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Show i before it came about does not bar them from recognizing and accepting it The honest nm n fives to keep in the right, aud in this iuattr all men who are honest ought to be willing to welcome wel-come In pood faith thu acceptance of the con liiio.is which they helped to lay down It is not to the discredit, but to tlie c-vorlastin,' honor of the.4 men that they itliouid ri'coguie the fnct of the nioimona htivug done all that they wc ro ever asked to do. All thurn is of obloquy resit upon tho-o who would aharpen tin) wm und pluno it into ti e bnwuls of tue uui inj alicr his capit-nl.i:':on. capit-nl.i:':on. Now. what is the mo! vc of the Trih-in!'' Trih-in!'' wuidh niaiiie on critinuioj to nuk e war on the momioiM .if tor llie.v have dropped everything 1 h it was ohji otiou-uliio. otiou-uliio. 'J'licy a i u up p'll'.'gnmy ufter a lon Piru'j'e, T:ie KUlTetider wus compli.tii and satiol 'iijtory even to the llber.il orjjfin, which declared that the msnib'Sto ranjj the dfHth knell of the practice, (.'hurcii d.i t.-.tioa in politics had been condmiiMod. Thu mormons, foilowio the li'if.ima'.e ro.id laid down in the surrund.trof polygamy, dissolved the party which bad been known as a chinch orjjauizatiou, aud this has betin followed by the most solemn assurances, assur-ances, supported by a greut mass of clearly marked circumstantial evidence; evi-dence; tluit the Dieiiiljrra of the church Tlt THIBt'a G A Si AIUN. AV'e often wonder how !ong any considerable con-siderable number of intoliiHiit people will conxeni to follow thu lead of the libcra oruau in tlio present campaign, and iiiuka I htm. selves purui to Its mis-reprHnlatiu!ia, mis-reprHnlatiu!ia, its inconsistencies ami its rccklen disregard of tlio dictatos of reason We have seen umny exhibitions exhibi-tions of reckless jonruii. Urn, but wo do nor remember ever lo have seen any-tuiug any-tuiug e(iiail,ii tlio reckie .niiei-s of tan oi'Kau of the liln rul mriy in thu present pres-ent campaign. It sometimes soems dillicult to uiulerstand its motives tuil as tl.u csmpaii'ti pi o:.Ofis then bi- conio clHarer ami cicaicr and are shown to he as recklcieattiio mi': hodi throujli which they lin.l 'aprsi(m. The Tii'-utw. Tii'-utw. is etiyaiJt'd in a reckless campaign and th" day is not far distant when ttiia entire pcopbi will rcaii.e thu full: extent thereof. ! The unbiased reader of the Sunday lo'.iruiujj edition of the paper can scarcely scarce-ly fail lo have been Impressed by its recklessness. Tiik Timi.i would call attention to the leading features of its treatment of the subject that is now at-tacting at-tacting such unusual attention, for the purpose of pointing out tho uoleuable vhuracier of the ground upon which it places itself. The features of the issue so fur as this question is concerned, were au editorial entitled "Nothing Surrendered" and a local collection of h ts from rpeecbes niado eighteen inoiii: fo by roti who are now in f:r r,r c f p i '.y discus don. Tl." jiul .'ic demands tint In any dis-ctivdi dis-ctivdi n all statmnnts of fact shall be true and that all arguments proceediug trom the same premises shall be consistent. con-sistent. The Tribune does not come up to eitherof these requirements iu the articles referred t , as can eaiily be shown by a brief reference to its utterances, utter-ances, lu its editorial it repeats the old charge that the movement to divide on national parly lines is part of a Mormon conspiracy to secure immediate immedi-ate statehood and the state is to be ruled by the Mormou church. In attempting at-tempting to maintain this assertion it has to indulge in a falsehood at the very start, as witness tho following: "The men who started this movement move-ment were tho sons of the aristocracy of Utah; the sous of the old chiefs, nud tha uld polygamist, and they are in just as goo ! standing iu tho church today to-day as they ever were." Now, tber is not a particle of truth iu that assertion. There is nothing in the history of tho movement to alt'ord the shadow of an excuse for it, There was no Mormon who had anything to do with starting the niovemeut on cither side. This is the absolute truth. Tho Slurnioi.s came into tlio movement after it was inaugurated. They wero glad to see It, just as all Gentiles should have been, and they accepted it as tho logical outcome of the new conditions that have arisen. Every reader of The Times will remember re-member that when the movement started and when Mormons began to take sides, the liberals loudly demanded deman-ded that the l'eoplu's party should be disbanded as a iiiial evidence of good faith. When tho mormons found how earnest and sincere sin-cere the gentiles, thu divieionists were, they did dihbnnd the people's party, knowing that it no longer had any ex-cuso ex-cuso for existence. Tho liberals refused to accent this aclion as evidence of sin- would not be interfered with in forming form-ing and maintaining their political alliances. alli-ances. The charge was put forth that the organization of parties was for the purpose of securing "mormon statehood," state-hood," and that immediately. Both parties have recorded solemn statements state-ments that this charge is false, that the question of statehood does not enter iuto the movement further than as it shall nsjist in preparing the territory for admission. In order to maintain itself in the face of existing conditions, th Trihitiw has been compelled in eat ils own words, and It is noticeable that it grows more bitter aud more unreasonable as it is forced to double mora and more upon upou itself. This has gono so far that it is now apparent that tho paper is determined, de-termined, if possible, to force matters to au issue on the disfranchisement proposition. It wauU to carry Utah into in-to tho Union with mora than half of its people disfranchised. To do this it lu-lists lu-lists upon undoing all t.iat has been done and drawing the lines again between be-tween the church and the rest of the community. You may look over the record of this question from the beginning begin-ning of tho agitation up to tho present time and you can lind no other basis for the Tribune',? attitude. The liberal orgau is engaged in a reckless campsigu to prevout the organization organ-ization of political atfairs here on lines that will virtually lead to just stats-hood, stats-hood, hoping to precipitate a bitter conflict in which its own relentless ideas shall govern thu entire future of Utah. It cannot eueeed in such an effort and it ought cot to have tho encourage nient of any who are opposed to the un-American proposition to disfrao-chise disfrao-chise a largo portion of the population of the territory. old akii nkw sruooii Tho Tribune says: "We believe the mormons do not reverence the Fourth of July, nt lea-it none of the old school Mormonx." (The italics are ours.) We have not understood that the liberal organ recognized auy difference between be-tween old school and present school mormons. I'b&t paper has been urging urg-ing day after day that the mormons aro the same at this hour as they were twenty years ago, but in the quoted paraganph it admits that there is a distinction. dis-tinction. Aro we dealing with "old school" mormons now? To be sure thero aro many who may be so classed. There may be some of the younger men who bclocg to ibe "old school," but the giTtit body of the mormons who are shaping tho policy of their peopie today belong distinctively to tlio ticw school, a school with which no eland cau have a legitimate controversy, contro-versy, a school that accepts loo new conditions that prevail, and thtt is determined de-termined never to relax its ciTorts to make this a homogeneous commuuity. No man can tell just how much the new school bus hud to do with the changes that have taken place within the church, but it is apparent thut it has exercised a great influence over recent events. It has brought a constant con-stant pressure to bear that could not be reiiited, and the existeneo of this new school with its growing influence is the guarantee that thu reforms which have taken place will never gj backward. back-ward. This school opposes the very things which the gentiles fcavo opposed, it would fight and defeat auy proposition proposi-tion to re-establish polygamy, and it would oppose to tho death any effort to place the pe-.iplu politically under church dictation. The liberals proceed pro-ceed on the theory that the "old school" eerily, and that Tiiliune, ovci waoluiod by it, simply resorted to negation. Later in tho campaign the liberal organ demanded that the heads of the church should express themselves. It admitted that high oliicials gave straightforward testimony ou tho point of sincerity but it would not bo salis lied unless the highest oliicials should make a similar declaration. Tins Timls, convinced of the absolute good faith of the mormou people from the highest to the lowest, deler:i.iiicd, if possible, to secure expressions from thu lusr.ds of tho churoa, Tlio celebrated interview with Prcnidenis Wooiini'tF and Cannon was tho result. In that interview they put themselves on record, re-cord, as individuals nut) as heads of the church, so clearly that no man desiring to know the truth cotioi miss it. It took tho last prop away which up to that time the Tribune had placed under its case; but the great organ of fairness, justice and honor (?) ugaiu resorted to negation, or course the wretched sheet had to oiler something to mitigate tho crushing character of tho blow and so it indulged in a lot of silly talk about Tub Times, the spirit of which is reflected re-flected in the following from its Sunday morning editorial: "We were never fully convinced of this until the interview between Messrs. WooDui vv and Cannon was published in Tue Timls. That was n cltar give away, llait that been genuine and had the motive behind it been sincere, it would not have come in an interview, and it would not have been in The Times. It would have been a royal announcement an-nouncement in direct terms from the chiefs of the church through their own is the only school, but 111 that they are wide of the truth. Every argument they advance is based upon that idea, but the fact of tho existenco of a new school cuts the ground away from under un-der their feet. The point for every man to settle in his own mind is as to the character and strength of the new school, and no ! one who looks into the matter thoroughly thor-oughly cau fail lo see tnat the reforms are entirely safe iu its hands. The admission ad-mission that there is a difference between be-tween "old school" and new school mormonism is fatal to the liberal cause, and wo believe that all conscientious liberals will admit that it is so when they shall have given the matter careful care-ful attention. - - p. That is the only defense the hopelessly hope-lessly defeated organ can offer that t!e interviqw was not genuine. It j knows that there is not a man, w oman I or child in Halt Lake tuu does not feci ! i.Ke crying 'soait.e:" at it for its pal-j pal-j troonery, but it prefers to incur public contempt rather than admit it is wrong, in so far a it attacks tho sincerity of the gantlemen who were interviewed it does cot merit serious attention. If it can point to any cae in the career of j thesa men in which they spoke out upon ' a crave public question and upon w hich j events proved they were insincere, it will Le able to get somebody 10 listen to its present charges. ThkTimks fails to see what the liberal lib-eral orran even experts to prove by its J quotations from ppecches mado eighteen months ago. It gives utterances mado then by Judge Zank, Judge !Si:ns::tt, E. B. Criti-iilow, Colonel Mhititirr, Judge Jini) and others. It fails utterly ut-terly to make any not ) of the fact that the dates of thoso speoches wore neariy ten months prior to the surrender on the question of polygamy. Everybody knows (hat those men were in the liberal lib-eral ranks tiien. Their speeches mado at that time have no more bearing upon their present position than those delivered deliv-ered by Justice I, amah during the war upon his present exalted station iu the government. A change has occurred in this region; a clianga has taken place among the i inormon peopie. aud thu fact that men j w ere engaged iu Lghtiug the mormons I |