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Show CHURCH DOMINATION. ' Election rumbles are in tho air of Salt Lake, H and the questions are being nsked everywhere, "what is the church going to do? How do Jones H and Rogers and Peterson (prospective candi- H dates), stand with the church?" Will Utah over outgrow that disgrace? Is it always going to I he necessary for the people of this state to be obliged to consult the church authorities before deciding whether it will be necessary to nomi- I nate a certain set of officers In order to have the I approval of tho church? ' I The shame of the thing is that all such work ' H Js a violation of the spirit of American IptJtu- i I i I fl iKS tIons u is' s0 far as P03811'10 turnIn back lj I B; the wheels of progress for two hundred years. rl It is so far as it goes, the utter nullifying of the I 'I SB work of the immortals who after laying the keel I if I W and launching the great Republic fondly hoped I I Ifi that absolute protection had been given to re- H I m ligion and absolute freedom to the civil govern- H 1 J H ment of the Republic. In the Mormon meeting I I I II houses we hear much of the "building up of tho H ' j kingdom," and that is all right, but when to H jj H build up the kingdom, the state is made subject I ! I ft to the will of a class of men "who have in their I j j W hearts a desire to subordinate everything else H ' i SI) to the building of a kingdom with which the H I I f state has nothing in common, and which Is held H J 1 I , by these rulers to be subordinate to the klng- Hq f I dom, then Americans who love their country Hli -i H scent danger and do not believe that any such H , x menace should be tolerated for a single day. ! Then, too, it can only be accomplished through I the violation of pledges made when the state mm; ft I ji was admitted, and hence infamy is added to the 1 i j I ignominy of the whole miserable business. m 1 1 Our thought is that it is the duty of the Gen- K 1 1 tiles to vote only for Gentiles until the chiefs H j 1 1 , of the church decide to keep their word and re- B il I ; tire from politics. Theie wil' be unrest and bit- V1 ' I ; ' ternes always until that is done, and Utah is B I t 1 given a chance to be a real American state. |