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Show iHAT MUST BE. To one who is not inspired and who does not ceive revelations it looks as though President iseph F. Smith ought to receive a new revela-m, revela-m, the burden of which should be an explicit vocation of the revelation that commanded poly-imy, poly-imy, and the other a command to give the Moron Mor-on people absolute political tieedom. Without e first, the load of Mormonism will grow more id more rocky, and without the second it will )t be long until the whole Mormon people will j disfranchised and the church itself broken into agments, tor the present political slavery of tho ormon people is becoming unbearable, and there e hundreds and thousands of Moimons in Utah ho are chafing under the disgrace and. shame of leir positidn. Moreover they have ever before lem the sacred promise made by the present jad of the Church that nothing more of that op-ession op-ession and humiliation should ever be prac-ced, prac-ced, and they realize that while this was per-iity per-iity to the government and people of the Unlt-1 Unlt-1 States, it was also playing false to the Moron Mor-on people. Under piesent conditions it is clear tat, in a little while more, there will be no rest-ig rest-ig place tor Mormons on the continent of Eu-)pe. Eu-)pe. Their only place beyond the Atlantic will 3 in the British Isles. The governments on the mtinent will have no divided allegiance on the irt of their people. The heads of the Mormon t church should, consider that all their troubles it have come fiom their determination to be a law unto themselves, and this the nations of civilization civiliza-tion will not submit to. The reason given now is the old one that they believe in polygamy. The real reason is the determinatioD to subordinate the state to an infallible church and this will not be submitted to abroad or at home. |