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Show THAT COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR. The Z. C. M. I. haa issued a circular appealing to the commercial avarice of the country to interpose in-terpose to prevent the unseating of Senator Smoot and to stop the wrong which Is V "worked upon Utah by the present agitation. 55" "i us that the appeal is too late and that it Is- '&' t-ly t-ly addressed. If the directors had made , peal two years ago and had directed it to A. Smoot, it would have been better. It was jus,. apparent then that the apostle's election wodi result in agitation and possible wrong to Utah as. it now is. The main question is away back of Apostle Smoot. It was a disturbing element in Missouri; it made the Rasters in Illinois; it has again and again filled Utah with heart-burnings it seems to be irrepressible. It can be briefly defined as the determination of the Mormon chiefs to be a law unto themselves and to enforce that law on the soil of this Republic. That determination determina-tion has been tho same whether the enforcement was by "the mailed hand of arBrigham Young or the velvet gauntlet of a Wilford Woodruff. And when Elder Penrose writes a circular for the Z. C. M. I. directors to sign and charges that the agitation "has been fomented by a coterie of sectarian ministers in this city," the indictment will not hold. Civilized society resta upon the surrender by individuals of certain primitive rights for the good of the whole. These surrenders have, through the ages, slowly crystalized into what we call laws, and those laws and their proper execution exe-cution are the only guarantees of order and of peace which society has. Again, when the fathers had framed our free government, the only protection protec-tion they" left the people to insure their freedom, safety and progress, short of an appeal to arms, was an untrammeled ballot. Now from the very first the Mormon chiefs have derided the laws which civilized men in all countries hold as binding bind-ing upon themselves; from the first they have used the American free ballot as an article of merchandise or as an instrument, under compulsion, compul-sion, to further their own purposes. In doing this, too, they have sought to directly violate the command of the Constitution, which they assume as-sume to revere, by keeping the state subject to what they call a church. It is the persistant exercise of this purpose and this power, and not "a few sectarian ministers" that causes the continued excitements, and the truths of the above are what Apostle Smoot is confronted with. The cricular tells us that the apostlo was fairly elected, but it fails to explain that his election was a direct perversion of the spirit of free institutions in as much as the slaves who compassed his election never once thought of Reed Smoot as a man, but as a high priest of the Kingdom of which they are subjects. In the sense of an attack on National safety, polygamy does not count. It Is but a relic of the barbarism of an ancient world and a low state of human progress. It had its origin when women were held but as inferior beings, and our belief is that no man ever entered Into polygamy who had a true man's estimation, respect and affection for his wife. But after all that is but a secondary consideration. consider-ation. Enlightenment will kill polygamy as rad-ium rad-ium kills the germs that burrow in darkness and make cancers. But this prostitution of freo gov HH ernment to the edicts of a coterie of priests who ' H claim that they have a divine right to dictate how H the free American ballot shall be cast, that is H what stirs the country, that Is what Apostle Smoot is on the rack for; that is what singles H out the Mormon church and people and makes H both the subject of suspicion and unrest to tho H American people. And it will go on until it is H abandoned or until the United States declares H t the Mormon system is a menace to free in- ' H tions and that the ballot should never bo jH 1 in Mormon hands. H ' A contemporary hopes that the. investigation , H will go on until it shall be made clear how many Gentiles have solicited political honors from this H same power. We hope so, too. It will be splen- did reading, so fine that it is worth risking any M "wrong" that may come to the state to have the M facts brought out. H |