Show yI I NOT 01 PERSECUTION to unnecessary puts Itself F t r sary trouble in setting seWn up the lie pretense pre pre- r tense that the protest against Its Us course Is In the nature of it complaint at persecution for the Mormons 1 And 4 its effort to demolish its Us own man mai o of S straw would be more profitable I If II it could understand wherein Its cour course c chas has offended The Tue following paraL paragraph para pam y I. I L graph is from flom an editorial In that laper paper pa la- la per of oC Satur Saturday n That this cr cry Is utter utterly dishonest t. t T fraudulent fI a n complete humbug and andl l sham Is evident e upon the face o of it How can two thirds of oC a population be persecuted b by third one How can the thc rights of or a fa majority be bl abridged or interfered with in any way by a n minority The Thc protest of Utah is not that the Tribune has persecuted the thc Mormon church but but that tho the Tribune has misled misled mis mis- led letl the thc world orid to the thc damage of Salt Lake In general tho the public likes hikes to see fair play In general s all men feel feela condemnation con con- r a fl sense of oC hesitancy in expressing of or a church cheerfully conceding conceding conr con- con V r ceding that sincerity invites ll deference So that the general s public while concerned concerned con con- about material things finds lit little little lit lit- tle tic sympathy with the tho Tribunes Tribune's bier bier- But Dut the thc general public docs does not constitute Itself a protector for or the Mormon church Maybe this attitude is due to a n feeling that tho the church can take taku care caro of or Itself and maybe mabe to indifference But the tue general general gen gen- eral public is not at all indifferent to th the the effect of the Tribunes Tribune's course on the thc material things thinS'S of or Utah and antl Salt La Lake CIt City Th There c cIs Is Is no danger of or persecution an and no crying about it Men nowa nowa- nowadays d days s 's laugh a goo good deal when you ou try tn to arouse sympathy for tor tho the persecuted 4 Inan American community But Dut men nowa nowadays ays more more sternly than ever before be be- fore forc condemn the slave sla who smites r tho that feeds hIm That man 1 shelter and S. S prot protection i hIs convenience of of life lite and hi riches In fn an orderly community tells to the world that his neighbors J arc are p perjurers and traitors that they destI y chances of or business men and make politics a farce such farce such a man wins the hate and wears the detestation detestation detestation detesta detesta- tion of or his fellows He Hc who speaks ill lit of his home is ever rated low He whose life lICe Is 18 devoted to binding the brand of infamy on the thc brow of ot that manhood with which he hc lives and antl la labors labors la- la bors is abhorred By hi his his' own actions he he attains a level of or detestation from which he never can arise and not alone alono to to hf his death hut but through the thc theS S years while his name namo shall be he he assures himself a contemptuous ous repute in the minds of or men The Tribune by its vengeful effort to punish Mormons whom it can not control has so far exceeded the fair limits of or its quarrel as asto to inflict on the thc state an unparalleled Injury injury injury-an an In Injury injury in- in jury jun which can not be expressed ed in money moncy nor nOI effaced b by time And no hypocritical pretense that persecution has provoked the protest against it will deceive o or 01 satisfy the people |