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Show I SEE HERE, JOE. i United States Attorney Joseph Lippman, a word with you. By the grace of God and Senator Kearns you occupy a high position as a member of the Federal court of Utah. Joseph, you must not for-; for-; set that. "What would you think were you to hear ; that Judge John Marshall had slipped away to I Ogden to manipulate some petty political deal be- tween a political machine and a political church? i It would not look well, would it, Joseph? It would look just as badly in you were you as exalted as Judge Marshall, and, in your ear, Joseph, if you keep in that business you never will be exalted. Next, people will be saying that when that office ; a was given you there was an expressed or implied II contract on your part to help the Junior Senator's 1 1 machine, either as an engineer or just an ordinary stoker, as the Senator might determine. Let that I belief get out, Joseph, and your standing as United I States District Attorney will be lowered. Once 1! fastened on, Joseph, you can never get that pilch off your hands. Reed Smoot is a good man. For all that we know to the contrary, he may' be a .good apostle, but for Senator, think of electing a man whose abilities could never awaken a twinge ; of envy or jealousy in the heart of him who, under Providence, will be senior Senator from Utah after the fourth of next March. Do you want to be a party to that, Joseph? Have you no love for Utah, 110 pride in Utah? Then what's the use? You are " almost as big a man physically as was Patrick Henry; send for his lamp of experience and see if it will not guide your footsteps up to a height where you will see that if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not want Apostle Smoot to become Senator, your work in his behalf will be vain; if it does -want him for Senator, it will, regardless re-gardless of your efforts, be very apt to have him Senator, unless at the last moment, for a consider-' consider-' !. atlon, the leaders shall become impressed with a belief that the apostle's apostolic duties demand I that he waive his personal political proclivities I and settle down for another season to his mission-1 mission-1 arj ork among such heathens as Ed Loose, Judge I John Booth and others out and in the asylum at I Proo. Joseph, had you studied the scriptures as I you should in your youth. you would have learned I that it is useless to try to down fore-ordination. I H it is to be it will be. You are yet young, Joseph. To use a milesian expression, don't put your future behind you. These are days when people are watdilng; every political hair that you drop now J will be picked up and numbered. Be careful about their color, Joseph, lest they come up to disconcert discon-cert or confound you in the future. Do not for a moment imagine that an infallible machine living to unlawful cohabitation with an infallible church WU make you infallible. There are fellows taking otes. Suppose you do your part to carry out a t certain political programme this week and next week you are called upon to prosecute some off-colored off-colored female charged with being a procuress; will you be able to summon up the gall to try to convict her before a jury of her peers? Go slow, Joseph. Can a man touch pitch and not be defiled? |