Show OUR ANOMALOUS POSITION crosmon jr 1110 gate term or of officio as of utah in covorsi expires ct iiri with this iliin session BC banon non and wo we aro are of the opinion that no nun dian li is more granv agrati r red las it for wo we are arc satisfied sati fiol from a 1 Is personal rs nal knowledge of sir mr il private fealin feeling F that ihil his conscience has been severely strained atra ancil of 1 ditc itc oscr ala Us duly as a saint 6 lo 10 remain fAith faithfull fill to the interest of oatha cho kingdom and obey counsel mr hooper liaa represented utah or rather mr 11 r youns young in ia congress fw fur be ayt ica boici and although not a pr chiel polygamist itt hns has labored lab oreil faith ma rully I 1 y arid and diligently to save polygamy I 1 in I 1 1 y beth been in big exertions to arv tild passage or of billj bill chith alin h world act to his eno ani in every wiy way w iy has hai bryen him ditl a faithful 1 bercant to the kingdom anil it is mainly owing to lo these ricas that clint be has hai had bail more lati ILL tula asa 48 aamli Sam 10 li at t home botu e than the ordinary Binin liora hence the ful lowing bf counsel m iff ecclesiastical mawri has baa never been stringently ell cn arci fr cI iu in liti case mr lie his baure l abroad as a leader of or ut at loat loa lo 10 t lio lie has becu M W eu nid n id C red in political circles kt at lorne lome li it stated by bid weld in the iha church to rol follow low tile the die of the his powers Is 3 minister ton hare thus boon been curtailed in lion ion to the ecclesiastical latitude allow ed cd him we regard mr hooper M more oro in the light of an ambassador to a foreign instructions tocarra to carry our tbt nui it a representative of utah to the american congress and A I 1 is is ty tho general tenor ar of his representation of utah affairs lor for aithel h to he has only represented the mormon tide of every question or without piling the slightest attention to tho the willies or desires of tho the minority party floso sentiments he bo lit at heart favors but which as yet he has not net had bad tho the moral morril courage to openly end endozo orve i dalre wo aro are sati satisfied fied that thant the delegate reemts in the house of depre was morean more an effort to prove faithful to his trust to the kingdom and tl 0 the man by whose grace he ha has enjoy ej th hopoi of appearing on the to floor oro of f the house than to do justice to his own convictions of the trus isitt il t 0 a iq in uh mr hooper has been true to his party and to his bis own private interests inter chip but wo we charge him with having trueL led to the priesthood rather than helping work but reforms in utah which he hi ha a privately endorsed this being tho the case with mr BIT hooper it is tafe safe to affirm that utah las has had canough of priesthood I 1 in a co Gongre n g r a ai Wi for or if the small IlMo amount with which chic 1 tie b Q hp has been endowed by tho the church acts so detrimentally to tho the interest of the minority party of utah what are ara wo we to expect from apostle cannon whose status in the priesthood I 1 is bu but t on botch below that ot of frigham B rig him a young nod and who is ig a practical al ilpo I 1 ar gambit a of tho elie ran keest A tj pe fie As b has as be been cn stated slated as well have brigham in in con gross grem to represent utah as george Q cannon lif mr r hooper way may again be no noo m I 1 alfed nailed when mr youns young finds his C experiment X p e r ament or lk nailing colo colon n at washington ington I 1 to be a failure but as he has bos outlived his day of congressional usefulness S arid and as there is every probability of a new election being ordered we h hope ope that next delegate will be a ins man who thoroughly understands the situation who will trul yand laith fally represent the interests of all cl clashes aKes mormon and gentile and who will be impregnable to the sophis sophistries tries ot of tho thi theocratic leaders hereafter we wa want no priesthood to represent us in congress no do priesthood in our legislature and city Council and no Prebi presidents dents and apostles filling sc secular C U poil long this is u the very problem to be st solved avd and it if con congress grem dill aid utah in sev severing cring the bond which has existed hero between church and state our next Delci delegate ate will be ba not a minion of priesthood but a genuine representative td of tho 1110 people cople |