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Show I1 1 1 The Tribune is a Leper U Editor Truth. Some time ago I heard a minister preach from the fol lowing text, "Now Naaman, captain of the host, was a great man, with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria; he was a mighty man In valour; val-our; but he was a leper" 2 Kings 5: 1. In reading this text up to the - last six words every young man would j like to be a Naaman, for Naaman was captain of a host, he was a great man i with his master, he was an honorable man; for the Lord was with him, and he was a mighty man In valour. Who would not want to be like Naaman. But he was a leper. With this last clause no one would want to be a Naaman. The Salt Lake Tribune will picture Utah as beautiful and grand i as the text does Naaman, but before It gets through will close Its statement state-ment with glaring head lines that Utah has the Mormon leprosy. Or It will stab Utah to the heart as Brutus did Caesar and while the blood Is still flowing It will exclaim, not that I love Utah less, but Tom Kearns more. It will gratify Tom Kearns' anger and treachery at tho expense of every business man In Utah. It . V W'N cast reproach upon our young men and maidens, our schools, our houses and our Institutions so that Tom Kearns can glqat over tho havoc that his Tribune and its satellites have wrought. And now tho old gray wolf with Its claws, Its sharp teeth, its froth, venom, foul odor, and hypoc-rlcy hypoc-rlcy will cover itself all over with a m special Wow Year's edition with the verltablo vestments of a sheep and proclaim how It wants to boost Utal ; how It loves Utah, and tho dear Mor K mons. There was probably never Is- sued from any printing press a moro I hypocrltlc, demagogic, Inlqultlous, In- ( solent sheet than tho Salt Lake Trib une. The Tribune advertised Its special New Year's edition with the follow-; follow-; ing: "It will bo just tho proper thing to read to prospective investors and homeseekers," then It will wring in .-v its Utah leprosy clause by stating In another edition, "that tho great ma- jorlty of the people of Utah aro Mor mons," "That there aro moro young men and young women in polygamy In the Mormon church today than ever before in the history of that organization." organiza-tion." "In 300 school houses In Utah the Mormon religion was taught by public school teachers. "At tho last April (1905) conference the church olilciaily restored polygamy as a prac- tice cf the community." "The masses (of tho Mormons) aro Impoverished and In their old age the members of the church aro compelled to go to tho poor house, where they aro sustained from tho public taxes, paid largely by Gentile." "If you lived In a (Utah; community where tho law breakers ruled, would you not fight to establish American conditions?" "Free speech Is denied to Mormons. They aro excommunicated, ex-communicated, ostracized, and boycotted, boy-cotted, If they dare to criticize the crmes of their loaders." "Tho Mormon Mor-mon church claims to be the kingdom of God on earth, and the only lawful government. It teaches that all other oth-er governments are fraudulent and must bo broken to pieces. It claims that its mission Is to rule the whole world, beginning 'with tho United States. Its teachng Is treason, and Its 'eaders aro traitors." All of the above false and leprous quotations were embodied in an editorial edi-torial In the Tribune of July 1st, 1005 and a copy of It wns given to each and every member of tho National Editorial assoclaton who were vlsltng Salt Lake City on that day, for tho express purpose of having them publish pub-lish it in their home papers to advertise adver-tise to tho world that Utah was tho most polluted and leprous spot on tho globe. The Tribune advertises that Its New Year's special number "will tell tho story of Utah's great resources and possbllltles." For the past few years the Tribune's story of Utah's great possibilities and resources has been as follows: "Gentiles "Gen-tiles aro not wanted In Utah." "Mormons "Mor-mons will not soil land to Gentiles." "Mormons boycott and starve out Gentiles." "Tho resources of Utah are controlled by Mormons and no GentHo need s-pply." "Tho Mormon church Is killing tho mlnng and smelting In dustries, the greatest Industries In Utah." "Tho Mormon leprosy stultl-Iles stultl-Iles and destroys all Industries in Utah, that It does not control," The Tribune also states that It would "Illustrate "Il-lustrate what others aro doing and what others can do." Hero is the way that tho Tribune has Illustrated Utah: It pictured a hierarch as an absolute monarch in Utah; "that this hierarch compelled all school teachers to pay him tlthlngs and do his bidding; that he owned and controlled tho school directors and all public officers in Utah;" "that our schools wore dominated domi-nated by him and that tho teachers In our schools aro controlled by lecherous lech-erous polygamlsts." "That Utah Is a community of polygamlsts and criminals." crim-inals." "That tho Mormons hid the voting machines in their churches." "That no Gentile was taught how to vote." "That Utah electons wero carried car-ried by fraud and tho right of franchise fran-chise denied the Gentiles." The awful aw-ful leprosy. Who would want to live In Utah or invest In any of her industries If they believed one half of tho Tribune's falsehoods ? Tho Tribune Is tho leper. Tho Trlbuno stntes that tho. Mormon herarch "holds nearly ovory Gentile merchant and nearly every Gentile professional man at his vengeance by his Influence in order to bo successful," success-ful," etc. Tho Tribune is the leper. Just after tho November elections, 1905, when Ezra Thompson was elected elect-ed mayor of Salt Lako to boost Tom Kearns and to show that Kearns was tho "It" of Utnh, tho Trlbuno bureau of publicity sent tho following to tho New York Wprld, The New York Herald, Her-ald, Tho Utica, N. Y., Globe, and hundreds hun-dreds of other eastern papers: "Tho man of tho hour In Utah Is ex-Senator Thomas Kearns, who organized tho "American" party, and to whom the credit of victory Is duo. Mr. Kearns a popular citizen during his years of residence In tho stato has becomo a hero. If a Biblical slmllo may bo applied ap-plied to so mundane a thing as a political po-litical fight, Utah Gentiles regard tho former senator as a Moses who has delivered tho people from bondage." Yea, verily. Thomas Kearns was an ox-senator, tho man of tho hour, tho organizer of tho "American" party, a popular citizen, a nero, a Moses, but he was a leper. Truly Tom Kearns, tho owner of tho Tribune Is a great hero. Away, far away in the north- ' 'and where tho hurricane howls music over tho icebergs, whore tho waters of tho Bohring strait nnd tho Yukon river Hko clinging tendor vinos entwine en-twine themselves around tho Alaskan peninsula, where tho seal, tho walrus, and tho polar boar touch their lips in frosty embrace. It was there in tho and of tho midnight sun, hallowed ' by tho bright and luminous nurora-bo- i calls that Thomas Kearns, "A popu-ar popu-ar citizen," the owner of tho Trlbuno, iho Columbus of America, tho father f the "American" party, discovered I tho beautiful island of Alnska." Sit- f ' ting In a grent gallery among sclent- f ' Ists and anthropologists, poring over antiquated and primovnl books qf j, Apocryphal nnd legendary origin, I burning tho midnight oil, surrounded j, by ghosts, gnomes, and glowworms, when all other great, majestic and P mighty men had failed; It was Thomas kearns, the owner of the Trlbuno, ann tho Moses of tho "American" party, vho by his untiring efforts mndo tho , wonderful discovery, that tho Flllppl-10 Flllppl-10 was a quadiipedalcd vertibrao of g ; ho small horso species. B What was this brcezo that camo to 8 our nostrils Hko tho odor of moon- 1 hied codfish; somo thought It was P lecaylng cartoons In tho Trlbuno of- L Ice, others thought It was Frank Can- I ion's editorials being worked ovor, ind still others thought It was tho j .'resbyterlans or tho Ministerial nsso- j jinn roasting tho non-elect Mormons. But "the hero of tho hour," "Tho Biblical Bib-lical simile," tho great Thomab Xearns, tho owner of tho Trlbuno and tho fnther of tho "American" party vas at hand, who stated that tho aroma aro-ma camo from a semi-digested plato Df baked beans from tho far-off stato of Boston. When tho Trlbuno comes out with a big special edition pretending to boost Utah, It exhibits moro check than a big bear In tho Yellowstone park. It s more hypocritical than Judas when ho kissed tho Savior. More treach-31'ous treach-31'ous than Bonedlct Aonrld when ho 3old his country, and moro merciless, than Shylock when ho demanded tho pound of flesh nearest the heart. Tho Tribune not only Injures Its enemies but its friends and every bright-eyed m and laughing, innocent child In Utah and every silver haired patriarch, ov- ' . ery mother, every teacher and insfruc- H tor, every business Interest in the B , state, and then with its claws covered H with wool It will hand out a gilded H brick in the shape of a special edl- H tion and tell the pcoplo of Utah how H it loves them. Every business man or H real cstato agent, every professional H man or miner who subscribes for, or H advertises in the Tribune is paying H for powder to blow up his business. H Look at the cartoons, tho editorials, H tho faked dispatches, tho anonymous H letters, tho columns of slander, filth H and vltuporatibnin the back numbers H of tho Trlbunofiarid you will see that H my abovo statements are too true. H Yours very truly, I V. S. PERT. M Jrrmrary-c3007; - |
