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Show I BE AN AMERICAN. Tlio Mt. Pleasant Pj'ramid asserts that this journal "has not missed a single opportunity to snub and defame tho dominant church of Utah." I is our contemporary still in the toils? "What has I this journal said about the "Dominant Church?" H public men are legitimate subjects of fair criti-I criti-I ti&m. Is the criticism of the acts of certain men H an attack upon the creed? When men use their HE official place in a church to work out purely earth- ly purposes, cannot that fact be stated without its I being construed as an assault upon the church? I When those same men in their conduct of a B religious office bring contempt upon the Govern-I Govern-I ment of the United States is it an assault upon a church to call ahalt? Is being an American, proud and jealous of American institutions, a sign B of hate? We would say to our neighbor of the B Pyramid: "Be as good a saint as you can but do B not forget to be a live and aggressive American," B The rights of churches are very many and many B of them are very sacred, but none are so sacred B as are the inherent rights of men, and these B latter ought to bo the chief solicitude of all church B men, for when they are for a little time disre-B disre-B garded, then the church itself suffers, for it is B because of tho rights of man that all reasonable B rights of the church are cherished among men B and defended by men, and when the directors of B any creed make that creed supreme regardless of H mans' own inherent privileges, then no good is H accomplished, rather irreparable damage to the H power and prestige of the creed itself, is sure to follow. |