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Show MR. GOSHEN AT PROVO. Quite a commotion, it appears, has been raised in Provo .by a talk made by the Rev. FJmcr L Goshen, pastor of the First Congregational church in ' Salt Lake City, last. Thursday, at the graduating grad-uating exercises iu tho Contral school at that place. Mr. Goshen is reported as citing the children to historical precedents pre-cedents of revolt or revolution brought on through tho discontent of the masses of the peoplo at wrong and oppression. Hero is the pith of Dr. Goshen's offense, of-fense, as reported by a correspondent of The Tribuuc. In dwelling on popular popu-lar movements lo obtain relief from op-presions op-presions of various kinds, Air. Goshen said: You school children probably havo heard of tho great reformations of the past, such as the French devolution and the reformation of Cromwell's time, but If you live for sixty years you will see an even more Important revolution In this country. You will sec a succession of conflicts between democracy and the specinl interestH. and In every case dc-niocraiy dc-niocraiy will triumph. Some day soon I'tnh will become great and wise enough to select two I'nltcd States Senators who will vote for the welfare of tho common people ami not for the special Interests, as the present Senators havo done Invariably In-variably since they entered Congress. Tho sentiment appears In havo been received with great applause by llioso who heard it. Among others so applauding, ap-plauding, was Mr. A. O. Smoot, Jr., a nephew of Apostle Smoot and a member mem-ber of the school board, who was very enthusiastic in his manifestations of approval of the sentiment utlercd. But it appears that the lash of the "Federal "Fed-eral bunch" was applied to his back most severely by James Clove, tho postmaster post-master of Provo, who is the bunch's representative there, and who is reported re-ported as having called the offending offend-ing Smoot into his office at tho Federal building and lecturing him roundly upon his sin in applaud ing such a sentiment. And the newspaper news-paper organ of tho "bunch-' in Provo made a loud wail and protest against Mr. Goshen's expressed sentiment. But what was Mr. Goshen lo do? lie was speaking to the graduating class of the school, in referring lo the studies which that, class had pursued, ho mentioned men-tioned the historic verities in connection connec-tion with the subject of revolt against oppression which Jic discussed. It seems that the oppressors felt themselves them-selves attacked, and resented M. Goshen's Go-shen's sentiments accordingly. This resentment is in effect a plea of guilt to tho charge so often made and so thoroughly understood in Utah, that tho church and the" "Federal bunch" arc riding rough-shod over the rights of the people in this Stale. And the agents in tho Senate of those oppressors op-pressors arc carrying out tho mandates of those at home who sent them there, s by fostering tho interests of tho ruling clusses as against the masses of the people. The church political and commercial power in Utah is allied closely with the oppressive interests of tho United States, which arc having things altogether alto-gether too much their way. It is known thai, Smoot obtained the votes whereby ho retained his scat iu the Senate by the union of tho church commercial and political power here with the allied al-lied interests of llio East. Jn this connection con-nection it will not be forgotten that two years ago Smoot wroto a letter lo President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Mor-mon church which served to suppress the prohibition agitation which was then on so fierce in this State. That letter has been reported as ta protest of the. liquor interests against prohibition prohibi-tion legislation for Utnh, and a reminder remind-er that tho liquor interests wero allied al-lied with the of her interests iu retaining retain-ing Smoot, in his -seat in the Senate, and thai it would bo a breach of faith for Utah lo pass a prohibition law when the liquor interests in conjunction with other interests had united to sorvc the church's purpose with respect to the Smoot Senatorship. That is what the letter is reported to have contained, and that will be the interpretation that must necessarily be put upon it. That letter has .been suppressed, alt hough it really belongs lo the public, and its publication has been loudly called for, since the public has a right to know just what if says. As long as that letter let-ter is .suppressed, there can be no just complaint about tho interpretation put upon it, as indicated heroin. And so, why should not Mr Goshen havo made tho remarks substantially jhjjUwJjj fitifliciontly advanced in their studies and in their intelligence to bo able to grasp the, idea which he conveyed and to apply it in connection- with thoir studies to the practical affairs of lifo, just as all students ought to do, otherwise other-wise thoir studies are in vain. Tho words spoken by Mr. Goshen needed to bo spoken. They were true words, and they wore spoken to fhoso who ought to henr them, and who could mako the bosh use through Ihem of the lesson which they conveyed. Ami so, those who criticise Mr. Goshen for his talk to the Provo students betray themselves as partisans whoso political affiliations aro ccnsurablo from tho standpoint of history, of popular rule, and of tho rights of tho people. |