OCR Text |
Show THE TREND OF IT, , H Our friends ,of the new .American party are H sometimes jubilant oy(er the prpspects of the new party.! Did they evfir atop, tp think, that if they H cuuld get every Gentile in Utah h,t,p their ranks, M that still they -would ,be. helpless when it came to H o ection day? Did they ever stop to .think that M may bo the Church is not altogether to blame, be- M cause it has been bosiegQd ever s,inco, statehood i j was gained hy a lot of 'cringing Gentiles to give ' H them its influence, that on quo or twg, occasions H k, has been bought out and out by tG$ritiles who H have more money, than.. principle? Has the new !b1 'party -ever stopped to investigate ,and see how H many young Mormons it has drawn under its con- jH trol? Again, has it ever stopped to think that H with every new convert it obtains just now, it 'H puts the Republican electoral vote in Utah in more B and more jeopardy? . Have any enthusiastic originally Republicans, ever gone out to invest!- H gate how many Democrats they have drawn into M their fold? Of course there is Judge Hiles, Mr. jH Daly, Earley Williams,, arid three or four more, but H Is not that about ail? Do not the Democrats of H Utah intend as a mass to vote the straight Demo- H cratic ticket? Now, if the men who headed this fl movement had waited sixty days, until the com- H ing election was settled, they could novo consist- M ently stated their grievances and called for tho or- vl ganlzatlon of a new party; they could, too, have ap- H pealed to young Utah of both sexes to break away B from the thralldom in which they have been H chained, to come out and, without breaking their jH fealty to the religion under which they were born, H to insist that they are free, that they have been H given their political freedom by tho highest author- H ity of tho Church, their political freedom to think H as they please and to vote as they please. (H Wouldn't such a plan have been better? Would it H not have been more unselfish? Would it not have 9H mafle offllpty the charge that the movement was JH not sprung from principle, hut that it wa3 sprung VJ by a baffleuboss because he had failed to ,nduce H the Church to exercise the very power which he 1H now fills the air with noise in denouncing? We JH are not discussing the principle Invoked as. a H ft-ong one, but we do say that it was sprung at the fl wrong time and it was sprung in such a way and H started by such men as discounts its sincerity, and M awakens the indignation of thousands of honest ! VI H B men who understand the situation, in Utah per- B fectly, and who have never ceased their denuncia- H tions of priojstly interference over the political B opinions of men, and of priestly interference In fl state affairs. |