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Show WHITNEY IN EEBELLION. Apostle Whitney declared, in the Tabernacle on Suuda3', that the Mor mon peoplo were devoted lo "truth, peace and progress" and that ho "wished to call particular attention lo the word, "progress." Perhaps Mr. Whitney no longer do-sires do-sires the support and adulation of the Deseret News. Ordinarily he is a man of a certain order of intelligence, and it ma.y be that he recognizes the valueless naturo of tho News championship. champ-ionship. At an3r rate, he must have alienated from himself the affections affec-tions of the anti-Christian organ, for ho might just as well have stood in the highest Mormon synagogue and called the News apostate. It is a well known fact that tho Deseret News seldom tells the truth, reverting, to it onl3'' at such times as when untruth will not better serve its purposes. It has persistently refused re-fused lo inculcate peace, at. all times urging its readers to wage warfare against law and decenc3. It has obstructed progress, preferring lo promote pro-mote ill-feeling between members of its church and those who were not believers be-lievers in the teachings of ' its cherished cult. ft. has taught its readers lo believe that those people in this community who wero not of Mormon faith were obnoxious: that "outsiders" were "enemies" of the Lord '6 work; that what the Gentile called "progress" was community perdition. If Apostlo WOiitney cor-.rectly cor-.rectly stated the aims of the Mormon people, he inferential' . brauded the Deseret News with a serious charge; for the News is hopelessly apostate from "truth, peace, .and progress." And, in this application of the apostle's words, we wijl imitate him by desiring lo 'place particular emphasis upon the last of the threo propositions. There is some intimation in Mr. Whitney's remarks, too, that all fear of tho bogus prophet has fled from his heart. He seems to have suapped the apostolic fingers directly beneath Ahe pronhetic beard. Our readers will readily recognizo that our simile is apropoB when wo quote Apostle Whitney Whit-ney as saying, "All we ask is a manifestation of the Jeffersonian principle prin-ciple of equal rights to all and special privileges to none." Now, that is antipodal of tho belief of Joseph F. Tho spurious prophet claims to have the right to gouge monoj' out of tho saints, right nnd left, and for whatever purpose his personal per-sonal leanings ma3' suggest. He declares de-clares that he has tho special privilege of demanding this mone3' without promise of return or even of accounting. account-ing. Ho ln3's special claim to tho sole authority to represent upon earth tho Almighty in hoavon, and. that all men are under obligation to bow down to him in humility and Borvilit3' on account ac-count of that assumption. He demands de-mands special favor under tho law, in that ho claims the unusual privilege privi-lege of tho law's permission lo defy its own provisions. He assumes to havo special safe conduct in the esteem of the public, even though he insult that public by opposing and downtreading the laws which this same public havo established for the government gov-ernment of all citizens. Smith is the most insolontly ostentatious oligarch of special privilege that the world over saw. And Apostlo Whitney should bo careful how ho moves toward a denial of the Smith antocrac3'. It is true that Mr. Whitnoy draws no salary 'for his apostolic services in behalf of Smith; but it is also true that he draws "what ho needs'' therefor. We havo it in mind lo suggest to him that he exercise caro lest "what ho needs" -bo hereafter withhold from him; but doubtless 1)3' this time, tho bogus prophet himself has relieved us of tho dutj' of uttering the warning. The more wo sco and hear of the ungontlo and inconsistent twenty-six, the greator is our joy that there is such a splondid country as tho United Slates and such a glorious thing as Americanism. |