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Show IS THERE NO EVANGEL. There is little doubt that Joseph Smith obtained ob-tained his idea of the government of the people, whom he drew to him, from the Old Testament. After the description of the overthrow of the Egyptians the account proceeds as follows: And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself. Now, therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, in-deed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar people, for all the earth is mine; And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. The model of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is too close an imitation of what is shadowed forth in the foregoing to be a mere coincidence. It must have been by design. The same theory is put forth, that the earth is the Lord's, and that his chosen priests, as Kings, shall rule it. That assumption and that determination made first Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois untenable ground for the Saints; it wasthat assumption and the determination to carry it out that culminated In driving the Saints beyond the limits of civilization. civili-zation. As Gentiles came to Utah the old clashings began be-gan and were continued up to 1890, and because of that assumption and the persistence on the part of the Saints to carry out their plan, unspeakable sorrows were brought to thousands of them until at last a measure was Introduced Into Congress to disfranchise every member of the organization, od the ground that by the very nature of their claims, they could give only a secondary fealty to the Government of the United States. It was then that President Woodruff issued his manifesto; a little later he and his chief advisers gave solemn pledges that the authority of the church over the people in political matters should be withdrawn. On that covenant Statehood was given to Utah. AH the men and women who were in Utah ten years ago must remember the change that came like a benediction to the State. There was the best feeling between Mormon and Gentile; thousands thou-sands wondered that the call had not sooner been made that peace might come. Intrenched by Statehood the high priests of the kingdom soon began to chafe under the feeling that they had surrendered a little of their own Power; they could not bear to see their people exr ercising their own judgment in voting for whom they pleased, in exercising their own judgment In political matters. Gradually they began to usurp their old authority and the Gentiles who had accepted ac-cepted their solemn promise that they would not again interfere in politics began to understand how much such a promise from such a source was worth. Two years ago all disguises were thrown off and a United States Senatorship was sold for money. This year an apostle is a pronounced candidate can-didate for the Senate and in every ward and county the bishops, presidents of stakes and elders saw that the men nominated for the Legislature were favorable to the apostle's candidacy. That means that the church is in the saddle. It may mean that for five or ten years the church will have its way, but it also means if persevered in, unmeasured trouble again for the Saints, for while the Saints may for a few years swing things as they please, really all the organization does not count for much in numbers and powers when compared com-pared with the numbers and power of the United States, and that majority will never brook the building up in its midst of a despotism hostile in every tenent to the sovereign power of the United States. We have stated the above truths that they may serve as a basis for an appeal to the younger generation gen-eration of Mormons to shake off their fear and to demand of the chiefs that those promises of ten years ago shall be kept. Why cannot the Honorable Frank Cannon stand out and make the demand; not. defiantly, not rudely, but as an American appealing for his rights? He has been in a place next in rank to the exalted ex-alted honor of being President of the United States, higher indeed for men have been there who were too great to be President. Why does he not sound a slogan for young Utah to rally to? He knows that the millions of the land will not bear a divided allegiance to their flag. Would it be impertinent for him to cite the promises made and, from within the church, to appeal to the chiefs of the church, for the sake of their own people, to make good their promises, and as an earnest of their sincerity and good faith, to command com-mand Reed Smoot to either surrender his political ambition or to resign his religious office? If one such spirit would make the demand, founding it on the promises made in order to obtain Statehood, he would find others to hold up his hands. The crowd would swell day by day, for the chiefs would not dare to excommunicate members for making an appeal to them to keep the agreement they made with the Government of the United States in order to obtain Statehood. And they have abundant cause indeed, for Reed Smott's candidacy candi-dacy is a direct notice served on all the young men of Utah that unless they can reach the highest high-est offices and honors of the church, they may as well bid good-bye to any hopes of political honors or offices for themselves; and, second, that if the breaking of those covenants is persisted in, it cannot but, eventually, bring upon the Mormon people a repetition of the sorrows that finally culminated cul-minated in the killing of their prophet and in pasting out the Mormon people, stranded and naked upon the frontier, with nothing but the wilderness and the savage before them, with only hostility and hate in their rear. Some years ago in Boston, a Catholic priest, new lit '' to America, met a woman of his flock on the If M streets and bruskly ordered her to take her chll- j !L j jB dren from the public schools. The plucky woman, , 'J good Catholic as she was, entered a complaint and Jm t( fl had the priest arrested for interfering with her ji L ' personal privileges In this free country, and won j 1 1 j JH her case. jr J. 1 , , , ;9 Has no scion of the old pioneers of Utah the J s M 'K courage of an earnest woman? J f ', ', .1i ft |