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Show THE THREAT OF THE DESERET NEWS IS COMING HOME. te the Mormon people to hp ruined in the house of their pretended pi 'phots and friends? The awful r.ew s which comeg from Washington that the seat of Joseph Howcii Congressman from LTlSh, l to ht attacked because he hss tnken practically tho sam oalh as that prescribed fot an apostle with the assurance that this is done in pursuanre of thai almost monkey. )e activity of Smoot s friends and defenders within the church is oalt alaled 1 r. cause serious-minded men within and without the church, l-ets of 1 tah. to stand aghast us men were wont lo do in ancient market places and ask. "Is this Lht fate io which fte to be consecrated by the powers that be?" No more solemn occasion has ever arisen In the history of l't;ih. and The Tribune, ah a watchman on tike tower, 'alls the attention of the public not only to the passing of the limes but to the dangers w hir h etn ompaSS round about. Read with patience. cltlsSns of I h sovereign State of I'tah. fot this concerns you nil, Jew. Gentile, a nd Mormon Sllkf t When 'i he Tribune began the (rigorous fight against the leiipiwn classes which were being held in the ;iuMi, schools n iterated and reiterated a warning that thoe classes should be speedily withdrawn s calamity must come which wouin be a curse to the stale through its generations, in language which H BOUghf to make dignified, but precise, this papr uttered thai warning day l day The antic News ni. lining about like a nionkev on a stb k sometimes head tilde down and sometimes -'own swie no. but always grotesque kept daring The Tribune to tell lv when and Whj Hie predicted .nd wool.' be attained at-tained AH the time The Tribune knew It but did not dare to tell for Very mercy toward I'tah prompted Mice. Happily, a brave Mormon State Superintendent was called before the Smoot comm'ttee aid he I afforded InformatlOh upon which the religion clauses were withdrawn instantly This was despite the denial de-nial of the News that any surh had existed, and no' withstanding the point hla ik declai ition of the hle-rarchj hle-rarchj thai if they did exist they should NOT be ordered oul of the pubii. ichools The awful exposure at Washington settled the whole iase Dl'T THERK WAS ANOTHKR AND v MURR IiANGEROT S S P'TT I . E M K UN T PENDING bill sent to The Tribune hy an Eastern Bni tOI proposed pro-posed a repeal of that part of the enabling act which gave any public lands to Utah foi hei school sss-tern. sss-tern. and it was only at The Tribune's teeniest and that of Senator Kearns that this bill was not Introduced. Intro-duced. It Is useless to talk about unconstitutionality. Mormon Friends; you exhausted the language on Ihat subject twenty years ago If that bill had been introduced and had become a law the I'tah school system would have been without publh lands. Tho Tribune knew this Impending calamity and Hid hoi wish to br athe it. lest to send it out upon the ambient air would be to crystallise it into dangerous form. We eggpj you. for Gods sake for yom ow n sake, for decency s sajce, for education's sake. Vout leaders refused re-fused all theve pleas but the forlunal- Incident of Hon A. C Nelson's testimony saved I'tah from the disaster dis-aster For a long time The Tribune has known that the franchise of all the Mormon people was in danger. It was placed in this danger by the deliberate a l of the selltsh hierarchy, which bus always 'ought to Interpose Ihe mass between a Jusl punishment inflicted by the law upon the hleiarchlcal I la-s and :' criminal himself There is not a person who remembers the old days of prosecution or Bo-calied persecution, bul does also remember that the aim of the hierarchical class was to drag in the unoffending mass s shield In this caxe the attempt has been more flagrant. The teaching has beer, by the Deseret News, from the pulpit, from the lipv (t loseph Howell and plentj of other trusted political agents of the hierarchy, TH AT IP RF.KD SMOOT COULD BE EXCLUDED EXCLUD-ED FROM THE SENATE FOR TAKING OATHS aND HOLDING THE PLACE OF ONE OF THF TWENTY-SIX RULING HTERARCHS of THF mormon CHURCH JOSEPH HOWELL aND EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF THF MORMON CHURCH DOWN TO THF VERT LOWEST, WHO had RECEIVED RE-CEIVED HIS 'ENDOWMENTS, COULD BE THEREBY EXCLUDED PROW THF RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP CITI-ZENSHIP The Tribune rejects this awful judgment with horror The owners of this paper and the editors, in this risis hae determined most positively that this paper will not stand as an open nOl even a silent advocate ad-vocate of the disfranchisement of the Mormon people. desire to see their franchise protet ted as Is protected pro-tected the franchise of all olher i Itlzens. We hold that onl twentv-3i leading men of the Mormon church aie bv the law and 'onM Itutioii so far disfranchised in I'tah. They are th twenty-Six ruling persons known as the hietatch and they consist con-sist of The president, the two counsellors to the president; the twelve apostle.- the presiding blshopi'ii . the even presidents of seventies, and the presiding patriarch The chur h itself drew the line immediately below these twenty-Six I required all twenty-Bix of Lhese to sign the document giving to th church their supreme alleglence In politics and taking away their supreme allegiance n Itlzens from the country In which they dwell By that same act all who stand below be-low them AND WHO DO NOT ST'BSCRIBF TO THF IMPLICATIONS ND DISFRANCHISEMEN1 OF THE DOCUMENT ITSELF. ARE FREE. This means that the whole mass of the Mormon people are as free as all other cltlxens of the Republic if they will but exercise their freedom. THE CHOU E MUST now bp: WITH the MORMON PEOPLE They will either get over with the twenty-six. who are to be disfranlsed is we are assured or they will remain with the mass of their fellow-cltlzens of the Republic free to ote and a t as thc please They cannot however, be both. They must be either citizens of the great RepUblh of the l ulled States or they must be sr-rfc in Joseph F Smith s kingdom of (iod. The attack upon Joseph Howell s seat Is a precursor pre-cursor of w hat is coming Mormon people, The Salt like Tribune Is with you and the hierarchy Is against you The chun h organ has been tea hlng all the time that you can be disfranchised If Reed Smoot's seat can be taken from him The Tribune has been holding all the time that you are free and independent f any BU h consequence. conse-quence. WHERE WILL YQU TAKE YOUR SIDE? |
