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Show TrE NEWS AS A GRAVE-DIGGER. The Dcscrct News comments to the extent of more than a column upon the speech of Senator Kearns, and calls It "his dying wail." This obituary trick of the Deserct News ought by this llmo to be wearied with overwork. Every time anybody In high public life, within range of Mormon Mor-mon votes, utters or does anything displeasing dis-pleasing to tho hierarchy, this same Dfiseret News proceeds to pronounce death sentence upon him, or to uttor burial service, or In some other way to Indicate that he Is lost to the world of men and Is on his way to the under world of maggots. The sentiment Indicative of his death is tho most serious and pointed of all the comment made by the church organ upon the terrific arraignment of the hierarchy nnd their practices made by the senior Senator from Utah. His speech remains unanswered because be-cause it la unanswerable. There Is no single statement In that long; and fervid appeal to the country which Is seriously or sincerely disputed by any Intelligent man within this State. And it will go home to the minds nnd hearts of the American people. It was uttered without passion, except that of sorrow that he, a Senator from Utah, had need to thus expose any part of the people of his State to public Judgment. Its sentiments are so visibly sincere as that men who read It will be convinced; and they will feel their rage, rise against the conditions, and the creators of conditions, that have made It necesr sary for a Senator to rise In his place and brand the dominant forces of his State as fnlse to their vows false to the State, false to the country, pro-claimcrs pro-claimcrs of treason, and practlcers of perlldy toward the Nation. The Deseret News may sorrow for him ns one sorrows for the dead; and so long as the hierarchy wields tho power In Utah, so long will he cease to hold public office from this State. He will be ns are other free American citizens, citi-zens, all In level rank, fighting for tho liberties which God conferred upon our forefathers that civilization might live, and which our forefathers conferred upon us with the injunction to forever keep them sacred- It Is probable also that never more, even If he have his own choice, will he aspire to public place.- But his words will live, and all thu grave digging of the News, and all tho retiuiems, and all the hope which prompts the publication of death and burial notices, will be of no avail. From the highest place in the world the accusation hag been made, and it never will be answered. The American people have been waiting wait-ing to know the whole truth, compacted within one utterance or one book. They have it now in the speech of the senior Senator from Utah, And It will be as widely read as widely circulated, In every State. In every city and In every village of the country. That speech makes no pretensions as a death warrant; and yet it Is one. It sounds the knell of somo things that must die lf Utah would live. It sounds the death of this renewal of plural marriage. It sounds the death of this defiance of oath and obligation oath nnd obligation obli-gation made by Joseph F. Smith for himself and his whole people, against unlawful cohabitation. It sounds the death of this commercial com-mercial tyranny, procured and asserted by alleged prophets in the blasphemed name of God, over the inhabitants of this commonwealth. It sounds the death of this disloyalty of the hierarchs under tho flag of Statehood. State-hood. It sounds the death of apostolic Sena torshlps. It sounds the death of the monarchy in Utah, by whatever name it may be called. - While the DeseVet News is In tho grave-digging business" it might con-' tlnue to chant, "I gather them in, 1 gather them in": working with pick and spado to make fitting receptacle for the things that really are dead, or the things that are dying, in the community com-munity life of Utah. If the News really loves this trado It will have plenty of Joy in the burial business: and It will find that It has plenty of coffins on which to throw Its clods, as It has had to cast clods before, be-fore, on the things which it swore would never die, and yet things over which funeral services have been held In the Mormon church In days gone by. |