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Show f When Men Are Bound and When Men Are Free I 1 I - BY MAC. V Former Governor Arthur L. Tliom'as, the present Postmaster of Salt Lalce City and now-one 4 of the most active members oC the "Federal bunch," issued a report to the Government in No- f rember, 1S89, which was very different in tone to his present day activity. Like Senator George Sutherland, his sentiments have been changed through an office bribe. lie has become a 4 X servitor of the very7 same power that'in the days of his integrity he denounced in bitter terms. X Here is what he said id 1889: ? "Where it (the Mormon church.) has any point to attain in behaL" of Mormonism it deals in 5 ? evasions, or words of double meaning, meaningless words, hypocritical pretenses, false assertions i and every helpful evasion of word or act. Its attitude in regard to polygamy is delusive to the ? last degree. It knows there is no material change of opinion on the subject; but it seeks to con- jjj vey the idea that there has been." ' - y Further in the same report he said : "This sophism, accompanied by suggestions of opprea- sion, unjust prosecutions, agitations against them for the sake of plunder, and that there is no 2 Utah question because polygamous marriages have ceased, entangles many who can only give X the question a passing thought, and they are apt to think there are really two sides to the ques- ? T tion." Governor Thomas drew a picture twenty-one years ago tliat lias not changed. Tt is as faith- j X fiiil today as it was then. There has been no transformation, in all these years. But the artist X of 1889 is noAV one of the despicable Jack-Mormons who is doing all in his power to make per- J manent the condition against which ho pronounced so effectively when he did not have to serve $ the political leaders of the dominant church in order to keep his name on the public pay-rolls. X His indictment years ago was as sincere as his subserviency is abject now. He knows that the J only change from then is that thousands of the Mormons cf Utah who have begun to think for ? T themselves and to work for their own interests an.d to vote as their consciences and welfare If dictate, arc certainly helping to bring about a condition here when the church shall become a church in fact and the state-shall become, a state. X Governor Thomas was bribed with office to serve a power he knows to be an injury not T onl3r I the State oE Utah, but an injury to the lay-members- of the dominant church them- X selves. He was bribed just as other non-Mormons have been bribed. He aids and condones f ? 'thing he inwardly abhors. For a postmastership in Utah's capital he surrendered his inde- pendencc. T X George Sutherland surrendered his political and his social freedom for a Senatorship. He, . J too, once was free. Now he is asking the American people of Utah to vote for machine-picked 1; members of the legislature to return him to Washington to help further deceive the people of the United States as to the great issue in this State. X X Not once has Senator Sutherland cast a vote that was not in keeping with the wishes of ! T Senator Smoot. Not ouce has Smoot voted out of accord with the desire of his ecclesiastical " superior. Not ouce did cither show independent action. Instead of representing the whole $ T people of Utah, these men have kept a pledge to the great "interests" of the cast that was re- $ quired of them when the Apostle of the church was made secure in his seat! $ Is such a record creditable to Utah? $ Answer this when you have reflected on these facts, voters of .Utah, and when you do so, if t you have been wandering in the dark these troublous years, come out from the shadows and enjoy what thousands of others are enjoying, the uplifting sensation that attends those who go If 4 to the voting places and vote as their intelligence directs. I :f J ... ... X |