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Show I GIMLET SMOKED OUT AT LUST i Organ of Peder.il Buiich Admits That Tribune Stories Are True, j DRIES FOR QUARTER AND WANTS GINGER IN OFFICIALS i J J Admits That State Officers Are j Derelict in Their Duty in I Enforcing Law. I The Gimlc1. (he morning organ of Uiu federal bunch and of the baud of twenty-six who control the bunoli.'nol only cries for quarter, not only admits that nil The Tribune has paid about the bunch is true, but it calls upon Tho Tribune to corao to its aid in compelling tho state officials to enforce the law. ITcro is what tho Herald-Republican printed in its issue Friday morning. Hero is its cry for help from Tho Trib-unu: Trib-unu: Gimlet Calls for Help. Heretofore Tho Tribune has always been, ready to abuse officers of the law thut did' not happen to be In the good graces of the inner circle of tliat paper. It would Improve The Tribune standing In the eyes of the people if that paper would necist the Ilerald-Ropubllcnn to put sufficient Ringer Into the state officials of-ficials who :iro charged with the enforcement en-forcement of the state law against, combines com-bines to gel them to do something. There is little use in inviting homcseekers to come here and locate If they- are going to be robbed of every rent they can make after they got here. Utah needs a houscclcaning along . many lines if it Is to progress. And the first, thing to be done Is to scotch some of these robber combines that nro keeping the poor man's nose to tho grindstone G5 days a year. - Admits Tribune Statement, fl This is exactly what The Tribune has been contending for and which the JTer-aid-Republican now admits is true, and also calls upon The Tribune to aid it in gingering up officials to act. Church Close Corporation.' There is no combirc in the worlw that 5b as close a corporation as is tho on. 1 of twenty-six, whose orders and edicts aro carried out through thc federal Lunch. m This band issued an cdidt order-mg, order-mg, directing and commanding the ."Democratic members of the church, con-trolled con-trolled by- the band, to vote the Ropub-lican Ropub-lican ticket. They complied. IHJ When they did this they voted to sus- IHl tain tho combine which holds up every year in Utah u majority of the people for $2,000,000. This fund goes to the HHl hand of twont3'-six. They voted to sus- HHJ tain the national administration in its HHJj lioldup of the people through the con- fHH nervation policy of Pinchot, Roosevelt HHH and Taft, which bars out competition JHH in the opening of collieries in Utah, HHJ -which opening would give the people HHH cheaper fuel. They voted to sustain the HHH federal Lunch who also sustain the con- HHl Fervation policy because it enables the HHh ' bunch to hold iid tho coal monopoly for HHJj camjmi.' -i contributions to the church HHJ Republican camnaigu fund. But the HHb edict was obo3'cd. Gimlet Cites Statutes. JHJj The Gimlet cites the stateutcs against HHB combines, and cites Section 1752, -which HHH provides as follows: HHH Any couibinatiou by persons having for J its object or effect the controlling of HHjH the prices of any professional services, any products of the sell, any article of manufacture or commerce, or the cost of exchange or transportation. Is prohibited HjH uud declared unlawful. And hero Is the penalty for it, as out- ' lined in .--ection 1758 of the revised stat- ules of Utah: Any corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state that shall violate any provision of this title shall "thereby forfeit its corporate rights and franchises and its corporate existence shall thereupon oeaso and determine. The law first provides that tho sCato officials shall serve notice upon the eom- panics that arc in the combination that If thoy do not withdraw within thlrtv days from said combination and sever all connection with It, their franchise or charter shall be revoked .at the end of That time. If the companies do not com- ply. the statutes put it up to the attor- ncy general of tho state to act. as pro- Aided in section 17G0, as follows: At the expiration of thirty days, If Euch withdrawal or severance bo not theretofore made, the secretary of state shall cause a certified statement of the facta to he filed in the office of the nt- torney general of the state, who shall commence, or direct any county attor- ney In the stale to commence, an. action in any district court of the stato of competent Jurisdiction, to forfeit and re- voice the corporate rights and franchises of such corporation. BM ,the final decision of the same should the defendant he found guilty of VI m. yu?i0 f any. of, Provisions of. this title, tho court shall render judg-mmt judg-mmt that the charter, corporate rights and fnuich st-.s of anch corporatir)n he vc-yoked, vc-yoked, and the secretary ot stato shall thereupon make publication of such revo- WWm .l0X 1V0Urr "ewppapers of general clr- r",at'" fou" of the largest' cities of n tne ntj.tc. Up to Secretary Tingey. JlKU the matter1 "P to Secretary of otato Tingoy and Attorney General Barnes, both, of whom train with the federal bunch. In 'view that the a"i-tatioa a"i-tatioa of tho 'l'Gimlct,, is for the pur-pose pur-pose ot screening th yoijl companies of the state who were held up by the 1 church Kopublicau campaign commit- tec Jar campaign oxpenecs, tho state officials dare not act in-the matter. As l the boy would say, "they dasBont." . Vwr Trib,in?. ,wtuld gladly como to tho aid of the Gimlet" iu helping to in-.lecit in-.lecit ginger into the state officials to act to enforce the law. But what would l be the use? Tho band of twenty-six controls the federal bunch which in-eludes in-eludes the stato officials, hence noth-ing noth-ing can be done and tho "Gimlet's" Vioa for aid is purely a bluff. ' Always for Enforcement Law. Of course The Tribune is now and 1 always will bo in favor of the enforce-ment enforce-ment of tho law. It has always advo-,catcd advo-,catcd this. It has always fought for ,this and it always will figbt for tho .Kupromacy of the law against tho law-breaker. law-breaker. For this reason The Tribune "has advocated thc enforcement of the Jaw against whom? The men who are livinir in1 opou nolygamy in Salt Laku- City and in V$ah Xvfi wf uri constantlv bririciutr H illegjtiniatcs into, tho world.' 1 1 AgainBt tho combines who keep up H the price of commodities which cverv H citizen must have. Against tho sugar combine, of which Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon H church, is presideat. Agaiust tho salt combine.''- Against tho coal combine. Against tho board of commissioners of Salt Lake county who permitted tho Gimlet to steal over .$5000 from the taxpayers. tax-payers. Against the state board of land commissioners com-missioners for their constant violation of the law. A gainst the AJaslca-Pacific-Yukon exposition ex-position commission who have failed to account for over $12,000 of the funds of the pconle which passed through their bauds and for their dereliction iu not submitting their report. Agninst everybody who violates tho law, be ho president of tho Mormon church or the common criminal. Gimlet Sustains Law Breakers. This is -what The Tribune lias always advocated and always will, while the Gimlet, the morning organ of the federal fed-eral bunch and the band of twenty-six, and the Dcscrct News, tho evening organ of the same crowd, have always opposed op-posed The Tribuu . and havo always sustained sus-tained the law breakers and the law defter, de-fter, particularly if he wears an endowment endow-ment robe. No one will go further, no ono has gono further, than The Tribune lo urge tho eufo renin out of the law and The Tribune will gladly load tho Ilorald-Republican Ilorald-Republican in seeing that the officials who aro interested iu the Gimlet as officers of-ficers and directors of the company owning the sheet, enforce the laws; but Jet the law bo enforced all around; do not single out the boc-rotnry boc-rotnry of state alone; there are oth-c",. oth-c",. many if them, connected with the gang that dominates the GinileL" Let it hit all around, jar the real felons. |