Show T A disrupting ART it certainty certainly certai is self evident that the t b e jolly folly of ascribing treason to the mormon lormon A people only because the they y bear trie allegiance to heaven is a transparent disrupting anti mormon artful bauble which any reasonable mind may readily explode does not the very genius of the United Unit eid 7 slates states government itself rec recognize e the ibe su supremacy prema PY of the almighty does not every christian denomination assume to hold the laws of gd god above the statutory enactments of any legis dative body whatsoever haa has not every religious creed in the land laud aa as well aa ii the marmon chuich a chief leader and ands subordinate ecclesiastical officers because the latter day saints support their molt exalted faith with noble gen erous self sacrifice and recognize tho the delegated authority of jehova in the persons of a revered spiritual president and an auxiliary priesthood we are coldby told by low conspire ine binl critics that they are disloyal an and threaten the existence of the republic yet at the same time there is another far more powerful church in these united states which recognizes the supreme power and d infallibility ity of a spiritual po t natate and his subordinate clergy wit without hout being questioned we refer to the roman catholic church chu reb the chief head of thia oil ji reli religious gius arder is his holiness the Pope Popi who even ei in resides I 1 es in in a foreign land his predecessors once abrogated to themselves not only the spiritual control of the universe but also the temporal 0 1 ity of the whole world and if the roman pontiff does not today to day rule every IV where here as an earthly king it aly because ho he lacks the power but nevertheless the antl anti A formon t agi gators rs of utah have no accusations of treason or disloyalty to prefer against the tbt roman rol catholics of this although they out number the cormons mormons Mor mons by one 1 hundred to one and are multiplying far more rapidly than the followers of the prophet joseph smith why wy is ahls jf if the anti mors mont of utah are only anxious to preserve the american Re republic publia from the traitorous tendencies of religious denominations why do they not turn their energies against 7 the catholics who are surely more ts to bo be feared on account of otheir their vastly superior numbers and who are more plausibly liable to the charge of treason inasmuch aa as they acknowledge the leadership and infallible ailt authority bority of a foreign po ten tato tate will any intelligent person pretend to say that the pope with his millions of subjects is not anre powerful than the first presidency of the A mormon lormon church or will any one affect to tb believe that the host of catholics ina in amer mer ica in following a spiritual chieftain whom they believe can naver never even err would not be more formidable in concocting concoct ing treason than the people of utah we are told by a salt lake city anti IA mormon formon print that the edict which the federal government should pronounce against the latter day iday saints is this we cannot permit you to exercise abart a part of the power of odthe the republic of of the united states if this edict should be promulgated by the united states aa as agai nethe cormons mormons Mor Alor mons would it not be equally well weil applied to roman catholics cattolics CatL olics by euch such despotic fiat flat the people of utah might indeed be le dis franchised but would the numer ous adherents of the pope in all parts of odthe the State sand sana territories like to submit to the same result if the A mormon lormon church ia is a trea organization the catholic church comes under the ame jame identical category and more to be feared but it that tha the mor mons are greatly in the majority here in utah and place more confidence in one another than they do in adventurous transient residents who would like to rule the people and occupy all the profitable offices cej in the eyes of the local antl and mormon press this is accounted toun ted another evidence of intended treason but if the mor mona did not have se cense rise enough to choose officers to administer admi 1 bisier the petty affairs of county and elic elective tive territorial terri offices from among the substantial bona fide residents of the localities where they live in overwhelming majorities would not the world decide that they were fools does the fact that citizens belong to some particular part idular church justly debar them from participating in politics ve we think thick not if the mormon people choose to unite to carry it i local election is ia aa i not that a universal right and tice of american citizens everywhere if they select political leaders and organize themselves into an independent party have they not a perfect right BO so to do the so bo called republican who bolted the nomination ti of blaine were not therefore considered trai tors by the government and yet merely because the Mormon Mor mons ss assert seit a kindred privilege and refuse to vote for enemies and adventurers those who long for official pap pal and plunder call them disloyal and ask that hat their constitutional right of voting may bo be taken away from them if this i is s not a deliberate artifice to disrupt republican government itis it is at least a miserably una un worthy I 1 and ida astl flable method of part partisan par lizan izan warfare |