Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 5 | Awful Things in Store for Idaho

Awful Xkings m Store for Idaho i . All the abovc-cnumcrated calamities are to swoop down upon us. partly because we have not converted the political entity en-tity known i Morttmnlsm Into a political , non-entity. We should, perhaps, while Kr.-inllnK members of all other religious iienonilnatlons abaolUte political Ubertj. have disfranchised nil Mormons, good or bud. But It occurs to the World that if any Mormons violate the law th. y tthould be punished Just the same as other people peo-ple for like, offenses, and thoe that tiro law-nbldlnK should have nil the rights of all other law-abiding citizens, and not be I punished for the crimes of others. Hut our future woes are not to come alto- j K' ther throuph the political activity of the Mormons, which Is very much like the political activity of non-Mormons, but is to flow In large, dark, enveloping floods from tho Idaho sugar factories estab-llshol estab-llshol by Mormons. The farmers are raising sugar-beots on thousands of acres are getting gpOd prices and wax- ing fat nnd this acraage will be Increased by thousands more. The Mormons extract ex-tract the saccharine from these beets, and In order to do this construct plants costing cost-ing millions of dollars, that pay taxes Into the State treasury, employ thousands thou-sands of laborers; but this Is undoubtedh "tainted sugar," or sugar flavored with the essem e of the mighty hierarchy down by the great salt sea; or. If we are wrong In this rpect, then our future great calamities ca-lamities are to How from some hidden. msterlous source in some way connected con-nected with the conversion of the sweetness sweet-ness of the beet Into the delicious, crystalline crys-talline whiteness known ai beet sugar, daboans cannot yet see clearly as The Salt Lake Tribune sees. flnd the great calamities that are sure to come cannot be even dimly discerned at this time, but we will patiently wait to see what we shnll see later on. But It Is not worth while to worry about evils to come before be-fore their shadows are visible. When we are sure wo sec their shadows It will be time enough to train our muscles to swat tho "hideous hierarchy" and put It to sleep In the first round. Idaho World.