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Show WHAT THE FIGHT IS FOR. Gentiles, some of you have ibeen of tho opinion that this fight was a costly one. Hundreds of you have visited The Tribune office: nine out of every ten without mention of your own loss or danger, but to commend the work, and to urge the paper on to continued valorous val-orous deeds for the sake of beloved Utah; and perhaps one out of every ten to say that the fight wan Injurious to your personal affairs. But not one among you has ever asked The Tribune to quit the fight. For every one among you knew that to ,qult the fight would be to ruin all. Let us Just analyze the situation deliberately; de-liberately; GENTILES. Little by little, and with perceptible acceleration, the Mormon church was absorbing your opportunities. It was filling all channels of trade, as far as possible, with its people. It was teaching teach-ing to you that you lived by Its sufferance suffer-ance alone. And any man among you who fears now, simply reinforces the argument. For he could not have a fear of the church now, unless the Mormon-church or the Mormon people hnd Invaded his business! How long would you last, with no fight made In your behalf by The Tribune? Trib-une? Just aa long as the Mormon church would permit you to last! When the day should come for your absorption, absorp-tion, you would be" given the opportunity opportu-nity to Join in the great graft In some subordinate capacity; or, preferably, you would be left to be closed out by the Sheriff or by the mortgagor. Among the Gentiles are some who are big enough in their wealth, and strong enough In their business relations, rela-tions, to close out every Interest which the Mormon church could attack, leaving leav-ing the other Interests to bear revenue for them continually. And these could leave the State for other parts of the world, where they would be comfortable comforta-ble and happy, except for the fact that they would lea-e behind them seventy thousand Gentiles who could not get aim niiu nuum uc uuuiilcu lO ruin at the hands of the hierarchy. These big, strong Gentiles have consecrated con-secrated themselves to this fight. It is they who wage It. They lose thousands thou-sands of dollars, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, Ui the contest. But they will wage It to the end, winning win-ning their own rights and winning the rights of all; only asking that you stand by your own citizenship and by your own God-given existence here. Your choice Is between the Gentiles who are fighting the Gentile battle here; and the hierarchy who are seeking seek-ing to destroy the Gentile unity here, so that in time they can destroy cvery Gentile individual here. How long could you last If this fight were stopped? Except as you should become the crawling creatures of the supreme and disloyal power of the church in this State, the mass of you would be entirely ruined and driven out in less than ten years. It Is all nonsense to talk about the coming of the Gentiles here in such numbers as wnnlH mnkf (hie n nanMln ci.,.A i- only the fight were stopped! During the period when there wts no fij;ht there was little Gentile migration here. Gentiles would not come, because the acts of the. hierarchy .were a warning. It Is only the strong Gentile flght now which enables Gentiles to live In Utah. It is only the continuance of that brave battle which invites new Gentiles to come here. On which side will you be? On the side of your own steady, dreadful ruin, and with the hierarchy who hate your very name? Or on the side of the Gentiles Gen-tiles who stay here to wage this battle for you, and v.-ho will win the fight by your help, making Utah a Gentile State, against all the treason and disloyalty dis-loyalty which can be preached' in the Tabernacle or. printed in the Deseret News? MORMON PEOPLE. You are used as an Instrumentality by which the church hopes to destroy all the Gentiles In Utah, By your vote it can sway elections and set aside Gentiles who are not devoted to the will of the Mormon king. By the transfer of - your patronage. Gentile merchants can bo little by little destroyed. de-stroyed. Acting as one man, although In the minority In this city, (and aided by a few Gentiles who do not understand under-stand tho question) you can help in the work of destruction here. And this destruction de-struction would come except for the resistance of which The Tribune has above spoken. Then what would he your fate If you could destroy Gentll-Ism? Gentll-Ism? What was your fate before It came here? Little by little your wealth would be absorbed Into the general coffers of the church not on any plan of socialism; but on direct plan of Individual In-dividual absorption by tho king. Assuming As-suming that the Gentiles could be driven driv-en out or destroyed, the tnx of one-tenth one-tenth upon your earnings would at last carry every dollar of the wealth of this State Into the holdings of the king who rules you with such tyrant power. All business would bo at bin command. All professional labor would be under his control. All the ordinary vocations and toll of life would be but peonage to him. That is the fate which would belong be-long to you,. Mormon people. If the hierarchical hie-rarchical purpose of destroying Gentiles Gen-tiles could be attained. You have thought that The Tribune was harsh lo you. It has sought in recent re-cent years, as In the long former years of battle here, to be your candid, earnest earn-est friend. You will not pause to con--slder now tho present fight; but will you not reflect upon the old one, and Its character and consequences? In that day The Tribune was compelled to fight the church, and the church was compelled to yield and you know It. This time The Tribune is compelled to fight the church, nnd the church must yield and many of you know IL Why will you not heed the warning before it is too late? TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF UTAH. Tho Government of the United States will not permit the iniquitous insolence of the Mormon hierarchy to continue. And so the fight will be settled, as such contests arc settled, by the right and by the might of a great and righteous Government. |