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Show dives the ford From Brother Smith, Rflormon Democrats to Vote Straight for Brother Cutler. Mormon Republicans to See That Brother Powers Goes to Congress, Con-gress, Sure. Strictly Confidential. MORMOTON, Utah, Oct. 25. Dear Brother Penroso (Apostle nnd Editor of the Deseret News): There Is no use brooding1 over a hopeless sorrow. I am afraid that the jig la up. Somebody has been circulating an antidote for church Influence all through tho country districts, dis-tricts, and at this writing I can't tell Just exactly whore we are corning out. iTowever, I am getting- In my work, und If my photograph doesn't break into the hall of fame, It Isn't my fault. That's all. I have been out among 'em this week, and the Saints have felt to speak of the blessing my coming has been to them and rejoice in the fact that there Is, something- in the gospel to live for, something to hope for and something to vote for. I put them wise as to the proper way to vote. The day of darkness dark-ness files before the era of advancing thought. The true mission of the priesthood priest-hood is to control and dictate, and I havo been doing both. It Is almost as easy as selling green goods In some of the back districts. All this talk about coercion and compulsion com-pulsion naturally has stirred up some trouble, but most of the brethren are Just too sweot for anything when they find out that any bucking means total Isolation on earth and utter annihilation annihila-tion hereafter. They can stand the hereafter part of It very well, but the lonesomenees of the other alternative, usually brings them around with a short Jerk" and a quick wriggle. They can't stand for that. A Very Smooth Bishop. But Bishop Winker wasn't selected for this Job without some slight idea of the way to work. Brother Smoot would never have sent mo to Brother Spry If he wasn't sure of my ability as a gumshoe gum-shoe diplomat thoroughly saturated with Implicit, unquestioning obedience to the ohurch. I must udmlt the work has been somewhat complicated by the order to counsel the Mormon Republicans Republi-cans to vote for Brother Powers no well as tho Mormnn Democrats to vote for Brother Cutler. It takes a slick man to make an argument to catch 'em coming and going, but there- Is no bishop In Utah any slicker than Brother Winker, if I do say it myself. I stand pat with the apostles when It comes to oily smoothness. No man can marry seven times unless he la a smooth citizen. My No. 7 says she was buncoed to a standstill, stand-still, and I understand that your No. 3 says that you fooled her by using peroxide per-oxide on your sliver tresses to make them match the toupee that covered your bald spot. But never mind that. There was nothing In the manifesto against a little Innocent deception. If Mormon Republicans don't folfow counsel nnd vote for Brother Powers along with the Mormon' Democrats that vote for Brother Cutler, It will be nothing noth-ing less than apostasy. I told them that when President Smith said let Cutler Cut-ler and Powers be elected, It was equivalent equiv-alent to saying that Brother Cutler and Brother Powers shall be elected, and when President Smith says Brother Cutler and Brother Powers shall be elected, they are elected. There Is no other. way out of It. It Is settled now-just now-just as surely as it will bo ufter election. elec-tion. Why? Didn't God say let there be light and there was light? Just How It Is Done. Hasn't God given the keys of authority authori-ty to President Smith? Therefore, what President Smith says God has commanded com-manded him to say. When President Smith tells Brother Smoot to tell Brother Broth-er Spry to tell Brother Winker to tell the Mormon Democrats to vote for Brother Cutlerand the Mormon Republicans Repub-licans to vote for Brother Powers, even If Brother Powers is a Gentile and therefore an enemy of God, who are these Mormons that they should withstand with-stand the authority of God? God directs President Smith to have Brother Cutler and Brother Powers elected. President Smith is too busy to go out and have it done himself, he directs Brother Smoot, Avho looks after the apoptollc politics for the church, to have it done. Brother Smoot orders Brother Spry to arrange tho details according ac-cording to God's commands, and In order or-der to do this Brother Spry sends me out to counsel with the brethren. Then I go- to the Mormon Democrats and to the Mormon Republicans, und I sav to themj "I come to you with the authority of God. I ask you to vote for Brother Cutler Cut-ler and Brother Powers, and you will vote for them. For who are you that you yhould withstand the authority of God' But If you shduld get wise to church Interference, In-terference, rise to helghty of thought or Fhow. symptoms of Intelligence nnd do withstand the authority of God. you sh.Hl be east out. bumped up against fate, jammed Into the financial dumps, fastened to a buzz-saw of remors" in motion, deserted by your friends, kicked by your- enemies on the patch In your trouseYettcs where there's a kick coming to you, given over to the buffetlngs of Stitari. your buslners taken from you and woe and desolation shall fall upon you and yours, until you don't know which ond you stand on or whose roof Is In your, jnotith. . Give You tho Icy Glare. "But ho'w shall that bo done, they ask?-Why, ask?-Why, God, through Apostle Smoot Brother Spry and Bishop Winker, will notify all your friends, relatives and customers to withdraw from you the glad hand, expose tho marble heart, give you the icy glare, the cut circumstantial jind the boycott direct, and under this pert'onal, ptlcal, financial and religious relig-ious ostracism you shall pine In solitude among your: IclmdaQ hjjjjfij; unions your relatives, and become a crawling warm to be trampled upon by all that walk your way. You become an outcast out-cast and an apostate, with all the misery mis-ery and wretchedness that goes with the Job. Now, are you on? "If you vote for Brother Cutler and Brother Powers, you arc carrying- out the wishes of God revealed by wireless telegraphy to President Smith and down the line by way of Brother Smoot, Brother Spry and Bishop Winker, direct to you. Thus you get your politics straight from heaven without any trouble of thinking- it out for yourself. Could anything be easier than that? "Does this sacrifice your Independence? Independ-ence? Not by a d mill sight. You merely accept counsel, because you know by what I have revealed to you-that you-that I am chosen of God to deliver this message, and It won't be any money ln your pocket to dodge IL As a Mormon Democrat or a Mormon Republican, you may have different views, and not for one moment would the leaders of the church have you change them to suit anybody or anything-, but If you don't vote for Brother Cutler and Brother Powers, God help you. for no Mormon can and no Gentile will. You are between be-tween the devil and a high cliff overlooking; over-looking; Glve-a-dam Gulch. Vote as God's deputy on earth tells you, or Jump off. Allowed .to Swear Softly. Of course, there Is no objection to an expression of your views, or you may even swear softly, If you vote right, God won't allow a Mormon to rise up Mary Ann ln open rebellion to his quorum or In defiance of holy commands, com-mands, so step down from your perch, quietly If you can. noisily if you must, but step down, and be p. d. q. about It. If you don't, brethren, you are up against it with a dull, sickening thud, and may the Lord have mercy upon your souls. You may save yourself a lot of trouble if you die before you vote against Brothers Cutler and Powers." If that speech doesn't fetch 'em, nothing noth-ing else will except tho reality. Ask Brother Thatcher and Brother Roberts, rhey know. Don't you think the Lord Is kind of rubbing It In on Brother Roberts Rob-erts right now In setting him apart for the mission to elect Brother Powers? t couldn't do that, but I suppose after you have crawled once, you can crawl again without scraping the hide off. Mrs. Winker No. 5 says she wouldn't She says she would see Brother Smith ,n h heaven with the gates ajar or the id oft or something that sounded like that, before she would take orders from mu. ?hurch "8 to how she shall vote. Think of that, will you, Brother Penrose? Pen-rose? From my own darling- No. 5, and me a bishop In the church. These women, wo-men, these women. When they vote they vote, you may depend upon It. and when they won't, they won't, and that's an end on It, Be gosh. Now, look hero, you quit talking about coercion in your sermons. There is always a suspicion that somebody is lying when you deny anything. 1 wouldn't have your reputation for a year's rake-off from the tithing fund. So, cheese It, Cully. Have you ever committed any secret crime that you are afraid to keep quiet? An uneasy conscience Is an awful thing Your true friend In the gospel nn.i old pal in polygamy. G 81,01 and CEPHAS AURELI US WINKER Bishop of Mormonton, Prospective pSS. MaI" GUJ' f th0 SmootleJ P. S. Say. you prove It on Brother Pussy when you defend him, Muns the word when there's any graftlnl' go- |