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Show ENOUGH OF OHTJECH. The Idaho Recorder says thai the Mormon hicrarchs have the Legislature of the Gem State by tho throat and will dominate the proceedings of that bod3r at tho ensuing session. In the view of the Recorder, J. Frank Hunt, a prominent member of the church, is to be made Speaker of the House. So assured is this that not ono Republican newspaper 'of Idaho, except the Payette Independent, has had, within the knowledge of the Recorder, Re-corder, tho temcrit' to oppose Hunt's candidacy. With their own speaker ,on guard the hierareh' may sleep nights in the sweet assurance that no legislation can be achieved which will in any degree injuriously in-juriously affect their interests; also the- may be calmly certain that any measure which has their approval will at least, have its day on the floor unless the Speaker shall choose to pass it without the knowledge of the members, mem-bers, as in the case of the resolution to amend the constitution, which resolution reso-lution was procured 03' Apostle John Henry Smith in the exercise of his divine di-vine right to run things without human consent. The Recorder expresses an idea which is not new in this question, and yet may have failed to receive the consideration consid-eration which its importance demands: "By all means," says the Recorder, "let the people have enough of J. Frank Hunt until the people are thor oughly tired 01 him, and then possibly the majority of the people will begin to think there is something to the Mormon question." If it would not have been a crime to the generation living and the whole future of this State of Utah, it might have been worth while to use this prescription pre-scription for those who are afilicted, in this commonwealth, with the disease of hierarch-worship. Tf there had been no active resistance to tho tyrannies of the Mormon church they would by this timo have been so unbearable that men would have arisen in armed revolution, revo-lution, if necessnry, to overthrow them. As it is, the conflict has compelled the hicrarchs to modify some of their evil practices; it has also drawn away many of their supporters; and it has forced their Gentile allies, apologists, temporary tempo-rary beneficiaries and permanent serfs to swallow whatever tho hierarohy prepares pre-pares and to pretend they like it. Idaho will get enough, ns predicted .by the Recorder; and Utah, despite tho controversj' which checks in some re-Bpects, re-Bpects, tho brutal domination of Smith and his colleagues, wil ulso get enough and far too much of church control. |
