Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Gentlemen of the Commercial Club I noticed in the Salt Lake Tribune on December in large headlines on the first the Church-Ridden Counties Make a Wretched Afflicted with Mormon Policy of Retrogression Suffer by Comparison in Return of Census the Salt Lake Tribune is a Kearns American it is your because 80 per cent of members belong to the Kearns American party and its paper and without your support in advertising and subscriptions the Tribune could not proclaim that you are banded together to exploit Utah's develop her industries add to the wealth and population of our but are When a fire is threatening to destroy a town is it a good policy to throw oil on the fire to put it You know that the Salt Lake Tribune is burning the life out of Salt Lake and You know that there is not an issue of that sheet but what is continually railing at state and her that is everlastingly stirring up strife between friends and and it is like a cancer gnawing at the vitals of our and yet you support You well know that the Tribune has stated that Utah is a community of that her schools are run by lecherous that Gentiles are not wanted in that unless the government of the United States does not soon come to the rescue Gentiles in Utah will suffer exile at the hands of the The above was not only published in the but it was put in tract form and hundreds of thousands were i and are now being distributed throughout the and knowing the you support the while you are pretending to this The caption in the Tribune referred to in the beginning of this article is The Tribune believes that the members of your club are not and that you will swallow any dose it gives and I am sorry u to say that many of you do gulp down the Tribune dope as easily as you do stewed oysters at one of your j On December one of your mem- bers showed us the Tribune of the day and he Salt Lake City has gained 74 per while Mormon Utah has only gained 35 per i While the above figures are the Tribune's statement giving the reason is and it really believes you accept it as gospel truth and some of you a are bragging how the Kearns American party has increased the population of Salt Lake and what a the Mormons make in parts of the A story half told is the meanest kind of a The Tribune neglected to state that hundreds of acres of containing thousands of have been added to Salt which was' taken from the while no new territory has been added to the If you will take the territory and the population was added to Salt Lake since the census of 1900 and add it to the state's you will cut down the Tribune's brag by nearly 50 per The Tribune thinks its readers are so ignorant that they do not know that the cities of the United States grow much more rapidly than the rural and that the larger the cities are the greater is their ratio of Look at New York In spite of the great increase of population in the smaller cities of Albany and New York City has in- creased so rapidly that there are more people in the confines of New York City alone than there is in all the other cities of the state and the rural districts com- z Reams' Americans in there are no And yet t the tate New York City and no Mormons The Iowa have increased in Amer Surely Kearns the state at large has and Mormons did not affect fill hundreds of VS I could what is the u e but this letter with similar the Tribune and vote for as long as you support S The caption and the article in the Tribune tended only to injure the state and drive away settlers and No one would desire to settle in a county of the people is or state where the as the Tribune states about That the rural population of Utah has not increased as rapidly as it should have done am willing to admit but there is a cause for and that cause is the Salt Lake Tribune and its the Salt Lake Ministerial Every effort to settle Utah with people from other states has been killed by the Tribune and the Devilfish literature of the Utah orthodox During the years 1900 to 1905 hundreds of people were settling in Bear River valley and other parts of the Poor old Corinne could not accommodate the new settlers that were landing there preparatory to settling on farms they had every house and old shack in that town was and tents were set up on vacant The tide of immigration was coming to but an evil day dawned the Salt Lake Tribune had fallen into the hands of Thomas treachery was in the hundreds of sample copies of that sheet were sent to the new telling them that no Gentiles were wanted in that-all of our public schools taught Mormonism and that blood atonement would be and then they were given the devilfish pamphlets by the A Methodist conference was held in the Mormons were invited to John L. Leilich and he so insulted the Mormons that left the meeting while he was Charley while working for the visited Corinne and sowed the seeds of hatred and discontent among the new Many of them returned to their homes in the while others went to Oregon Tribune not only got in its work in Bear River but thousands of copies were sent east to Chicago Maho and other land agents outside of Utah secured Tet marked COpies of i were ere sent sent to to also preachers with the ah devilfish c visited nil Jh V to Utah and g d them work of the Tribune Utah had been diverts In 1906 the U ah land it t T ther state-in the line iver Land compared f f at I on the t L k iZ Lynn Junction land is well has plenty of Vat and is as well adapted for farming and fruit as J land in The most skillful land agents J secured and over was spent in advertising but the daily grind of the Salt Lake Tribune denied all of the Lynn Junction c and and Junction land scheme and the Lynn opening was almost a total Lynn Junction today should be a hustling town of over and it would have been if you gentlemen of the Commercial club had throttled the as you should have done when that vile sheet started out to vilify and injure this It is a der that Utah has grown as rapidly as it has with that the blocking every wheel of progress Gentlemen of the Commercial I will continue this letter to you next Yours V. 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