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Show r; APOSTLE COWLEY TURNS UP IN FAR NORTHWEST -' Qorchman for Whom United States Marshal Is Look- ing, Was in Portland Last Week. and lowly Nazarene In all ages of the world were priest-ridden, for they were one. They were even one in temporal affairs for we are told in the Acts of the Apostles: They had all things in common.' And Jesus prayed that all might have such a unity as- should be given him out of the world, as were the Father and Son. Apostle Cowley said that he was on his way with Nephi W. Pratt, president of the Northwest States mission, to look into a beet sugar proposition In British Columbia. 'Apostle Matthias F. Cowley, j for whom a subpoena was issued in : the Smoot case, and whom the United States Marshal was unable to find, was in Portland, Or., last-Tuesday, and addressed ad-dressed a meeting there on that night, In which he asserted that the Mormon church is not Interested in politics as an organization; that Senator Smoot does not represent the church or any class of people, and that no church Influence In-fluence was used to elect him. i He said: . i "We do not use church Influence In ' pontics. We are Republicans and Democrats, Dem-ocrats, and as citizens of the United States have a right to take part in the elections of our country. Mr. Smoot is a practical, wide-awake business man j a promoter of mining, manufacturing, . - agriculture and stock raising. Some of 1 his most ardent admirers and supporters support-ers in Utah are Gentiles, and as a Senator Sen-ator he represents them as much as he j does the Mormons. "He represents them all alike. The' church has no concern about the retention reten-tion ft his seat in the Senate. It had nothing to do with his election. If the Senate casts him out. it will not retard the progress of the church in the least degree. The church depends on God to promote her Interests upon the earth, and not upon a United States Senator." Apostle Cowley was interviewed by the Portland Journal, and said: ! "This polygamy talk comes from the same source that has always misrepresented misrepre-sented and persecuted our church. When . Utah was admitted to - Statehood i we made a -covenant with the .Government which we have kept. We no longer teach or countenance polygamy. We teach obedience to the law. - j "What we claim as the cause of our tmeness is that the Latter-day Saints have received, by obedience to the laws and the ordinances of the ancient gos- . :pel, the holy spirit. It has been charged Vihat the Mormons are a, priest-ridden people because they are united, and usually have no dissension in the election elec-tion of their church officials. If this is true, all the true followers of the meek |