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Show AMAZING TESTIMONY. W hen President Joseph F. Smith last Marih laid bare the scandalous violations viola-tions of faith, honor and probity of Which he and others of the ruling hierarchy hier-archy are and have been guilty, a thrill of amazement and rage swept over tin-country. tin-country. The people of the United Si -lies s;,v that th y had be.-n irlcked, and that their -well meant lenity and good natured candor had been shamefully shame-fully abused. The protest sent from here against the assumption of President Presi-dent Smith that the people here the non-Mormons condoned the dreadful condition of affairs which his testimony for the first time revealed to them, was the appropriate answer to his vile as-BUmptioii as-BUmptioii and was received by the country coun-try as cone lush e denial of the point raised. But now we have the amazing spectacle spec-tacle of non-Mormons from Utah and Idaho testifying in a way that brings comfort to the defenders of the outrageous outra-geous assumptions of President Smith. To say that these witnesses know better than to say the things they do, is merely mere-ly to give a fair credit to their Intelligence Intelli-gence When men will testify on oath that there la no church interference in politics. It being openly known all the years since Statehood that the church headquarters is the center of political control In this State, when It is notorious noto-rious that the Democratic party has constantly protested that it is and has been discriminated against by the church; when It was not a bit of a se- - i'-t last f.,11 that it was the church organization that was the real-political organisation and the church officials were the political agents of the hierarchy, hier-archy, passing on the word from headquarters head-quarters to the people; when it Is positively posi-tively and publicly known that in every political campaign aspirants for office keep the trail to the ecclesiastical headquarters head-quarters hot with rapid feet and the constant friction of their tread: when all this Is notorious In Utah, and when those who now testify to the contrary, are perfectly willing while at home to recognize and admit the facts It is indeed in-deed miraculous that they can be in- duced to testify as they do when called to Washington. Nevertheless, they do it; and the revolting re-volting f;u t stirs the indignation of candid can-did minds everywhere in this State and elsewhere where the real conditions are known It Is lit, therefore, that a repudiation repu-diation of their testimony should be made by the straightforward people of Utah, such as the Idaho Legislature made ( the scandalous testimony of UcConnell, and such us the i..yai people made In this city last spring of th shocking testimony of President Smith. It Is a shame that any one, much less a nor.-Mormon, should pive such testimony testi-mony before the country, and the lojal people of TJtah cannot do Justice to themselves In the matter Otherwise than bj rising In their honesty and their might and denouncing those who give that testimony as false to their own convictions and untrue to their manhood. |