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Show STRIKING THE KNOT. Editor Tribune: You are striking at the knot In tho stump with your ax. It may bo that you never had anything to do with felling timber and splitting tumps and therefore may not understand the significance of my statement. Rut the old man used to say to the boys: "If you want to split the stump strike Into the knot. If you don't strike there you can merely knock off slivers. But If you keep striking at the knot until you sink your ax into It there Is a pluce for the wedgo and you can split tho slump in twain." That is what The Tribune Is doing on this great question In Utah, and I hope that It Is what The Tribune will continue to do until the fallacious pretensions and tho cruel tyrannies of the church lenders are split wide open. A FORMER MORMON. Salt Lake City. Utah, March 3, 1&36. The simile Is a good oife. If the work be worth doing It must be done effectively. The Tribune has no desire to make silvers' of the community life of Utah. Its purnose Is to rend the Innocent mass from the guilty class-to class-to separate the patriotic citizenship from the perfidious trenson, to preserve the Statehood of Utah for Utah's people, peo-ple, to give an opportunity for reconstruction recon-struction upon lines of Stale Integrity and national dignity. Since the American Idea was promulgated promul-gated In Utah, two years since, the ax of truth has been applied to the knot In the stump, the wedgo has- been placed and has been driven home. It is impossible that solidarity can forever be maintained by incongruous elements. The vast majority of the Mormon people are wounded In their most tender sensibilities because the pledge which was given In their name to tho Nation by their lenders has-been violated by the survivors of those leaders. lead-ers. Many of them are Indignant and rebellious because of the cruel fate which menaces their Innocence and which overshadows the future of their children. The American party and The Tribune will accomplish nothing except by truth and Justlco; but with truth nnd Justlco on Us sldo It Is Impossible that the autocracy of priestcraft, dominated by hypocrisy and falsehood, can much longer hold together the tyrannous class and the victimized mass. |