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Show THE TAX AND THE RULE. Would the payment of a voluntary church donation by snmo citizens of a commonwealth justify the taxation without with-out representation of nil tho oilier citizens citi-zens therein? Dcscret News. No. And that is just the point. By oxacting from the saints ten per cent aunualty of their earnings, tho prcsid-ing'high prcsid-ing'high priests of the Mormon church claim that they are gathering means with which to establish tho kingdom of God on earth. While the majority of tho Christian people of the world fail to seo wherein the Almighty would require re-quire tho assistance of mere man-coined money for tho accomplishment of His purposes, thcro is still another feature lo be considered. The desire of the Mormon ccclesiasts is to extend over all mankind the same taxation without representation, that. tho)r now impose upon their dupes within tho church. Take the claims of tho chief prophet, seer, and rovelator of tho church, and granting to him the power ami authority autho-rity which is attributed to him in the revelations of the cult, and ho is an absolute monarch of tho most pronounced pro-nounced typo. Ho taxes tho people; but under tho very extent of his authority, I as recognized b3' the membership of tho church, there can positively be no representation repre-sentation accorded to tho la3 members in tho governmental affairs of the church. Extend the rule of this tyrant over a State or a Nation, and the theory the-ory of taxation without representation becomes as general as is his dominion. Tho hierarchical aim is to spread this sort of rule over tho whole world, making mak-ing of its entire citizeuship a source of income to the chief rulor and his satellite sat-ellite favorites. Therefore the Mormon belief in this respect is one of taxation without representation. And, what ia more, it is onhy tho determined opposition opposi-tion of patriots, which has been launched against the hierarchical tyrannies tyr-annies here from the very first, that has prevented the church practice from becoming the State rule. The result of this activity on the part of lo)iI citizens citi-zens is that high church officials aro no longer able to "borrow" funds from the public treasury, as they did do in 3'ears gono by, for the purposes of the "kingdom of God On earth." Besides, tho titho contributions are not voluiilaiy, as has boon shown by quotod Mormon authorities. Tho Desert Des-ert Nows knows this, just as well as it, is nwaro of the fact that a man who refuses lo pa)' is not in good standing. In other words, tho saint's salvation is solely dependent upon a cash consideration. considera-tion. And if colcstial glor3T bo at all dependent upon cash contribution to the church, then, logically, tho degree of exaltation is coincident with the amount of the contribution. Let any man refrain from the payment of I tithes, and he will diacover that, although al-though he may be a saint in very deed in other respects, he is a backslider. And let him pn)' as much as ho likes, and nt the. same time demand public-that public-that lie shall havo some representation in the government of the church (provided (pro-vided he be not one of the twenty-six) and see how soon he would bo haled before a bishop's court for insubordination insubordina-tion and rebellion against, "the authorities." autho-rities." ' That is the practico of the church in dealing with its members, and the church organ knows it to be tho truth. And that is the rnlo which the church would impose upon all humanity tho News being aware that this also is tho truth. And that is taxation without representation. And the orpan of tho Mormon lord knows that is no lie. Further, whether tho paj'ment of a voluntaiy church donation by some citizens of a. commonwealth justrty the taxation without representation of all the other citizens there or not, that is precisely what was dono by tho church crowd in Utah for many 3'cars. Tho remainder of the articlo of the Nows, in which its romarks concern-, ing tithing appear, reads so much like the maunderings resultant upon an overdose of "consecrated oil" that compassion would overlook it. |