| Show g ke c topics the is lint to t 1 for the ibo vuot tit a of jim coro of it to oboulio be the lio paper the poopoo poop 2 0 and its if column kro am to all open daveig iotov I 1 to that it be said say requiting ing only 00 Aromy clous holo will not to be tho came of ill U calles cac bo ba forms dood tho 1110 grifor mud la 1 I 1 THE IBS corlton mo RMON IDEA OF GOVERN MENT under this heading li e fing I 1 propose to io provo prove beyond the power wo r of contra verily or the ly of it doubt that hat tho the mormon luden if are arc self con fessel rats and that the faithful laymen through their strict ebmer vance of the th Oun sols of their heir rulers are anti republican iti in the fulle bj sense of the word this thil iii to tome 80 me a bold assertion but 11 I 1 it I 1 t is is none th ie a I 1 egg t true u 3 I 1 will show from 0 their r own 0 w a writings W bitin I 1 quate i star 3 ta r vol 1 at 17 P and 5 absolute ALfio lut 0 isted in ia one ann man is the te bat and most human Gorc 11 Is I 1 codar prepared to admit tho the truth of this proposition BO 80 thoroughly bati in sentiment by clothing its in converts with the be of self government I 1 doubt it A ab b saints power may bo be exercised through various forms of government but the following extract ex hanm t I 1 over set at rest all conjecture amer as 0 to o rca what bat form of f the nor ilor moos are arc trying to wiggle sigillo into the union with providing congram 0 ogress can bo be made ilia and as AB to give III em the ijo i li f nee dec I 1 quote thero thera is on ODO 0 kind oll government that will in ia sure fiure airi rt r rient prosperity pr and ba Lippi acua 0 aad nd arity that is if th I 1 oc acray r ae y or god through uit Fro pati phit seer sod and Sein Aeo lalor wo that is ii of course through brigham ghim Iou young Dg this thia is the kind of lovece meet meat which tho the Latt erday saints I 1 ire are co in ia ut abl llis ppe cies 0 of govero meoL can CAD only ob exist whore all 11 II believe and tho the general cB thata so eo exactly 0 go o I 1 cna its anad Labi lit in attah and nd its 14 with republican institutions no a better argument against tho the admission of utah as i a stoic state could be adduced not nol even by in an 11 than this furnished by ilia ali theocrat hitro acif alf for mi ax shown by lia big on oil a reason ing if utah was wai admitted into th thi union theocratic 34 ho he is ind mus muni lie be as la long ag As n the ibn cormons mormons have the great majority Mijo rity linn the minority who the v are rc r bould have either cither to leave cave the lie country or bo be converted to theocracy in order that touch a government may ay exist A 1 ays tho the writer riler tho the two to or of absolute power and nd re rc JAL 11 its probo probe down then in into in the ire tory try lilann i lots 0 the nion mon ster wt onil d mccurtain bow much of the lie lot litter ter it has bia in ia its ill no INO government can be republican team in in f forin arm but that hial which to iu its peopled people the I 1 ifill or of the comins live and e 11 etiva franchise these aroi are tho like eternal gillara pil laral upon which the whole of popular government t inbuilt 4 bu ailt po do they underlie tie the cra nature ilo also I 1 think bat however I 1 will refer to the santa authority for ur proof broor the spirit of revelation says the writer 11 is ia the mon ani abing nii ip power very good and who is 19 tho the revelator through whom tile domination Is mader brigham yone who WB the governor nhon the noal vallan on was mado upon this republican principle in ciple brigham court thin mr young then is u not only mior bionto nominee see and nd elector of himself but the bomil bomi notor ond and elector of ill all grades of officers beneath him from the fact of being the 11 revelator ra pie alone to the peo eo which will dacle to 0 o bip I 1 to that is ia those who kt get iq it that the roost most i ci awe abl inte to 10 a tillet thus thua chosen by tile the versus the people and sanctioned by them selves is a the only way to ll 11 prot penty ray of sanctioned by tt tho keopf how why by I 1 I 1 ir of implicit obed obedience ienco continues this thia the writer 11 it is the th great fixture in i a 1 I this of course I 1 hove bare no doubt of nor disposition to deny for a long association with that bit institution has haj confirmed that statement to my mind all ail being eminently true and that is I 1 why I 1 an am opposed to t utah becoming a state slate for it would be hut but restoring in utah what has baa so no recently and con been destroyed in italy tit alie 8 temporal lam power ower of the rope pope that the byor llor monn mons would elect by ho be foregoing method one of themselves as aa governor were they entrusted with tho the powers or of a state stale government is beyond doubt and that the governor there elected would control his gubernatorial office har bar with liis his priesthood is ia alace al act made patent by mr young himself when or of vornor this territory as a recorded in vol 2 journal cedi courts said he ellave been governor a 0 of I 1 this territory ever bince it has ha h had d onea one and ad in in all my offic official ial transactions I 1 h hivo ave acted act cilin I 1 in accord once anca with tho the priesthood rf it I 1 continue to bo be governor of this territory I 1 shall magnify my olec office b m L ll tou rebr february uary at R which ch time as will ix be can seen from fro tho the above quotation ir young was waa therefore governor of lis hr territory tel it will too bo interesting for republic calls to know what th the a d I 1 kofl of citi citizens acos aro ara under ander the ani i of a 2 nan man who make subservient to priesthood governors I 1 ip quote from A discourse delivered by the above decd gentleman on it the he esth of july of tile tho dilme yen year hp be still liciag governor in making mailing reference to the laws of the gendral amid state he any baji they have ban been can under the feet fed of lawyers erso judges sheriffs governors gor ernora legis laborg tor aej a ad nearly nil bit the officers of the go such fluch person per fiona are tho th siuai guilty OF 01 breaking the tha lain iowa lic IQ in regard to those who have ted this people and ad driven them 19 a the iho mountains I 1 intend to I 1 meet them on oil their own grounds ir if any miserable COB odhild come here cut owr viran i all the ho people kiil so id amer who I 1 ask f it to sea tuch ouch condition cc 11 of abid a such ibises go a agua g aim restored I 1 would bo be utah to bacomo a state S tote for the reason before baor bignal theocracy cannot exist r where there is ia a broiled roiled 11 lilt chance then than won a there be ir for iho be email aall minority resident in utah today to day wore theocrat Theo theocracy crac j mode made e legal as in ill sis 55 7 I 1 submit the fore far goidl to the good cad common sees of the matio bt both in sod out of con grees without I 1 further argument to g gutber eabe r with a question sa Is this ibis foroi a of government which developed dev elopes such A 11 ito of things ito ai referred to above abort and which voicu 19 to clearly donned def inca by he mormon leaders IU ad the one hey arc ar 10 li to ta or noon none at t all and 0 to o which tb lie 0 whole mormon population clingi with tho the tenacity city of despe rail 00 orthy 0 to o bo be admitted into ilia grand galaxy gadacz y of elal S lates which bich clusters cloa teri around and federal eup supports porta tho the constitution 7 awaiting the alp oscr answer from tho the notion through IU it con ress TI josiph SALIS BUILT |
