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Show NOW YOU KNOW. To every aspiring Genlilo politician tho example of certain Gentilo officials of-ficials of this State is commended for due consideration. Now you know, Mr. Gentile Aspirant, how to gain offico in Utah and how to hold office in Utah. Be an errand boy for tho Mormon church. Ask no questions, but obey counsol. Do all this and you may dishonorably gain and dishonorably hold honorable oftlco. If your manhood, if your citizen-Bhip citizen-Bhip in the United States are of loss importance to you than somo petty placo of temporary power bostowod by a church and controlled through you for tho purposo of that church, your road to pcrforment is easy. If, on the other hand, thoro abides within you tho instinct of iutogrity, if you havo a conscienco, if you have prido in a personal career, if you have hope to leave a good reputation as a heritago for your children, if you have one emotion emo-tion of patriotism; you will renounce all copartnership with this organized crime which misrules and which do-fames do-fames Utah and will stand in your own splendor a man. Tho issue in being sharply drawn here, and you will be known for what you are. You cannot ovado public knowledge nor public judgment. If you are a church favorite all the peoplo peo-plo of Utah know that you are a church servant. Whenever Smootism, speaking speak-ing for the hierarchy, advocates you for public place or approves you in tho holding of public place, every Gentile Gen-tile in Utah knows that you have paid tho price. Whenever Smootism, acting for tho .hierarchy, disapproves you, every Gentilo in Utah knows thai you have either declined to submit or if you have previously submitted that the church has exhausted your usefulness and has thrown yon away as a worn-out, worn-out, discarded, useless political lemon in order to givo your former place to a more attractive creature. Now you know what it moans. Now you know how to mako your choico. And now you know that all the self-respecting self-respecting and intelligent people of the State of Utah will know whether or not you are willing to pav tho church price for its destructive favors, |