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Show THE GRATTERS SQUIRM. Wo sec that tho grafters arc indulging indulg-ing in fits of squirming by reason of tho non-success of their own work. Tboy aro in a bad box. Thoy now doploro tho vicious and falso lottor which they obtained from Governor Spry, misrepresenting misrep-resenting conditions in thin city, and aro suffering from a wnvo of public indignation following thci'r scandalous course Salt Lako City roHenlB being defamod, is indignant at being hold up to (ho contumely of tho country al largo ns a hotbed of crime and an unsafe un-safe place for visitors or settlors both in their persons and in their proporty rights. To offset that lottor, the grafters and malignerB of Salt Lako City undertook to get up a senro a.bout tho so-called steal of $.",000,000 by tho American party in tivo years, thin being at tho rato of $1300,000 per year, practically the total rovonuo of the city. In view of I ho tromendoiifl bonofits conferred upon Salt, Lnko that anyono can soe who uses thc'slrcels, the sidowalks, and who has advantage of tho water distribution distri-bution and tho Bower system, all it ho sco and get this benofit and ad van! ago understand full well and see daily what has been done with tho money. That cry was such a transparent fraud that it failed; aud now the Smoofc organ brings Sonator Cannon to tho front an a terrible bugaboo. Sonator Cunnon has writton for a grcaU Eastern mnga-.ino mnga-.ino sonic of his personal experiences in Utah, and that magnzino is to print them. But tho American parly had nothing to do with it; Tho Tribune had nothing to do with it. The Tribune gels nothing out of it smy more than any other paper can got in the freodoni to print certain percentage of Iho nar-ralivo nar-ralivo as printed in tho magazine. It is a matter of no consequence to Utah ono way or another, publiolj', commercially, commer-cially, or socially; and yet its disclosures disclos-ures will bo of tho highest possiblo interest in-terest horc, historically aud perspective-I.v perspective-I.v as giving an insido view on many things that hnvo heretofore been unexplained. un-explained. This disclosuro will undoubtedly un-doubtedly bo to (he confusion of Iho ruling and law-defying priesthood of Utah, tho pledgo-breaking church leaders lead-ers who have violated their word of honor; but in what way this is supposed to be a "blow at Utah" it is impossible impos-sible to conceive unions from tho standpoint stand-point that theso church leaders aro the State of Utah. "We arc aware that tho church writers and speakers commonly com-monly consider tho hierarchy of the church to bo the church itself. But it is a new view of it to considor them .as also tho Stalo of Utah. This- now view is taken by tho Smoot organ, but wo do not imngino that that idiotic idea will find lodgment in tho mind of any candid person. "Wo lako occasion to say from some knowlcdgo of the contents of Senator Cannon's writings on this question for the magazine, that a great many startling star-tling things will bo told. These things will bo bc3ond controversy true, and tho 'people of Utah will -welcome thorn as desirable historic facts that will do much to clear up. uncertainties and to show the secret doings of a falso aud depraved priesthood, at a time whon if that priesthood had been stai'nch and true, Utah could easily and without tho least friction have been completely disenthralled dis-enthralled and redeemed. 'The fact that tho Smoot organ undertakes under-takes to make a matter of this kind a blow at Utah as an offset to tho damaging dam-aging Ictcr which the Federal bunch got Governor Spry to sign, is such a childish child-ish piece of puerility as to mark those who urge it as impostors upon the public pub-lic and lunatics in politics. |