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Show WHAT AMERICAN PARTY WILL BO If the people of Salt Lake -will give the American party a vote of confidence a week from next Tuesday, it will install in office on the first week in January a number of men who are pledged to put Salt Lake on such a basis that every man, woman and child in tho city will receive a square deal. And these men are capable of doing all that ib pledged for them. The same cannot possibly bo said of the candidates on either the He-publican He-publican or the Democratic ticket. Earnest though they may be in a desire de-sire to do the best possible for Salt Lake, they cannot act except through the consent, if not by the advice, of the leaders of the Mormon church. Though they may not admit it, there is not an intelligent man or woman in Salt Lake who does not know that the H-epublican and Democratic candidates are absolutely bound and controlled by the Mormon church. They are all ambitious. They know that unless they accede to the wishes of tho church leaders and church politicians they can not hopo for future favors. ' They yield through selfishness or through fear. They have been coerced so long that their natures have come to expect nothing but coercion. They are as certainly creatures of the ecclesiastics as it is possible for men to become. If they nre ulscted, there will be no change in conditions in this city. Salt Lake will move along in tho same poky old way. The country will bo given to understand that the priests of tho Mormon church are yet in control of the machinery of Salt Lake, and therefore enabled to exercise ex-ercise the influence of the law against all who aro not willing to bow the knee to them. It will be a terrible blow to Salt Lake. It will postpone her growth at least for two years. The question for voters to consider is, "Are you willing to postpone Salt Lake's development rather than pur an end to the struggle with one courageous move on the 7th of next month?" There can be no settlement of these difficulties here until the priests oi tho church are given to understand that they must not meddle with the affairs of the people. The fight will not end and cannot end until those who have been making of the local government a machine to assist the ecclesiastics of tho dominant church, are completely routed. The American party promises to deal justly with Mormon and Gentile Gen-tile alike; to wipe out the line that is drawn between those who are supplicants sup-plicants of the dominant church and those who are not. The record of the American party leaders, as employers of labor, proves beyond question ques-tion that they have not discriminated against Mormons because they are Mormons. They employ more Mormons than Gentiles as a rule, while the Mormon leaders never hive a Gentilo if they can secure the services of a Mormon. Tho most cruel boycott is constantly practiced and it is becoming be-coming more pernicious as the years roll by. Isn't it about thno thar Salt Lake is made an American cltyP Could thoro possibly bo a better time to do this than nowP |