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Show Such Americans. Apostle Smoot's paper claims that "we are all Americans." That reminds us. A Frenchman was hanged some years ago in a Nevada town for the atrocious murder of a poor woman. When on the scaffold and about to swing into the hereafter, he assumed a dramatic attitude and exclaimed, "You can hang me, but you cannot hang France." Smoot's organ is- on the scaffold, and about to be dropped, hut In the Frenchman's tone it cries out, "We are all Americans." But there Is no evidence that France was proud of her volunteer-champion volunteer-champion and it is quite as evident that the Great Republic is not jostled out of its sphere by the championship of the Inter-Mormon oran, because could the course it is presuing be generally followed, fol-lowed, the capltol at Washington would cease to I bo the real capltol within ten years, and would ! bo located on the corner of Brigham and State streets in this city. Again tho question naturally arises, on reading read-ing the Inter-Mormon's declaration: What must bo done by men who come under tho Inter-Mormon's idea of what an American must bo? They must first expatriate themselves and give their first allegiance to a foreign power. When Apostle Smoot comes here and dictates who must be nominated for state, county and city officers, such Americans must prostrate themselves them-selves and exclaim, "Allah is God and Reed is His prophet and what Reed does is the will of Allah." And when, the teachers come around and tell thorn for whom to vote, they must again prostiate themselves and exclaim: "Allah is great, Allah's will bo done." Again, if the command goes out that a campaign cam-paign of misrepresentation, abuse and incipient treason must be carried on, there is no escape from it. Is ilt not God's will? This might be continued indefinitely, but it is I not necessary. But what would the men who framed and launched this Great Republic think of that kind of Americanism? What would-Andrew Jackson or Abraham Lincoln think of that kind f Americanism could their spirits be recalled to the earth? And what kind of an example doe a news- Paper under contract to advocate such a cause, Set for the youth of the United States? |