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Show JUST A REMINISCENCE. A Gentile who spent thirty of the best years of his life in the Intermoun-taln Intermoun-taln West to bring about the present conditions in which Gentiles can fight and win in Utah and Idaho, writes to The Tribune to tell of one of his funny old experiences. Perhaps ho would not object to tho use of his name, but as he has not authorized it, The Tribune withholds It. At ono election the Idaho test oath was to be Imposed. The judges of election elec-tion were there: the ballot box was there. Being a Mormon settlement, It was not believed that any considerable number of votes would be cast, because be-cause the test oath excluded all people who belonged to a church which taught the divinity of or practiced polygamy. Lo, and behold, every one of the former for-mer Mormon voters marched up and cast his ballot, taking tho oath unflinchingly. un-flinchingly. The next day it was explained that on the preceding Sunday, a high autocrat auto-crat of the church had appeared In meeting and had expounded the law unto the saints. A National statute had Just been passed disorganizing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and therefore, as it had no legal existence, they could not legally belong to it, and no oath taken concerning It would have any legal after effects. The Gentile judges spent a busy day, and then left town between files of grinning and triumphant Mormons. By the way, they afterward may havo heard that some of these same grlnners were prosecuted pros-ecuted for perjury. Our old friend spent his time in the service here. He was one of the men who blazed the. footpath; he helped to make tho highway. It would cause wonderment in his mind If he could see any GenJ.lle associated with any political polit-ical party whoso purpose was co-operation with the priestcraft of the Mormon Mor-mon church. |