-Mormon fires have gone out and the hearth is Why is the the paper and party you so silent all of a Is the hierarch has polygamy have the Mormons or is the Tribune silent on its pet subject so it can give you the creaking horse laugh at the crooked path it has been leading You and all of the Tribune are the victims of its confidence of shouted yourselves hoarse for you led to b eh eve by American ticket because you were Utah was the Tribune that Salt Lake City and vilest of the and that the Kearns American pour and over the whole state and purify For the Tribune to lay down now in the midst o the fight shows it to be the biggest prevaricator ana hypocrite that ever came from the printing as the Tribune has stated many Utah is that Utah schools are run by a of lecherous that the Mormons have murdered over victims to appease blood that Gentiles are not wanted in that Gentiles are denied the right of unless the Gentiles of Utah shall be protected by the power of the United States they will either suffer ruin-or exile at the hands of the Gentlemen of the Commercial if what the Tribune says in the above is half for it to down desert its post of duty in the midst of the shows it to be the biggest coward in America and you ought to court martial it for If what the Tribune says about Utah and its people V in the above is not that sheet acknowledges by its silence that it is the greatest liar and ingrate of all j- The Tribune is now wobbling on the Judge I that monumental one of its is a Kearns American with a very small Republican its newly acquired is a Kearns American with a small Democratic F v If the Tribune can kill the federal bunch it will flop and Judge Goodwin will be its editor in If it cannot kill the federal bunch it will flop Demo- and McKay will be its big The Tribune has no principle or It is sitting r on the fence to see which side will have the biggest graft for it to drop on and Gentlemen of the Commercial there is only one course for you to pursue in regard to the wavering Tribune at the present and that is to denounce it a state wrecker and an ingrate and let the world know that you do not approve of its vile and ful Yours V. S. v next |