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Show TILL WHAT AILS SALT LAKE? A local contemporary recently remarked: re-marked: ."Let us reason together5." and proceeded under that text to discuss "What alls Salt Lake?" The Tribune will be glad to consider the question fairly and to leave out the mendacity which characterized the argument of our contemporary. The Reed Smoot case, with what has ''"' Pd M a result of It. has occasioned occa-sioned an Intlnude of trouble for Salt Lake and the State. Is that true ? Previous to the legislative session of 1903. Gentiles nnd Mormons al(ke werJ Ignoring certain conditions, which, if exposed, would make trouble. Is that true? Men who knew of these conditions and disiike.i Ulc.ni tried to make themselves them-selves believe that time would cure them and that an inflow of Gentiles would soon be a permanent bar to their recurrence. And so they' kept still. 1 Is that true? Then the election of Smoot occurred-the occurred-the Investigation followed; the testi mony of the Mormon leaders startled nnd disgusted the whole world. Is that true? There was a perceptible outflow of people who could get away from and little Inflow to a State which they spoke of "as dishonored In her history and ruined In her business." Is that true? The testimony at Washington and the fleeing of witnesses proved to every reasoning mind that polygamy had been resumed within the church. Is that true" Men who have large property Interests Inter-ests here are aware that "the affairs of this State are dominated by a Church," contrary to the expressed word of Ihe constitution and yet they subdue that knowledge from bursting Into activity lest they Injure their business Interests or the political Interests Inter-ests of friends. Is that true? II 's not a most dre-adful change for the worse taken place with regard to Utah and Salt Lake since Joseph F. Smith "took the lid off In his testimony testi-mony f The Tribune believes these things to be true; it believes that down In their hearts most citizens entertain the same belief Then, if The Tribune and the itl-Bens itl-Bens rtr right, what Is it that "alls Salt Lake?" The hierarchy. If the rule of the hierarchy if Smith-ism Smith-ism and Smootlsm are injurious to State and city, what Is the remedy? l-'oi Gentiles to unite in opposition to the hierarchy. Gentile unity will make confidence at home and attract men and money from abroad. |