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Show ITS CONTINUED FALSITY. The News last, night continued its wail,, ashing help of the businosfi men to fight its battles. It claims to be for harmony and peace, and yet when we had harmony and pence, when the. era of good feeling eame with a general assent 10 Statehood and to the burying of the hatchet, the News continued its vindictive vin-dictive -warfare just tho same, and demanded, de-manded, that everybody should submit io priestly rule, and that polygamy and the priestly autocracy should be thrust down everybody's throat. It continued its vindictive assaults upon tho Christian Chris-tian ministry, it demanded that every one should come into tho Mormon camp, that thorn should be no opposition to Mormon priestly dominance, and gave out the general idea that those who did not like the way the priests were running run-ning things here had better go else where. There was no "peace and harmony" doctrine preached then by the News. That is, the News was a. rampant, malignant fighter when there was no fight on, but now that its intolerable in-tolerable bigotry and tho usurping domination of tho priesthood compolled the reopening of the open resistance against ecclesiastical tyranny, it howls for peace. And if it had peace, then it -would begin its warfnro qgain just as before, and demand that every one must submit to the rule of the priesthood. priest-hood. It would assail the Christian ministry' with malevolent falsehoods and shameful accusations, and it would ostracise os-tracise everyone who showed the least spirit ot independence. It would demand de-mand that its own particular cliquo and following should have tho cream of everything in business, iu politics, and in civil rule. Tt claims that The Tribune thrives by stirring up contention. But whp is it that is responsible . for the conditions that, have to be contended against? Why is it. that there has to be contention? conten-tion? Simply because tho priesthood is determined to be a law unto itself, to spurn the laws of God and of man, to oppress those not of its following, deny them their rights and privileges as American citizens, and rule everything every-thing with a high hand for the pricstiy sectarianism. It is quite true that we contend against that priestly usurpation, that we resist the efforts to quell independent indepen-dent thought and to subject everyone here to the hierarchic rule; to make ecclcsiasticism the temporal, as well as the spiritual, kingdom in Utah. The church organ claims that "there is nothing The Tribune fears as much as the establishment , of truly American conditions here." Which is, of course, such a fecblo begging of the question that, it is indeed contemptible. Who would establish "American conditions" here if not tho free American people! Certainly it would not be the ccclesi-asts. ccclesi-asts. We have seen in the past the sort, of "American conditions" that the. hierarchy established. Thoso conditions debased every man and woman at the feet of the priesthood, and demanded that all persons and property shall be made the tool and prize of ecclesiastical avarice and greed. Every one knows what, the priestly claim in this is that all shall be subject, shall render complete com-plete obedience and bo profitable to tho priesthood, asking no questions as to what the hierarchic rulers do or how they exercise their power and spend the money of the people. That is the sort of "American conditions" that the priesthood would give us here if they had their own way ' now, precisely as those were the conditions the priests gave us when they did have their own way. To talk about a surrender to priestly domination bringing about "American conditions" here is exactly as if one were to throw a lamb into a den of wolves to give it. protection. The ravening wolves of tho priest-hood priest-hood rend and bleed the people at will, and their greatest anguish is that they cannot do to all the people as they do lo their .own particular following. And that is "'the kernel in the nut." That is exactly what they want, and all resistance to that power they attack, and denouueo as stirring up strife and contention. If cvorj'one would lie down quietly and let tho priesthood walk over them, use their persons and proporti' as they saw fit, then all would be serene, except, perhaps, a protest once in a while from those who were out and injured, in-jured, by the priestly oppression and extortion. And resistance to that sort of thing is called by Ihp organ of the priest hood "stirring up strifo and contention." con-tention." But the priesls will alwavs find that strife and contention opposed to them until they give up their despotic claims, roleasc their people from thrall-dom, thrall-dom, and give up thoir efforts to reduce the whole community to a mass of subservient sub-servient contributors to priestly ambition ambi-tion and greed. So far as the News is concerned, if it had its own way there would bo no business men in this city except, "thoso commissioned to do business by the, priesthood. And so its call for he.Jp from the business community is a treacherous call, one that if it coul.d be responded . to in the spirit whici the church organ desires, would leayfe those business men in a condition,' to be ground to pieces by the o'ran itself, to make place for tho favourites of the priesthood in tho busine.'ifi pursuits in which these men arc now engaged. That is the plain truth about tho matter; every one understands.it, and tho church organ is engaged a vain effort to make the business inert of this community commu-nity believe those -who are, in fact, their greatest foes arc -focir friends. But tho friendship of tfce church organ and of the priesthood, to tho business men of this continuity that arc no.t of their own following js as the friendship of the robber -to tho inoffensive sojourner whom ho would despoil or slay; and the tactics of that organ are to abuse that, sojourner who objects to tho robbing, rob-bing, body and soul-destroying programme, pro-gramme, charging him with stirring up strife and contention if die resists. |