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Show PROOF OF CHURCH INFLUENCE. If there Js a .single member . of the Mormon Church who does not know that the Church Is exercising its Influence Influ-ence in politics and in all other temporal tem-poral affairs, as freely as In the days pf Brigham Toung, then that member Is wofully Ignorant or entirely out of harmony with his quorum. Probably the only person In Utah who doesn't know that' the Mormon Church Is In politics up to Its very eyebrows. eye-brows. Is Apostle Penrose, of the Des-eret Des-eret News. The Church has to keep things secret from Penrose. He Is a new apostle, and, like President Smith, blats out everything he knows. Penrose Is the slavish victim of Ignorance. Ignor-ance. He doesn't even know that Apostle Smoot has become the active political boss of Utah. He hasn't heard about Cutlery yet, and the campaign cam-paign may end before the apostolic editor ed-itor finds out that Cutler Is the Church candidate. l ins is very suu. Penrose hasn't been an apostle long enough to know that apostles can't go around ordering bishops to arrange the vote of their stakes without direct counsel from the apostolic quorum. But even Penrose may live and learn. Penrose may think that Smoot Is dictating dic-tating politics to Mormons merely to please himself, but that's because Penrose Pen-rose is one of those Ignorant Innocents, who never heard of Thatcher or Roberts, Rob-erts, and doesn't know anything about the rule of thumb that governs the apostolic quorum In politics. Why, possibly Penrose may Imagine that Smoot Is spmebody, and Is boosting the Church Republican ticket because he Is a great politician Instead of a mere twofen selected by the Church to carry out orders and elect Cutler by the Mormon vote, Penrose ought to wash windows. He takes to soapsuds. After a while Penrose will find out when his Jayness as an npoBtle has worn off and he begins to feel ns Inflated Inflat-ed as Apostle Dowle that 8moot Is one of those "living beings" in Utah who Is "ordered, required, compelled to vote for any measure party or person, contrary to his own choice, under threat, obligation, anathema or fear of consequences" for refusal to obey tho dictation of the Church. If Smoot didn't do Just what he Is doing, how long would he last as an apostle? Not as long as a paper collar In the winter resort conducted by Satan yet Thatcher lasted longer than that, but Thatcher was a man of ability and Smoot is only a false pretense. But Penrose doesn't know any bet ter. He raves about slavish victims, personal contamination and hugging vipers until ho imagines that every ore believes him. He ought to take absent treatment for an Imagination like that, but these fresh apoBtles become be-come so Inflated with their own Importance Im-portance that they stop eating salf. altogether. al-together. Probably Penrose will go on thinking think-ing that Apostle Smoot Is not carrying carry-ing out the direct orders of the Mormon Church In the present political campaign, cam-paign, and that he's a bigger man than old Thatcher and can do things In poll-tics poll-tics without the aid and consent of the Mormon Church, burthen Penrose Is such u fossilized, example of modern mlsllts, that he will believe anything. But If he believes that. Smoot could or would do anything without Instructions Instruc-tions from the quorum, nobody else does. Poor, Ignorant, flabbergasted, half-gagged half-gagged Penrose! Isn't he a dandy old dub? |