Show WiL WHAT r SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN l Gentle Reader let us Ul sit down and talk it over ovel What is there thero In this church quarrel any anyay way ay What good does oes It do o the thc c city l What benefit I is It to th the e state SUI Supposing I g the promoters of the thc church chatter chattel get all the they want what will It advantage antage Utah How willit will willIt It be bc a benefit to you Al Auld And d b by way of answering the thc questions let us b be e perfectly fair an and frank lank with each cach other 1 The tight light that hurts hurls Utah Is the tight light against the Mormon church Right at the thc beginning let et us ga say that Mormons are arc ju just t as goo good as ns other people e. e They rhey fhe may think they are aro a whole lot better but they are nto mistaken a about out that They are arc men and women just like the rest of ofus us No better and no worse There Is 15 a light fight against t them It Is a tight light which goes to tho the very origin of their creed cleed and amI to o the the thc ver very 5 fact of their presence In Utah If the leaders s of the thc fight light against the thc Mormons get all nil the they aro are fighting for or there will be no Mormons in Utah We Ve arc are perfectly aware that this lis paper has been h called by some and has 1 been een l' l regarded g by others as ns a Mormon 1 church agency as an asset of the alleged i fy hierarchy U It is nothing o of the kind It Is a f r Hcan Hean newspaper devoted to the of Utah and with no more and no less Jess regard for or the Mormon church than for an any other with no more and no less les reverence for the head of that church than for 01 an any other man manIn In or out out of orders This Is a brief ba 1 but ut wholly sincere statement of position in Thc The Republican office 0 Starting there let Jet us say that the Mormons l arc aro a apart apart part of this community You meet them every ery day Inthe Inthe in inthe the course rsc of your our business s. s If you are a merchant and It mal makes cs no difference whether you ou are a Mormon or you a a Gentile you ou sell them goods You get gel some of their monc money You buy of them and they get some of your money moncy If Ie the they ask for Cor credit you ou view the I proposition proposition tion precisely as you ou would that of an applicant who v j x J Jq rt q c the thc Inside of the thc Temple If you think the ap- ap ii s. s i for credit HU will p Imay the bill bill you you ou let him hove have v th thI the I l goods and you OU dont don't care a J penny cnn whether he believes he Is one of tho the members of the thc Ten fen Lost Tribes of Israel or 01 a n. lineal descendant of Alexander Hamilton You treat him and you ou trade with him hint on business conditions con con- s solely We Ve may go a step farther and say that you have ha havel l no r fear ar he will take lake refuge behind a spiritual half half half- mental reservation when ho makes males his promise You have trusted members of the Mormon church and you know they have a care for their commercial credit the thes s saine same i as as s have other men Some of you arc are In n big commercial enterprises associated associated associated as as- with Mormons of comparative wealth You know you never never think of their cr creed etl when you confer with them You havo have tried them out you have se seen seen n them In In Inthe the management of affairs and your whole relation with them is dependent on the tho circumstances outside their church faith Yet you know they are Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons and are pretty fervent In their adherence to that religion You agree with them or you ou differ with them solely on the question of business consideration You in all W ways S 'S treat them as i if they were non 0 a aYou You meet them socially The They arc are members o of your our clubs There Is no bar to them In your various You met them at the Commercial c club banquet banqueta a few tew nights ago You know then their names arc on tho the membership roll You chat with them about the general affairs of the town You are not ashamed to be seen sew sitting with a Mormon lormon at table Now and then a big affair calls together the manhood manhood man- man I. I hood of th the thc town in extraordinary assembly That meet- meet Ing in which Salt Lake ake responded to thc call for help from om San Francisco was as ono one of these affairs Mormons 1 and I Gentiles sat rat side b by side in that meeting Gentiles an and 1 Mormons opened their private purses and gave to the stricken and suffering of a neighbor city You You sat with them when the question of or providing for for brand forand and attending t the Irrigation congress at Boise was considered You found them Informed on that matter matter mat mat- ter as at were you You found found them thorn as alert to the thc advantages ad adV advantages ad- ad V vantages of ot It You found them as willing to contribute the cash that was needed to to provide a fruit display and to properly represent all that is good in Utah You knew the they were Mormons but tho the knowledge did not make you ou get gel up in indignation and leave the thc room Why LI Listen ten Because down in your soul you knew tho they were wore no worse and antl no better botter than yourselves You acI accepted ac- ac 1 I them on the quality of ot a manhood which you your r l b know the they possess That's why You meet Mormons in hi social affairs Wo Vo do not b believe there has been a dance or a party part am among ng the thc fashionable fash fash- people of Salt Sail Lake In the past ten years cars at which Mormon men and women have havo not been received and treated with a perfect social equality Of or some you are aro sincerely fond You are arc a a. Gentile but you have In n your acquaintance some Home Mormon man or Mormon woman r whom you hold In hm the very highest regard You have found oun a a. congenial quality l l ty about them which attaches you t to them You ou respect s them them and and t the o fact that they that at they are Mormons rm ns does not at all au detract from tho warmth with I J i A which yOu y u regard them You find them polished cultivated cultivated cultivated r travelled as yourself olf Informed as to cost costumes mos and customs equipped with the tho thought which Impresses the world and antl frankly meeting yo you on the thc level o of equality You meet Mormons In the thc arl various us avenues of educational educational work ork Maybe It Is In time the university Maybe It Is IsI I In the institute Maybe l It is 18 In time the school t room Some Som of or them are arc teachers about teachers teacher about out two in every cry ton Some Some of or them are arc pupils pupils about about half Some are college graduates You find timid University lt of Michigan men and Yalo men and Harvard men and both men and women from Cornell You exchange views with them and the thc known fact that the they are aro Mormons docs does not make the thc basis of your Judgment In the matter You tr treat at them them them- and are treated b by them precisely as If Ir there were no such a thing as ns a division on the lines of or religion in In all tho the wide world o 0 a 0 0 When hen the thc war with Spain came caune young oung men went from Utah to light fight C for l' l the thc nag flag In those commands were Mormon boys bos s and Gentile boy buys boys And In the thc honor which the thc Utah Uta battery won the Mormon was not excluded ex ex- excluded eluded because he lie bore himself as a n soldier Thc They were neither better nor worse than their comrades of the I IG Gentile G faith In war as in peace they were as other men There aro are banks here conducted 1 by men who belong belong be be- long to time the Mormon church You are arc not afraid to deposit your mone money there You do deposit I if you want wante to and you OU dont don't If Ir you ou dont There are aro big commercial commercial commer commer- cial institutions stock companies and while they thy arc recognized as managed by Mormons you know that Gentiles Gentiles Gen Gen- tiles hold big blocks o of the stock stoel And the they dont bU buy It because of tho the Mormon argument but on tho basis basl of a profit earning And the they dont don't throw It away 1 because the they discover Cr It Ills Is a Mormon house that is represented represented represented by the thc sham sham-c certificate The They keep it if it Il Is good and get rl rid of it as advantageously as possible HIt If H it It be bad Thc They arc are just as willing to make monc money side 1 by y side with a Mormon as with an any other man And nd they hate to lose in his company compan just as they would hate to lose Jose In any Oth other l company company or or 01 alone a a We Vc speak with diffidence on the subject of the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon women We re do not believe they will be regarded as less worthy as less honorable than other othel women Yet women form Corm so large a part of an any church body that It Is fair fall to refer reCcI to them Are Arc not nol they good neighbors Ate Are not the they good friends Arc not thc they good mothers Do not they respond In sickness Arc Are not they at the bedsides where Death comes and are not their arms around their theil sisters rs of every overy church and their hearts warm with comfort and sympathy when the thc dark draught of sorrow Is commended to to womanly lips Are not they as other women o 0 0 0 e Well Nell II then why tIght fight them theta Why devote our ener energies gies gics to a Mormon extirpation Why hy drive them out of Utah Vh Why compel them to the choice of Jf death emigration emigration tion lon or the renunciation of their religion For Gentle Reader Header that is what the tight fight against the thc Mormons means Wo We said in the thc campaign of last autumn that the thc fight was directed at disfranchise disfranchise- ment mente It was was and and is But It goes gocs farther than simply reducing the thc Mormon to the attitude of an alien allen a stranger within our gates a n serf without tho the power of ofa ofa a citizen i It Il is Isso so steeped In antipathy that It itc c ca n m mean an nothing less than expulsion from the community If IC the he campaign of the thc Tribune means anything it means that the Mormon will have to go or go-or or die or renounce his faith alth Now Nuts never in the history of or the world worl has a church been so de destroyed troyed Persecution has always Intensified communicants' communicants devotion to their ch church And not a achurch achurch achurch church has ever evel grown strong strong- without tho the bl blessing of a a abat bat battle lie Apropos of or that the Tribune of Sunday morning tells with some mistaken pride e of Its Its year forty fight against the lorm l Mormons ns Had Had HadIt it been effective Is not not that organization more numerous i in membership a and d dmore more strong shonG in financial 1 credit than It ever has been before Has the conflict paid Is Its continuance likely to be any more profitable in the tho future than it has been in the past If fort forty years year of warfare warfare leaves tho the enemy enemy stronger than at the beginning have not we Innocent bystanders ers ers non-combatants non who want only a chance to go forward orward in peace a right to ask that the battle baUle be ended 1 But aside asido from that The Thc Mormons l are arc members of this this' community Wo We meet them in every walk of life Ife and we recognize them as equals We Ve may smile at atthe atthe atthe the statement In an Eastern paper to tho the effect that Mormons and wickedness wickedness' are are convertible terms terms for for forwe or we know It t is not true But Dut why should we encourage the drawing of tho the line We Ve dont don't have to become I members of their church We Ve dont don't have to attend servIce services services ices Ice at the T Tabernacle bernacle We re dont don't have to accept one ne of oJ their religious beliefs J nor even to o listen to an explanation explanation explanation nation of t them em We Ye dont don't have to ask of of their rulers when we want to engage In business We Ve dont don't have to pay tithes If we are arc not members may pay pay i more In club dues and equally as much to tho the support support of our own church It Is to be hoped we do But Dut we weare arc are absolutely free tree to take lake or leave alone tho the Mormon aCt affiliation illation That liberty I is as unquestioned as It is any other church Now wo we cant can't kill them even If Ir they do persist In Ini their own form of of i worship We Ve can not drive drive i them out of or tho the countr country We Vc can not not not-as as as tho the Commercial street ladles ladies lawyer Mr N Newton has hal so aptly aptly suggested ted make make a skating rink o of the tho Tabernacle We e ar are living JIvinG in the same me town ton with them in the same state with them And we wo know they are alO ay al good as we are Why not drop the tho church light fight If It we c are ure sincere we will drop it We Vc treat them themas as equals and are treated as equals by them We Ve know there is is' is no truth in the pretense that they thoy are pariahs or Ishmaels J As a cold matter maUer of fact tact wo we get along with them ver very happily As a cold ma matter ter of fact tact we wo haven't an any objection to them We 0 find them good fellows good associates assocIate In business good citizens good members of the big republic of or the United States And it It- 15 not is-not not going to do us any good nor the Mormons any vital harm to continue the conflict any longer Men of Utah it is peace and not war that you need A church tight fight Is always an uSI ugly fight tight This in III Salt Sail Ll Lake c is so 80 silly that it ought ought to o be abandoned Wo We dont don't believe in it and wo we 0 prove provo it by by our actions every y I day ay Intolerance mn may pretend that there Is a dividing line which t separates separate Mormon and Gentile But nut in the life lICe of oC till this city there is no such lino IIno thank line thank God We Ve arc alc all citizens together with a common love of the thc I state with a n common pride In the city with a single I hope for the thc future and with Ith ono purpose to realize all that the thc hope can paint Stop the church row Drop It It can not brinG brine bringus u us an any Rood good I It Il must redound to our OUI states state's general discredit discredit dis dis- credit abroad Io d. d 11 It certainly will wili not make mako for peace an and harmony here heie at al home Drop the tho church fight light Try TIT and realize that the thc church equation need not 1 be 0 considered We Ve of or this community may bo be a as were welo the tho English In Shakespeare's time When hen the thc Merchant of Venice was presented the thc gentry of Lon London on saw saty no injustice In the spoiling o of Shylock Thc They laugh laughed cd with Lorenzos Lorenzo's friends when Jessica robbed cd her father of or his ducats They hated haled the thc Jew so 80 cordially that they refused to rebuke the patent paten cruelty cruelly Involved In In Portia's sentence But Dut England waked up one day and recognized that the Jew was a man manor manor manor or not a man depending on the Individual and not on the race nice or 01 the religion Tho They quit quarreling And has England been an any the he worse for It Il Was England or pr the British l empire ever eyer greater than when a Jew oc oc- oc- oc and an and filled good the sirs sirs tho chair of premier In our own co country there was once so strong an antipathy anti anil pathy against the thc Roman toman Catholics that a adherents of that tha faith fulth were hardly safe In a Protestant community Chii Chii- ren were we're taught to hate the thc Catholics and they grew up with an unfortunate bias that thai harked hack back to the thc question of |