Show AMERICAN COLUMN advertising edited by tile me american party the american party in salt lake I 1 city was organized with only one hundred and twenty five names last week the americans 0 of box elder county had more than names now it has names two questions have been submitted to the committee of the party the first is can a mormon be cut oft off the church for foi joining the american party the second is does the american party favor disfranchisement to the first question az we answer no A man cannot be cut oft off the church tor for any political reason you have been toli the leaders are arc not in polities politics to exit cut a man off for that would prove that they were the government would cot permit the franchise to be interfered with in that way besides beside s the vote Is secret arid no one can find out how you vote our answer to the second question is that there Is less reason to fear disfranchisement it if the A merican american ticket is elected than it if the he republican ticket la is elected elec teil if there Is any disfranchisement it must be by setting aside statehood and congressional act the senate committee has as found that there Is a union of church and state in utah and that the pledges made before statehood have not licen been kept the thing that menaces the people oi of utah today Is the majority church and state now then the american party in utah have declared against a union of church and state it ha has 8 de declared C lared that the pledges made before state continued on page two AMERICAN COLUMN continued from first page hood against interference in politics and business should be honored will it harm barm the people tor for a party to declare that the lays should he be enforced will it harm the people of utah for or a party to bemani ilenia nd that the there re shall be no union of 0 church anti and state does it harm the people of utah to insist that the covenants made which paved the way for statehood should be held inviolate if you think it will dont join the american party because that Is what it stands for eight men in the american party have invested oooo in utah property will they harm the state where their money Is invested salt lake city Is better governed and it is more prosperous than it ever was because the americans are in control it if the americans are elected congress will know that a majority of the people of utah oppose a union of church and state and then it will be satisfied then there will be no danger of but there Js danger from the election of the republican ticket why because that party in its convention voted down a resolution that it opposed a union of church and state the republican party of utah is appealing to the religious prejudices of 0 mormon people in order to get ahem them to vote as a unit think of it they are not appealing to party principles they are not asking them to break the social compact and vote as mormons cormons mor mons if the republicans are sustained in these positions then there Is danger of state statehood bood being taken away awa then there is real danger of these republicans discarded tile the flag as their emblem the republican party in utah stands for far retrogression and retro betro egression gres sion means dishonor and dire misfortune Is fortune the republicans are filling the cup cull of religious bitterness it is doing all that it can to bring tb utah the terrible night that we had all hoped that it had passed through you can be a republican or a demo crat nationally and at the same time locally you can put state above party and vote the american ticket mankind is struggling up into the light of a higher civil iza tion weara deep 1 ly concerned with whatever promotes or impedes its progress the true test of citizenship toda today is do you believe in your state constitution will you keep keen the oath you took to obey it it if so you will oppose a union of church and state cotrue no true man can refuse refuge to receive the truth from any quarter choose a course along the lines of honor integrity and truth |