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Show ON THE DEAD SQUARE. The News tells the men of Idaho who object to the appointment of a Mormon Bishop or Elder to a Federal office to "mind their own business." No other people in the world have been so favored fa-vored as the American peopl", hence no other people are so generous, so willing to livejmd let live, so filling to forgive when, wronged, so little lit-tle given to envy, jealousy and suspicion of the motives of others. Considering these facts there must be some reason why some of the Gentiles of Idaho object to this appointment. To get at the facts we must consider the question from all points. The first witness we call is the editor of the News. The lirst question we desire to aslc is whether he approved of the throwing out of the lirst Gentile member elected to the Territorial Legislature of Utah from Tooele county some thirty years or more ago? Did he train the News upon the men who perpetrated per-petrated that act and denounce them? Did he, through his journal, denounce the arbitrary ar-bitrary methods pursued here to deny representation represen-tation and. to enforce taxation upon Gentiles when they were paying half the taxes of the city and state? Did he, carrying on a great daily public journal, jour-nal, ever enter a protest against the incompetent teachers in the public schools and recommend that trained and accomplished teachers should bo employed. Again, we ask him to suppose a case, to suppose sup-pose that Idaho had as large a Mormon population popula-tion as it has Gentile population and as few Gentiles Gen-tiles as it now has Mormons, how long in his estimation es-timation would it be before any Gentile would have an office up there? How long before any Mormon United States Senator in that state would recommend a Gentile as Superintendent of the United States assay office at Boise? The News editor is intimately acquainted with the President of the Church and all the Apostlos. He knows their sentiments. Has "lie ever heard any one of those officials discuss the political situa- tlon in either Idaho or Utah from a standpoint of fairness toward the Gentiles, or has it always been "what is best for our kingdom?" Is it not true, that the building up of the kingdom has always al-ways been the anxiety to the exclusion of everything every-thing else, and does it not go to every relation of life? If tho answer to this last question is "yes," then is it not the business of the Gentiles of Idaho Ida-ho to protest when an important office under the Government is given to one as alien under the government to free institutions as is tho editor of the Deseret News or the President and Apostles of the Mormon church are? When they all combine to elect one of their own kind to office, not because ho is capable or fitted for tho place, but because he pays tithing and will obey counsel even to tho breaking of his oath, is it not time for Gentiles everywhere to determine that they, too, in defense of American institutions, will likewise flock by themselves and work by themselves? We ask the News If it does not believe in a square deal and what it would recommend were the Mormons as much more numerous in the United States as the Gentiles Gen-tiles are? It is useless to put this matter on religious grounds. Religion hap mo bearing in the case, it is simply whether Americans have a right to rule America or not, wd to fight off the aggressions of a purely foreign government here on the soil of the Republic? |