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Show PENROSE AT IT AGAm. 'Apostle C. W. Penros6 is Reported to have asked lh his address at the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle on Sunday, "Who ever heard of any one being commanded lo cast his vote this way or lliat, cither In the church or politically?" To which vo might fairly reply, VWho has not hoard of It?" ' As to Ihc church, who does not know that the one who would vole against "sustaining" the authorities as proposed by the authorities themselves would be in contumacy and would be disciplined? disci-plined? Who does not remember tho ruction caused only last year by the case of a young man who voted against the proposition to "sustain" Brother Tanner? Jt was acknowledged everywhere every-where to be a bold and risky thing to do, and the young man was promptly called to account for his temerity. His defense was that he believed brother Tanner had taken his girl away from him, and married her in polygamy. And the end of that case has never yet' been made public. As to politics, who Is not familiar with the fact that tho people are under coercion to vote according to tho will of the priesthood? The whole history of the church proves it; there Is no question ques-tion whatever about it. Tho troubles in Utah have been chiefly caused by tho Interference of the church in exactly this way. The Democrats protested against It In 1S95, the Republicans objected ob-jected to It In 1S98, and everybody objects ob-jects to It this year. " "For a specific case, take that of James C. Bowman, who was denied church privileges because be-cause he voted, and persuaded others to vote, for Mr. Crltchlow, for member of the Board of Education, against Mr Symons, who was the church candidate, candi-date, in 1897. Now, It may be said, as a technical dodge, that these cases do not prove tho reverse of what Penrose said, because there Is no evidence that these men hnd received any specific commands In the one cose to sustain brother Tanner, Tan-ner, or In the other to cast hia ballot for brother Symons. But that would be a mere subterfuge, an evasion which Is both shallow and contemptible. If a man knows that he Is expected to do a certain thing In accord with tho deelres of the priesthood, and that he will be disciplined If he does not do It, a(con-tontlon a(con-tontlon that ho Is not commanded to do It Is a dishonest sneak. But then, that sort of thing Is quite characteristic of the person whose utterance ut-terance Is quoted. For fifty years he has been saying Just such equivocal things, and trying to mislead the public pub-lic by precisely that sort of dust-throwing. In such work, he is an adapt, a past master. . His unenviable notoriety In that direction is so well known that all one has to do In order to call up a shrug of disgust and disapproval Is to say of anything of that sort, that It was written or spoken by Elder Penrose. It would be difficult to overestimate the gravity of the situation In the caro of the firing upon the English Ashing fleet by the Russians. There would seem to be but one really appropriate thing to do, and that Is the surrender of the officers and men who did the murderous deed, to the British law, to be dealt with as pirates and murderers This, with ample Indemnity to the families fam-ilies of the slaughtered men, might be a Just retribution; but In the old days of British dominion upon the seas, the restitution would havo been for such an act the sinking of the whole of the Russian Rus-sian fleet. As It Is, the British fleet should detain the Russian vessels until imply reparation as Is decided on shall be made. Chairman Taggart has evidently not forgotten the old political maxim, "Claim everything." In forecasting that New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland,' Delaware. West Virginia and Indiana will all go Democratic, he almost al-most sweeps the field. There seems to be no reason why he should not also Include Wisconsin and Illinois, while he Is about It. One of the objections the Democrats made to their late National Chairman, ex-Senator Jones of Arkansas, Arkan-sas, was that he was a habitual rainbow rain-bow chaser, and continued to make earnest claims of victory when everybody every-body knew that the campaign was lost. It will be Interesting to see. how those objectors arey going to treat Mr. Tag- gart. The sheepmen who are Jubilant at the prospect of raceivlng twenty cents a pound for their wool next season, are of course basing their rejoicing 'on the feeling that President Roosevelt will be re-elected. For none of them believes that If the Democrats had full sway, they would get even ten cents a pound for their wool. Six or eight cents were-the were-the figures under Cleveland, and would be under Parker If he could put his theories Into effect. Los Angeles has three thousand acres of brush land which It Intends to convert con-vert Into a commercial forest. Here Is an example for Salt Lake City. We have a watershed and canyons under municipal control which could be made In a few years considerable sources of forest wealth, while at the same time performing every function that they now perform In the way of "preserving the purity of the water supply. Why not try it? The armored cruiser Colorado certainly cer-tainly gave a good account of herself In her official trial trip yesterday. An Indicated speed of twenty-three knots Is pretty fair railroad speed, equal to twenty-six miles an hour. The Colorado lo evidently golns to be a credit to the navy, and a guarantee for the Jntcgrlty of tho Munroii doctrlen that wlll be worth while. |