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Show FOR YOUNG UTAH. Young Utah! In times gone by, the writer of this has often reasoned with you. Sometimes you have been angry at what has been told you, but stop a minute and see if anything except the truth has ever been told you from this source. Well we have another truth to tell you today. You are just now giving your approval to something, some-thing, the intention of which is to make you all serfs unless you happen to belong to one of the favored families. Can you not see how things are going? You have seen a man elected Senator of the United States, not because of any special fitness for the place, but because he is an Apostle, every gifted Mormon has been passed by; every one who through his genius and his industry and his eminent emi-nent services in other fields has forged out for himself an honored name, has been ignored, and the high honor has been reserved for an Apostle. Do you not see what all this means? Is it not clear that the purpose is to create here an aristocracy aris-tocracy of High Priests and that the great mass of the people must be content tc pay their tithing, and, at stated intervals, to listen to lectures on the virue of "implicid obedience to their rulers?" Suppose Sup-pose Reed Smoot goes on to Washington and without a protest is permitted to take his seat in the Senate of the United States. Can you not see that the door of all promotion is closed to you, except ex-cept through the Church, and that even that Is closed to nine-tenths of you all, because you do not belong to certain families? One would naturally think that an Apostle one so near to the highest that the telephone which calls the Infinite to the switchboard of the heaven of heavens, would look down upon a petty office like that of United States Senator, but this office had to be saved for him, because he belongs to the priestly aristocracy of Utah while you are to be merely tithe-paying serfs, whose business busi-ness it is to obey and to give up your substance sub-stance to those who take it and use it without an accounting. Will you never raise your eyes to see how you are being imposed upon, robbed and degraded? But there is more still to this business. The chiefest business of an Apostle is to build up this kingdom. Kingdom, mind you, not Republic. This election of an Apostle Senator is the first insidious step toward gaining national political power on the part of the dominant Church of Utah. Suppose that to go on until in the nation the Saints in a close election would hold the balance of power in twenty states, and use it for a specific purpose to further the designs of the rulers of the kingdom, what then? It was just that situation in the state of Illinois that caused the Americans of that state to arise and drive those conspirators and with them their followers beyond their borders, bor-ders, flinging them naked out upon the repellant oreast oi the wilderness. .Now go and read the birth and history of the progress of this nation from the beginning and you will begin to understand that it was the design de-sign of the immortals who framed this Republic that no religion should ever interfere and dominate domi-nate the civil government of this country, that three generations of Americans, in peace and in war, have imbibed and fully assimilated that determination, de-termination, and then you may realize that a few more political victories like this of Apostle Smoot will cause this country to flame with war from the lakes to the gulf, from Maine to California. . |