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Show H RUBBING IT IN. B On Monday night last the Deseret News outdid B itself in mendacity and meanness. It asked what B;: , is meant in ascribing the nomination of John C. E Cutler to "Church influence," and then denies Bf! that any such influence was used, declaring that B' ' the President of the Church held himself entirely Hji t aloof, taking no part in the business. Bj There were hints enough in the News itself B to show good Saints what was expected. The H f ' convention itself showed all through what was H :'! intended. Men came from the north and the Bj j south solemnly pledged to vote for Governor Hj Wells, but when noses were counted and It was H i known just how many were needed to give Mr. H i Cut er the needed votes, the pledges went for H ' nothing. The purpose was only to give him a H jjj j' bare majority. Had a hundred more been required Hil they could have been obtained just as easily. H ' The News says a Church member or officer has HA ' an equal right to use his influence that a non- H! member has But an Apostle has not, for the Hft simple reason that his creatures dare not disobey B him From the cradle all Mormons are taught H that their Apostles have a divine right to advise Hi them Theie is where the crime comes in, for H that is a violation of the Constitution of the Hgp f United States and a direct perversion of free HH institutions The News insolently asks why it H should be right for the infidel to use his Influence H7 erd money and wrong for a Church officer. Be- cause the infidel has nothing behind him, the Church official, especially an Apostle, in the judgment judg-ment of sincere Mormons, has a right to command com-mand them. The News says if any Church officer has pretended that he was acting under ecclesiastical eccles-iastical authority, "let him be named." How cowardly and false all that is, when the creed teaches that such an officer has a right to dictate in all matters, temporal as well as spiritual. But Smoot himself, save for his priestly position, would be just a very ordinary man. He would never have been thought of as a Senator; his demand to have an unthoughtof man named as Governor would never have been heeded. And when he uses this Apostolic power a& he has since he became a candidate for the Senate, he directly breaks the most solemn pledge given on which to obtain statehood, and this same charge by implication lies against the whole fifteen as the Board of Control of the Church, who are, during their official lives, the Church. Of course the News is insolent in its denials. The same Apostollo liar who runs it has used the same arguments for a generation, and grows obese with satisfaction at his work. But nothing that has happened since statehood state-hood was gained has disturbed and angered so many of the Mormon people as this last performance perform-ance Said a Mormon Bishop to a Gentile, the morning after the nomination: "This looks like Church work, and I don't like it." By and by there will be a breaking away from the slavery and the shame and the robbery of the whole das-tardy das-tardy usurpation. In the meantime, these facts will be laid before Congress, and we shall see. Now we should like to see this business stopped if the News will ever permit it. The important thing this year is the election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks, To divide the ticket endangers this result. Hence our advice to Republicans Is to support the Republican ticket. We can settle the church business later. In the meantime we recommend the News to cease rubbing this business busi-ness In and to attend strictly to its church affairs. |