Show THE NEWS AND THE UTA UTAH N PLANK the notes vic dom does not loot like ilko ill hie plunk plank in the chicago platform which do clares clarea that the tha political power of tho the mormon harmon church lo in the lard tortes torlea as aa exercised in the put is a menace meales to free institutions and too dangerous to belong bo lo 10 09 suffered rod and pledging the parly larnch laws lawa aa will divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power it declares declared that 0 the statement that the mormon church has exercised iu in tho the past po 4 ncy any political power poser which can be con can trued as a to tree free attona Is id entirely altrue of course the velco AM la Is bound to mak inako 0 such a 9 statement though every man maa and ari woman an nad 4 halt hall grown child knows that aba of the resolution Is exactly true the church has ha been a pure in the political treatment of its people an and ranch much more a despotism depot lem than ihm any other government in america or europe because behind all the dread linb has been hold over the people that to disobey its mandat cs vias nas a direct disobedience to gada will tho the news at ettlie file charge that the of the antica ha bad been beca denied here bat its ita denial la Is by the experience of every citizen the sovereignty of tho the fiction Is a manifested mani fisted simply through its ita law 9 aad when theta laws are derided nul bell and a p aa aro are taught that there bior or are a beghe higher lawa than any ally the nation one frame fraino binding them bad and that their bet beat aud and I 1 rue a I 1 a ll gianco la Is due doe to some omo other poser ahner rather than to the government of the notion as has leon done here from the first it Is a clear cue case that tho the sovereignty of the nation has baa leon decidedly questioned Of couro hn bon tho the weve bici pals there la Is no marriage between the file political an aad it ecclesiastical power in ro re glon lie he as AJ abraham might here have tallied talked of IlA GABbot but ean on A doa would not haye have dueled that ho he was not a stranger to or that RAG A awa his servant genant the a to believe that the fordem of the utah plank la Is the chicago platform did not understand the lineation it Is a perfectly clear case chae that they exactly understood lk it rod and that accounts for tho the divid essm I 1 of the see bews yews we think bacan we can ece very c clearly through the resolution tha th hand baud that fashioned it it was wall ably honc avarian that drafted it ft and ho he know ew exactly how la in the few eat word sto state the sentiments of it the e coun country try ou on mormon political as 09 on m JC it would be better for tan aw not to try to discredit either cither the truth or the power of the resola regain tion 1100 because an ait a rule deliberate lying Is ia not the best beat way to bolger up even a bogus religion list Laste aren log ing the yew new became facetious over OTT the plank in the platform which IB 12 state auita that every lawful citizen Is entitled to vote toto and holds that it la 13 a new doctrine on the part of tho the republicans republic public ans we haro bare never dover heard 11 16 denied by cither eithur or dom democrats but Is a moil whose allegiance in to an elion alioa poser a lawful citizen fl A herein comes the foundation for tle llie hilarity of the |