Show F WHO iio 0 IS RESPONSIBLE Who Vho Is responsible for the thc stor story that thai F Mormons set fire to the Tribune office of or- flee fice i Vh Why the Tribune of or cour course e To be sure the Tribune did not hist Saturday morning telegraph to the world that Mormon incendiaries had sought to wreak their vengeance upon a a. feared and haled hated enemy b by means of at the he torch Of course coulse the Tribune did not on Sunday print double column column col cal editorials charging tho the hierarchy with the crime of arson ar on Of or course the Tribune did a da day clay or two two later later print a statement to I the effect that there was no basis for 01 tho the falsehood published In in the Denver Times and repeated in ever every c city tr of or the East to the effect that thal the Salt Lal Lake e Tribune was partially destroyed by an Incendiary incendiary diary lire fire believed to bo be s started arted by Mormons against whom tho ho Tribune was known to have long l ng waged a bitter hitte bit hit tea ter warfare I But none nono the less tho the Tribune Is re responsible responsible re- re for tho the stor story and amI for every Impression that stol story has made on the minds of people In Jn the East and else else- where The Tribune has prepared the soil T for that seeding It Is a a. se seed rl which took root rapidly and grows rapidly It It- finds lodgment in tho the minds of thousands who never see sec the dis- dis of the r Tribune and who who would have been by the Tribunes Tribune's previous pre previous pre pre- re- re ious publications prepared to believe that the paper had been coerced Into printing the disclaimer In order to avert further acts of or violence Eastern people sonic some within an organization or or- and some acting Individually ally aUy take and pay for at least two thousand copies of the Salt SaIl Lake Tribune Tri Trl- k bund bun e cl every ciery da day rhe These e papers are arc supplied without t charge chars o to citizens whose sentiment It H Is desired to Influence influence ence and antI whose influence It Is desired to control These recipients of a Journalistic journalistic Jour jour- gratuity read those portions of the Tribune which arc are understood but ut not believed In Utah and from Crom the violence violence vio vie lence hence o of the utterance utterance both both on the editorial page and in the news col columns columns col- col where hero full editorial privilege is accorded by the Tribune Tribune they they get their Ideas of or conditions In In Utah rom brom these articles thc they understand e the state to bo 10 bo borle rife with lawlessness o of a peculiarly offensive t type pe that a body characterized d as a Mormon 1 hierarchy bier hier archy has the people of o the state slate by bythe b bythe the throat and that It menaces them In In their business in their politics and andi andin andin i in their religion From t those lose articles the tho Eastern readers get a view of or Utah In which horror an and amazement form equal parts They full fully believe every Mormon Is a a. polygamist and that women arc are peculiarly at the thc mercy of the lecherous servants ot of this terrible hierarchy hierarch which directs and defends its Ils o own n. n From those articles they form their belief belle that no Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor- Mor Mor Mor- mon can bo be convicted o of any crime and that an any one not nol a Mormon Is cerI certain I taut tain of swift punishment should the tho hierarchy feel that his removal for any cause Is desirable From the Tribune tho those e people in tho the East belIeve believe be be- lieve that every case of bigamy In the mountain Inter country country like like that of or Price Price Price-Is Is a a. case of Mormon polygamy and and their their wonder onder at his conviction con I Is is- forgotten In the dominant belief belle which defies the patent Inc Inconsistency Not Nol long ong ago a man came to Utah Ulah from Crom cast eastern ern Pennsylvania lIe He was accompanied b by his wife and two chil chil- dren dlen They lived li pretty well vell cast east not far from mom the university Both wore were Intelligent and fairly well educated They were verc fair fall types of the people of or orthe the East They read the Tribune and from it had formed their opinion To them a Mormon was a monster Thoy They were rather prominent prominent In church re relation relations relations re- re lations lation and when tho wife was as asked b by her hem church sisters why she did not attend any of their social affairs she sho replied that she dare are not leave leavo her house alone lest the Mormons burn fL it She fully rully believed there was danger dangel of just that fate 0 Now in a soil a n thought can take root the story that there thero has been a a. fire In the tho Tribune will produce but hut ono one weed Tho thought of the tho person so 50 prejudiced will fly Instantly to the suspicion that tho the fire i was was was' caused by hy Mormons 1 seeking to I avenge and silence a powerful and aud daring enem Their only wonder wondel Is 18 that the act of arson has been delayed so BO long Jonc- When the Easterner trained by the Salt Lake Lalee Tribune approaches the 5 borders of Utah he begins legins to lo look 1001 out o of the window for fOl a Mormon He sees men and women and amid children fashIoned fashioned fash lash honed much as aru aro men and women alid and children elsewhere and at 1 last last last- say Kay about Provo If they come from the East or at Ogden if Ir they come como from the No North Noth th they will vIlI venture to ask a boy If Ie he Is a Mormon Mormon feeling feeling a sense of or shamed halt hesitation In Inputting Inputting inputting putting to him so compromising a I 1 qUN query Th c Ills his stout t reply that lint he Is a a- Mormon delivered doll without without without with with- out boasting or r regret et and then they look hook at him In a sort of or resentment that he has not come up to expectation tion ion If H they have th the good fortune to live o In Salt Lake or an any other Utah town they find presently that hint Mormons are wholly from other people unless people unless It be for Cor the fact that they do not use tobacco that they are arc temperate or teetotalers In Inthe the the matter of ot liquor that the men aro are fairly good examples of social purity and that ho who knows tho the women omen cordially cor con Belly gives them place with tho the mothers moth moth- whom calumny ers CIg and sisters against Is not breathed But nut these are views which the Tribune Tri TrI- buno bune has not disseminated In place of that lair fall report the whole East has been tau taught ht to believe so fur far the time Tribune Tri Trl- mine bune can reach and Its argument can cnn convince that lint Utah I Is steeped In lawlessness lawlessness lawlessness law law- that depravity runs riot that the waters of CIt City Creek canyon go golon o lon lown our gutters tinted with the tho ruddy now flow from the blood atonement that Mormons arc all and that thata a 0 presentable woman Is 15 In peril of moro more than her life liCe that a business businessman man outside tho the church Is crushed b by bythe bythe the mysterious m power Owel of or a hierarchy which no one can evade or deC defy that In politics each Mormon gets his or orders orders orders or- or ders on election morning and that candidates are arc marl marked cd for Cor slaughter leI In the Lion House an and are arc stabbed at atthe atthe the tho polls that all Mormons are arc bound with an oath to lo overthrow tho government government govern govern- ment mont of the United States an and avenge with mas massacre acro the death of Joseph and antI H Hyrum rum Smith Is It an any wonder the forger of that dispatch If dispatch If it were forged knew forged knew he hc had an audience that would leap at the tho suggestion of or Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon Incendiary vengeance Is It any wonder wondel the Ea East cast t views Utah with suspicIon suspicion sus sus- and her people with mingled led aversion and alarm No man can measure the harm the Tribune has done Utah Ulah b by Its campaign campaign campaign cam cam- for the recovery reco of a political control No o power on earth can undo the harm No penitence can atone for lom It ft and no no service can com compensate pensa pen pen- sa sate t Co CoAn An And there is no indication of pen peni I tence Instead of standing d at atthe tho the formation of a sentiment so harmful harmful harm harm- ful ul an and so untrue the lie Tribune continues con con- limes from day da to day with a malignity malig mahig- that has never been equalled to repeat the thc slanders to misrepresent the facts to malign the men and de defame de- de e- e tame fame the state h. h the light of oC such a fact can you OU question who is responsible for Cor the stor story now circulated In forty Corty states and believed In most o of them them that that vengeful Mormons fired the Tribune as their reply to to Its heroic as assaults assaults assaults as- as upon them No o This bit of harmful slanderous slander slander- ous news is the legitimate child of the Tribune bears benl's the brand of Its parents parent's Infamy wherever it goes |