Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Communication 5 Gentlemen of the Commercial Club The the paper that you is now trying to beat a back track and square itself with the people of But its day of redemption is Harry the young murderer now in jail waiting for is just as good as he can he would also like to square himself with But he must stand and he will be put out of the The conduct of the Tribune is much worse than that of Harry Harry Thorne murdered his man on the spur of the moment and during great The Tribune editors lay awake nights scheming and conniving how they can say something that will injure and assassinate Utah and her It has even suggested the assassination of President The Tribune has committed the crimes of slander and falsehood for these many and now the day of reckoning or is at Like Harry the Tribune now wants to be It has suddenly dropped the and destroying which have filled its columns for two and now is fawning and slobbering over our state legislature in hopes that it may through its sycophancy and hypocrisy curry favors and friendship of that law making The Utah State to a has no more for Tom Kearns and his Tribune than a Jew has for a After printing and proclaiming in large spread eagle headlines time and time week after week and month after that Joseph F. Smith and the other leaders of the Mormon church were lecherous law breakers and and that all Mormons and all the Democrats and the Republicans in Utah were their that sheet now comes on its hands and knees like a Uriah Heep and tells how much it loves its dear How nauseating such sickening drivel is to our law Once upon a time the editor of the Utah Independent and several other guests were invited to a chicken dinner in After the friends were seated around the the blessing was asked and the chicken It certainly did look and it smelled but the first mouthful that any of them took almost turned them wrong side It was the most sickening mess than an eater ever put in 1 It appeared that the cook who prepared the meal was near and she was also great on salting and had by mistake thrown a big handful of granulated sugar into the stew kettle instead of That is just the way the Tribune tastes to the people of Utah since it has been sweetened by the new stomach-revolting It was only a few weeks ago that the Tribune spoke of Governor Spry as spry the dupe of the hierarch and a tool of the Now it lauds him and praises his excellent Gentlemen of the Commercial did Governor Spry suddenly reform the night the Tribune changed editors or has that sheet put on clothing so that it can get a little closer to Spry and more easily stab him in the It was only a short time ago that the Tribune slandered and vilified Representative now it fawns over him and places his portrait in a prominent place in its Two years ago it belittled our state now it is trying to pour sweetened honey over the whole Such slobber and hypocrisy would turn the stomach of a Gentlemen of the Commercial don't such rocking and changing make you Every little while you announce through the papers that you 2 booklets to are about to publish twenty-five thousand give out to inviting them to come WW develop mines and make Utah their and dine them When the strangers come you wine them and show them the city at quite an they have read your booklets and are well pleased with But they see the Tribune in your club rooms and in your they read and find in its columns in the closets m the there are more skeletons homes in Utah than in any other state when the population is taken into They see that is increasing in and they peruse the Tribune's famous they read that are not wanted in some preacher gives them the Tribune and they read from the Gentiles of Utah shall soon be protected by the government of the United States they will either suffer ruin or exile at the hands of the Gentile who refuses to testify at its Mormon request and in its behalf becomes a marked and endangered man in the schools are run by When these strangers see the Tribune and your booklets side by side and note that both have your they have good reasons to believe that you are double dealing with that you are trying to work a confidence game on as it and they leave you in You are made a laughing stock of many who read the Tribune and your how many wealth producing set do you expect to obtain when the Tribune sends v out five circulars to your How many wealth producers have you induced to come here for all your Please furnish us a we will be glad to publish Gentlemen of the Commercial I was a ful immigration agent for Utah for a number of and I know what I am talking I know that as long as you support the Tribune that your advertising and your booklets are that they are boomerangs that the Tribune tracts throw back at You cannot carry water on both shoulders you cannot support the Tribune and be Utah Yours 1 V. S. next |