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1 Vol. 6; No. aV SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JAN. 12, 1907. Price 5 Cent n
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1 1 The Tribune is a Leper
U Editor Truth. Some time ago I
heard a minister preach from the fol
lowing text, "Now Naaman, captain
of the host, was a great man, with his
master, and honorable, because by him
the Lord had given deliverance unto
Syria; he was a mighty man In val
our; but he was a leper" 2 Kings
5: 1. In reading this text up to the
- last six words every young man would
j like to be a Naaman, for Naaman was
captain of a host, he was a great man
i with his master, he was an honorable
man; for the Lord was with him, and
he was a mighty man In valour. Who
would not want to be like Naaman.
But he was a leper. With this last
clause no one would want to be a
Naaman. The Salt Lake Tribune will
picture Utah as beautiful and grand
i as the text does Naaman, but before
It gets through will close Its state
ment with glaring head lines that Utah
has the Mormon leprosy. Or It will
stab Utah to the heart as Brutus did
Caesar and while the blood Is still
flowing It will exclaim, not that
I love Utah less, but Tom Kearns
more. It will gratify Tom Kearns'
anger and treachery at tho expense
of every business man In Utah. It
. V W'N cast reproach upon our young
men and maidens, our schools, our
houses and our Institutions so that
Tom Kearns can glqat over tho havoc
that his Tribune and its satellites have
wrought. And now tho old gray wolf
with Its claws, Its sharp teeth, its
froth, venom, foul odor, and hypoc
rlcy will cover itself all over with a
m special Wow Year's edition with the
verltablo vestments of a sheep and
proclaim how It wants to boost Utal
; how It loves Utah, and tho dear Mor
K mons. There was probably never Is-
sued from any printing press a moro
I hypocrltlc, demagogic, Inlqultlous, In-
( solent sheet than tho Salt Lake Trib
une.
The Tribune advertised Its special
New Year's edition with the follow
; ing: "It will bo just tho proper thing
to read to prospective investors and
homeseekers," then It will wring in
.-v its Utah leprosy clause by stating In
another edition, "that tho great ma-
jorlty of the people of Utah aro Mor
mons," "That there aro moro young
men and young women in polygamy
In the Mormon church today than ever
before in the history of that organiza
tion." "In 300 school houses In Utah
the Mormon religion was taught by
public school teachers. "At tho last
April (1905) conference the church
olilciaily restored polygamy as a prac-
tice cf the community." "The masses
(of tho Mormons) aro Impoverished
and In their old age the members of
the church aro compelled to go to tho
poor house, where they aro sustained
from tho public taxes, paid largely
by Gentile." "If you lived In a (Utah;
community where tho law breakers
ruled, would you not fight to establish
American conditions?" "Free speech
Is denied to Mormons. They aro ex
communicated, ostracized, and boy
cotted, If they dare to criticize the
crmes of their loaders." "Tho Mor
mon church claims to be the kingdom
of God on earth, and the only lawful
government. It teaches that all oth
er governments are fraudulent and
must bo broken to pieces. It claims
that its mission Is to rule the whole
world, beginning 'with tho United
States. Its teachng Is treason, and Its
'eaders aro traitors."
All of the above false and leprous
quotations were embodied in an edi
torial In the Tribune of July 1st, 1005
and a copy of It wns given to each
and every member of tho National
Editorial assoclaton who were vlsltng
Salt Lake City on that day, for tho
express purpose of having them pub
lish it in their home papers to adver
tise to tho world that Utah was tho
most polluted and leprous spot on
tho globe. The Tribune advertises
that Its New Year's special number
"will tell tho story of Utah's great
resources and possbllltles."
For the past few years the Tribune's
story of Utah's great possibilities and
resources has been as follows: "Gen
tiles aro not wanted In Utah." "Mor
mons will not soil land to Gentiles."
"Mormons boycott and starve out
Gentiles." "Tho resources of Utah are
controlled by Mormons and no GentHo
need s-pply." "Tho Mormon church
Is killing tho mlnng and smelting In
dustries, the greatest Industries In
Utah." "Tho Mormon leprosy stultl
Iles and destroys all Industries in
Utah, that It does not control," The
Tribune also states that It would "Il
lustrate what others aro doing and
what others can do." Hero is the way
that tho Tribune has Illustrated Utah:
It pictured a hierarch as an absolute
monarch in Utah; "that this hierarch
compelled all school teachers to pay
him tlthlngs and do his bidding; that
he owned and controlled tho school
directors and all public officers in
Utah;" "that our schools wore domi
nated by him and that tho teachers
In our schools aro controlled by lech
erous polygamlsts." "That Utah Is a
community of polygamlsts and crim
inals." "That tho Mormons hid the
voting machines in their churches."
"That no Gentile was taught how to
vote." "That Utah electons wero car
ried by fraud and tho right of fran
chise denied the Gentiles." The aw
ful leprosy.
Who would want to live In Utah or
invest In any of her industries If they
believed one half of tho Tribune's
falsehoods ? Tho Tribune Is tho leper.
Tho Trlbuno stntes that tho. Mormon
herarch "holds nearly ovory Gentile
merchant and nearly every Gentile
professional man at his vengeance by
his Influence in order to bo success
ful," etc. Tho Tribune is the leper.
Just after tho November elections,
1905, when Ezra Thompson was elect
ed mayor of Salt Lako to boost Tom
Kearns and to show that Kearns was
tho "It" of Utnh, tho Trlbuno bureau
of publicity sent tho following to tho
New York Wprld, The New York Her
ald, Tho Utica, N. Y., Globe, and hun
dreds of other eastern papers: "Tho
man of tho hour In Utah Is ex-Senator
Thomas Kearns, who organized tho
"American" party, and to whom the
credit of victory Is duo. Mr. Kearns
a popular citizen during his years of
residence In tho stato has becomo a
hero. If a Biblical slmllo may bo ap
plied to so mundane a thing as a po
litical fight, Utah Gentiles regard tho
former senator as a Moses who has
delivered tho people from bondage."
Yea, verily. Thomas Kearns was an
ox-senator, tho man of tho hour, tho
organizer of tho "American" party, a
popular citizen, a nero, a Moses, but
he was a leper. Truly Tom Kearns,
tho owner of tho Tribune Is a great
hero. Away, far away in the north- '
'and where tho hurricane howls music
over tho icebergs, whore tho waters
of tho Bohring strait nnd tho Yukon
river Hko clinging tendor vinos en
twine themselves around tho Alaskan
peninsula, where tho seal, tho walrus,
and tho polar boar touch their lips in
frosty embrace. It was there in tho
and of tho midnight sun, hallowed '
by tho bright and luminous nurora-bo- i
calls that Thomas Kearns, "A popu
ar citizen," the owner of tho Trlbuno,
iho Columbus of America, tho father
f the "American" party, discovered I
tho beautiful island of Alnska." Sit- f '
ting In a grent gallery among sclent- f '
Ists and anthropologists, poring over
antiquated and primovnl books qf j,
Apocryphal nnd legendary origin, I
burning tho midnight oil, surrounded j,
by ghosts, gnomes, and glowworms,
when all other great, majestic and P
mighty men had failed; It was Thomas
kearns, the owner of the Trlbuno, ann
tho Moses of tho "American" party,
vho by his untiring efforts mndo tho ,
wonderful discovery, that tho Flllppl
10 was a quadiipedalcd vertibrao of g ;
ho small horso species. B
What was this brcezo that camo to 8
our nostrils Hko tho odor of moon- 1
hied codfish; somo thought It was P
lecaylng cartoons In tho Trlbuno of- L
Ice, others thought It was Frank Can- I
ion's editorials being worked ovor,
ind still others thought It was tho j
.'resbyterlans or tho Ministerial nsso- j
jinn roasting tho non-elect Mormons.
But "the hero of tho hour," "Tho Bib
lical simile," tho great Thomab
Xearns, tho owner of tho Trlbuno and
tho fnther of tho "American" party
vas at hand, who stated that tho aro
ma camo from a semi-digested plato
Df baked beans from tho far-off stato
of Boston.
When tho Trlbuno comes out with a
big special edition pretending to boost
Utah, It exhibits moro check than a
big bear In tho Yellowstone park. It
s more hypocritical than Judas when
ho kissed tho Savior. More treach
31'ous than Bonedlct Aonrld when ho
3old his country, and moro merciless,
than Shylock when ho demanded tho
pound of flesh nearest the heart. Tho
Tribune not only Injures Its enemies
but its friends and every bright-eyed m
and laughing, innocent child In Utah
and every silver haired patriarch, ov- ' .
ery mother, every teacher and insfruc-
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