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Show NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT. H Mormon orators and writers are prone to fro- quently refer to the hardships which have attend- M ed the constant persecution of the Saints and M still that tho Lord has guided them and they have M prospered. M But they never tell why they have been por- secuted. We believe it has all come from the B determination, from the first, of the Mormon chiefs to be a law unto themselves. They have held to the assumption that the head of their B churcli Is entitled to exercise more authority than fl the President of the United States. As John fl Taylor expressed It when President of the fl church, "God rules the world through His Priest- fl hood and all other so-called governments are fl usurpations." Those may not be his exact words, fl but they convey exactly his meaning. Assuming '( fl that position polygamy was made a tenet of Mor- ! fl mon faith. It was first adopted in secret be- fl cause the man who ordered it knew that it was fl in direct defiance of the civil and ecclesiastioal fl laws of every civilized nation on earth. He knew fl moreover, that its tendency could not help but be fl to brutalize men and debase women; but the or- fl dor has never been revoked. Again, political fl power has ever been persistently sought -after and I nB if 9 w wPrto the summer preceding the giving of state- B I ', t:ffl J hood to Utuh, wherever Mormons were in force, it B I il MjH was exercised and the whole array of Mormon H f 1 voters were directly controlled Dy the head of H H the church and the whole bantt voted as a unit. B, i f,f -4 H f Is it any wonder that there has been trouble for H, I !j '3 the Mormon people? For two years after state- H J r hood was granted there was peace in Utah and Hj iH it might have continued indefinitely except that H . ' in the chiefs could not bear to lose their hold upon nB K tne wiI1 of the Pcopl- They keSan y ordering H ' I ' J8 polygamists who had separated from their plural B I , 9 wives to "live their religion." The reason, we H i M suspect, was because polygamy is the real ce- H j. ijM mont which more than any other holds the sys- H B tem together. "When once a man is involved in B til itsmeshos, it 1b almost impossible for him to H B break away. Then, in one form or another, per- nB i ' utt missions began to be given to take plural wives B ( I jl J and gradually the old political rule over the peo- nB ' ! i ' ' Iff I Ple was re establ,she(1- ThIs culminated in the H "mv driving of the people into giving a practically H j I solid vote for the Smoot Legislative ticket. Now B 91 tho church Is worried on his account. Its man- nl Hr agers should have known they would be worried. B (HI Had not one Protest keen utterecf n utat tlie nB ' H If trouble would have come just tne same, for the nB i ' mt' election of a Mormon Apostle to the Senate was nB ill m not only utterly wronS in principle, but it was nB ' II so s&ameful a breach of faith that it amounted to H i M a direct insult to the Government; it was a H i shameful and shamless act of perfldity to the Gen- B : j tiles of Utah; it was an insidious attempt to nulli- H , If ' i fy or break down that greatest bulwark of the H ! j'j) - I I (Constitution which pronounces the everlasting Hi i J divorce of church and state in this Republic. It H I . Jl I was more than all a mighty wrong perpetrated on K I h t I the youth of Utah for it was equivalent to serving nS1 1 1 -I'll I a notice on them that they neecr hope for neither B I V M I li I support nor promotion save through their abso- b J I if II I u-e subserviency to the rule of the men who are nnl ! i ill! If in fact the cuurck So wnen tne cry of persecu- nn 1 t 111 tion s raIsed verdict of honest men is that it H ' ' M 11 should continue until the church Board of Di- Hr If rectors reduces their rule to American methods. |