Show r I THIS TillS I CERTAINLY Iy IS S CONTEMPT Maybe it ut Is contempt of court and may be bo It Iii is t tJust Just plain contempt We 0 do not lIre pretend tend to say Tho The Tribune accused Increasingly or of a policy harmful harmful harmful harm harm- ful to Utah and nervously con conscious of or wrong seeks to tf divert atten attention on b by raising a new issue It asserts that that t-he t the Mormons are ruining Salt Lake b by driving th the smelters smelt smelt- f ers out of or tho the valley 11 e In cartoon an and In equally equall odious r j text that versatile paper lI declares that President Smith of or the Mormon formon church ha has Incited the tho farmers of oC the i 4 r region glon south of th the city to Institute law suits for tor damages dam 0 ages against the owners of or the smelters smelters- to the tho destruction I k tion of the lIw latter Industry Wo 0 are not In communication with Pre President Smith and do not pretend to know what he has hns advised In the I matter matter matter- If lf ho has advised at al all It is probable he has had nothing more to do with starting the smelter cases than has hn the president of or one ono of or the smelting companies I D But t the question goes far bc beyond that Here arc are the farmers and there here here are their suits against the smelters In those tufts the they have proved damages and judgment has been rendered In their favor tavor The cases have havo been tried before beCore Judge Juse Marshall and he hag had rendered a decision vOr very sweeping In Its operation It wholly sustains the contention of or the landowners landowne and permanently restrains the smelter owners from operating their plants plant un uncle r c conditions Injuriously affecting the tho crops Now ow It Is fair to assume that Judge Marshalls Marshall's decision de de- l' l was based on the tho law Excepting the Tribune no ono one would contend for tor a moment that Judge Marshall Marshall Mar- Mar shall was Influenced b by an any consideration other than that t i of oC the la law and the evidence President Smith did not make mako the law The Mormon not make It It Is s not the law of Utah It i Iu It mon on law the law the laws of the United S th flat thi co common Stales tl the I n nt in i nil IJO laws of or England the law of oC civilization If It a man Inflicts damage amase upon you ou you OU may nun get judgment against ag him Charges o of the sort r reiterated by lW the Tribune moan mean If JC they mean anything that Judge Marshall has as struck a blow at nt the prosperity of or Utah that h he h has smitten n n Salt Lake with the besom of oC destruction that he has arbitrarily and without law or justice kicked Il tile tle big smelting Industry out of oC Salt Lake Ial count county Tho The farmers could not get et judgment for 01 damages damage's If the law were welO not there The rime Tribunes Tribune's publications publication I Implicate Judge Marshall far in some same great groat tt and anel unjust t thing For It Is ho 1 that has rendered the decision And It Is not fair all thus to a assail MII the name and action of Judge Marshall There Is no question of or his uprightness upright upright- ness ness except except t as aR that question Is entertained by hy the TrIbune Trib TrIb- une There Is no question of his fearlessness There Thero I Ino Is no thou thought ht of prejudice Judge Marshall l has a perfect lct familiarity with mining affairs If Ie he were wore capable of or hI bias 1185 as it Il would bo he In favor 1 01 of oC tho mho mining Interests Furthermore Furthermore Fur Fur- the Tribune Is la tho the last paper that should ghoul accuse ac ne- accuse cU cuse e him I however owe er co covertly of or ell dishonor honor for Cor within the h. h past six months tho the Tribune has hag gone Sone on record over o the signature of or Thomas Kearns testifying to u the judges judge's ability and ami even en going to the Mattering extent of urging him bin for Cot q a. place on oU the Supreme h bench of the United States Just what whal should Induce the tho Tribune In so sn short a 11 time to malign Judge Marshall Is one ono of f the tho In Inscrutable puzzles the thc Tribune policy polio presents The shallow pretense of accusing accusing- President Smith deceives hes no one The transparent d device of caricaturing the farmers Is taken talen at its true truo value alue If the Tribune has hns a quarrel at all all aJl It Is with Judge Judg Marshall l for fr he hl rendered the decisions that command the smelters to cease operations where these Inflict Injury We Ve fail fall to see whore whole the tho Tribune expects to gale gain anything b by hr Its Incursion Into this field except that suggested suggested-at ug- ug sted at the beginning It Il may hope to In divert ert a attention attention atten atten- tion from its generally condemned course of home homo 11 defa- defa a- a nation mation But nut it Is rather a contemptible proceeding proceeding- Nothing In the whole smelter controversy ers can be helped 3 y such foolish 1 publications a as those of the Tribune The rhe smelter men do not desire desile to injure nn any one The They have spent thousands s of dollars seeking a method which would render roner the furnace fumes harmless They are valuable adjuncts to the possessions of the community and Ind are managed mannge by citizens of oC whom the state stale is proud And Ancl while there may be some farmers who are unfair un- un lair fair enough to forget justice In their dealings alln s with the It Is not the wish of or smelter companies certainly any representative e person nor of the tho community that those suffer r b by br the value ofa orea penny penn A little common sense In In the Tribune office would oo be both helpful and surprising And a n little reelection would teach thorn thom that the they should not malign n Judge Jude Marshall so 80 soon soon ater having extravagantly Indorsed him |