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Show other people. We would not brand those who do not agree with us, as liars, beastly criminals, etc., etc., as the American party leaders have done. We would help create a feeling among the people of this great nation of our3 that Utah is a good ard safe country to live in, where immigrants are welcome and where their future is secure. We would try and right the injury the Ti-ibune has done our commercial interests by proving to the great financial interests in the land that Utah is safe and is governed by just as honest a class of people as live in any state in the Union. We would create confidence in Utah, where the American party has destroyed it. Wc would bring money to Utah, whereas the American party has driven capital away. We would build a name for Utah andlher people to be proud of, whereas the Tribune has defamed and disgraced the fair name of Utah and her people. . We would favor a party that would briing peace to Utah a peace in which the whole people of our state would proudly participate. partici-pate. The American party conduct is such as to drive the members of the dominant church to a campaign of self-defense and united action, while our party's conduct would unite both Mormon and Gentile and bring just praise to Utah and her people. ) The American party was born of spite and revenge, while the birth of our party would be purely in response to a desire for a 'square deal" for all of the people of Utah, The Tribune's party forces the church to espouse the cause of certain individauls in resisting those who threaten to destroy them. Our party would not give the church an excuse to suppo,rt any man's cause. We would guarantee not to punish any man for 'his religious belief, but we would punish those who sought church influence as well as those who used it. No, dear Tribune, your party is NOT SUFFICIENT. It will NEVER accomplish the desired result, constituted as it is y,oday. In fact, no party, conceived in hatred, anger and revenge could be trusted to rule a free people. Our party would permit its members to face their bishops and ' other ecclesiastical superiors without stultification. No Mormon could join the American party and pretend membership in the Mormon Mor-mon faith. It i3 a mighty chasm that divides the Tribune's and tho Standard's Stand-ard's policy of campaign in excluding high churchmen from politics; oh, so wide, it seems impossible ever to bridge it. j tamtrmmt n . . mm , mB linn umnimwmi nmnim ' mai w IS THE AMERICAN PARTY SUFFICIENT? The Salt Lake Tribune cannot understand why this paper thinks the "American party" does not fill the requirements necessary for a political party in Utah that might undertake the task of freeing Utah from church control in political affairs, and the Tribune feels offended because the Standard has said that a progressive party, to be successful in Utah, "must adopt principles, policies and actions just the reverse of the so-called American party in Salt Lake," and commenting on that utterance the Tribune says. "It is singular indeed to see a newspaper take that position; po-sition; for precisely the thing that the Standard declares the new party should make its chief aim and purpose is the chief aim and purpose cf the American party. For the Standard to say, as it does, that the new party should make its great issue "the elimination of church influence in politics," and then say that such policy should be the reverse re-verse of the American party policy, is self -contradictory. For that has been the very keynote, the strength, the emphasis, em-phasis, of the American party policy and platform from the formation of the party, and the same has been reiterated in every successive party platform by every successive American Ameri-can convention." It is true the American party opposes church influence, but the Tribune's methods and the American party's methods and the con-duct con-duct of both in their advocacy of non-interference of church is such as to bring about and cause such church influence to be used. The American party and its great mouthpiece, the Tribune, have for over six years thundered against, what? Church influence? What has been the result of the six years of American party campaigning? cam-paigning? Let us tell it. First, more church influence. Second, A defense of such action by members of the dominant church. Third, A bitter contention and conflict among one-fourth of the state's population. Fourth, Injury and ostracism of the state abroad. I Fifth, The stopping of immigration to this state. Sixth, Irreparable injury of the financial and commercial interests' in-terests' of Utah. Seventh, A defaming and slandering of the people and the state I that cannot be overcome or righted in a generation. Eighth, As a result of all this, today every true citizen of Utah when abroad must hang his head in shame to hear his people and his state defamed and referred to as being governed by "criminals and a lecherous priesthood." This, good people, is the result of a six years' campaign by the I so-called American party and its newspaper. The Standard would change it all. We would, first of all, make it unlawful for any person or party to solicit the church leaders for support. What are the facts? The leaders of both political parties seek church influence, and naturally both cannot receive it, and the I unsuccessful ones denounce the giving of that which they themselves ! sought. In making this statement, we do not exclude even the pub-- pub-- lisher of the Tribune. j Our campaign against influential churchmen in politics would ' not necessitate maligning and slandering of any such churchmen. Our proposed party would not create any animosities or bitter contentions, or even'a conflict that could not be discussed in most friendly terms. We would not belittle our state or its inhabitants in the eyes of |