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Show (!LARI0 IhtCVSSlSTENC.. Tjib anti-"Mcrmon"crusade is conducted con-ducted comparatively without the aid of facts and logic This is notoriously noto-riously the case in relation to the local onslaught. When the methods of the opjosition are exposed by unanswerable presentations, the absurdity of the former is placed in so clear a light as to make them appear insipid and ludicrous An exceedingly silly attempt Is made to break the force of our comments com-ments upon the inconsistency of the action of a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held last Monday evening, In suppressing the utterances utter-ances of Mr. Ellas Morris against the political partisan operations of the organization. The incongruity of this blow at free speech in a meeting of the Chamber consisted chiefly of the fact that Mr. Morris was squelched for protesting against tho political partisanship of the association. He as crowded down for opposing that which was used as a pretense to prevent him from speaking. We re-assert that the charge preferred pre-ferred by Mr. Morris against the Chamber was well grounded. More than that, it was positively true. Let us see whether or not this sweeping proposition can bo sustained. sus-tained. Governor A. L. Thomas Is in Washington as the paid agent of tho Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. In what way is he representing that body not ostensibly but in fact by actual work? Ho has been and is engaged in lobbying for the passage pass-age of a bill that will disfranchise the overwhelming majority of the people of Utah, and, of course, a proportion of members of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, whose money he is using for the purpose. Mr. Thomas' capacity of paid agent renders the Chamber responsible respon-sible for his work, which it is quite willing to accept of inall saving the outward appearance of doing so. The latter inference is Inevitable, on the sole basis that the Chamber lias not repudiated Mr. Thomas' labor and that an attempt to reject it, mado by one of the active members mem-bers of the association, was promptly prompt-ly suppressed as an attempt to Introduce Intro-duce partisanship. It Is a principle of law that work performed by an agent, when it becomes known to his employers and they fail to promptly repudiate it is credited to them. Tills Is not only a sound legal position, po-sition, but is in delightful harmony with good common sense. Tho attitude of the Chamber and its paid agent sent to Washington is one ot farcical hldeousness, and no right-thinking man of honor can, in our opinion, view it in any other light, It Is so exaggeratively ludicrous ludic-rous and grotesquely untenable. |