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Goodwin's Wy. 1
Vol XI. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 14, 1907. No. 19
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Politics In Salt Lake City.
Tho campaign In this city will bo got In a
few days. If the American party names one can
didate that Is not worthy the place named, our
; hope Is that he will he beaten, assuming, of course,
that a wouhior man is named for the place.
The struggle will be with the American iparty
t . to elect men to fill tho various ofilces, who will
s, be under no obHgation to do anything but the
right. On that they claim the confidence of the
voters. The American party was organized to
beat down the tyranny which has ruled in Utah,
with perhaps three years intermission since 1847;
to lift the state from tho subordination to the
church which has been the rule fiom the first.
Thole who say It has had a legs noble mission
from the first are, to use no harsher term, badly
mistaken. It was put off just as long as pos
sible; it was put off until every man of common
understanding in the state knew that because of
ecclesiastical power over most of the Mormons in
, the state, Rood Smoot dared to name who should
be the officers of the stato for four years.
And as though to show his contempt for any
opposition, he named sonVe candidates whioh no
man in the stato had over dreamed of being either
J b)y oducation, training or natural aptitude oal-
oblated to reflect any honor upon themselves or
bo of any essential service in office. The test of
fitness for the respective places was not con
sidered; the question was, "Will he be obedient
to counsel?"
In that question rests the full justification for
the formation of the American party.
There will probably bo two tickets opposed to
the American condidatos. But If there are, voters
generally, the morning after the nominations are
( made will guess shrewdly which men on both tick
ets will receive tho bulk of that portion of tho
ftjormon vote which looks to tho high occloslasts
for counsel how to vote. That such a state of af
fairs exists is, in itself, full justification for form
ing tho American party.
There is more to it. There will not be a can
didate on either the so-called Republican or Dem
ocratic tloket who will have the slightest hope of
j election, save through the favor of the chief prlest-
r! g hood of the Mormon church.
That fact shows exactly how church and state
are separated in Utah; shows whether any church
here usurps any functions of the stato or not.
The American party was not created because
' those engaged in the work loved contention. Ev-
l ery one of them would have vastly preferred
to avoid the duty. But Utah must be an Amer
ican stato. It must be so that all tho opportuni
ties of the state shall be open alike to all her
children.
The Mormon people, ' tter than tho Gentiles,,
know this fact. Unless they are stone- blinu they
cannot avoid seeing that the fat places in-Utah
are reserved for a few families; that the duty
of the others Is to work, to pay tithing, to obey
counsel.
"While that continues the state will be handi
capped, just as it has been for sixty years.
This power that rules here has no respect for
anything but force. It does not keop its political
promises. It assumes that it has divine rights
nmong which one is to deceive Gentiles when
ever it feels so disposed, and when the object is
to anchor more deeply this church rule. In the
past year a great many votors have come to Salt
Lake. Of these more are Gentiles than Mormons.
These Gentiles have been accustomed to vote
either a Republican or Democratic ticket. To them
we bog to stato that if they try to do that hore,
they will simply be puppets in the hand of a power
which has no use for members of either of the
old parties except to use them, for they have a
government of their own, a kingdom with its king
right here, its king, its parliament, its courts with
the machinery of its government so perfected
that wero the last vestige of the tnajger of, the
United States removed from Utah tomorrow, nil
that would bo necessary would be to appoint a
postmaster and two or three other federal officers.
This has been the rule since the first T,heo
oratlc Government was instituted hore and from
the altars of tho treasonable church men were
directed how to vote.
It is changed only in form, not one sinister
purpose has been relinquished, not one determi
nation has boen changed, for as Brigham Young
was wont to say "This is a celestial kingdom and
a kingdom of God on earth," and by the last was
meant that tho civil rule of the land should bo
only such as tho ecclesiastical power might dl
rect.
Tbe Federal Heights Business.
At this writing there seems to be a possible
prospect of so adjusting matters on Federal
Heights that Mr. Wronch can go on with his work
there. As wo understand the matter, tho propo
sition is about to carry which Mr. Wrench pre
sented to tho city council last February and whioh
tho council has hung up for seven months. The
city has marveled at tho hostility which certain
members of tho council have from the first man
ifested toward this enterprise in refusing perfectly
legitimate requests. Certain mombors have fought
against supplying water mains and tho Regents
of tho University are fighting the proposition to
open First South street above Thirteenth Bast, lest
Mr. Wrench might sell some lots on the street
that would face north, which would bring the
hack yards of those lots next tho University
grounds. Tho back yards up there would have
nothing objectionable about them except that
they as a rule would not have lawns and flower
beds like front yards. But that happens to be the
property of Mr. Wronch, bought by him at a
high price, and bought for the purpose of having
it improved. The University grounds never cost
the University or Stato a penny, and the action ot M
the regents toward a bonafido citizen who has
spent and is spending an unprecedented amount
of money to make a welcome addition to the city,
is most strange. M
The University has not greatly improved its H
grounds so far- and it would seem to us that the M
right thing for the University to do would be to m
rustle among its friends, buy from Mr. Wrench M
his land on the south side of First South Street M
and make a little park of it. This is our idea. Wo M
have never passed a word with Mr. Wrench on tho H
subject, but anyone can see what he is doing, the M
vast amount of money he is expending, and in
our judgment it ought to insure good treatment for H
him from evorybody, and especially from the city fl
government. People who have not expended a B
tithe of the money he is expending have been H
lauded to the skies for their public spirit and H
there surely is no excuse for the apparent effort H
to put obstructions in his path. IH
Is there anyone who would ask less than he is H
asking, had there been as much good will shown .H
as he has shown and is shewing? jM
It has 'j'ion a problem for years how to cure the H
deformity which the old brick yards at the head H
of South Temple street inflicted upon the city. lM
Mr. Wrench came forward, bought at great ex- M
penso the tract of land between the University M
and Popperton; laid out a notable addition to tho M
city and Is expending an unprecedented sum to H
make It attractive and a place to be sought for by H
poople who want elegant homes. One would think ;H
the city would extend to suoh a man every pos-
sible favor. But up to this writing the city gov- M
ernmont has acted perfectly the dog in the man- M
gor policy, it has sought to baffle Mr. Wrench H
at every turn and has treated him like a public M
onemy rather than as a public spirited, generous, M
alert and farseolng, sagacious man. And the jH
whole business has beon disgraceful. H
It is time to get down to business and to do H
the square thing. H
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Phil Robinson Resurrected. H
The Deserot News copies lovingly from a paper H
that copies from Phil Robinson's book on Mor- H
monism. That awakons some memories. When H
cynical Hurlbert was losing coin and prestige and H
many other valuable assets on $ho Now York H
World, tho thought struck him one day that Utah H
ought to be a good field for subscribers. There H
was much agitation here at tho time. It was in H
the days when prosecutions were rapid and the 4H
oyos of tho country wore turned this way. Hurl- H
bert picked up that jolly English adventurer Phil iH
Robinson and sent him to Utah with Instructions H
to take tho side of the under dog and give Mor- H
monism a character. Robinson came; ho had let-
tors to tho faithful; he was received with open lH
arms, fed, housed, given every attention, and H
properly posted by Brother Penrose and others, !H
commenced writing to the World. When tho let-
tors began to come back, they and the writer of ,1
them began to receive attention. The Tribune at H
that time did what It could to extend the acquaint- S
ance If not the reputation of Mr. Robinson, and H
often quoted from his letters and commented up- H
on them. Wo remember that after spending a
week in a certain hamlet of the Tenitory, Rob-
inaon wrote to the World that it was a spot that '
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