Show RELIGION AND POLITICS mine imme Fre frederika foederl derl nielson the norwegian actress evangelist will hold a six weeks revival here in the fall As every mormon scandinavian converted means a liberal voter next february friends of the scandinavian methodist church think the city liberal committee ought to subscribe towards toward the re support rev bev jesse J esse smiths smith 6 efforts last winter made probably liberal voters many of whom live in the first precinct w where here liberal voters are much needed judge baaken felt so good over what was being done at the second east street church that he serl seriously oua meditated going round the there re an and taking chand in the exhorting himself we clip the foregoing paragraph from the organ of the so called liberal party which raves like att aa inebriated maniac over the slightest relation between religion and politics that it can discover or pretend to discern in the 14 mormon church As we hive have demonstrated many times time the crusade against the people of this territory has been of a at a political character the priests and the politicians have coined in a concerted attack upon the mormon 11 church and the mormon people the sorrows and deprivations wb which ich so many lu in persons endured here during the feign of terror under the spy and spotter system and the nocturnal anal ral ra klings dings of a horde of mercenaries were the result of that coalition and the extreme legislation which many members member of congress now regret way be traded traced to the same sot source tree the woods of the Apor apostle itle paul are peculiarly applicable in this connection tion therefore thou art inexcusable 01 man whosoever thou art aft that Jud judges gest for wherein thou another thou thy thyself for thou that judges doest the same things the influence which these liberal scribes suspect and 14 insinuate sinuate as exercised in 11 tji they ey eagerly endeavor to use themselves ohl by all means let the lib eral committees subscribe auba cribe liberally to I hire sensational revivalists reviva lists and actress evangelists to snuffle in the churches and shout in the streets for the purpose of converting folks into liberal voters there will be no uniting of church aud and state or mingling of religion and polities politics in this of course there would be if a mormon bishop was to make a political announcement no or to advise people to vote any particular ticket or urge them to unite in order to carry an election that would be an offense against our political institutions sufficient to justify the total disfranchisement of every mormon in the territory this sectarian political preaching would be just the thing for the liberal missionary to washington he would shine betterin far better in the political pulpit than he did before a congressional committee he could garble mormon textbooks and draw unwarranted inferences and bamboozle the uninformed with much greater hopes of success because nobody would be at hand who would care to expose his misrepresentations why not press into the service all the disappointed office seekers and political dead ducks who hanker after a chance to make it warm for the cormons mormons Mor mons and to show their zeal in the I 1 liberal cause providing it will pay we could name several of this class who for a pecuniary consideration would second the pious efforts of the reverend exhorter and manufacturer of liberal voters and n might make a gain of another hundred on the list hat it is wicked treasonable un american subversive of every P principle rin ciple of good government for a mormon 12 elder to enter the political field or even to look over the fence but a liberal evangelist may occupy the ground and make Libe liberal raP voters by a religious process and a revival method and it will be so right and republican and proper that subscriptions from c liberal political committees ought to roll in with a richness that will fatten his ribs and cause him to weep sanctified tears of eJoy wherever liberal voters are much needed an actress evange list di two and a reverend revival lot or so should be at once secured or some of the returned and chopfallen place hunters should be set to work on a suitable salary with a prayer book a collection plate and a registry list then with the ogden liberal ll tactics repeated the criminal exclusion of lawit ful voters from the pod and the fraudulent deposit of the ballots of nou non residents liberal religious victory might be hoped for at some no distant date methodism in politics being tessea essentially liberal and right and mormonism in polities politics emphatically cally obnoxious and wrong we have proven beyond refute tin that in utah the affat affairs of the church and those of state are entirely separate so far as marmoll mormonism exercises any power its enemies endeavor to make it appear that if an elder of the church accepts a civil office or acting as i a citizen works for the success of hia big party ticket danger menaces the institutions of the country and the church is dominating the state the proposition is absurd and 06 tb object for urging it deceptive an and now the same fellows who resort to such rubbish and callet argument favor the special mingling of re laiglon and polities politics and the use of the lowest form of sectarian trickery td 1 further their own political schemes schemed and win votes to their side W we think the influential men among the mormon 11 people have been if anything too inactive in political matters every citizen A 0 of this country should have some voice and influence in public affairs A 0 1 ordina ordination to an ecclesiastical dambe is no bar the exercise of the 00 rights of citizenship those who pretend that it Is know better and never make such stich a pretence predence pre tence in reference to ecclesiastical influence on their own side it is simply a shallow pretext it is time in our opinion for every man of influence in this coca to use it on the side of good government and the rights of the m majority and abid no man should pay nay any attention to the sophisms sophi sms and ad slurs of unprincipled scribes who while protesting against rel religion igdon i j polities politics would if they had th the means engage the services of all 01 th priests and clergymen in christen dom to p preach reach I 1 their kind I 1 of politics politic and pray and slug sing and wheedle and bamboozle converts into voting for their measures aud and th their ek ticket we favor the continuance of sepa rate and distinct organizations A 01 the church and of the state W believe that neither should dominate domi nat the other but we would not gi sive much for a religion that that h had ad no ia fluence upon a filani mans I 1 actions whether as a church rember member a 2 head or part of a family an integer I 1 in sob society lety a el citizen tizell it a voter aa 0 officeholder office mee holder or oi in any 0 ther other capa itkor position in the community or inobe to the nation let det every member of f the peoples peopled part pari wake up and be a live member and work for the 16 of right and the defeat of trickery and wrong and bring to bear r for these purposes whatever influence he has so long as he in frIy bluges ages upon nob odys rights or liberties |