THE AND STATE GREAT cOMPI complaint Aln lias his b been een made concerning utah tor for having within its borders an incongruous mixture ol of politics and rd religion ligion the charge has often been preferred against her that there exists amongst a portion of ha aft people an amalgamation of church and state we have taken frequent occa 1 slon sion to point out this anomalous condition of aff affairs aies but in the face of the most potent evidence our averments aver ments have been met by the flattest kind of of denials still the existence of ft a mar biag relationship between religion and politics in utah remains a living f fact a ct i this operative cooperative co association dates backa considerable period and the evidences of it have cropped out coni ia the concerns of this territory at different times in the As an instance it will be remembered by the older residents of et the territory that on sunday may eth 1882 a meeting was held in the methodist church ta in this city it was announced to be one among ten thousand others under the auspices of the same denorn denom nation that were to be held on the same date the object of ings was to arouse an anti 1 mormon 11 feeling eeling in the populace of A the country an and d bring a pressure to bear upon congress all to crush the latter day clay saints the salt lake meeting was presided over by the rev mr rudisill who with other members of the cloth represented the religious the anti mormon love feast while governor 51 murray rray J R debride Mo Me Bride J S boreman aft and I 1 others duly represented the nobui I 1 caM section each F side ide hobnobbing hobnob bing with the other and getting in its work according as it was religious or political it was wag a touching spectacle to 10 see these astute clergymen and cute cote politicians figuratively falling ailing upon each others necks and weeping caving a common purpose in view only operated from two separate st standpoints midpoints one the obtaining of religious religions advantage n and the other political pre emin eze ence it was anthe one side several hearts under clerical costs coats beating in tuneful harmony toa to a sweet anti mormon symphony rattled under political vests on the other in speaking ki in on the occasion mr ru dilill ame asserted reed that methodism had always occupied a front rank in opposing ill mormonism and principally through the operations of hi his church congress had been compelled to pass the edmunds law although that measure was not near what was wanted being but a step in the desired direction one oneat of the political spotters spout ers of the occasion with the ge olus with which he seemed to be car ried away ann announced oin I 1 C e d the star startling tibi g fact act that he felt himself to be 0 oft that particular evening and for the purpose sought an excellent method lat being not only a politician but an ac infidel or at least understood sto 0 o be i it t is doubtful whether this conversion lasted beyond the pronouncing of the benediction which dismissed the meeting however the whole pro beeding showed with much clearness clea a marcellous marvellous marvel marv loua ellous between church and state why it is not longer ago than a year that another striking illustration 01 ol of the union of church and state in thir chii territory was furnished ane utah commission has for several years made two annual reports to the secretary of the interior the one issuing from the majority wid and 11 the other from toe minority 13 the former being stive of tile the major portion of f the population of utah and the latter aim ing to be fair to all classes of the peo pie at a conference of the presbyterian church I 1 held in sanpete county a number of red r ed liot anti ami mormon resolutions were adopted they advocated the deprivation of aers of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints by congress of all 11 political rights thus he be formulators showed as a church a disposition to interfere in a religious religions capacity with the affairs kofl of the state toe the politicians who comprised the majority of the utah commission Jom oni mission recognized this union ol of church and state as eminently proper this recognition was accorded in a most demonstrative way dav the commissioners ners embodied the presbyterian church resolutions in their annual re nort to the secretary of the interior thus the resolutions were made m ade a L por tion of a state document und ind officials official eap enythe the weight of their political influx to help along a religious crusade such h proceedings donot do not indicate indica if thle it 0 el 0 oi church and state what in m of common sense would then we have the anti mormon organ of this city following in the wake of the political roustabout who at the methodist meeting 0 of f may 1882 declared dec I 1 I 1 d himself a devout methodist for z the e occasion this unreasonable red hot paper is now assum ins ing the role of a most devout metho dle sheet hence its absurd and frequent chuckle fedr ver a few alleged conversions from the ranks of the mormon to those of the methodist church it is barely possible that the ecstatic paragraphs may be written by the baud band of the minister whose name has figured so conspicuously in them one Yran franklin kiln but that does not relieve the excessively political sheet from the role of methodist 1 organ so fir far sa as it goes goe in that direction to say aay the tae least it lends itself as ft a con conduit clait to carry off religious religions slops oar readers have doubtless perused the dispatches that have riven given particulars regarding some movements at in IB the direction ol of clothing utah otah with statehood As asa matter smatter ol of course tola this has agitated the portion 1 I the minority here who are opposed to the political advancement of utah so io long ions as they are not the majority they rhey are taking steps accordingly and ire are whipping up the religious wing of the political combination to bring it into church and state may march was wad a unit a alt one and inseparable now and forever hand hafid in hand band as an ardent stalwart bridegroom and a loving and devoted bride on a honey abon excursion to garfield Garfi eid that tile they might bathe to together getker in the pool of ct politics the chairman of the liberal party i has sent out circulars to i LII all parts ol of utah instructing the to get up protests against statehood the the following paragraph to the priests of the different sects we request the christian clergymen of the territory to call upon members of their respective churches throughout the union to emphatically protest probest against the movement lor for the introduction of an ua republican and priest ridden state into the union candidly is not this another evidence of the union of in utah not only this but it is au an attempt on the part of those en casing it in this ibis business to bring this nation into the pitiable and ing ine PO position tou ot of a priest ridd ridden en conn try the priests ar are 5 not only asked as their part of the pro gramme to interfere in matters of state elate in a purely local capacity bat to urge their fellow clergymen throughout the land to direct their church members to brini bring a pressure to bear upon che state affairs of the nation atlar at large ge and use a compulsory process the he national legislature in order to attain their desires and designs it his has been exemplified times wit with h outnumber out number that those atio abc have laid Isid the charges of priestly interference priest riding and union of church and state stale at the doors of the cormons mormons Mor mons 1 I 1 are glaringly guilty of those sets acts theme them selves to cover up op their own doing they cry atis you ate are guilty but bat whoever expects from the sourd source referred to will meet with disappointment I 1 I 1 une one thing iscle is clear jr in confection all disclaimers the pressure brought to bev bear against the atter atif d saints being laffely largely in the nature of V religious as wel well as crusade e fall all flat fiat before the tum on ol of 13 fountains Bount ains of evidence establishing the fact the question resolves itself into this point whether the nation and the congress are to joe be dictated in a coercive and unscrupulous spirit regarding the treatment of utah by a comb combination of politicians and priests