Show THE DIVISION mm Iti it is with pleasure plea sura that we notice a democratic contemporary oppress dinits ine its belief that cormons mormons ar are e carry ing tha division divi fion movement moT ement too far it not only manifesto manifesta itself to the extent of absolute partisanship in poli pell ties our friend says kut extends into business basi nees social life religions reli giong giona association and even into the family circle tun throughout has ha maintained that politics ca aad religion should be practised practiced in distinct spheres that they need not in any way conflict any more than do business and re religion ligon the people of utah tah had to learn the lesson lesion many years ago that men man could differ on business propositions or even enter into active competition in trade trad and still be brethren it cost some men their fellowship in the mormon church even to learn that business busias sat and re ligin rn should not be confounded when tho division on national na party lines burst upon us asp many y were inclined to fellowship ais in their feelings men who differed abiff ered with them hem I 1 in politics eke halt lake lah herald said that all the mormon people were required to do was ivas to chango their name from that of the peopled Peo plez ii party to democrats and aad it went so far as to say aay that RE ile waa but another name for m that impress impresa ian on spread and many t mentore man were al almost most religiously for declaring a to be ba HINRY 11 SMITH notice j wit sorrow nin zeal for the republican case canse to them it ing meint int rank apoita ev rr amb am in for much the same kind bind tf of cellura cea ceL aura sura what it had done for the good of the mormon people was feelingly feeling v all alluded to and many who had been its warmest friends deplored that it should at this late date forsake the he cause of the latter day saints leading raen men in every community vi were ere looked down by come people peocla fur for declaring themselves republicans finally this thia wrong impre asiong aaion started airet by the salt lake herald beraldi grew to such a pitch that the first presidency of the mormon church had to work to allay it it president JOSEPH F SMITH said at hta a logan conference that men were not entirely responsible lor their heir political I 1 eal convictions vict ions he stated that he could not help being a republican because tho principles of republicanism had appealed to his hia reagan a and kcf conviction many years before in fact his hia ancestors were whigs and he ha did not know but what their political characteristics bad in a measure been beed transmitted to him reasoning in that strain he be asked that the people do not him nor apostle HENRY SMITH because of their pali tio he H wanted it understood that a man could be ba a republican and still be a latter day saint but president SMITH was shamefully abused by the democratic press throughout tho the territory because became of that speech notwithstanding the of the salt lake herald and its many underlings president SMITH MITH continued boldly his ba work he preached awhile after a powerful sermon at a a in provo using much the same argument as at logan before he sat down hel he asked for the endorsement of hia two superiors bors in the first presidency deacy and both president and president Pre eident CANNON emphatically stated that a man could be a republican or a democrat and still hold his fellowship fello whip in the church the spirit of those remarks remark were reiterated at a general 0 ral conference ol of tho the church in salt lake and anc I 1 postle apostle A JOHS HENRY course was publicly approved of the rc result sult was that it became more tolerable for a republican to reside in a mormon community and now we find ono of the tha Damo democratic cratic press which has radically abused prominent republicans Republic aus and church bembera in the past confessing that this division movement has been earned carried too jar far THE ENQUIRER is ia sincerely pleased at this change of oE deheart heart and we shall be pleased to an encourage courage our congem horary in its laudable work for modera tiou when we heard life loni long mormons cormons during the lust last campaign declaring decla that if the election in TJ tah tab did not go democratic they were done dona with the tha bolmon chach we wa heartily felt that tho they V were wera carrying the division movin ont t too jar farand and needed deeded L to be agn gently uy restrained restrain ad in their political enthusiasm |