Show CHARLES ELLIS ON RELIGION IN CONGRESS 4 4 EDITOR F KEU LANCK I 1 received a copy of your paper of october slat ou on the hour of my t 1 inythe ing 0 the elly tind nod havo not read lead it until the present itne hine IL II is late hite to offer it a reply to your condemnation yet I 1 ahall write and leave it to your judgment its b to lo what use you triny muy s make maice of it 0 O first I 1 nyut to say it lo 10 you til that pitI I 1 i am not an all ng nostic I 1 to do know 1 aud am ain ready to give the llie reasons for tile the I 1 I 1 have though hough 0 it may not iu in all things coincide coia cide with your own secondly you entirely my reasons for advocating apostle smoots Sni right to seek election to any aalice in I 1 lie be gift of t the lie people if you von will refer to my letter you will see that I 1 said we needed religion aon ip congress Con oress had bad not hul hold any for it a century ien tury perhaps never yu you and I 1 are loo looking kingon oa opposite of tile lie st flame shield ani you ni nie art e poli ticy in widell which I 1 ani am wit hyou it to tile the bixl tue the cause oi of dai mon C is ilia t boll confound religion with and e eo I 1 0 assume that thab lam I 1 am cp opposed posed to you there thee is a asunde us as the distance from zenith to nadir ec la Is the in ill religion i just ustus HB politic politicos politicks poli ticks jis tile lie ma in government govern meni they atre are both bolh i vil all i aud deady deadly to fro tile me ta at is us it 8 superior to as aa the in ili 11 clinite ni te ik 1 greater r obain huun the the one is life evor ever to grandia gran dir life the other I 1 ih 11 ll machine evl ever 1 trying to force mon men women and 1 I 1 children to become automatons religion the of tile the soul ed d meu men and to keep up tip the i fight ag ht it the bondage of eceles y I 1 from tile thu middle ages until now flow aud and will ivill enable them thein to lo continue it until it shallie sh shall allbe bo con conceded celled that DO ito church chu tio no sect bed shall hav 0 right to respect that lunger tries to our govern men fc not nob for a do I 1 concede that uny churell church uny any ecclesiastical body can ever get gobl such control a as long us as the Ite republic public stands but on oil the other oher hund hand the nia cuchine chide iu ill politics was not shut out us the ma ina chine in ill was when our government was founded the machine in politics 1 IMS as our mir government t to 0 s uch such tin that unless we con can give g ive it ib the tonic of higher life of better men nien men who can cannot not be bought or men aho vho aro imbued with the religious not the ecclesiastical spirit the xyth century will open ou on i dismembered republic lie here and hu an end of tile the democratic form of government for 1000 years recognizing in smoot Si noot such a anav I 1 would be glad tu to stu see him go g o to tile hie senata what you imy of the sufferings of the morino cormona ne outs cuta no ligure a they isay buy over and over thac hat their bios are permitted permille d in order to lo alread the gospel they claim to be t the lie arue true church of christ restored lit in my iny opinion they are doing a more practical work today for the growth of christs christ 8 brot of mau apan any other organization euion or on earth if they tire re siti sincere cere and I 1 believe that thai ar ai least half balof of them are thy they must rejoice in being permitted to ainna against per solution its is tile the did aid for hundreds of years if you want to use 2 ua as a u support for your po ur own ambition afi aa you oi virtually accuse me wa of doing your falth faith is ia no god goa go d if mormonism dm is of god as aa then chow how your dalh in god by your efforts to place blare thu elevating efflo ticy of your religion in ill tile the lilg higham liest senta seau of if till the nation batio ti you charge me ine with wilb cullity if I 1 were aMor a laimon lo imon moti I 1 would never for a u win minute tite permit i bal bakers teris dozen of 0 carping little pastol who live by beg 11 1 1 ary and hold stura ing paria hed in utah acu though ld by a of f tile the tute late mackay it penny a kiaer for 20 years 3 earb to lie he against the mormons cormons Mor mons to lo deter deler nit mt from asserting my iny faith tho constitution of tho the united states stands behind the Jor inona as aa much as it does behind the methodists Meth odise or any other if mormonism niam has 1 any rell religion gion anything thuoc tends to U elevate lider life of I 1 believe behee e itri bry shuw S that it lills hus let that oita get i as fast an ae possible 03 bible there is ia no danger that mormon its machine cati ue tie it lu iu Ainer Aine luan government its aa loahr ta govern rn ellent VY mn 1 ittie lord cies all avel go ours oura atiz elidea elided i iain you 99 iii I 1 all appo I 1 h to 0 o decoit I 1 um am not nol aan i hii lit in your our feura fears ol 01 aliat aul wul V come to lo I 1 the he AIn if ito ia elec tell to t ael benante benn J 4 te even n if if lie he were vere ie refused fused ills H yu W i it WOW would simply clater we inu chide u A 1 ear of the allee alcia r re berul rul aft niad ila I 1 ben benedit erit to ill 1 I jr evl ill ve uny any l lyl let ils uhe uee it ELLIS salt lake 23 1902 |