Show K THE LESSON OF IP I ALL r We hoar of a Bishop who In a neighboring neigh-boring county last Sunday preached a sermon of the Heber J Grant style i telling his hearers that all the troublo 1 about Roberts Blarled with the Salt Lako Tribune and that It has always been the enemy of the Saints Not slopping to discuss that now we beg to remind the Mormon people that this Is n good Sunday for them to consider a few things The chief thing Is that a committee In Congress after hearing Mr Roberts in his own defense almost unanimously reported that he should be excluded from Congress and he wag excluded by n vote of more than five I to one Two of the committee asked that ho be sworn In and then expelled Had that plan been adopted It Is clear that he would have boon expelled by a vote of ton to one From that showing this people ought to obtain a most serious Impression and ought to begin to see that It Is not I a good business to fly In the face of tho Government of this Republic Ian I-an ore angry with this journal they should nevertheless have thought enough left to see that from the first we were backed by the overwhelming sentiment of the people of the United States Utah has lost much ground during the past ypar and a half The Stato was warmly welcomed Into the Union The shepherd and the whole Hock were rejoiced that the lamb which I had been lost had been found and welcomed I wel-comed It Into the fold The fooling is I not quite the same today and the I Saints ought not only to understand I tho reason but to determine that the I fall State shall have no more black eyes given 11 The nomination of Roberts Rob-erts was forced upon 0 Democratic convention by the determination or a few chief priests and the rank and file had not the strength to resist that pressure pres-sure and so elected him Sec how It has ended The member has been excluded the Slate Is unrepresented In the House of Representatives there Is a world of I heartburning and bitterness and It is I all duo to the fact that a small percentage per-centage of tho polygamists of this State determined to try the dangerous I bluff of flying directly in the face 0 I the laws of the Republic believing that I by the regular action of one set of I laws they could carry n point while defying de-fying the laws themselves and the great mass of the Mormon people had I not the strength tooppose them WillS Will-S they have the strength the next time I that it Is tried Because of their I weakness they have suffered a full year of anxiety and have at the close seen their Representative hurled from his I seat and see their fair Stale the scorn oC all the rest of the Union The lesson I ought to be that freedom and a free ballot carry with them responsibilities and that n people which from any I cause refuses to perform n manifest duty cannot evade the responsibility oC their act Will the people heed the bitter lesson |