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Show IT SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE St. Gcorgo needs now only a railroad to be heard from decisively. And railroad rail-road expansion should be one of tho concerns, at this time, of all who arc Interested In the development of southern south-ern Utah. Descret News editorial, January Jan-uary U, lU0i. The Gentiles are coining among us to buy our homes and land. Wo should not sell to them, as they aro onomlcs of the kingdom of God. Said he had not sought to be a vast land owner, but had never sold an Inch of ground to nn enemy of God's work. From Dixie Advocate's report re-port of a sermon of Joseph F. Smith, delivered at St. George In September, 1904. The fact of tho matter Is. when a man says you can direct me spiritually, but not temporally, ho lies In the presence of God that Is, if ho has got Intelligence enough to know what he Is talking about. From sermon of Joseph F, Smith at Provo: Deserot News. April 2G. 1S0C. Of what use is it for tho Descret News to advocato railroad expansion and development of Mormon localities, while Ihc man iu whom tho inhabitants of these localities place all faith and confidence advises thorn fo exclude the enterprising citizens who would accomplish accom-plish desired results if they were permitted per-mitted to do so? President Smith assumes to speak as tho vicegerent of the Almighty, having complete authority over all tho activities activi-ties of all mankind. JIo curses the man who will uot recognize in hi in tho solo repository of this power. Mis prnc tical command fo the saints is to withhold with-hold their lauds from Gentiles who would purchase them. Gentiles build railroads and develop all tho resources of any locality which they enter. They offer to help the Mormon people in every cnlcrpri?o necessary to fho upbuilding up-building of tho community. This is demonstrated in this fit v, whore tho Goutilo element is in the majority. Salt Lake ha? grown so wonderfully since Americanism gained such headway 'hero that its activities could not. well bo endangered, through hostility on tho part of thoso who, like Joseph V. Smith, would drive them from the soil. Yet the men who represent this progress aro tho very oucs who are not to be permitted to onter tho St. Gcorgo country, if the instructions of President Smith aro to bo followed. And it is such teaching as that uttered by Smith that is responsible responsi-ble for tho slow progress herctoforo mado here. For instance, this is from ono of tho hiorarchs of an earlier day: Because outsiders como hero nnd .-iiy that we nro foolish for bolng led by ono man. does that make us so? That man and that woman that aro not willing to ho led by one man, I wish would clear out. for we can get along without them. From sormon of President Hober C. Kimball In Salt Lako tabernacle, Juno 10, lSfiD; Journal of Discourses, volume u, page 263. 0;i Sunda-, January 17th, in fho Salt Lake tabernacle, Elder Andrew Jcnson added his milo to tho general ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical knock by saying that " tho present knock by saying that "tho prescut conditions that exist in Salt Lake City are not tho fruits of Mormonism." It is not Elder Jensen's fault that his knock turned out to bo a boost for Americanism, but it shows tho auiraus of tho high priesthood. Present conditions con-ditions inn' be properly described iu tho sky-scrapers, business institutions, magnificent residences, pavod streets nun sidewalks, transportation facilities, lighting systems, sower systems, railroad facilities, and a thousand and ono other things that never existed here, before all of which, verily, aro not "tho fruits of Mormonism." But tho Descret News should muzzle all such as Eldcra Smith and Jensou. |