Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Communication 2 Gentlemen of the Commercial Club The following is more of the Tribune's injurious SPIRIT NEEDED day the spirit of American progress may hit that unsurpassed and unequalled region and then the section come into the estate which is rightfully its So long as the Mormon church holds absolute and unquestioned there is no It is characteristic of the Mormon priesthood that whatever spells advancement is a thing by them to be is only community that has made absolutely no progress during the last ten There is its as deadly a Mormon stronghold as its name At Moroni the total increase for ten years was a beggarly The same applies to other neighbors of Pleasant and in Sevier lies in as beautiful a section as can be so far from taking advantage of these the Mormons- have permitted their policy of retrogression to obtain with the result that Joseph's population shows a Your the I call it your paper because eighty per of your members belong to the Tribune party and most of you subscribe for the Tribune and many of your business men advertise in and whatever you patronize you are in a measure supporting its seems to think that you do not have any mind of your own and do not read other Because a few towns in the southern part of the state have not as rapidly as some others the Tribune rails at the American Brigham Garland and many other towns in the state are just as strongly Mormon as Manti and yet they have made good Will the Tribune please tell us about the Gentile town that once was the City of at one time had over It had a methodist and presbyterian daily big and everything make it a hustling there were no Mormon and no Mormons lived It was purely a town at one we are that over 40 saloons' and numerous dives flourished Today Corinne V-does nob contain two hundred The Presbyterian church fell down for want of care and decay is on every v Bradford County the banner county the Keystone the home of Wil- v the Ulysses the H. the Charles the chief engineer of the Brooklyn bridge and other great It has the most land in the had rolling nail bridge coal mines and other large in- and yet during the decade her population has fallen off over people and there are no Mormons in the WHAT THE KEARNS AMERICANS DONE gentlemen of the Commercial has the Tribune your done to advance the producing the real wealth of Salt Lake What I mean by real is self supporting We know that many miles of pavements have been laid by but pavements and sidewalks have to be supported and kept in We know that many buildings and homes have been they to be supported and kept in repair from the Your own beautiful new club house is an ornament to the but it costs a year in dues from the outside to keep it Real producing wealth comes from the the mines and the A farmer who plants a bushel of grain and gathers forty bushels in time of harvest haa added thirty-nine bushels to the wealth of the A factory that takes a dollar's worth of wool and weaves it into a fabric worth has added to the wealth of the ed minerals are of no but when are mined they add to the producing wealth of the through-selling the price of their Your Tribune braggs about what the Kearns Americans have done and it belittles the and many 01 Now what has the Tribune you endorse its Americans done to add to the producing wealth ot bait echo Lake Where are your The biggest wealth producers in Salt Lake City are C. M. McDonald Candy and Silver All are dyed in the wool all employ hundreds of hands and produce real tangible Silver Brothers have erected the largest machine shops in the west and McDonald has built the largest candy factory in the inter-mountain country during the last ten Now what have the Kearns Americans done in that absolutely Not only the Tribune by its continual fight against the people of this state has kept away outside People are afraid to build factories in a ridden state such as the Tribune says Utah There is a greater need of a paper mill in Utah today than ever We have the the the paper making material and the Scores of tons of paper are used daily in Salt Lake City The clipping and other waste paper from the printing offices here would make a large supply of raw material a It is almost a criminal waste to burn at quite an the refuse paper from the printing We need a glass We have the soda near the the lead and the There is broken glass enough around our breweries to run a glass factory for some But whenever an eastern glass or paper manufacturer comes he reads the he finds it in your clubroom and in your Ho sees your advertisements in its columns and then he reads from its Mormons boycott and starve out Polygamy is on the Gentiles here are denied the right of Communities affected with Mormon policy Utah is a community of and when he sees that you endorse such statements by patronizing the Tribune he says to himself no Utah for and he goes further You know that that has been your experience and it will be just as long as you support the Kearns I will continue this letter next Yours V. |