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Show WHY HE IS FOUGHT. It pleases a certain class to assert that Apostle Smoot is opposed as a Senator only by disappointed disappoint-ed ofilceseekers and zealous churchmen. That has been so from the first. In the old days when the News was making its stand for polygamy, It day after day and year after year, reiterated the charge that the agitators here had no higher purpose pur-pose than to bring on a disturbance through which they could confiscate the property of Saints, though it could not name one instance where a Gentile Had wronged a Saint, and though it knew that the taxes of Gentiles were 25, BO and 100 per cent higher than were assessed to Mormons. Mor-mons. It is the rule in the United States that where there is an overwhelming majority that belongs to one church or one party the offices are filled from members of that party or church. Sensible people expected that would be the rule in Utah when the dominant creed here got well seated in the saddle. It is not that Apostle Smoot is a Mormon that he Is opposed, but because be-cause as one of the fifteen men who rule the Mormon Mor-mon people in all countries, his election is a perversion per-version of the principles on which our government govern-ment was founded, it is a direct surrender of the state to the church in Utah and could forty-five more just such men be elected from the various states, only the forms of our government would remain in Washington; the real f"vernment would be in this city, because Reed Smoot is but M a subject, both in political as well as religious JM matters, to Joseph F. Smith, and the dream of his life is not to serve with honor as a Senator of the United States, but through that position to hasten JM the "building up of this kingdom." ;fl Wo all Imow what that means. It is but the ' absolute rule Of this people by the one who hap- M pens to be the head of the church, and Reed M Smoot is in the direct line of such promotion. , That is what absorbs his mind; he dreams when ( no, too, will be hailed as God's vicegerent, it is there his fealty is centered, and his allegiance 'H to any other power on earth is a delusion and l snare. M There is another serious reason why he should M be fought to a finish. To seat him would be a H direct notice to every young man in Utah, that it is only through the Church that promotion can jH come. There are a hundred Mormons in Utah M wTio have earned a right to recognition, who are jH vastly better qualified for the place than is Reed M Smoot, but they are out in the cold as much as M Gentile ofilceseekers are, because they do not be- .fl long to the right families, and have at times jH shown a little manly Independence of character. The purpose is to build up an ecclesiastical 1H aristocracy in Utah, an aristocracy of a few, H while the masses are to be satisfied with obeying jH counsel and paying their tithing. It was partly H for this that apostles, seventies, presidents of H stakes, high priests, bishops, elders and teachers H all thronged the conventions last summer and made regular ward politician's struggles to be H sure to nominate enough men to the Legislature t who would in turn vote for Reed Smoot for Sen- H ator. It was not American politics, it was merely furthering the intentions of the men here who are determined to build up a half-barbarous Asiatic H kingdom on our soil. M |