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Show UTAH'S REPROACH. Did anyone ever stop to think of the reproach that lies in the remark: "No use, the election is fixed now, so and so will be mayor because it has been so arranged." This government was founded on the belief that if the people could be free and each a sharer in deciding what men should hold office, and what laws should be passed; the people would so prize the mighty inheritance that they would resent any attempt to debase it, if necessary neces-sary with their lives. Is it not strange to read how, in distressed Russia, the empire is almost in a state of anarchy through the efforts of the people to throw off an ancient despotism and to have a little part in the government of their country, and then turn to I. Salt Lake, a city with all modern improvements, j . wfflljB with an admirable school system, with many . g&9 newspapers, and to read here that an election is fifjwffl fixed, that a high priest of a creed has directed ' i ffBBjBB who shall hold the offices, and that the obedience '' '. IffiM of his slaves is so pronounced that there is no MaftB doubt about the result? j 999 If the peasants of Russia were to be told of j H HflH this, what would they think? The shame of it all 999 is upon this people, the menace is to the free wmH government under which we live, because if the j 389 same thing could be truthfully said about one 99 more than half the states of this Union, our , 8BI government would come tumbling down like a 1 Sflfl rotten iceberg under the beatings of the sun- 1 j. MBM And that business will have to stop here some , IjHHB time. The astonishment is that the Mormon rank 1 1 hHH and file do not stop it at once. This freedom was flgH given them by the chiefest officers of their j . church, as a preliminary to obtaining statehood. JBH It was publicly done to the great joy of the Mor- . I flfl mon people. One of those who made this pledge : j 8Hj is now the head of the church. What excuse is ' 'KBfl there for him to repudiate the sacred covenent? j j( ;i9 He confessed before the committee in Washing- j! ton that he had never, since president of the ffmnl church, received any revelations. Indeed no man 389 whose daily life is so absorbed in business as j, SU is his ever did receive a heavenly inspiration. jj ! ivHH "These come only through fasting and prayer." jji Why not, then, shake this tyranny off and . j' ' 9b make Utah an American state? j 1 lH It would make a transformation here. It ( lfl I ' would double the value of every piece of realty , 1 1 l in the city. It would in five years make Salt Lake I If the biggest and most prosperous city between y San Francisco and St. Louis. It would double the ml assessable wealth of Utah; it would cause men to . f , cease to be ashamed when east or west they reg- ! ; istered their names from Utah. And who would j!-i ' i j be wronged by it? Not one soul on earth. |