| Show PERSISTENCE CE IX IN VJ VENOM NOI I Itis Is curious that tho the Tribune should persist in Is Its venomous a assaults auls on the community In which It has received so o man many favors favors It I sets sel up UI the hor- hor picture of or a state of at lawlessness In Salt Lake and seeks seck b by reiteration to prove prove to to the world that this tItle Is not nota a fit cl city for men and women to selI sel sel- I oct as a place of or residence The char char- is general The subordination atlon aton of or the tho Is mado t to appear complete It I spoke in Is its edl- edl tonal yesterday of tho the peculiar offenses oren of or- tenses en s which are arc characteristic of or th the community Now NoW we do o not know mow flOW of or nn any peculiar liar lar offenses es which are arc characteristic characterise of the community and neither tInes doo the Tribune This This' Is a afree as asCe free Ce from mn offenses offense characteristic an another other as any under the sun situ So fa faas far faras farns as ns the Individual ual behavior of or the pen peo plO plO- pie Is conc concerned concerned- rne so far as the gon general genera ral grade of or morals Is concerned as th the level of business honesty honest or the thc spirit of fairness a as bet c between n man and manor man or the he exercise exercise of charity where needed need need- ed cd ed wo we 0 do to not do-not not nol believe there Is a com corn In this or ot any other nation which could make a n better beller showing And these are the thc essentials on which th the good name of a city should rest rest There ar are arc some som objectionable things thing in tho the words and works of the tIme cl city city's s ruling politicians There are aro some som wastes In tho the administration of or pub pub- lie lc affairs and some seine errors which th the tho Republican has pointed out from timeto time to time but there Is nothing In them which warrants a public newspaper in talking of peculiar offenses which characterize the community In another editorial from the same Issue of or the Tribune an attempt is made mado to lo score a clever point when It I I Is stated that Senator Smoot has re returned returned re- re turned to his home The he senators senator's expression expression ex ex- of satisfaction at that r return tUn a n very reasonable and usual sentiment is perverted by lIy the Tribune to lo place him in the tIme attitude of or declaring that tha he regarded himself as returning C from froma om oma a forel foreign n land He lie has hias been heen in the senate of the United States States He lie has returned to his home In Utah From what foreign shore has lias hn- hn he come What hat In his ills life Ifo or conduct makes make i him him an alien In Utah He lie was vas born horn bornn hornIn In n this cl city He lie has been a busy buss a sagacious and a successful business businessman man lie IIo has dealt for tor years with wih Utah Ulah people from one end of or the state to the other The They believe In him and have o ha lave found him fair fal Ho lie has been a alard ahard ahard hard lard worker in every evely line lne of or human endeavor which has occupied his time Ime His Ills counsel and vice set have been found valuable In his church and he ho has hus be been n advanced to high office In that connection His ability and reason have been found useful to o his party and he has received high ofee at the hands of his people His Ills life Ife has lias been clean In clean In startling con- con contrast rast with the lives ves of or the men who are doing so much to blacken his hits re- re He lie is l honest reputable Je thrifty generous generou and loyal to every obligation which an alt an American cHIzen citiZen cHI citi- zen en can cn confess confes Now what in all al this make hIman him himan an n alien Are not not the qualities which have havo lavo been characteristic of his life the qualities of tho the people of or Utah Is It Ithe I the he of an nn alien alen to be decent Is s it I the mark of an alien alen to be hon hon- est st to be progressive e to be of service ser Ito o Crl friends and ul to th tie the mater mater- laland al and social ocial- Interests of his bors bors' ors Arc Are these things unknown or forbidden in the community to which Senator Smoot has returned Not at all all These arc are the character character- sties of ot the true Utah citizen In observing observing ob- ob serving erving them as the rule of his life Senator Smoot has hns but exemplified the habit habit- habit and nature of his fellows If I this state were what tho the Tribune declares it il is and what the tho Tribune has as for tor three years been lIeen trying to tomake tomake make It I then an any man who came here temporarily or permanently bringing and nd maintaining a clean personal and business record would bo be getting Into Inlo Inton an n uncongenial environment environment If I f this state stale were the he harbor of liars lars and nd perjurers traitors and law breakers break- break ers rs which the Tribune has hns a thou thousand ml times Imes told all al readers reder It I would be bealon belion alien alon lion soil sol for nn any reputable man or wo woman in an Nothing but lut the fixed habit of or persisting per- per In venom could account for forthe he tIme Tribunes Tribune's dal dally daily assaults on the tho character of the people among whom whom it I t Is sustained |
