Show r WHAT flAT S JL THE THI TRIBUNE U E I GJ GAINED ED Sometimes we wonder If the Tribune makers over o t stop to ask asic themselves 1 If their policy Is paying Thoy They I h have Ivo ave vo been devoting their energies to the destruction of ot tho the Mormon church and to the troubling of ot tho the Mormon for a rood good man many years cars And yet they must know lenow that tho the Mormon organization Is stronger toda today than It ever cr has been Thc They mu must t know that the Mor lor Mormon mon finances arc are In better shape than they ever er have hav been They must know that the Mormon people have tl never had a leader In whom they place a a. more Implicit I or more loving confidence than Is enjoyed b by Jos Joseph ph Smith Jr r I What hat good has az It done About the tho only effect we j c con cn n seo Is that the East very ery generally has accepted the I I I belief which the New ZeY York Times expressed many community of criminals months ago that ago that Utah etah Is a The characterization of course COUlse docs does not apply appl solely to o Mormons It Includes in that very Cr unpleasant indictment all alJ tho people no matter what their faith may be no matter matter If It they have no faith In its efforts to damage the Mormons the Tribune has advertised the tho entire commonwealth comI com corn I f and the controlling clement element of Its people as ast ast t lawless traitorous and immoral f i i That doesn't do tIn the community an any good It doesn't seem to havo ha dono done the Mormons any harm l L t I Whether members of ot that church aro are more devoted i i to th the tenets of their religion we wc do not know Whether the they accept with all the old implicit faith the statements I 1 of tho the books and yield a willing credence to all t the lC literature of church authorities we have hwe no means of or knowing Possibly It would be safe to say the Mormons il have haye at least retained their original fervor Down at atthe the Seventeenth Ward an chapel a few Tew weeks ago aso there II c was as a a. series of or meetings by way vay of ot dedication The tI jl house ubo 19 Is 19 very beautiful and nud moro more ro than ordinary effort put s-put put forward In tho the ceremony At these services cr c every available a Inch of or space In tho house was filled The Tho addresses consumed quite two hours of or time and the people sat in perfect attention The speeches happened happened hap hap- to be good and that ma may have had something to do with the tho attitude o of those who assembled but bt It was wasa a quality of or goodness goodne s that the Tribune would not have endorsed It Il dealt primarily with the foundation claims of ot the tho Mormon establishment It dealt with tho the miraculous miraculous mir mir- t and with the wonderful tho the success which Mormons attribute largely largel to a special interposition of or e c Providence In their behalf It went to t tho ho o question of ot their being a a. p peculiar people So that it f Is fair tall to sa say that tho the Mormon belief belle is c the same that it has been It is fair to say the doctrine is 15 the same as It Il has been This of ot course with the exception cx- cx of ot any advocacy or defense of polygamy That scorns to have been utterly e erased ed from their profession as s It has been from their practice And we wo wonder sometimes if Ir the thc Tribune realizes that while it Il has been hurting alt all tho the people of Utah this portion of or the people of t f Utah has been Increased in in number and wealth and certainly not nol decreasing In ferent fer- fer v ent vent devotion to the faith that Is la In them The nation the age ase h has s placed the edict of oC condemnation cont con coiL on polygamy It should t be bo known to 01 the t I 1 I Tribune that the Mormon people have havo abandoned polygamy r I amy that they do not permit any new plural marriage c that at most moRt the men who had taken plural wives before be be- kZ fo fore e tho the manifesto and manifesto and there arc are less than a hundred of ol C I IA A them In this city o of more than sixty thousands thousands arc arc I simply and modestly living lIvins out their lives under the th obligation they assumed s med when their heir plural marriages were contracted and that the only charge which th the the nation and the ago aso has against this people has hns beer been removed One thing is certain While tho the Mormons have been beer growing str stronger nger the Tribune has haa been growing weal weaker cr r It la Is by no means the power it used t to be It by ni no i means possesses tho the ability to frighten to terrify to tu control its revenues are arc decreasing Its extent of ot circulation cir cir cir- Is less lessoning lessening It may continue to vilify the t tate state which has BO so long sheltered it but in view of ot the fact tact that It Il has not accomplished tho the one end toward which it certainly directed Its e effort fCo 11 and th that t it H has lost Ine in e estate ate and prestige wouldn't it be bo a good thing to correct cori cort cor- cor i t reel the bad habit and acquire a new one Wouldn't i I it bo be well to assume a a. virtue even oven 1 if it has none I l Vo Wouldn't it be better for fOl the tho state and antI tho the Tribune Tribuna as aswell I well to toll tell the truth and stop slandering Wouldn't Jt it bo be better belter to get set In touch with modern times and make e a a. newspaper instead of Ot a sheet of slander It has not hurt hurl the Mormon org organization so far as one can see and und It Jt certainly has not dono done the tire Tribune good Why not work for tor the any right with right motives motives motives mo mo- tives and with right methods It will be better bettor for tor Utah and it it cant can't b bo be worse for tor the Tribune And Arid in incidentally In- In it cant can't bo be any better for tor tie the Mormons than the tho the past habit has been |