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Show A WAY TO EXPRESS THE PEOPLE'S WILL. An the people are often reminded In pulpit and In press, the president of the L'tah Light nnd Railway eompany Is the prophet, seer and revelator of Almighty Al-mighty God, who has the power to bind or lOOSC in heaven or hell. You may disobey his bindings or loOSlngS here on earth. If you wlUi but he- catches you coming and going In the next world. Now. citizens of Salt Lake, is It fair to give him absolute authority, as I prt M nt of the l'tah Light and Railway Rail-way company, over your physical well 1 lug In this mundane sphere? He says that he Is not .attending to this great duty of president of this particular company as a part of his prophetic au-thority. au-thority. therefore he has generously let you loose for a little time. Why do you not take advantage of the opportunity oppor-tunity to be free from his power In one of the spheres of eternal progression? Why do you not say that here on earth you will run your own little affairs, seeing that he Is to have control of all your affairs In both spheres hereafter? Give to yourselves and your posterity a little breath of liberty. Do not allow his creatures, who mix up his authority author-ity sometimes and forget that as a franchise-grabber he is a mere man of e-arth do not let them give to him a franchise for fifty years that will bind you hand and foot, and all who come after you for half a century' It Is an Infamy! ' Go to the meeting tonight, on the grounds of the city and county building, build-ing, and there and then make your protest. Make it loud enough to be heard. Make It respectfully, of course; but stni oud enough to be heard and heeded. Make It quite within the law. vivo i ikii luc nam Misc-Krarioers may got choose to obey the same law, Send delegations upstairs to wait on the Council and ask to be heard; and if the Council will not listen to one delegation, send up another; and keep on sending delegations until you get the City Council to hear you. They will hear you If you send up enough delegations. Keep quite within the law, notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that the president of the LTtah Llglll and Railway company has testified that he lives In defiance of the laws of Cod and man There Is no legal reason why quite a large number num-ber of you should not assemble on the city hall grounds Innig-lit. There is no reason to prevent such among you as are to 1 . it, from omblning togethei and acting as a delegation to carry a powerful and respectful message, oral or otherwise to the Cy Council, requesting re-questing them to do their duty, to protect pro-tect the jlshts of the people here on earth, and let Joseph V. Smith protect them In the heavenly sphere, or down I below, just whichever place he may happen to be In. It is a city councilor's coun-cilor's business to observe his oath of office. He deals with temporal things only. The larfjst thing which will come before him Is the franchise matter. mat-ter. Insist that the Council shall put proper restrictions around this franehise-grabbing monopoly. Insist that It shall have no such consolidation as It demands Insist that your City Couru Union vote for the N'cwhouse franchise, to give us better lights at lower rates. I Do all these things firn.lv ly. massively and legally Do not fear about sending up delegations and petitions peti-tions to the City Council. You have a perfect right to do this in an orderly way. Do not worry about consequences. Loe-our country. Obey Its laws. And tell the City Council to attend to Its legitimate business and to let the hlerarch and his demands go where they belong. |