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Show THE'EPHRAIM RALLY, On Thursday evening the Kphraim band paraded the stieels and the vast concourse of people assembled at the Central School house, the house being filled to overflowing and the windows and d iors on the outside packed with spectatois, CALVIN REASON EK. Present of the visitors were Mr. Calvin Reasoiier, of Payson, and Mr. Patton, of Manti. Alter music by the band Mr.Schwalbe introduced Mr Reasouer, who said he was pleased to see so nianv present, and so many of the young people. I have never seen an audience that contained so many nice tot king young gills. Was pleased with the band and the torch lights and will have it published in the Salt Lake papers il lie could get it written. I am here to show the rtason why the Liberal cause was in opposition to the Moituon Chinch, j lam a new comer and almost a stranger in Utah, but I know and so written in my aiticles to the Last, that the people are an honest.industrious and thrifty community. You claim to be a peculiar people, and I believe in many ttSpttCJJi """ A sua. or. r Ifi -iJ ill business matteis you are liee and and consibatary, but uhen I speak of your relig.ou I find the people aie I ke then Temple dooi:lo: ed. There is a degree of seclusiveness ol secreativeness lowatd now comets that is entitely diffeient from olt.ei statvs, thev hold out iheir b ind ot" friendship, friend-ship, but vou look upon us all as carpet baggers a.id with Coiisideiable suspicion suspic-ion I will not take up the history of the past. God has desired a well developed universe, see how we are growing together. to-gether. The railroads aie tiaveisiug oi r oioad lands, thousand cuss 1 1.1 boideis where bundled di i lormetly. Our interests inter-ests are becoming nuie closely inlet woven. wov-en. If a man strike a rich mine in Utah, worth f 100,000 within two bouts the New Yotk market, in Wall sueet, is affected by it. We cannot dissolve ourselves from the rest cf our govern-thent govern-thent we do Dot want to, we m ist become be-come a brotherhood. You have labored under treater disadvantages than the rest ol the west, but you have opportunities, opportuni-ties, and great resources. Politics in Utah are divided by an ecclesiastical line. The Libeial Party and the Peoples Patty the latter istlie people ol the Mormon chinch, and when a man becomes a Liberal.be ceases to be a Mormon, The statues of the Liberal Party includes everybody who has a right to vole and they can become men bers of the parly. By some it may be called a rag-tag-party. The only qualification quali-fication should be that he is a man. If he is in the image of God he has a right to the franchise. Il a chinch objects 10 him tnat church is an enemy to mankind. man-kind. The Mormon church excludts all who are not of their chuich, and the Liberal Party exclude all who are Mormons. Mor-mons. The only question now is the union of church and state, and when the church goes out of Politics then the question will stop. After short speeches by Mr. Patton, of Manti, Rasmus Claw son aid Chaiiman Schwalbe, and music by the baud the meeting adjourned' |