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Show WHERE WONDER COMES IN. Taking the following complete paragraph para-graph from an editorial which appeared in tho Dcsorot News of Monda3' night, we find fair opportunit3' for comparison com-parison that is as fitting as it ma3' bo invidious: With tho statutes staring thum so plainly In the face, and with tho statement state-ment of the Governor of the Stato backing back-ing thorn up. lt Is a marvel that any people of repute should persevoro in the attempt, not only to defy both, but thr, moral sentiment of so great a part of tho community. It is indeed a "marvel," applying this expression of tho News to a situation situa-tion wbieh it pcrsistenlb' ignores for reasons of its own, and in belialf of its masters. No onc will question tho assumption that the church organ looks upon President Presi-dent Josoph F. Smith as one of those whom it considers to bo "people of repute." Of course, no "statement of the Governor" has over yet appeared ap-peared as "backing up" tho statutes of Utah covering his particular case. Nevertheless, it is a "marvel" that, whilo tho statutes are staring him so plainly in the face, .Joseph F. Smith has confessed that ho persists in defying defy-ing them, ns Veil as the moral sentiment senti-ment of tho vast majority iu Utah; that ho chooses not lo obey the. law; that ho prefers to take his chances against the law; that not on'3' is tho law beneath his utter contempt, but that God is lo bo disobeyod at his pleasure; that, in fact, the Stato, tho Nation, tho people of all Christianity and the Almighty Himself count as nothing against the notion, the desire and the will of Joseph F. Smith. As tho News truthfully remarks (not, you understand, upon this particular themo), "it is a marvel." |