Show 1 THE GOOD GOOl X XIE NIE IE OF OP A CITY i Readers Headers of oC newspapers have o often orten In tho the past last ten years seen scon the name 1 of oC Paterson N. N J J J. exploited in print and the Impression gained Is by no means to the cre credit it of Paterson on It V has hns been understood lo io be a harbor harboro o of anarchists a refuge for Cor the Berkmans fork Berk- mans and the the apostles of ot force and tho the delegates of as as- When hen we rea read of or a plot to slay a ruler of or the old ohl world we 4 also read that the plan was worked worl out In Paterson N N. J. J Speaking of that infliction of a bad name the New York Sun tells of an effort b by the people of ot Paterson to put their city before the world worM in a better light lIght ln in a light that Is nearer true An And in the course of an editorial edi edl- tonal comment on the situation the Sun says 4 Whether hether or not a city can n sue suo its for libel is a question for fOI the lawyers but any layman can understand understand under under- stand stanl that the business interests of a elt city ma may ho bo s seriously damaged by givIng giving ing lug it a ha bad name an and spreading the tho Impression that it is a n. dangerous and undesirable place to live in Between 1890 and 1900 the population population lation of Paterson Increased from 78 to to nn and today it H must have havo people Most of them are cm engaged a ed In ill manufacturing Pat- Pat l has the lal largest est silk sill mill mills in the United States nn and H its manufactures include bridge castings locomotives c machinery linen thread cotton colton goods an and malt liquors There Is probably more skilled Jailer Jabor in Paterson than thanIn I 1 In an any other city of Its size in the country S I 1 Paterson has assets assel- other othel than its I L goo good name which arc are worth defending defend defend- t tIng ing lug against slander and defamation It was enough h to be al almost almost at- at most more than tho the cit city could boar heal I but pluck could prevail pre over hard harel luck To be per persistently and cruelly lied led about to have the finger of scorn corn pointed at her I h by tho the sensationalists sensa sensa- to be made a byword and nud anda nuda I Ia a reproach was wa at last too much for fOI Pater Paterson on As an American city she has not had a square deal leal There has been heen a disposition In iii quarters not disinterested to lo strike at her because she was do down don n to give her hel a a. a L bad namo because e it was safe and to condemn condemn condemn con con- her unheard The rho sympathies of other American cities arc with Pat Pal orson erson In her demonstration against her slanderers There is Just ono one other city in th the country country against which the Instinctive though thought t of the general I l' l reader ader Is uncO uncomplimentary un un- cO complimentary and that is Salt SaIt Lake ke People In other states have been toLl told b by S Salt t Lake Lae a people for so long IonS that thit law Jaw and decency are arc disregarded here that men men have come to believe it It ItIs Is ls n not nj t Irue hue It Is Es shamefully false It has bc been beit n tol told h by men whose motives have havo been and arc are bad But Dut the wrong rong h has been done The Thc Salt sail Lake Tribune has so far Car as us it was able accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac for Salt SaIt Lake just what oth other r anar anarchists have ha done dono for fOl the tho i Now New Jersey town It II affects people who have havo nb instant need for confirming confirming con con- firming the story and who go awa away from the rca reading with the ill m Impression impression sion slon sion In their minds Suppose a neighbor neigh neigh- bor boy a little UlLIe la later r mentions tho the fact tact that he thinks of t f going to Salt Lake for residence The man who has r road read ad the Tribune will sa say in a tone half horrified D mt g so go o there That place Is dominated b by perjurers and traitors trait trail ors s and immoral people Dont Don't settle there with your our fa family In the tho big courts of a nations nation's equity doesn't a caso case of libel lie lieng ng ag against the Salt Lako Lake Tribune f Some eyears years ag ago tho the state was new In that perlo of transition through which every o community must pass an and where tho the activity of tho the base can be he most effective for mischief mischief mis mis- chief chief Torn Tom Kearns secured a seat scat in inthe inthe the 10 United States I enato fu m Utah So bad a representative did ho he make so lily illy did he typify the tho state and people of ot Utah so far from the commendable com corn was his private life an and his public service that at the end of or his term he was not snot returned Knowing there was a majority o of or Mormons in Utah ho he sought to compel the head of or i the church to dragoon his people arc rc President Pros Pros- into Voting for Cor or a dent nt Smith could not not havo have compelled that action if ir lie l ie ha had desired And heaven knows there was no reason 1 why ho should desire to do so Up do to that time limo Tom Toni Kearns had been by his Itis own voice and ami through t 7 such public prints as h he hO could coul control I a champion of or Mormons Nothing U was vas too good for or him him to fay oy of or them U Instantly ho could not force Corce or bU buy U thorn them into rc- rc re rc him him ho ho turned turne U tho the batteries of his publications against tho the tho church And for fOl years tho the state of or Utah and tho the city of ot Salt Lake Lale have been held up UI to the thc wor world through tho the Tribune an as under the thc pitiless domination of Mormonism Mormonism Mormon Mormon- ism sm under the absolute control of a hierarchy that was composed of I traitors and perjurers and men of or orni nil all ni uncleanness 8 Ar An And d that ba bad fame Came has been licen going out Iut ut Into the world from Crom tho the press of ot t the Tribune every er c I IN nit ML t I NIC I I 11 Ia day since No 10 man manean can rn measure the thc harm It has hone done No man can Call bo ho deceived a as as to tho the motive And nd no noman noman noman man who vho knows Imo 5 can be bo convinced of oC the truth of oC those stories But tho lie rest of oC the country countr clo does s not know the truth of or a 1 distant I Ity Tho The stories were of or the sort which al' al vary the thc common run of pub There was a new phase of oC action neton In the tho Interesting accounts The They Impressed Tho They stuck in the memory memol They he the lie stories of or Salt Lake which men told to their associates i Because this Is a new state nn and a Western ef city In tho the track of travel and In tho the region which invites settle ment mont the stories of ot tho the T Tribune the tIme slanders of Tom Toni Kearns have havo been e especially harmful harmful Paterson's Patersons b bad tl fame Camo is less Injurious It I is easier ensler of oC contradiction contra An And yet et the thc people there th lC have combined and spent a large sum sum of money to put their h city rl rIgl h hIn In n the thc eyes ees of tho the world to silence Iho ho tongue of ot slander er to terminate UCO and for all al the activities of ot tho thiu scandal er It I Is time for fOl Salt Sail Sal Lake to express n no uncertain tones Its stern dis us- us Is u u approval of oC tho the course of or the te lie This Is a goo good et city This is a splendid did state Men here herc have er e every right that the they can claim anywhere on otT 01 earth cath Neither traitors triors nor perjurers perjur perjur- ers nor men of ba bad lives dominate Utah He who says as a's they do les lies That Is tho the plain English of ot H it An Anti And while ho he may havo ha made money b by falsehood in the past it f Is time forthe forthe for forthe the people of ot Utah with one voice to utter titter uter their condemnation to spike the guns suns that have JJ e been bombarding bombarding the walls wails wals or of a commonwealth to tell to tho the world that this city and this state resent what has been given out outto outto outto to our defamation This is a work worl for Cor men anti and women of all churches for Cor men and women of oC all al parties for men and women of all nationalities And tho the time to do doit doit O OI it I is ls Is In tho the coming November and amI the place ce is at the thc polls Let tho the resolution be bo tal taken er now and never nevel abandoned lo to stamp out the thc slanderer of oC UtaI Let Lel that ut utterance ut- ut terance crance bo he firm Olm an and emphatic And Andin in the thc days hays and the years that that arc are to como conlo will wH never again be an i organized campaign of defamation for Utah The rue world will wl learn l the e truth and the truth shall set us free |