Show WEIGH VEIGH IT WELL EljI EljIe I We e want ant to lo talk frankly t and plainly plain plain- r ly 1 1 r a few moments with the men and md women of the Republican party who have In Ill the past Imst voted with th the 1 American American who party palt or are atC tentatively considering that thai action We e are arc per per pcr- 1 I feci aware of ot the causes cause which may dIsturb their really fealty to lo their own party palt and also un understand that they do not I. I contemplate a permanent departure in In national affairs any nn case they are still as 1 firmly Republican as ever eyel and would woud expect of or course to lo vote vole the Republican presidential ticket al nt althe atI I the next election But meantime theIr thou thoughts have been played upon cleverly b by persistent forces force and the tendency to loosen Joo party bonds for forthe t the present has almost become a re re- re- re solve In such case caso it Is 15 fair to look Into the future as well vell as feel the argument argument ment of ot the past And sure surely I we can n speak frankly The seriousness of the situation seems to warrant the same open discussion that two friends 7 I. I might In Indulge sitting silting in the seclusion of a a home You are not a Mormon Some things In the theor theory or practice of oC Mormons Mor Mor- I mons offend you ou It is because of oC that I offending that you ou frankly question 1 the binding obligation of ot your our party part An And Just when you OU are discussing the problem with yourself comes the strong assertive force Corce of oC the American Amen Ameri- can party part politician making more the view which has been positive tentatively tentatively ten ten- presented an and It amounts al almost almost almost al- al most to a conviction con You are opposed to polygamy You are opposed to Its practice You know that a certain number of men in Fn this city have plural wives and nd tJ that at their relations with those women women women wo wo- men Is the tho usual relation of ot husband and wife wICe You are not at all convinced convinced con eon vinced that new pol polygamous marriages are being contracted You even recognize tho the fact that a n very large proportion of or the Mormon church membership has never been In polygamy amy my that the rising element of oC the church In both theory and practice Is opposed to it and It-and and you ou will cheerfully cheerful cheerful- ly h concede perhaps that the church Itself would woul not restore pol polygamous marriages if It it were suddenly left len en enI entirely entirely en- en free to follow Collow Its own InI in inclination In- In I I I In the matter The more mor you S cons consider der that phase the themore more more you are sure it would not f Yet there stands before you OU the r fact Men of ot that faith are living In I polygamy The They are offending the spirit grit of ot the age by possessing a ac c plurality of wives And little I. I L J are aie being born of ot that relation Y That Is the case t S S S S t Y You are asked to lo vote vole the American l ticket as your our expression of hostility h to the objectionable features of ot tho the Mormon church I Down In III the quiet of your heart you ou J j do not quite feel that the reason Is strong enough for you have recognized the tho fact that polygamy is either d dying dy ing or d dead ad You try to strengthen the sentiment with mental Iterations of oC reported instances where the law has been eva evaded c but the effect is not noth h quite adequate Your eye c falls tails on the S t. t 4 t repeated declaration of or the American merican i f party part politician that the Mormon t church Is Interfering In politics that 1 there Is no line dividing Democrats from rom Republicans in that communion 5 an and that any member of tho the church churchwill 1 will vote as his spiritual superiors tell VS J S hIm to vote vote vote-or or will follow tollow what course he knows those superiors want him to follow tollow That soothes your our re resolve re- re f 5 solve for a moment and then your yourt our ourt t t. active mind recall instance after aCter In Instance Int In- In t S stance where the reverse erse has occurS occur occur- f S i red You try iry to lo fa say that these are J isolated circumstances an and do cIa not nol I prove proe the tile case But it falls fails to conS content content con con- S tent you When the matter has has' been j canvassed In your our mind at length you ou sc drop it for Cor life has other demands t t r. r And the last thought leaves you just justi justl l i I o where there you OU started stalled You MAY vote ote J the American ticket Next day hay or the day ay after afler a Republican Re He- Ite- Ite publican less established In the history history his his- r tory an and the life of ot Utah Ulah than are you one more Inore Inclined to a belief that Utah may live ll In Iii peace pence If IC It wants lo to to S who comes from other fields field and has hasS S the Immature Ju Judgment of of one who has not heard all nIl the stories you ou could coul tell and he talks taUs to you about loyalty loyal loyal- i ty to tho the party part and you ou leave him S. S regretting that you ou cannot see everything everything every ever thing with his eyes so far as political political political cal action Is 15 concerned but sensing a S. S sort of ot pity for him because he has not gone through the shifting shirting scenes of oC S. S sixteen years a ago o as you did ld He has hasS S not been here lon long enough S S S S There Is a bad condition of or the theS blood in which small doses oses of certain S S 5 J I f lf I 1 1 11 y i remedies are nrc helpful It has beci heen said ald that that IC- IC Ifa ICa a little medicine will dc do doa a little little good good a goo good Il deal 11 of or medicine medicine medi medi- cine cire will do o more Dui But the rule does not hold While small potions administered a ad ad- ministered at rare Iare Intervals may maj prove beneficial large huge do doses cs might drive all the cusse cussedness ne q out of the RYS- RYS t tern m In hurry up order an and the effect ct would would be a a. ver very sick man Do y you u know a mAn may be here hereso hereso so long that his Judgment Is warped Do you OU know that while the man o of only a n few years in Utah may be bo Unable unable un un- able ablo to grasp tho the whole of the tho bIg bit subject complicated n as it is with peculiar c conditions his a vis who came here hele before the railroad was completed may be he as bad a n Judge as unsafe an adviser Vcr Very likely this local situation can cai be solved olve b by some somo safe me medium lum be between between be- be tween the extreme course advised bjone by bj byone byone one and the course couse In instinctively instinctive Instinctive- ly I chosen by b the other othel Some Somo men mei have found Cound their heir judgment warped against church bells bell b by having been too near one Some have grown gown In Incapable Incapable incapable In- In capable of looking with level eyes at atthe atthe atthe the scene Icene that Is nearest them thorn with which they are most familiar They feel the Impression lon of or olden Incidents the influence o of conditions which once existed and gauge all their sentiments by that has basis lOSiS Is They un underestimate tho the significance of passing events the tho ef effect effect effect ef- ef of the thc changes which are constantly constantly con con- occurring And do you rou ou know they reveal a tendency to make as much of a mistake as does ho who comes very much lat later r. r Neither of them sees all the picture The newman now new nowman nowman man cannot know of or what happened happen d dIn In n the old days The old man WILL ILL not lot see what is happening in the new days das S S S SIt It is probably a safe thing to say my that hat such Republicans as are alo forced from the ranks and into the American party part fin find the Impelling the Impelling the force ing-force ng force to be tho the Mormons That ThatIs Is s the argument of the American party part leader Look at the matter rather ather closely and you ou will find the tu American party scheme Is an antl- antl Mormon lormon policy polley It is h by no means a demand lemand for equality with the Mormons Mor Mor- mons mona The They have that now It Is n a nar war ar of oC extermination An And nothing short hort of oC It There Thore will vIll be assurances that hat the Mormons take more than thaI a 1 legitimate share In the political control con con- rol of public affairs But being non hull est st jou rou can not help seeing that the rank ank and file of the church does as it pleases leases It would not be easy to find 1 strife more bitter than that between 1 Mormon Republican and a Mormon Democrat You will vill hear hear possibly possibly you ou have said that said that It Is all a pretense with them and amI that when they are arc lone alone the they wink and nod at each other and nd the matter Is arranged and both wIll ill vote one ticket and that ticket wIll be the bethe the one the church desires to have succeed But you ou c can can n not get away o a from the fact act that they do have hav strife You can cannot cannot canot not ot get away from tile the practical demonstration of ot an American party part In n control o of the city right now And It if there had been a n church control knit close enough to give gC you ou any an alarm larm that would not have been There here were vera enough of them to have given Iven en the city election to the Republicans cans or even to the Democrats Democrats bad bad record ecord as that party purry had hat made made made-If If the ic church were exercising an nn influence in- in fluence in politics which menaces the tho freedom of oC any citizen And while on that subject look a 3 little into the matter and an you ou will vIll find there are some Mormons who are goIng goig going go- go Ing ig to vote vole th the American ticket In November No- No ember vember unless the thc leaders and papers of f that party make It Impossible for foran forny an any ny person of ot reasoning power to do so o. o You remember of course that the first three Supreme judges of ot Utah I were Gentiles and that It must have been Mormon votes that elected elected hem You know the significance of that You ou know enow Judge Zane had sentenced a a. goo good man many Mormons to the penitentiary penitentiary lary for violations of the law which forbids the peculiar customs of their religion Yet they elected him because because be he- cause they knew he was was a a. learned man and an honest judge rhe They have supported supported sup sup- ported Gentiles in election They Thoy have havo opposed ed Mormons In every ever elec elec- tion They seem to do pretty prett much as they please while keeping well within the lines Jines that hold hola you ou and anI the tIle rest of oC us to good behavior S S S You meet them In business affairs You associate with them in trade You find t them hem much nuch like llIe other othet men and anO women Some of or them are arc shrewd V and some of ot them are not The Thc rest ofus of or ofus orus us are subject to the same barno limitations Some Sonic of oC them are reasonable an and some SOUle of them are arc not The same ma may with equal truth be said of ot the rest of or us us nut But we have among our Gentile Gentile Gentile Gen Gen- tile population men who rise 1110 head liea and shoulders els el's above the crowd They rhey are known as ns men of oC superior qualities Of or course their thell word Is good Ot Of course their example and their In Influence in- in fluence is for clean citizenship Well Veil they meet Mormons of precisely the same stripe You have havo been in meetIngs meet- meet logs Ings with them You saw sav that Commercial Commercial Com Corn mercial club mt meeting some somo months ago go when the new railroad to EI Ely was vas discussed discussed dis dis- dis cussed and it was a gratification to you ou to know that Mormons there were in Iii full sympathy with the movement as were the Gentiles You saw them In the smaller meeting at the sam samo club when arrangements were made for that a advance vance on Boise and the capture capture capture cap cap- ture of ot the lie Clark cup CUI as proof of Utah's eminence In fruit production There rhen were Mormons with Gentiles sl side c by sl side e You know they were on a fair tall equality Come to to think of It you know the representative men o of that church ChUlch are commendable able on precisely the same lines as ns are Gentiles The They are sober and Industrious husband of ot one wl wife e an and builders of oC decent homes You S I r I know they are arc reputable tradesmen In business q as fiR thc they are arc fervent In spirit spIt and amid with wilh them you can serve the Lor Lord Come Como to think of oC It the they arc are not In favor of polygamy pol am at all allas alias allas all ali as a practice It Is kilo hue for 01 men oi or of different rent churches to analyze cre creeds ll Ii It Itma ma may be bo that ever every Mormon believes believe polygamy was divinely ly ordained am and that It was practiced b by the fathers father of that nation which left a peculiar people as Its heritage to the world But Dut the they feel the Influence of or that larger larger lar lar- ger Apr world which con condemns the practice lice tice which will none of or It which draws the tho line against plurality oi of oC fhe They tb do not practice It They do not countenance it They would not n adopt It If they were tree free to They do 10 accept the laws law of or the thc land lanel They stand beside you Ou In loyal acceptance of the nations nation's You Yoi know that You know them and have hav known them and you ou can not be he made to believe bell ve they th y confess an allegiance to tc tonn nn any church that is superior to the theall all allegiance tIie they owe their thell government It Is an unbelievable thing S S S There Is no dark and mysterious Influence banding them together taking taking tak tak- In ing them out of the category of hu- hu They are the same sarno as other men God made of oC one ono blood all the tho nations of or the lie earth and these are of or the han handiwork of or God The same ame rules that apply aply to human humanity H otherwise otherwise other other- wise aply to them The Time same samo blood runs In their veins The They are subject to the same diseases They fall tall with tho the same death What hat Is he beyond ond that neither you ou nor the they know lwow Thc They think tile thc they do o nn and it ma may be conceded that the they have hare a right to think as they will ilI But neither In their thell coming coining in into Into Into In- In to the world worl nor in their activities while day lay and night weave the warp and woof of their exist existence once nor In the time faced ashen pallor that comes over them when that last Jast dark ark hour strikes are thc they better belter or worse than the rest lor of us Neither are thc they of or a creation apart from ours GUIS Boys the they deserve esene precisely tho the same samo treatment that must be accorded accord accord- 1 e ed oil ever every human being Not a whit whitmore I more more but but no not a whit less I. I I S S S However suppose you take a turn up and down the room and then come comeback comeback bac back to your our chair an and assure yourself yourself your your- our self the they will vill never do right until they hey are compelled to do o right Admitting Admitting Admitting Ad Ad- that there are a no few rew things called right which must be Into nto the life and habit of men In every everyplace everyplace place that there are arc certain things tImings agreed upon by the world as wrong Now Vow go ahead The They do not practice polygamy That i Is there are no new cases of polygamy polygamy polygamy-or or I if there are they hey |