Show IDAHO TEST OATH REPEALED that infamous test oath of idaho idabo is no more except as aa a black b lotch blotch on the first pago page of that states pa political I 1 I 1 history the present legislature has repealed it and governor MCCO McCoNNELL SNELL has approved their action thousands of latter day saints in the sout southern bern part of idaho will henceforth enjoy all the ri rights abts of american citizenship thus ends enda a long and exceedingly bitter fi fight 11 ht within the borders of I 1 our northern neighbor I 1 abor a fight no loss lass acrimonious than has been the one in utah it engendered the worst of beelin feelings s brou brought 0 lit about seemingly endless litigation liti aaion and cost many thousands of dollars on both sides aides to say nothing of tho the galling chains of imprisonment but a curtain has hag been on tho the past in idaho and all seem anxious to forget those days dayn of heart burnings henceforth deaca will reign supreme and prosperity will come coma to idaho in a multiplied form the right kind kincl of spirit now broods over that young state it is 13 n no along longor longer said ho he is a mormon or he is ia a gentile gentila but all rejoice in the des dea of bein being a citizen of the united I 1 states and a resident of idaho we hope such a dayl day ia not far off for utah the presidents ts amnesty proclamation was a big step in that happy direction it tended to break down dowa the barriers of distinction so long existing many mormons cormons are being accepted aai a jurors who were hitherto disbarred dis barred and the old fineg of hate are gradually dying out our no suspicion is now attached to the fact that a mormon and a non mormon may be hob bobbing together the latter day saints may mav elivd their reli religion ion as aa strictly as aa iyer ever but few now believe that exclusiveness in the sense of not no mingling socially with men of other beli beliefs 0 as is a part of their religion tle tho latter day saints will perhaps continue to be a peculiar people in so BO far as their religion differs from tho the creeds of the world but the day of their being an exclusive people is ia past they have voluntarily come out ont and embraced the standard political teachings of this great nation of ours and allied themselves with its great parties today the only exclusive class in utah are the liberals they persist inbe in being inga a party to themselves no matter what americans generally may do but their day of usefulness is past and soon they will break their shell of religious intolerance and step out into the broad field of american polities the sooner they do this and like their idaho bro brethren thren forget tha past the better it will bo be for utah |