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Show i ' s. J V where state pride demands that intervention should be Indulged in by every citizen who takes pride in the upbuilding of this commonwealth. It is just such statements as these that retard the growth of Utah, keep away capital and desirable settlers, who cannot know that these Infamous falsehoods are falsehoods. Let us reason together a bit and see where we are getting off at. The burden of n the strain for years has been to build up Utah, increase the population and outvote the Mormons. How happily Indeed, these fanatics and their eggers-ohere at home are Instead of building up it. going about they are tearing down. Instead of inviting settlers, they are keeping them away. Instead of getting families to come here and live, they are keeping them out with their raw-hea- d - and - bloody - bones statements women. It and about pollution of girls has been charged that the Mormons do not want colonists to come here; it looks as if the other side wanted to keep them away. Listen, you who are doing your level best to destroy what should be one of the greatest states in the Union, if not the greatest, and see hat you have done. But n a few short lhonths ago, a aided Gentile immigration agent, by a newspaper man located in the town of Dallas, Pa., worked up a colony of families from Pennabout seventy-fiv- e sylvania to come to Utah and settle on lands watered by the Bear river canal. They were farmers with means; Gentile farmers every one of them, and their c.uming meant an addition of about four hundred Gentiles to the population. A minister heard of it, and wrote and asked a Utah, minister what sort of a country it was. The latter wrote a Dr. Sarah J. Elliott letter to him; told him the tales of the Danites; sent him Ann Elizas book and a few old copies of Lucifers Lantern, and that eastern parson so worked upon the members of that colony that the scheme was broken up. The same thing happened in the cas8 of about fifteen families in the neighborhood of Manistee, Michigan. And to about a dozen families around a little town in Illinois. It is happenPeople are being ing every day. driven away from Utah by this dirty fight that is being made to unseat anti-Mormo- n well-know- ik i i ' V V'S , . ( i . ' I .1 .1 . i S t K ? If 5 f k Smoot. i$ i :? Instead of getting from 1,000 to 5,000 new settlers per year, we get none. If the churches for it appears to be the churches who are making this fight want him unseated, let them go before the senate in a dignified manner and fight like men; not like character assassins. Truth does not care a continental whether Smoot is unseated or not. He was elected by a legislature selected by. the Republican voters of thitfstate. Gentile members voted for him the same as Mormons. It is not Truths battle in any way. The men who are making this fight in the east; the misguided women who are assisting it; the men here who endorse by their silence the stuff that is being printed about the people of Utah, are a menace to the g of the state of Utah and ought to be dealt with as Denver would have dealt with the author o the libel in the Boston Transcript. well-bein- : i t J J long, Oh Lord, how lens are we to stand this apparently rever ending religious scrap between th Protestant churches and the Mormon church? How long are the businesi interests of Utah to suffer because one side believes it is wrong to go to Heaven except through the gateway they provide? How long are we to sit in silence under the rantings and prevarications of the short-haire- d wo-- d men who men and the make a living Inflaming public sentiment east against us? How long will the. men who are striving to make Utah, great sit in silence and let this nefarious, libelous, criminal work go on? If the Mormons are violating the law, as is claimed, why not Invoke the machinery, of the courts and stop it? There is a Gentile county attorney in this county and a Gentile district attorney in this district, and we had recently a grand jury, a majority of which was Gentiles. Three Gentile Judges sit on the bench tb try case3. Gentile committing magistrates occupy the benches of the lower courts. If this wicked conditions prevails, why not try to stop it by applying the legal We remedy? But the cry goes up: How do cannot secure convictions. you know until you have tried? What is the use of this eternal, interminable fight where no one suffers but a few of us Gentlle3, who want the state to build up? Because the Mormon church is not losing any ground. The old truth: The blood of the martyr is the seed of the church is just as patent now as it was in the days when Protestants burned Catholics and Catholics cremated Protestants. Its missionaries in other states are getting audiences where they never had them before. People are reading their tracts who never read them before. Their meetings are larger than ever they were prior to the beginning of this agitation. The heads of the church here at home are providing for their own by getting control of industries which give employment to labor; by opening up new fields for labor. What are we Gentiles doing? Standing up on our hind legs and howling, Smoot must be unseated and saying Amen to everything said by the shouting prevaricators down east; condoning every lie told; endorsing every mistatement made. Verily, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Gentile persuasion in Utah, we are making a nice iness of it, arent we? We. ought to be proud of ourselves. No we hadnt either. We ought to emulate Denver and call a mass meeting and say to these enemies of progress: If you want to fight this man Smoot and his church, go ahead on the lines laid down by the statutes of law and the rules of common decency and of truth, but right here we propose tb say to you that by the Eternal; you shall not bring all Utah into your petty religious fights at the expense of her commercial and business growth; at the expense of her farmers and her miners, her laborers and her manufacturers. Thus far have you gone, and no farther shall you go. But will we do it? long-haire- , The whole bunch is buffaloed and fear to lose eight dollars worth of store business if they should happen to offend someone by speaking what is truth. The spirit that agitates Denver has no abiding place here. n What we want is a perpetual fight, in which one class is arrayed against the other. Oh, for some man great enough to take the initiatory and lead us out of this mess! Oh, for some man discerning enough to see that a continuation of this battle means disaster and ruin to many who have invested capital here, ; and who would take a stand for the J right and rally others round him! But ; whats the use of wishing? Christ said, The poor ye have with ye al- : If the Man of Sorrows could ways. only visit Utah, he would change that expression. It would be: The church fight ye have .with ye always. j But the pity of It; the pity of it. o REGULAR AND PROPER METHODS Nit. It is reading to the straight Republicans of this city to see as the representative for Utah in not-edifyin- the national committee, Mr. Arthur Pratt, who was so conspicuous an opponent of the Republican party in its recent municipal fight To be sure, the regular committeeman was also a conspicuous opponent of his party at the same time; but one who was not a Democratic supporter against a Republican ticket, regularly and properly nominated, might well have been the Salt Lake party representative. Tribune. People are glad to know authorita, . tively what the Tribunes idea of regularity and propriety is. The methods of the Republican conso-call- ed vention, in Salt Lake last October, everybody knows, were bribery and corruption of the worst and most barefaced, kind ever practiced in this city or state, or anywhere else. Some idea of the depths of infamy reached by the Tribune, may be formed from the fact that it considers' those methods regular and proper. o The Richfield Reaper says Truth ought to be remembered by the Democrats for its efforts in the recent campaign in Salt Lake. It is very likely that it will be; but remembrance does not help much on the business end. Provo Democrat. o Studies Bird Migration. A study of bird migration from the Kentish Knock lightship at the mouth miles from of the Thames, twenty-on- e undertaken been by W. land, has ' Eagle Clarke of Edinburgh. - THE WHISKEY MERCHANTS. . , E z t Krugs Cabinet As nutritious as any English Porters or Malt Tonics, and a Connoisseurs delight. Krugs Extra Pale Light, snd mild, and palst- able, snd approprlats on all occasions.. : Either of the above brands dellvsied la ; : any part of ths city, The Old Resort, I 276 South Main Street. Z ADAM SNYDER. Proprietor. I tklkmcuuk tom r. ; g i . OMAHA BEER. anti-Mormo- WILSON WHISKEY is not all. We have Wines, Gordials, Brandies and any thing else you can think of in the drinkable line. Cigars, too. RIEGER ... & LINDLEY, Phone 865. Free Delivery. KRUGS tfTnnnnnnnivviiMiiimiiiiiiiimnnnn i LOCAL POLITICS. Hen Heywood is not the only man who loses, letters. There are others. We dislike very much to tip off the hand of Manager Butler, of the Telegram, but he is a bit careless with his correspondence, and is very liable to get a real nice calling down for his actions. We all know thaVwhile here in Utah Senator Kearns has repeatedly stated that he was doing all he could for Senator Smoot; that he was devoting about 98 per cent of his untiring efforts toward keeping Smoot in his ? senatorial seat; that he has labored with his colleague to permit. Smoot to serve out his term; .in short that he was fairly humping himself in his efforts to stop the war on Smoot, and in this work he was ably assisted by Perry Heath. All of which sounded nice. It was calculated to soothe the passion and still the storm in the Mormon heart It was water on the Kearns wheel, so to speak, because if true, no supporter of Smoot could refuse to be grateful to Kearns for his toilsome labors in indid behalf of that . vidual. ... v Biit about ten days ago, or such a matter, Perry Heath was in Washington. He labored hard with, senators to convince them that Smoot should be unseated. While there he wrote a letter. Yes, he did, notwithstanding the many notable instances 'of history showing the folly of writing letters, Perry wrote one. He sent it to Butler, late of Cincinnati, now manager of the Telegram. In this letter he felicitated Butler on what he, Doc Jones and Kearns were doing to oust Smoot. How they had talked with this senator and' that one " and had Smoot going. How they had secured the able services of Mark Hanna, who had buckled on his armor and was doing noble work in the cause. - It was a real jovial letter; one filled with glee, exhuberation, exultation, jubilation, triumph, congratulation, - cachin-natioand thanksgiving. It was warm in expression and tropical in diction-It was prolix in statement and concise in detail. It was just such ' a letter as one would write who had just secured all the delegates necessary V for a nomination. much-advertise- n J Jl Butler was glad to get it It made |