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Show The Paramount Issue $ Tribune Editorial. October H. I'tf The paramount issue iu Utah J ife year if the redemption of lh?. "i from the clutches of a Iroacherou S gf leas, and treasonable hierarchy i ! fSnf who claim that the great issue it ft Si Presidential enmpaign will h&v hi V'' show a grcntcr reason for their Ir t ion than appears in either of tlio iT18 : r platforms or the spouttugs of tho V Jf paign orators. As long an the f'v7i J-i the puohc are dinned daily with " JS testations on the ono side from ft and on the other lrom Uryau tlint " or the other is tho true heir ? n Roosevelt policies, nnd thnt the flLv L??4 volt policies aro the issue of the W paign. and both sides claiming tn v the true exponent and the right aZ-,. Si through which thoso policies can ? f& carried out. it is impossible lo eat k much enthusiasm either for Taft or j & Bryan. 1 J! The chief rivalry betwecu the )w; National purties this year ocenis to v as to which should be the most radi in declaring apninsi trusts, monopJB $ and the criminally rich, and at tk tftf same time on tho quiet porsuadinp v ff-v trusts, combines, and criminally that they aro not to be particularly ? ff terfcred with, no matter how tho l! tl lion goes. The people at large, thlt t fore, must necessarily take rather, Sit languid interest m the whole m Vs. tor. ) ' jS But here in this county wo have b2 live, burning issue, tho question of h ' dividual freedom, of civic supreme' ' over ecclesiastical pretensions aai dominance. Here we have to craanS "i0 pate the people from a corrupt a& -: , vicious ecclesiastical thralldom4 fv questiou comes right home to even k citizen, and is fcho only live, real hfS Sc that is now before tho American w pic in anv locality of the countn 0 Here we have to fight anew the bat ! of liberty. Nowhere else in this coia try is there an ecclesiastical hiorardi iu control of politics, of civil aflflJ fUl and claiming jurisdiction in the car i of God over the temporal affairs oi mankind. "Tho fact of the matter it when a man says you can direct m spiritually, but not temporally, he j- iu the presence of God," is the defiant fi proclamation of Joseph F. Smith, tb R president of the Mormon churcli. i C jS And with that as tho issue, owdy rB' proclaimed, plainly acted upon, and tHj same .presidcut of tho church coning 3 out openly and turning the church con-i tl forencc into a political ratificatioi mooting in behalf of the Republic. .-lWl mg about tho puerile divisions on Ifo Sic1 tional lines that mean practically noils IggV ing. lhat havo no vitality in thero. u ife earnestness or distinction, no call o i force or effectiveness? What does i iu amount to to any citizen herr to UsU 'fcS7: to the clamor as between Taft aw f- Bryan that the one or tho other is W LrJjK tor fitted to carry out the purpo$ plans and programme mapped out b President Roosevelt? It is mere frot Ma und mouthing. There is nothing to i fc' We havo here a live, vital issue o atr immediate and tremendous important to cvory voter. And on this issue tb Cist fight will bo maintained, and will h ' fought until victory is obtainod. 3 will obtain it in this county this yfi t7f, and gradually Americanism 11 aprei Jlfjt to the various counties of ihe 8t( jri until Utah is redeemed from the ccc! tnin: siustical clutches, from tho dorainan isteia of the selfish, lawless, adulterous, ro Bdsr. bing priesthood. Aud until that fin fc" victory is achieved, it is idle to ta ff, to tho people of Utah about soi JLfi wishv-washy National issues that t IaSj-. no issues at all. |