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Show It- flf ArnocioDs xnrnnE false- V-M HOODS. - I & I f ,Tbe discourses in tho Tabernacle . ft . I ' cn Monday were good nbjocs lessons lr i for the people of tuo Untied States. "-"v. i Chstlns under the rcpudlatlm of Vrt i I pneilv rule which the News and v Si t Jlcrald have been permitted of l&ie to I iS t pjblinh, tho Premier of the Church m t I iHB , I could no longer bear the deception, S I J9f ' ami " boUy declarod that the Jlor- f JHf J 1 ,. nion people were bound to obey their . JSI fk priesthood, that the priesthood were !: JB' 'II ' nuthonzed by God to rule, and that ; jfSJ-B J li. thero were no other means of Rettini; )l Bill to Heaven except through them. He J SB Sjl reasserted their old rule that the peo- lit H 1M1 pie were absolut Iy bound by them, XfcS i I Md pate the old notice that how- r UE ffl I erer much the Monn in prow and ' SSaH fi Mormon platforms might declare ikjCif their Indeoendence thry had no nuch CM '( int ependenee. Then l ho decrepit old (S JaJk?V Preidem of the Church got up and gH nt ml endorsed what the Premier had said C H'EL bat added that that rule only appbed W B to spiritual thing'', and then declared jS I H I t 'bat lie individually lid never i . K I H F advIod anv one bow to vote Kvl H)jf except it might hive been his own R ' HI If I eons. Was there over Mich jugglery K? t-U& I played upon an indulgent Nation b- SSh. fore? The wbolo people are bound by gift obligation", which they cannot evade, m f to implicitly obey a certain priest- B jt hood That pnesLhood nominates a JP f ticket. It Is sent out to the people T with a notice that that is the ticket 13 . agreed upon by the first Presidency. 4 Js there cny need of a direct com f niand for them to voto it? Has not JUT I the obligation to vote it already been ,t". , taken bv tho slaves? When will tho f (akf miserable faroo be slopped?' 1. j"" Tilts foregoing is pirt of an. edl- '',W torialln Tuesday's Salt Lake Tn- JifE bane. Everyboiy who was at the , J'F Tubsrnacle on Sunday, and heard t I' President Gaorgo Q. Cannon's UIs- 1" course, and ever body who has ' W readtlicacinrateBynoplaofltTArhlcb 1 tj appeared in Monday evening' I' ' DE3E8ET New s, knows the itatc- : meats of the: Trioune coucetnlng bU : remarks to be absaluta falsehoods I and the very reverie of hU utterances. utter-ances. ; ' Tlila Is a trick Hist the unprincl- d pled writers cn that paper have play I ' cdfor j ears. First, they will re- I port the exact opposite of an Hldcr's j .remarks. Kezt tbey will comment I - upon the report as though it was an H i undisputed reproduction of bis B v IB, "words. Tteu they will repeat, HB i month after month, the tame argu- H : ments (?) baed upon the tame wil- PBj 1 ful falsehood, and keep up the prt- B I tencethat theyarecomUating"iIor. H ' j monism." Time and again they H ft have been exposed, but that makes MJ rM 1 so diOennce in tiicir contemptible IBj lip work; they prtist in a course which IBJ S jiroves that they arc utterly destl- Ul I f tute of mauhooJ and without tho IVj j i fiintest spark of honor or decency. Hj !' j Here is what President Cannon HE j j said on this subject as reported In IB J I the DEaEiiirr News and beard by HK , thousands on Sunday: Be j The Latter-day Saints would be HB '. the most ungrateful and unworthy HJH rople in the world if tney did not HBJ honor the Priesthood. But there Q was a dlfTerence between honoring HI the Priesthood, the authority of God, HHj and giving away their manhood. HH and Joluj such things as they were HH accused nf. Ho people on earth HJHj ' valued freeageni-y as did the Latter. HH day Stints; they preached it and HH f taught their children that they were HJH I free agents free to chooe aud act HI , for themselves. They would not I bind a man liy a single hair to do something which his own free will would not prompt him to do." Contrast that with the ravings of HJH the writer who fabricated the dehb- HlH "Jt crate misrepresentations above, and Bflj .say if such a creature is entitled to B j an atom of respect. Prtsinent Can HlH f non did'not reassert any "old rule" HHj or "ol 1 uottce"lbat"the peoule were HHH absolutely bound," and there is no HfljH such old rule rule or new rule in the Hfl Church. Neither did the speaker HK j make any reference or allusion to H the News or tho icraW, "the Mor- Hwaj f. man jiress" or the "Mormon plat- BB forms." I-- Tue allusion to President Wood- rufT is as indecently false as the a ecltions concerning liis Ptrst Coun HHK eelor. lie is not "decrexdt," but re- HHjK starkably vigorous, healthy aud ac- HS i live. Ever" visltlug writer for the HHfl press who has seen and conversed HIS with him, dilates upon lib hale a- HM1 psarance and his bright mentality, HJH 1 describing him us not looking to be HbI over sixty years of ae. HHH -. In nfereuci- to the previous speat- HH er'is remirks he made no "ifa" tr HHHJ "bub." Alluling to the falsehood HK that "the First Presidency told HHHE i every Latter-day Siint how to HBHE vole," be said: H 1 "tla ht 1 resided In this valley S sonr forty-lour years, and he could H safely siy that during the whole of 1 that time, so far as he could recol- HH1 Ject, he had never told any mau HB or woman how to vote. If he bad HHJIi told anyone, it had only been some ! of hU own boys who mijht bav X. 3ked hi- advice; but he did not re- 1L member even thaL" Xow read again the rant of the Tniuns. Ho much "Jugglery '' K Is there Jn President Wood- i ruff's plain aud simple state- HBVC ment of fact? The same HBVB "creature that now attacks him B has charged, day after day, tint HHB "every Mormon votes as be is HHB ordered by the Mormon l'retl- HHB dent," and on that falsehood bases HHB hi- infitmous argument that, there- HHfl fore '"every Mormon should be dis- H tratiehised." If any "Mormon" HBHBf has been ordered to vote for or HBHHJ against any person or mea-uro by HHH President WoodruQ", now Is the time HHHk to bring him forward. HHVHJ 'The statements about "obligations HmVHjL to lmpHeitly obey a certain priest- HHHJ bood," the manner nf making a HmVHK ticket and the notice that "it is the HHVHM tieket agreed upon by the First HHH PresMcncy," aro all equally false HmVHH withtheperverelonsofthespeakers' HmVHJB remarks. They are made up for HmHH foreign consumptijn, like most of B U the rubbish that b daily dished out H for the realers of that perpetual HHH 171 BVI f AnJ Ulc manufacturer thereof, HmVHH 'q with that peculiar logic for which HHVHH he is notorious, in a vain eUhrt to HHVHH prove that the speakers on Sunday BH advocated something that was for- VBHHJ j clgn to their words an i to their be- jHfHffl lief nod sentiments, quotes seme HH remarks alleged to have been made HBSBHK by a deceased "Mormon" more than B a third of a century ago! Ills logic H Is on a pir with bis veracity, but BBHBBB I bis malice and villainy overshadow HBHHE It seems strange to nj that there BBBBBBJ is not some one connected with the BBBBBBjl sheet that almost every day maligns BBBHHil the great body of the people here, BBBBBBJ that has sufficient regard for BBHHVB honor aud tlia rights of his neigh- BBHHBB bars, to interfere ani stop this in- H cessant stream of wilful lying H against them ani the r loaders. J ' That the contempt felt for It Is not Hr" ' confine! to the "Mormon" people K Ins been demonstrated during tbe HFHH. El, recent election. Hundred upon hundreds of non."Mormoru" refused re-fused to voto for the person who Is bcld responsible for this perpetual defamation. Xo fair or ordinarily decent man can approve it, no matter mat-ter bow pronounced may behUantl-"Mormonlsm." behUantl-"Mormonlsm." Any species of coercion; any Influence Influ-ence that binders the exercise of free agency; any power, whither of priesthood or something else, which binds tbe souls of men so as t fetter their tctioB, Is not "Mormonlsm," by whomsoever advocated, but its very opposite. If anyone disbelieves this, It is his right to try to disprove it by every legitimate means. But no person or piper has tho right to make this attempt by deliberate lying; and such a course as Is pureed pur-eed by tho Tribune perverter places him beneath the level of the ordinary ordi-nary criminal and ranks him among the most despicable of our fallen race. |