Show r IT JT IS NEITHER TRUE THUg NOR OIt NECESSARY election the Immediately alter after the recent county statement was S made tJ by the he Tribune and Its Us followers followers Is not nut nearly nearl by the wa way the number of those It was was announcing announcing the Intention to so o great Icat as once keep up the light fight We wre have havo on lilt file hero here In The Re- Re office a letter from rom one of or the candidates who 7 were defeated at the November election eJection stating statin that he would be found fighting in the future just as he had been in the pa past t That letter Jetter was written before the election and aind at a time when the candidate believed he lie would be elected He lIe expressed and th expresses in Us Its publication of or every err da day the purpose to persist In lii ils its j previous JHc policy The method of waging the warfare is to toll to the rest of the world that this state is in the i control o of a II criminal organization The flie method Involves c misleading misleading- people of tho the East East and and of oC ever every other section section sec see t. t tion of country to the vast detriment of oC every interest L of this state Tho The result of that fight fight in which the i Tribune and Us its decreasing band of or followers persist Is Isto isto to provide data on which so powerful a paper as aR the New York Times could say as Eay-as as It did say 1 December 13 of the pre present ent year IL OF OP POLYGAMISTS A HIERARCHY MISTS AND 1 CRIMINALS SHOULD NOT 01 CONSTITUTE ONE O OP OF TIlE THE UNITED STATES HUT BUT IT 11 DOES We Vo think there will be no disputing the that thal such a reputation In lii New York is harmful to lo the state of or Utah Now first Is it true Second Is it i. i necessary This community is not controlled by a U polygamous or oran an any other hierarch This community I is conducted by its citizens as is IR an any other in the nation and THE CITIZENS CITIZENS CITI CITI- ZENS EKS ARE ABSOLUTELY FREE PHEE The bugaboo of oC a is an exploded fiction that not a single business businessman man in Salt Sail Lake really accepts as true We yc buy and J sell we e rent and build we wc expose our wares win patrons patron and and nd hold or lose them on precisely the same principles that are recognized in every evelY city flom the from the v PacIfic No No hierarchal l ic ar hal p power Int Interferes rt r f offend a l patron tron he lie leaves us If we make trading worth while remains Our places place o of business arc are not hot mobbed Mormons nor can the Mormon lormon business establishments establish establish- 4 mc month ments ts monopolize the Mormon lormon trade j ThIS is not a community of oC criminals V When hen the th Bryan i 11 campaign of or 1896 was in Its bitterest sl stage old S ID KImbark one of or the tho veteran hardware merchants J v Chicago lo protested against characterizing as dishonorable dishonor- dishonor A able the men ot or the silver sliver states He lie said to the 3 present J sent writer II I I hn havo e sold hard hardware ware lo to them for twenty five ent years I have had had a big trade trude even In Utah A MId And MIdI d' d dI I want to lo say lay to you Ull that the men of or Utah ar are among mu th the most honorable with whom I have ever e dealt dealL lh The fht credit of or the Mormon state slate Is Al You see sec those who have e an actual experience with know the shameful shame shame- ful the harmful verdict of oC the New York Times is not nol nott t true LUC f-A f A prominent official ot or ot one of or the big Insurance companies stated Mated to lo a lIew newspaper man less than a month mouth montha a aI ago that thai he ho held many notes that time and effort had proved were utterly worthless BUT THAT UTAH'S NOTES WEI WERE E PAID ll The men inca who Im know w not tell you OU that Utah utah Is a ai I Ii i state talc of criminals Gentlemen why should we wo of or Utah Ulah assure the thc world worM that IT II IS A STATE OF 0 CRIMINALS S f Now It Il Is Is' Is no more n necessary ce ry than it is true The Thc Thet t Y tight fight Is being made on the Mormon people The fhe effect of lh the th fight you ou know this Is to lo prevent Eastern I m men muon n and Eastern money from coming coining here If H we all ail I. I united in telling the tho truth lruth mole mUlu Eastern men and Easton Eastern I money would come coine Those new men would be he non non-Mor f. f mons The money would be the tho Investment of non- non J Increase of oC population from th the older sections r 1 of t thu tim country would be non Mormon population If H. H there were eio u. u Mormon peril that i certainly c would destroy U. U Immigration make the f non Mormon population Increasingly I dominant Why ha has hasa a course which discourages s immigration been pursued 1 Is JI there hero an element clement here that on contention 1 JI Is Utah supporting a u factor which retards Utah Does DOCH Utah so love luve to fight the Mormons 1 that the tle state slate is purposely pur pur- I lOSelY kept about evenly balanced between Mormon ant and andt I. I t- t non Mormon simply that the conflIct ma may be continued perpetually Unity hero would double tho ho population of oC the state f er c every term ten years ars That a added ded multitude would not be Mormon at al all ull Continue Continuo c convincing g the East that Utah J A f. f I is a state of criminals and tho the non-Mormon non population will remain about equal to the Mormon pO population J against t which the battle Is waged If It tho the outnumbering Fy t of the 1 Mormons IH tR necessary good words C from om this state slate would Insure It U. SO THAT rUN THE TIlE SLANDER NIH H IS JS U UNNECESSARY Yo The rhe men nien of the tho E Ea East t who vIto know kilo Utah know It Is nut not a community of oC criminals S S. S D D. KImbark knew It Studebaker Brothers know it The Te big insurance official knows It ten Mon who have haVo commercial dealings with the I people peo COt CO- CO t pie of at this state know the cr credit of or the Mormon state is IsAl r Al AV They know that life Ue Is t safe at here that ProPertY Ity rights j are ars respected d here re that our schools are Gold Medal M schools that there are here twenty non-Mormon non churches that are nourishing flourishing as splendidly as In any oth other r city between the oceans that THIS IS NOT Nor OT A AirY COMMUNITY f ITY irY OF or CRIMINALS But there thare are MILLIONS who have e no personal personal y I 4 ti r. r t. t l 4 r 4 K 1 i. i Vs r t. t I knowledge of the these e conditions and amid those these people certainly are convinced con by what whal the they read tiny lay after day from ron Salt Sail Lake Lak By fly that reading the they are a assured surf l that Utah IS a II community of criminals and the time long years o of Iteration iteration Itera Item tion have ground it Into their very ery souls rhu They arc are t angry Iy at Utah They Thoy arc hostile to Utah They despise Utah THEY TIlEY PRAY GOD GOI AGAINST UTAH The They believe that 4 eve every evemy I man here her Is secretly a Mormon and that ever every ever Mormon Is II defiantly a polygamist The They believe bellev that the people of this state stale ore are steeped in Immorality and all manner mannel of ot wickedness Men Ion Ci of ot Utah tho the time limo has conic come to make mako a u fair Call re report re- re port of Utah Tho Tire time has come como to silence the voice of or slander The Time time has come for tur unity of or statement state state- mont ment ment- ment that unity to bc be expressed In the honorable tho the creditable truth about Utah Your financial Interests arc at stake That publication in iii the tho New York Times shows that your reputations aro arn at stake slake This state offers more moro to the Immigrant and the Investor than does any other In the Union MAKE B EVERY BEn En AGENCY OF OP PUB PUB- r ICIlY I IN UTAH JI QUIT QUIP TELLING SLANDEROUS LIES IdES ABOUT BOUl UTAH Uli AND ND ABOUT l UTAH Ur MEN and Utah wilt get gel et tho the cream of or the thc country's citizenship hip In a tremendous I Immigration in in ig ma t I o n. n Will VIli you OU do It or will you OU rest under the Imputation imputation tion ion of or the New York Times printed December 13 a as fol follows I UNDOUBTEDLY u A HIERARCHY OF OI 1 MISTS AND D CRIMINALS OUGHT NOT 01 TO 10 CONSTITUTE CONSTITUTE STI CO TUTE ONE OF TIlE THE UNITED STABS BUT BUr I IT I DOES nOES |