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Show Just Before the Dawn 1 THERE is one fine feature of the controversy now going on in Utah. It was exemplified the other day when a Mormon bishop told a noisy apostle that he would not obey his counsel coun-sel on the prohibition question, because he was exceeding his apostolic power, or abusing it, when he was seeking to coerce the legislature on a proposition which was one purely of business and which the church has no authority over. That spirit ha3 expanded more In the past thirty days I I j than it had before for five years. A little more crowding and the Mormon people will force the church out of politics, and that is the day which every true man in Utah, Mormon and Gentile alike, is longing for. Already it Is clear that the old coercion is losing its force. That the saints Have ample reasons for this is clear. A thousand times has the News declared that the church la I out of politics, and that when the higher author!- ; ties of the church engage in politics, they do so ' merely as citizens, exercising their rights as citi- l zens. I "When the Mormon people generally accept that as the status of their priests in politics, the ' new day for Utah will surely dawn. And things are moving the world around faster than they did before the American flag, by what it symbols, I became an inspiration to a writer who has long been in Turkey and who writes as follows: "On the morning of the 24th of July last, all classes of the Turkish empire entered Into a new life, but the greatest change of all took place in the harems. Women everywhere threw off their veils. A prominent woman In Salononica openly assisted her husband in the political celebration." cele-bration." The reactionists rose up in protest at this, and "the Turkish women, true patriots, when they saw that the question of freedom for women appeared to have such deep significance to the nation, not only from a political and social, but also from a moral standpoint, said: "Of what consequence is so small a matter as a veil? Wo will continue to wear our veils and we'll seek the larger opportunity that the new constitution gives us," and they resumed their veils, but the writer adds. "But it is a very different thing to wear a veil voluntarily, than being obliged to do so." And it is only for a little while. Now th6 24th of July is a day of much significance sig-nificance to the Mormon people of Utah. It is on that day that their orators tell them their fathers planted the first stakes of civilization here and first unfurled the flag of freedom. They are already al-ready asking what that freedom meant if it was not that, under the laws of the republic, they were to be politically free. The Mormon Church will not be able to resist that cryjrhen it becomes be-comes general, and it is swelling every moment. |