Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-10-27 | Page 1 | Why American Party Was Organized

why iKi mm isie REASON NO. 21. It wns organized to rescue the people from the grasp of a foul and greedy priesthood, in their politics, their business, their social affairs, and their aspirations in this world. Consequent upon this, it was organized to help business, and distribute distrib-ute the rewards of energy among the people, instead of fostering the greed that calls for all profits to go into tho till of the tithe-collector. Salt Lake City is to receive the benefit first of all from the triumph and the policies of the American party. It is admitted on all hands that the liberation of the people in tneir business affairs, tho tearing loose of individual enterprise from the deadly avaricious grasp of church commercialism, commer-cialism, will create a condition here of the liveliest activity in real estate, in trade, in commerce, and in personal effort toward the upbuilding of the city. These who recall the splendid effect upon the city of its escape from ecclesiastical thralldom sixteen years ago, will need no argument to convince con-vince them that the same result will follow a like setting free of tho individual in-dividual energies of the people now. It is admitted by the exponents of the ecclesiastical trust in business that this will be the result of the American' victory that is impending this year. But they protest that thoy don't want a boom. This, however, misrepresents the opinion of thousands of the Mormon people, who would welcome it, and who ipould welcome also the freedom which it would give all the ndherents of the church a chance to claim. All who are willing to stand for Salt Lake, who wish to see the city shoot forward in the magical growth that she is entitled to make, should vote the American ticket vote it straight. The Burlington road is coming; its coming is officially announced, nnd that official announcement from Omaha is confh-med by Vice-President "Willard of the Burlington, in Hew York. All tho great lines must come. They will have to make their coast connections here, taking choice of the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Short Line to Portland, the Salt Lake Route to Los Angeles, or the Western Pacific. The American party setnds the friend of all these enterprises, as against the opposition, which treated the announcement of the coming of the Burlington with derision. Stand for Salt Lake by standing for the American party, which is Ihe party of promise for the city, its hope and its roward. J