Show sear to all er critic ann on tho the theocracy hero here tho the priesthood livia one answer it is u that they have brought tewo people from POT poll orty erty and iMP TOTOa their condition order and a fair ihry hitro preserved cliare of P that gi g this people a cheap anil a faven that taxes tire I 1 low ow pi plo 10 ve and hero aro to no DO but bill literally true it would not col ti be reason acmon for far inan maintaining the present system A despot may und and often doe docs govern better than I 1 ft ire free I 1 parliament liu i ta 13 napoleon I 1 ibo boas led that tho the empire was pa paca tui ml order accoo A alosa corporation in the iho lorm form of a chu church ach las has often in the history of tho the world giren to a people a thorough gli government lucli saved them soy say amount ot of trouble lai aul did diiullo 1 I their thi alIng for them lint but all such euch governments have ono fatal ibey inevitably beaken tho public opacity capacity lor for belf govern mient and prepare preparo tho way boy for ten times moro ovil than they cure all he whilo while napoleon wn was go eo arnus franco france BO 0 beautifully tho the and bifelt tl of the tha public terries service was being dry with secret irani and anil and the people growing loss loas capable of 0 cigol oua thinking and ad whoa tho the day of trial giitl cimo tho whole glittering fabric fill to anina all tho whilo una his saints were governing so beautifully every publio va T aco CO ind and attry reo voice with it tho people were slowly parting with their loir bardy moral tigor and gottlog ready maicy for or the tha gross doban chery that followed tho the baioa unquestioned show that tho the reign of la ilia saints in I 1 new england Eo filand was iru a time limo of most horrible mil and unnatural secret vico and the tha old testament Cip licitly informs us ua that tha ceriol per iol of 0 tho the most moat rigil brigil was the iha period when tho the whole nation was guilty of every wrong tho the heart baart can conceive irom from murder and incest iowa down to ishag aad potty larceny lir ceny similarly Simil ariy even it if it ora truo true that tho priesthood had bail given utah a c cheap ad aadil efficient government overn ment st illas being a government which did not giginto oi ginto with the people it should bo be changed bat it is not ira the cot of tho utah is il greater than the governing ruing class ia america bor besides tho the territorial county and city taxes of so much parado pando is made there is tho the enormous collections of 0 athes donations donit ioas licenses license tees loss end and a dozen other salts drifts upon the public purse inree add to this the exactions in business lins anesi with private rights public worl carried on en by and in tho interests of tho the church brigham and apostles and it will bo etan that utah is ij tho most heavily taxed commonwealth in america or in ia the civilized world wo wilt will set it against new york city which is ia quoted as the ibo damnation pointon point of democracy and demonE demonstrate that tho the rule ralo of a theocracy is ii more crushing and ita than that ol of tweed hall and connolly ald til thousand sixth ward wara to ro nor lias has it been in an efficient govern inert as its ila own friends admit brig barn bam says and aad all lis apologists plead it for him that ho he could not peel prevent rent tho mas massabro sacro of a hundred and thirty one emigrant sand ho be governer Gov erncr commander io in chief superintendent of indian AffA affairs irv or of the church in short tho lecil acad of and society Eo ciely eiith A ith martial lw law prod aimed and a thousand men at his li u command commini wielding tho cho rower power of a monarch even wo we grant which we do not that it a sort eort of morality mon lily what is that cirtno worth which is is only virtuous in ia tho the absence of temptation As aa the church rule nilo rol rolance riIa axce ica it is IB seen there it is no in ia bercal force to lor for the external it is common that those young mormons cormons alo ato have been subjected most rigidly to theocratic rule are moat abando abandoned red when they ret fet liero that rale does doea sot not reach them it is with them the retora tion of koltko the stuarts and license alter after the rigid riga reign sf 61 tho the liming supra there ij lut way of teaching the llie pelf gotaro wat ment and that ij to oloph the he demo crris platform puro and simple cl ci lollins them ibea govern tte matIr but bat la its TO leavo a that alms umi to control ayery boulon i ia a life interfering ia social arrangements dictating in ia thwarts thwarting ng acry popular mo moyemont vemont ils fia every crery petty 01 0 ol com mon inon life and touching tou cling ilo ol 01 ol 01 tho subject at points poiana enough to lire lave driven mad the result is a aib binea and Lods of 0 persons with no do moro more ineatia ll 11 than a ilfeld mo prisoner and aad ji no dioro than ll 11 I 1 i i e mass masa tl of protoplasm i 1 I be found in cusp v lio 00 cure L u to lio dalre OP 0 10 O a in an acilto bad and b bi i h hy 1 I vai tion nta iain and delegate delei conventions lt enrY lunn of 0 liberal ideas attend tho the masi conton tion ilon rud tiling dOUVil douville lZ brother nith urn lim shake tho the up and out oat of the abo mental ruts onil and eat them to lo dl discussion cassion the flabby theological lolly out ef ct their baeL bouts una nail put good intellectual stiffness in ia its place let us mako another grand effort to inaugurate republican publican Ite in ID rutih |