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Show ALWAYS THE THROTTLE GRIP. Now. you aro going to have an election elec-tion of county officers by arid by. What are you golnt; to do about it? Aro you going to split tickets? Arc you going to tho polls to scratch off names, and put on the namv of somebody else? I should hope not. From sermon of Joseph V. Smith In the Salt Lake tabernacle, July 18, 1SS-I; Deserot News, August 2, 1881. That has a familiar twang. It was oul3 a littlo over two years ago that this same spurious prophet published an editorial (personally signed) in the Improvement Era, giving advice to the j-oung saints that was identical with that delivered iu the tabernacle twen-t3'-four years ugo which goes to show that, despite professions of recession from political interference, tho hie-rarchs hie-rarchs still maintain their throttle-hold upon tho suffrage of their followers. It is a demonstrable fact that four 3'ears ago nian3' an alleged Democrat shed his dcmocrac' temporarily, and a few permanent-, on account of that editorial which appeared in the official organ of the 3oung people's organizations organiza-tions of tho Mormon church. The customary cus-tomary terms of "friends" and "one mies" were freely used by the prophet in the course of tho article. That was plain enough for tho Mormon who understood un-derstood the terms and tho3r have had their meaning ho pcrsistenth- ground into their minds aud ver3' beings that it -was impossible . fyr good sainls to mistake tho nature, of the chief hie- rarch's desire. It is a mere li3pocrisy for tho church lenders to pretend that H103' aud their religion were being attacked, at-tacked, and that therefore they had a right to unito their following in self-defense. self-defense. The moment thero appears any danger that tho high priests will lose control of politics, and that tho pcoplo will cast their ballots as they personal' seo fit, then tho chief ec-clesiasts ec-clesiasts raiso tho hue and cr3r that the church is being attacked. There will be no effective composition of the situation here until tho hierarchs recede from this stupid position as recede re-cede the' must, if it takes a centun' to bring about that end. |