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Show THE DIFFERENCE. H Not long since a gentleman asked the writer H of this what difference it made, who, if an honest H man, represented Utah in the Senate of tho United H States. The answer can best be given in tho H words of Wendell Phillips. He said: "The Purl- I tans believed that institutions wero made for man. H Europe established a civilization, which, like that H of Greece, made tho state everything, the man ' j H nothing. The man was made for the institutions; H tho man was made for tyio clothes. The Puritans I said: "No, let us go out and make clothes for tho H man; let us make institutions for men." , H Down through all the weary years of colonial history to tho period of the Revolution, the Purl- I tan pulso beat in unqualling, never-faltering al- - H legiance to this principle of the sacredness of man. I Let us hold on to it; it is to be our salvation." I When the pioneers came to this valley their I chief established a rigid, unyielding theocratic gov- I ornment. The people wero taught that their first I duty was to obey without question the instructions I of those who, by divine authority, had a right to I Instruct them. Tho people accepted the servitude I and thore was such a reign of intolerance as was I never before seen in America. Jt.was vastly less I elastic than tho government of tho Czar or the ) I Sultan. Tho people voted as they wero told; they ostracised those who did not believe as thoy be- I llevod and when a United States judge, sont here, I on opening court declared that it was their duty to subject themselves to tho just laws of our government, gov-ernment, they wore ready to mob him and did grossly insult him. Tho belief in tho righteousness of all that is still cherished by the chiefs of tho Mormon church. They promised, to secure statehood, to take their hands from off the people and to permit them to think and vote as they might please. They did not keep their word for two years after securing secur-ing statehood, thoy wero, as evor, determined to make the state, under the dominance of their creed everything and man nothing, except a creature crea-ture to work, to pay tithing and to obey counsel. It was to further this determination that ono of their Apostles was "set aside" to be tho representative repre-sentative of this creed in tho Senate of tho United States. With another liko him in tho Senate from Colorado, another from Wyoming, another from Idaho, and another from Nevada, they could promise either political party the electoral votes of all these states and with the concurrence of the President of their creed could deliver the goods. And if Mr. Smoot is seated, it will bo but a burlesque bur-lesque for American citizens in this state to maintain main-tain party organizations and to struggle for the 1 ascendancy of of the principles they profess, for it will be as the First Presidency decides to have it. Moreover, it will be a notice to the young men m , I ;, ' in Utah, that if thoy want anything like business or BJ f. iJL I political lire-motion, the only channel to seek for J J 1 IL j it must bo through the Church, and the Church B 1 i , J i ; j will bo everything, men nothing. |