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Show IT WAS A MISTAKE.. We reprint on this page an editorial from tho Indiariapolis News, under the title, "The 'President's Sermon." We commend this editorial of our Indiana contemporary to the careful consideration consider-ation of all concerned, in Utah as well as elsewhere; it shows an unusual grasp of the situation hcrej and a just discrimination dis-crimination between wjiat is true and what is false; and it sets up a standard stand-ard which it would have been well if President Taft had followed. It was unquestionably President Taft's better 'judgment to follow this standard. When ho received tho protest pro-test of the' C hristian ministers against 111 2 ring's' Sunday programme for him, he changed t he programme so as to leave out his Tabernacle appearance, but Ihc importunities of the brethren, in office and out of it, caused him to again change his mind; they told him (falsely, of course), that if the programme pro-gramme was changed the whole proceedings pro-ceedings would be marred . and all thrown into confusion; and so he consented, con-sented, against his better judgmeut. to have the original programme carried out. There is no doubt, however, but that the second programme, omitting the Sunday exercises, save only tho President's Presi-dent's attendance at the Unitarian church, could have been carried out even belter than the first; the children of the living flag could have been paraded pa-raded just as well on Salurdaj' as on Sunday. But this left out President Taft's appearance at the Tabernacle, and that appenrance was what the Mormon leaders especially wanted; and so extraordinary pressure was brought to bear upon President Taft. and he was induced to appear in the Tabernacle Taber-nacle just as President Booseveit had done. ' It is very unwise, however, for a President of the United States to come here and lend himself to the Mormon desires. When he does, it exploits tho President as tolerating the Mormon viciousncss and law-breaking. To tho Mormon people the matter is prosentod far stronger than mere tolerance; to them it is presented as an approval of the acts, doings, dogmas, and tendencies ten-dencies of the Mormon cult and its leaders. It is so presented already in this case; President Taft is represented represent-ed as approving the Mormon ideas and prnctices throughout, and as the special spe-cial friend of the Mormon leaders and approver of their teachings and principles. prin-ciples. Undoubtedly tho Indianapolis News in this expression, hero quoted, voices the real and. better sontimont of t.he American people as to .this matter, throughout the length and breadth of iho Tnir-d States Save onlv in Mor mondom itself, it will be held that President Taft in appearing in the Mormon Tabernacle, made a serious mistake, for in so doing ho seemed to countenance an immorality, a viciousncss. vicious-ncss. and a defiance of law and decency that, has boon the curse of lliis region ever since its first settlement |