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Show i ' U X PltEVAK,CiT,XG I'HEACHEIt. ? ' ESS 4 "Hmali. Sam" has been airing jKIXJl ' his circumlocutory proclivity and JEJmf j " his propensity for scandal mongery jXnjf in the city of Philadelphia. He fjffisf has had himself interviewed by iA8ff rome of the papers In that city. MjM' 1 This is how this clerical inflationist 9gv I draws the long bow and swing it ;fiBl I around "a radial sweep of ."Wi) 99K miles:" S9f i "Yes, nir. Tue Methodist Episcopal SB I Church has founded at Oden tbo first JEbSz;! Qentlte university enterprise In tho I" inter-mountaln region. Tno site is both locally and geographically superb. For pitronago we havo a radial woep of 533 miles, without conflict with any other great institution institu-tion of learning. Ulah is filling up JHHfij, rapidly with a cultured, thrifty and iK j I ambitions population. They will re- JBB4 quire the highest possible cducauocal ffSf f advantages for their sons and daught- I era. and do not want to traverso a thousand miles to find them these ad. vantages. TVe propose to supply this "fins l urgent demand with one of tho best 'JMS' university establishments in all jSK America." llflfSJ a "E asked as to tho oi.ject of this eastern visit, lie said: "Jloney, equipments and endowments." Iu .. I, other words Ik is engaged in his iCjW, I prafessional occupatiou of hat-pass- 'B j ,na Dr-Ilia "aviug, in connection jm with the propped iu-titutiou, tur-, IffiK . rendered the plate to him. The old' BX t plan of drawing ducats on the plea IraSS of "ilormon" opposition is resorted SH to, as iniicatcd by the following in- .BBk tcrrogatory and answen 33 "ilonrdo the Mormoas view your BBJ'I enterprise?" VEM "They da not like it. Thoy look tt upon a Methodist university in Ogden jHft with the sams enmUy that they havo WfPftir f towmrj the United States garrison at SSSI Port Douglas to Salt r.iko Cny. They n regard both as equal nunaces to their EJikf Caurch supreuiiey and political Kfltl power." Wpi E If this appropriately named jier- SgS' son were asked to give any evi- 8p6 y dence, even of the remotrat deserip- RK tlon, for his aertlou regard- Hg ing Uie existence of enmily iu hm ,lle "ilormon" mind toward" the HP '"ort Djuglas garrison, it would be HJef Impossible for lilm to furnlsli it MC The relations of the people with the IHf i garrison are friendly, the one is not k9HS In the least a menace to the other, HE K and nobody believes that it is. ESS B A' to uurcb supremacy, that to ES9 p which the Latter-day Saints belong EBS L b tho etronest, numerically and f otherwise because the nrisi potcn- gn. f Uai,y epiritual in Utah. This H arouHss Uie -paciai enmity of the HE I Methodists and the Small prcsi- H9 en' of their propoocd univer- H8 j 5,y The "Mormon" Church has Hfl-j beei accuseil or exercising iwlitical HBF power, because iU members, like HB jf i y other citizen, have exercised B i! their rights and privileges, and In EH f doing so have voted for their friend-. to protect themselves a;aint political politi-cal frauds, pious and otherwise. -. , This is anotlier came of enmity ou 1 i the part of the Methodist Church, t f which alms nt political supremacy, J J J Ten to the extent of interference lS 2j " With the enforcement of the laws, a 1 tend"-orassistanee in that liue hav- 9 ing been male the other night tj Governor Thomas a pronounced SfS; Methodit through Pastor Mabry. SJJy The latter puhllcly ptelged the pMjH iTetbodUt Church to join with the nf officers of the State in that direc- I Here is another evj Jeooo or small- ness towards a bdy of believers Iu Then yon think the Gentiles are certain to control the Territory i" "Yes; and all the fooner if Congre&s ceuld get over Its Inane squoamish-ness squoamish-ness about disfranchlslm; the dUloyal, lawless and defiant elomsnt of the Mormon following. If they were subjected to the test-oath laws thev would soon find it necessary to become be-come loyal citizens or leave the country coun-try for other and better people to The logic of this statement is that . the way to make loyal citizens is t-deprive t-deprive them of their rights. We have heard this wild, fanatical yell before about "Mormon" Iawlessnes and defiance befoie.but they have no existence. If Saiall and some other notable Methodists had their way Utah would I an exclusively UK m Methodist Territory, and al! other H M religionists, being necessarily de R 1 IadeJ ""J more or less disloyal. 5 II would have to "leave the country." t "Why not make Uth a State and r f thus Americanize It?" Sr I "Because that would not be the ef- rSif i I feet f Statehood at present. The jf'" Mormons want Sutehood, and pre- I .' f aented once a very specious constitn- f i tlon to that end, but they are not fit j to be trusted with tho organization of ' an American State. They hate the Constitution and the laws." fl The "Mormons" are es-ent&lly '1 UlB religious community wb.o " ; venerate the constitution, claiming 5 MVHHHHSJ that It is an inspired Instrument. Mr. Small and his clique bate the Constitution because a lingering respect for it is what they call the "inane squeamlshness of congress." It is the palladium of human rights that stands in the way of tho attainment at-tainment of the antlMormon"' meUioJistical desire. The Const! tution forbids the application of a religious test, which Small wishes applied to the latter-day Saints. This oracle speaks iu behalf of the the Gentiles, claiming to express their wishes: "What do tho Gentiles generally want, looking to the future of Utah?" "Cither to wait until Mormonism is stamped out or to be attached to the State of Nevada, making of that present pres-ent rotten borough and the great Utah region ono grand, prosperous and loyal Sate. With this consolidation effected and Ogden made the State capital by reason of her unrivaled advantages, the Union would gain immsnscly and the Mormon blotch on the American flag would bs eOeciually obliterated." According to this .logic the Gun-tiles Gun-tiles want Utah linked oa to something some-thing rotten so that, by combining it witli what is asserted to be rotten in Utah, thus increasing tho aggregate of rottenness, "one grand, prosperous prosper-ous and loyalStatc" will bo the product pro-duct After thus cleansing the platter plat-ter of state by throwing in an ad ditional uippcrful of corruption, the climax must be capped by making Ogden the capital of the purified commonwealth. It is presumed that this last suggestion is made on tbo ground tint Smill purposes making the ''Junction City" his future home. Injustice to tho Methodist church it is fair to state that "Small Sana" Is only a mongrel Methodist, having been a Congregationalist preacher and has not formally severed his connection con-nection with the latter denomination. denomina-tion. It was doubtless couienlent for him to make the change, as he evidently lias an eye to the main chance. Maik it lie will yet be notable as the possessor of a much larger amountof wind than wisdom. |