Show STATE the trouble with our democratic friend ie that they see no othor influence with leading men of the mormon church than their priesthood or ecclesiastical influence divest SMITH and M of all church authority and they would still have groat influence in a community because they are model citizens they have a mind fraught with knowledge they are temperate and moral they anre ready to aid in all praiseworthy in short they may be considered among the moat progress iva citizens of utah but perchance they have a love for religion and are lending their best efforts to the promotion of their church democrats would them from taking part lp political affairs no matter if their toils have surrounded them with wealth no matter if they feel the burdens of unjust government no matter if designing politicians join with the saloon elements to carry the day and SMITH are apostles and must keep off the stump under certain conditions for example adueh as exist in provo and made itself felt for evil in determining our municipal election last tima the sal vices of such men could be yielded for great rood but democrats would have them bound by ecclesiastical fetters should they nay anything thena would be raised the cry of church and state a condition of things next to impossible in the united states very few understand what church and state really is have church and in a limited degree in great britain cussia germany and scandinavia di navia where the governments support by the taxes of all a chosen charca in great britian it is the church of england in the greek catholic church and in the other countries the lutheran church state officers are consecrated by tha state church and the services of that charch only are beldin army and navy circles and houses of re coraa oa board of all the steamers m employ of the british government the church ol 01 england services are gona through with every sunday and if a man of war all tho sailors ars re faired to fo through the prescribed rituals the same religion also extends to the parochial schools in germany the caldren of all olaa seg attending the public schools are required to go through the prescribed lutheran exercises every day and no preceptor is engaged who is not a member of the alato llato church it is argued in these countries that religion tends to morality and what is expended by the government for the support of of a church is saved to the tax payers ia prison feea in other words religion lessens crimo and therefore it is a necessity from an economic standpoint but tho best example of church and state are now simply matters of history during the palmy days of no man could rule in secular government without the sanction of the church A man might be born in kingly robes but he could not sway the sceptre without first obtaining the sanction sane tion of the bonahan catholic church those days had church and state with a more church than state ic will be understood from our explanation of church and state that no buch condition of affairs can ii tais count ryas they would be coa ordry to our free institutions when therefore democratic friends are st outing cunich and state beit known they are simply talking through their hats they dout mean what they say of course they would like to keep church people out 0 politics because they contrast so strongly with the saloon elements which as readily af filiata with democracy nil over tho country but they cant succeed in this the man fa a citizen in the eyes of the law no matter what his profession be ho lawyer doctor statesman or preacher ana that it is not only his right but his daty to enter polities and work for |