Show THE CONFLICT conn biot or IDEAS the leibin leading organ or the llie church hurch the llie De beperet peret news new said raid in a lecont isac theocracy is tile the only di diviock vine kind of religion that over ever did or CUD a c aist here we havo have i plain and unmistakable declaration from the highest out authority bariti on oil the mormon ita belief in it a special form of government for the control of bitski 1 people chii is u in fact the foundation for foe the ba literal liberal eftig kingdom lom building which distinguishes tho the mormon from ill all religious je dc highly to one hundred thousand aco 04 in abc r cli gio fam of government cf whom lecog recognize nize i a head or lulor have been gathered front from various vari oun european na lions thoroughly imbued with wilh the ho idva of and as f arl an out crowth or of this th n idea wo we have pot and nj the ibe practical endeavor to establish it langdom io in all 11 essential features tilt the tame nnie its the ancient ol of tho the jews it being the conception of tho the news that this is ia tho the only divine religion that call exit I 1 U it follows follows that adoc renti must necessarily to support and bo be dictated by the iho divino divine head over them a not only in ia religious faith and practices but athe in political measures fur for the assumption of modern theocracy like its ancient prototype is to govern in ALL things we that this is in brier brief a truthful acate for the one man mall poter which has for so colonga long A period lit held d dominion dominio fi in utah and which now BOW seeks to perpetuate it elf and maintain a sui in in tit KI itty ito ol of the ti i ij id of republican edca now setting against io ia iiga inet it that the problem is i a vexed texca tic nc is dimply it is the first time i in ii i ill ili ll 11 of our it power lias has ever to assert on american toil boil and tho the reason beasen that it has grown grow o into fuch each is 13 duo due to to the duct that it has held awen ty of comparatively uninterrupted existence ceif in isolation increased by a 1 largo yearly immigration and the geometric A p egression incident to po ia fecundity the tha time hat ha however when utah is ia to longer the isolated abode of men and women believing only in di divida 71 no sho she hn has vast stores of yujo mineral cral wealth attracting hither of american caz citizens as who belle believe ve only in the divine of 1 li ca oia to 11 e arises a conflict of inter cats and ta which is u daily increasing in diversity and intensity 1 viewed squarely and nd without evasion the question comes to the simple I 1 is tho the of an theocratic rower power inimical to lo republican rule or is ia it not or can a body of df any lind be allo allowed ire d to establish a separate aud and dio distinct hold and government on tile the ground of a divine command if not tho the issue issue is ii plain that theocracy nuit yield or seek feck a borne bome ns as has been sug eug where th the eiden edca of di divine ind i sovereignty will dot botne cointin in conflict with cs liwa ali the mormon people understand that is no an lagoni im to their faith or to their abstract belief in the divino origin of a theocratic i form of i government but bhea that thai faith or r bouer ales such a practical turn torn as to result in ia polygamy slid aud the reproducing of practices which the civilized world then they wust must expect the akra of the government 4 wo we are arc glad to know that the present crot conflict or of ideas is ia slowly and tilen tty working a 2 revolution in la utah and that tho the divino divine idea enunciate i by the news is u fast losing its hold on the minds mind of the poo alz pl tuat in fact a large proportion are arc outgrowing tho the impressions created during years of isolation hut but theocracy still lives in the winds minds orlee leaders as vigorously timorously BS as brer and jut so 50 li longn ug as they are permitted to elt political functions con conjointly conjoin 1 lly I Y with the divine rights to di dictate cLite in secular a well as religious matters will rill tho utah problem remain unsolved cil |