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Show NOT FOR RELIGION. In a short address which he made at tho tabernacle on Sunday. Elder George Q. Morris said that. "Joseph Smith should have the respect of the world, for he gave his life for his religion" That request would be reasonable enough, provided it could be shown that it was roligion for which Joseph Smith really gave his life. There aro those who . personalty know tho founder of. Mormontsm, as well as written narrative narra-tive and historical data to that effect, who and which show that a combination combina-tion of circumstances having origin in activities other than those of a "religious "reli-gious nature brought, about tho "martyrdom." It is trno that Joseph sought to dominate in polities in Illinois; Illi-nois; and, iu fnct, ono of tho last acts of his life was to announce himself as iii candidate for the Presidency of tho United States. Through these activities, activi-ties, not at all religious, he brought upon himself the hatred of political opponents. Thon there were plenty of men in the church itself who accused him of the grossest immoralities with seductions of wives and daughters of hi 8 own brethren. Ilu was also accused ac-cused by many saints with having entered en-tered upon a number of very shady land and financial transactions, out of which thoy came decidodly tho losers. His manipulation of. the municipal court of Nauvoo to protect his own wrong doing and thnt of his favorites is a matter of indisputable historical fact. Ho was charged by some of his brethren breth-ren with keeping in his employ a lot of thugs to secretly punish thoso who opposed hitn. Eventually tho unjust and immoral practices with which he was accused prompted some hundreds of his brethren iu the church to hold sccrnf meetings at. which they conspired to "remove" him which' thc3' subsequently subse-quently did. j None of those causes contributing to his death by the hands of his broth reu and others were of a religious na tare, and fhorefoio tho ground upon .which Elder. Morris" asks. ilnivcrsal . respect re-spect for" Joseph Smith would acom uot to exist. |