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Show PURPOSEFUL FALSE PRETENSE. Once in a great while the Deseret News plucks up sufficient courage lo declare for the loyalty of tho leaders of its church, but carefully avoids the proofs which go to establish their treason. trea-son. Of couree. the News is shamming for a purpose when it does thio, and it avoids even the sliamming except when it is stung to the quick by The Tribune's Trib-une's repeated exposure, of the lawless traitors. The fact that .Joseph F. Smith, tho present president and prophet of the Mormon church openly confesses thai he is -a traitor. to the country, in lhat he defies, and intends to continue to 'defy, its laws, fits admirably with the treason of the earlier leaders. We have heretofore reproduced t Tic sermonizing of thcee- men, wherein their vindictive-nosif vindictive-nosif toward the, country was exposed. After tho anti-polygamy law of I.SG2. was- passed .by Congress, the hierarchs were particularly vohomous toward the Nation. Their &ole. grievance against the land was that its constituted authority au-thority had declared that belief in po. lygamy was not a religious belief, and that the -practice of the doctrine was a crime. Heroin lay the sole reason for fanning the flames of rebellion against tho Nation. During this period, the Wnr of the Rebellion was in progress, and the chief priests were never tired of preaching, praying, and hoping for the downfall of the United States, so that upon its ruins thev could establish tho kingdom of God on earth, under whoso benign protection thoy could indulge in-dulge in unrestricted lecheries. Hero arc- two samples of the uttterancos of that day, those being from a sermon which John Taylor (who afterwards be-camo be-camo president of the church as a reward re-ward for his zeal in treachery toward the land) preached in the Tabernacle on April 9. 1S64: This? kingdom will never be overcome. Everything that is brought against us will he broken. Tho United State? is broken and never will be mended. Tho Nation will never recover again; never, never! After thope poor devil? In the StateE kill each other, lh women will be left, and wc will have to izo after Micro. They will kill each other all off; they are bound to do it. At the lime Taylor uttered this vicious treason he was an apostle in I he church one of tho hierarchical body from out of which go I he law and the testimony to tho Mormon people. His disloyalty was bTTt the echo of that' of the first presidency, whose defiance of the Government we have often quoted. The whole church at that time, under the teaching of its leaders, was awaiting like a great pack of iackals to fall upon tho mutilated remains of the Nation, when it should succumb to the onslaught of tho Confederates. The leaders howled like hyenas, fancying that they scented a carca.s from afar, and notified the sainrs lhat tho time was near at hand when thoy should regale themselves upon the prey most to be desired. The liuio was big with possibility for the kingdom of God; and the prophets praj-ed unceasingly to Almighty Al-mighty God to delivor over to their revengeful hands and hearts the Nation which thoy pretended to the world was established-to accommodato the growth of the Mormon church. And so the highest of the high priests pray in secrot today; and so they out wardly protest at this time. And they i go into their endowment blasphemioa j with treason in their hearts and upon their lips an oath to do all in their I power to hasten the National destruction destruc-tion that they Ect' out seventy-eight years ago to accomplish. That is the long and the short of tho hierarchical pretended loyalty. |