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Show "STAMP OUT THE EVIL." The above Is the tlllo of a ranting editorial in Friday night's Descret News. It means by tho phrase, that tho objection to church domination In politics, In the ochools, and In secular affairs, must be stamped out. But would It not bo far moro In consonance con-sonance with American methods, traditions, tra-ditions, and principles, to stamp out the church domination? If the News will atrrec that this must be stamped out, then The Tribune will join with it in the good work; and when that Is done the objection to church dominance will also disappear, and at the same time. That would cure and eradicate tho whole evil at once. To stamp out tho objection to church dominance, and allow al-low that domlnancs to contlnuo, would be neither sense nor genoralshlp, for as loner as the church' domination continues, contin-ues, thero arc bound to bo objections to it, whereas If the evil Itself, tho dominance domi-nance which 13 complained of. Is wiped out. then tho whole matter Is done with, both tho subject of tho complaint and the complaint itself. The News breaks out into the exclamation, excla-mation, "How silly wmc folks aro when disappointed in politics!" Wo agreo that If any ono was disappointed In the result of the election just hold, silly Is a mild word to describe his mental condition. There has not at any time been tho slightest doubt about tho gen eral result in this State; Apoatle Smoot was sustained by his quorum In noml-nutlnc noml-nutlnc Elder Cutler for the Governorship, Governor-ship, and that grand sustaining was the sustaining of the church, and when twelve prophets, seers, and revelators sustain a thing, whether It Is political or not, there should bo no doubt whatever what-ever about the result. Those familiar with the working of the machine could never have had the slightest doubt that It would effect the result aimed at. The only thing which at any time was In the slightest shadow of a doubt was as to Judge Powers, when President Roberts came out for him; that created a feeling for a day or two that the church might be 'at Pct.v-ers's Pct.v-ers's back, but that Idea was quickly dissipated by the appearance of an apostle on the stump'agalnst him. The church was Indeed nt his back, but only so that It could the easier and more forcibly administer its kicks. |