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Show II 1 HUMILIATING UTAH. I It must be a profound humiliation I "for Utah Republicans to note tho atti-I atti-I tudo of Senator Smoot nnd Representa.-I. Representa.-I. lives Howell and Johnson on the Mexi- can wax situation. All threo of them I voted against tho resolution authoriz-inc authoriz-inc the president to u$o tho army and navy to uphold tho dignity of the American flafr. ConBidorablo adverse criticism was directed against the local j Young Men's Republican club for placing plac-ing tho flag on the floor at the laBt Tjincoln day obBervance, but that "vvau -trivial comparod with the deliberate action ac-tion of the chosen representatives of this commonwealth, who, by their votc6 "in tho highest lawmaking bodj' in tho land, announced to all the world that thoir petty political prejudices out-' out-' weighed their patriotism and that American marines might be arrestod with, impunity and the demands of I American admirals disregarded so far ' las Utah is concerned. There is every reason to believe that .these "young men," who were accused 'of lack of patriotism on Lincoln day, Trill repudiate by individual word as "Veil as by resolution tho conduct of J the senior senator and the roprcsenta-( roprcsenta-( tiveB from this state as unworthy and 1 misroproBentative. Every state in the Union has a large percentage of critics who always are ready to question tho loyalty of the ' ..Mormon people, and, while the non-j non-j Mormon senator voted with the presi-' presi-' dent, tho action of Senator Smoofc from j Utah county, Eopresentative Howell i from Cache and Representative Johnson Ifrom Sanpote, iu voting against the f i!ag, against the admiral in charge of j: K .the fleet and against the honor of tho I J republic as represented by its chief J magistrate, will have to bo rebuked in . I fsome emphatic way to remove the blot 1 1 their ballots placed upon tho record, I j No more loyal people ever lived than J may be found in the valleys of these I Imountains. No higher patriotism can I fbe seen than exists among the niaeses t in Uieso intennountulu states. And. . ,,wbilc politics often leads some of their i , men to do strange things for question i able advantages and small reasons, we M do not think they will have the ma-1 ma-1 jority with them in a great interna- tional crisis when all eyes aro upon us , wondering what wc think of the flag wheu Insults arc placed upon it and - what we arc willing to do to enforce the ordors of tho commander-in-chief of our army and navy. |