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Show WHY THE AMERICAN PARTY SHOULD WIN (REASON NO. 24) The Tribuno yesterday called attention to the intolerance of the men who now composo the Smith dynasty and who are doing all they are capable of doing to make necessary the maintaining of the American party in the political field in Utah. It was shown that non-Mormons are under the ban whero the church loaders can rule, and that the Gentiles are more than generous with tho members of the dominant church. It was a powerful lesson. A remarkablo showing. show-ing. It was an indictment against the church politicians who aro crying, "Religious intolerance" against Americans Ameri-cans that ought to convict them of tho most shameful prevarication. It is a thing that should be rebuked by every Gentile and every fair-minded Mormon in the city. And, lest we forget the known opposition of President Joseph T. Smith to tho coming into this state of non-Monuons, non-Monuons, let tho old-timer remember and the nowcomer know that at St. George, Utah, during the conference held in the temple there in September three years ago, he delivered an address which was one of tho most astounding utterances that bigoted leader ever voiced. He was ciiiotcd In the Dixie Advocate, published at St. George, September 22, 1904, as having said: "THE GENTILES ARE COMING AMONG US TO BUY OUR HOMES AND LANDS. WE SHOULD NOT SELL TO THEM NOR AID THEM, AS THEY ARE THE ENEMIES OP THE KINGDOM OF GOD. SAID HE HAD NEVER SOUGHT TO BE A VAST LANDOWNER, BUT HAD NEVER SOLD AN INOH OF GROUND TO, AN ENEMY OF GOD'S WORK." The Advocate is published in a community whore thore was not a handful of non-Mormons. It was and is a strictly orthodox Mormon newspaper. President Smith denied, when confronted with tho statement in one of his own church newspapers, that ho had used the -word "Gentiles." He claimed ho had said "pharisces." Of course, tho explanation did not explain. There is no difference between "Gentile" and "Pharisee" in tho bigoted churchman's vocabulary, Now, suppose Joseph P. Smith wcro loft frco to run this city as ho desires? Would it boom7 Would it grow in population? Would it over bocomo a great metropolis? Would his own people over bo ablo to turn their property into cash at groat profits? The American party was organized to teach by example the fact that tho application of the same American pluck and energy in Salt Lako that is employed in other parts of the United States will bo a great thing for Mormon as well as for Gentile. That tho Gentiles aro not onomios of Salt Lako and Utah, but that they want to persuado the churchmen to join thorn in building up and developing this country, that all may sharo in tho boneQts of tho enterprise. This work of education is progressing. Thousands of Mormons havo alroady gained through Amorican rule. They havo had plenty of work and havo soon their holdings in real ostate grow into flguroo that havo made them comfortahlo for life. Such things as these win Mormon support, True, it Is most all quiet nupporb, but it Is effective. And with the aid of tho liboral Mormon3 this city and Stato will booh become, as aro other cities and Statos, truly American, and uncurscd by the blight of such bigots as tho present iutoloraut hoad. of the dominant church, |