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Show . .- , . , t " INTOLERANCE. '" JTor many ye irs tho people of Utnh wore divided, not on inrly llnj.-!'. bid on what wu nlny caj 'churcTi llne" At lust It was HKiectl, Ihe years uro. (hut all tho people of I ho Stale should brow away church prejudice und that poliTlcal dtmp-tii.s Initdd bu ioiiducied on party lines nnrl that we li'iubl live Us one people. We believe hut sucji wns the only proper course, und uNoliullovod the i), us wu do now, Unit ihe tiieiiilicrs of the doiiiluaiit ehurch wero n 1 cere In I heir prort's ftloim of pollllcul belief. ThU IngV fall u member of the dominant chinch wu nouiiniited us Conressiiiuu lo represent repre-sent Ihe people of Utah. He was nominated nom-inated nb a Di'timcrat, In a Demiicrmlc Slut" convention, und wits cledod by tho Democratic majority of ihe voiers of tlio Slate. No 0110 eontends but that Mr IIoIktis Is a consistent tntn-berof'ihe tntn-berof'ihe Aiormnn ehiireh, Ju Trt'nl o universally tccounlked as an able and brilliant man, nnd even the Salt Lnkn Tribune admits Jds elect Inn was fair. Yet a mltfhty storm" was raised against IiIh bcloK sealed In Congress, Iiccmiimi In territorial days beforo thu untl-pol.vKumv untl-pol.vKumv manifesto ho hatt taken into himself more than one wife, and now feels duly bound to support those wives and their children. This Unlit tins developed into a church (hihl, hot on the part of 'tlio Mormon church, but on tho pirt of tho Ctn 1st Ian churches hero and elsewhere who seem to tie concentrating llndr efforts UKulnst Itoberts because he Is u Mormon. Mor-mon. In fact throiiirh all the Ivixtimi papers which are venomously flulitliiK our repri'Sontatlvrt-eleet. who ant qttot-au qttot-au false interviews, and whosu every claim to cotiI(ieraiion Is their support by Christian churches, the only pioudnent vein running through their opposition Is that "Itoberts is ' 'Mormon nnd that Mnnnonism mut bo killed." Worcjjiet that fcnine newspapers and niuiiy' so-called so-called Christian nilnlMera ln Utah are ugolstlng In this llht even to thu extent ex-tent dt nt least quasi etidoisemetit of palpable untruths. This Is what we regard as Ihe height of religions Intolerance, Intol-erance, tho acuta of chinch Interference Interfer-ence jn politics. More tiau anything else.wheu li departs from Ihelioundaiy nf truth and Justice U Is un-CIn Istiiiti-like, Istiiiti-like, and transcends any chinch inter-fereueo inter-fereueo of which thu dominant church of Utah has over been guilty. The Dkmocuat has heretofore expressed these same sentiments in which wo believe and would not at this time consider a repetition npcesary were l. not for thu' venomous attack upuu us by the so-called Christian Attvecntu of this city. Tho editor of that paper attempts to defend uttacks upon Mr. Roberts without using either logio or reason, untl falling, wo suppose, even In his own mind to mako a point of his aridnieut, winds up villi a personal ttttaelc on thu cdhor of The Demochat Wo are prep.i red to defend all attack of this nature and trust tho Advocate editor ti ns his own morality well protected. pro-tected. . Wu shall bu pleased at all times If necessary to enter into a discussion dis-cussion nf comparative religious and uon-rellglous mnrallty. |