Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Communication 6 Gentlemen of the Commercial You are getting into the arc light very Your support of the Salt Lake the traitor and enemy of and your Utah boosting literature are so inconsistent that people everywhere are wondering just where you a large percent of your number are Kearn-Americans and most of you support the you support the Tribune it looks just as though you did not desire to have outside business men and manufacturers settle Because most of you are in business and have a combination or a gentleman's agreement of your own it seems you do not want any outside You very well know that the Tribune is frightening away any and all merchants and manufacturers who come here looking for business this leaves the field entirely to The Grocers the Butchers the Coal the Master Plumbers the wall paper the electric supply the sugar the millers the smoked meat hold the undertakers 1000 percent and in fact almost everything a person has to buy to live are in a combination or pool to keep up exorbitant prices and most of the above trust-members have their names on your you support the Tribune you support its policy and that keeps out competition to Your booklets and circulars are very weak and tame when they are placed beside the Tribune and its If you are really Utah your support of the Tribune puts you in a very ridiculous Most of the newspapers of this State are suspicious of your f position in regard to your boosting Utah while you do not suppress or at least attempt to stop the guerilla work of the The following from the Millard County a Gentile sums up the situation in a careful and it also you up for your support of the You should read it carefully then take an inventory of your It reads as WHAT'S WRONG IN Utah is All Right if the One Persistent Knocker can be The census that has just been completed shows that during the past ten years the population of Utah has increased 35 per In the same time Idaho has increased per Nevada 93 per Arizona 66 per New Mexico 67 per 57 per Montana 54 per cent and Colorado 48 per Salt Lake City has increased 50 per cent and the Tribune uses these figures to prove what rule has done for the while afflicted with Mormon policy of retrogression suffer by Yet Salt Lake has followed the general rule all over the that the cities have grown faster than the Other cities in Utah that are not with American rule also show greater gains than the country as is the case i in every Yet Salt Lake for all its boasted i rule has not shown the same increase as 1 other western Se- M Los and many smaller western towns M have made much larger The Commercial Club Booklets are of Little J Why is it that the cities and counties of Utah show 29 smaller gains than any other state in the is only one and that is the persistent and im- knocking of the Salt Lake The Tri- bune got out an excellent New Year's edition showing the material advancement Utah during the mM f A but even in that issue it could not refrain knocking the During the past year the Commer-rial Club of Salt Lake City has sent out thousands oft booklets and circulars advertising the resources and advantages of But of what use are the Tribune continues to denounce they so long as people of Utah in issues of that paper every The Tribune Not only does the Tribune defame but it puts its articles into circulars and sends them by the hundreds of thousands throughout the It states that conditions in Utah were startling and That Utah is a community of that Gentiles are not wanted in and that the Mormons would not sell land to that were more young men and women in polygamy in the Mormon church today than ever before in the history of that that the masses were and in their old age the members of the church were compelled to go to the poor where they were sustained by public taxes largely paid by Gentiles that the Mormon church teaches treason and its leaders are that unless the Gentiles of Utah shall be protected by the power of the United States they will either surfer ruin or exile at the hands of the These are only a few of the defamatory things it says of the people of Commercial Club Could Stop the Utah Now no Gentile who reads the above statements and believes them is going to settle in no matter how salubrious its how fertile and cheap its or how bountiful its Until the Commercial Club and other organizations who are interested in the growth of Utah suppress the Tribune or stop its lying about the state that gives it their advertising of its resources and attempts to draw immigration will be in The Commercial Club Afraid of the The Commercial Club and the advertisers in the Tribune could stop its work of defamation in a day if they choose to do Is it because they are afraid of its or hope to gain some petty advantage from that they do not do It like Chronicle Editor a The editor of the Chronicle is a He has lived in Utah for twenty He has lived in Gentile and Mormon He has done business with both He has found the Mormon people as fair and honest and law abiding as in his native state of The Chronicle is published in an almost exclusively Mormon It couldn't be more loyal and generously supported if the editor was a Bishop in good He has a farm down there and in all his business relations with the people he has found them honest and We think that would also be the testimony of the Ohio and Ne- i I ill braska farmers who have recently settled of fact more farmers in Utah As a matter own their homes than in any state in the There h less Poverty There is less Its school tern is the equal of any state in the The Tribune knows it utters a lie when it young people are entering polygamy than ever Whatever new cases of polygamy there may be are out of the way communities or in and do not have the sanction of the If there are a few old living with plural it need disturb no They will pass away in a few years and with them the last defence of The church has denounced the experience of civilization is against it and it is bound to go if the Tribune never uttered a word against If the Tribune simply denounced the hierarchy it would not be so bad it couldn't hurt and might make them but it denounces the whole Mormon And what has it accomplished in its five years war- Absolutely nothing except to get a few offices in Salt Lake The whom it has abused with coarse vituperation and cartoons day after day stands higher in the confidence of the Mormon people than ever The tithing system which it denounces as yields a larger income than ever Abuse has only brought the Mormon people closer together and healed any minor differences that might have grown They are probably more united politically than ever and who can blame them for uniting against such a as the Tribune What difference is there anyway between the two national parties to make any man in Utah vote for one rather than the when the issue here is one of self-preservation if we are to believe the It needs no commands of the to make the Mormon people see where their interest lies they have common If conditions in Utah are as represented by the Tribune there are only two ways to remedy One is by fair and unprejudiced statements of the mistakes the leaders of the Mormon church have made and they have made them and creating a demand or a change from the Mormon people The other is by an influx of Gentiles into the and the encouragement of commercial and social relations between Gentile and Mormon which will inevitably result in mutual confidence and The Tribune's course defeats both Ho many Mormons read the or if they read how many believe anything it says about them or their It simply exasperates them and makes them stand more firmly together than Its' defamation of the people of Utah regards immigration and friendly association would soon make the Mormon J no more than the Catholics or other There is no doubt that the work of the Tribune was the cause of the failure of the land excursion to Lynn-dyle in this country last The same people who had advertising charge of the Idaho land openings to that had charge of the pro jest and spent in advertising But it fell The Tribune's knocking kept the people away in spite of the surpassing advantages we had to Gentlemen of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake and you Irrigation and land companies of how long are you going to let the Tribune continue to counteract your efforts to build up Gentlemen of the Salt Lake Commercial the Millard County Chronicle has put the question direct to you where it Are you going to support the Tribune or the State of You cannot support Yours V. 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