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Show FOR YOUNG UTAH. M Are you watching events closely nowadays? H And if Apostle Smoot loses his seat will you grieve H over it much? Look around you and see what is H plain to all eyes. H Can you not discern tho fact that there is an H aristocracy growing up here and that unless you H belong to one or the other of the royal families H you and yours will be but hewers of wood and drawers of water for all time? Would the Lord have ever called John W. Tay. lor to be an apostle had not his father been tho President of the Church. Honestly you would hardly accuse the Lord of making that selection M from all the young men of Utah unless he was in M some manner overpersuaded. H Then came the Woodruff dynasty and a young M Woodruff was made an apostle. What for? A M kindly young man no doubt, but without either H the necessary ago, education or experience to 1 M become an authorative business and religious ad- ! M viser of a great people. Was not he made an ' H apostle because he was the son of his father? You know the appointments under the Snow dy- nasty. Would they have been selected by the H Lord had not Lorenzo Snow been President of H the church? Now we have the Smith dynasty and H you can all see what has already been done? H What show have any of you for either business, I political or religious promotion? For Instance, ' H how does the last apostle elected compare in fit- ness with such men as B. H. Roberts, Franklin I K d I I !fi Richards or either of a hundred others that you Bi4 At iili'Kl can name? If this organization, instead of being Rjf J ill K under the direct guidance of the Lord, were ex' HjjL ll i If X clusively under the guidance of the stubborn men , B If i ' 111 'B n0 aro now ts cllIef officers, and all their nat- BllJi Hi u ural selfisn nQtures were revealing their innor- Hli! K if ;S most dispositions, how much different would the H hI 1 II H thing be run from what it now is? B , .IjIflB Then would you grieve very much if out of B ! II ns Investigation which is going on in Washlng- H fill If M on there should come a decree which would put H ( , &L ll ' your church out of politics? H 'I f Is it not enough for a few not overly bright B i . i men to manage the religion of a great people, fl f III without trying at the same time to dominate their fl .; ji ', business and their votes? fl i llll i Look up and ask yourselves why you should fl i 1 not be as free, and should not nurse the same am- fl Mmi ; v bitions and hopes and have as fair a field as Am- fl j ;'m i ! ericans have in other states. m hm ! |