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Show INDIGNANT! The apostolic editor of the 4- Deseret News threw a fit Inst night because, in nn article showing why Utah is not in- creasing In population ns other -f Western States, The Tribune re- cited the fact that the average American of the United States hates the Mormon church. Nothing is truer than this. The awful confessions of Joseph F Smith at Washington while 4- before the Senate committee in- vestigating the right of Reed Smoot to retain his place In the Senate. angered Americans everywhere. The church in Utah, through the ndmissi ons of Smith, Lyman and others, harbors and sustains men who have no reverence for the law nor for the so-called revelations to their people They 4- confess to be law -breakers and defiantly bo. There is no wonder such a church is hated And there is no wonder that homeseekers refuse to locate here when such an or- gnr.ization as the high priests of -t- the church in Utah dictate to the 4- courts and control in all tern- poral affairs. Did Joseph F Smith not de- clnre that Gentiles are "ene- mics?" Has he not breathed the sentiment in a dozen of his fu- riously fanntical sermons? Do 4 his business associates not boy- 4-4 4-4 cott GcntilosP Then why ravo 4-4 4-4 at a statement of fct? 4 4 Tho News editor's fury is 4 4 really a joke. Ho knows as do 4-4 4-4 the intelligent Mormon people, 4 that such men as himself and 4 4 his associates in the apostolate 4 4 are the very men who have 4-4 4-4 brought new trouble and hatred 4 4 to the Mormon church through 4 4 their persistence In living con- 4-4 4-4 trary to the laws of the United 4 4 States, the State of Utah and 4 4 the law3 of decency and moral- 4-4 4-4 ity. And a Mormon who con- 4-4 4-4 tinues to sustain them strikes 4 4 tho most savage and effective 4-4 4-4 blow possible against the peace 4 4- of this entire community. 4-444444-44444444-44 |