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Show THE BLAME OF IT ALL. When the Master was on earth, on one occasion occa-sion he exclaimed: "My Kingdom is not of this world." On another occasion, when questioned as to the payment of tribute to Caesar, He replied: "Show me a penny." "Whose image and superscription super-scription hath it?" They answered and said "Caesar's." "Cae-sar's." And He said unto them: "Render therefore there-fore unto Caesar the things which ho Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's." Latter Day Saints call their creed "The Church of Jesus Christ," but they have a kingdom here and they believe so much In commerce and trade that the highest officers of the organization are the richest of them all. That is, so far as a blinded world can see, the things they pursue with most eagerness are political power and wealth. These, and especially the first, have brought upon them much of what they term persecution. per-secution. This insistance on gaining political power is what is troubling them today. They were determined to force an Apostle of their Church into the Senate. They were besought not to do it. It was pointed out that there would be trouble and heart-burning; it was recalled to them that they had repeatedly tried through almost fifty years to secure statehood for Utah and only succeeded when their leaders had pledged their honor that henceforth they would take their eager hands out of politics and leave the people free to act, and that the election of an Apostle to the Senate would be an act of bad faith, bad faith to the Government, bad faith to the Gentiles who had helped them to obtain statehood, bad faith to the whole people of the United States, nothing availed. They were determined not only to obtain the power and prestige which would come of such on election, but to serve notice on young Utah that the only way to secure either business or political promotion must be through the Church. They are troubled now, but they brought it all upon themselves, for below all else they sought so far as possible to nullify the com-"mand com-"mand of the Constitution that there shall be no union of Church and State on our soil. |