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Show GUESSED IT WRONG It Is worth while to call attention to ! the difficulties which attend upon a revelator rev-elator who gets no revelation For the last sixty clays Joseph F. and some of his prophetic colleagues have been trying try-ing to get a straight tip on the municipal munici-pal election Whatever may be their method of obtaining ob-taining information from On High on ordinary occasions they seemed all this time to be utterly unable to open the channel They refused to accept the information which The Tribune offered on this vital subject and insisted on the effort to "ring up" the celestial "central" "cen-tral" on their own private telephone wires. They got no heavenly Information, Informa-tion, for this was an earthly matter, and they were so rattled that they guessed U wrong three times a day. This Is a warning tO petty prophets like Joseph F. Smith, who are not quite sure that thpy have any power as prophets, seers and revelators, to let big questions Of this kind alone. Politics is a very Intricate subject, and Joseph V Smith has never made any very careful study of the question. In point of fact, when he attempts to elucidate even the National principles Of bis party he is so trite as to be amusing. amus-ing. He knows no more than an ordinal ordin-al y school child should know. The fact Is that no one man can know everything, every-thing, and even the combined hierarchy Is unable to give accurate information In whlr-h all can unite upon some of the subjects concerning which they make decision In the name of Omniscience. Rattled prophet! manarrtng a difficult polltii ai campaign constitute a ipec- ta le at which men may laugh, even if Ihe gods are busy elsewhere. |