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Show IS OUU OW.V KEPUIJLIC IX DAXGEB? For over fifty years tho Mormons have been predicting that the time wasomlng whsn republican instl-tutlonsjn instl-tutlonsjn our country would be in great danger of being destroyed, and that it would be the noble privilege privi-lege and lofty duty of the Mormon people to assist In saving the principles princi-ples of oaitlkitiiual liberty iu the United States from utter destruction. destruc-tion. This declaration has been met by sneers aud jloes aud counter charges of disloyalty. Hat lately other psop'.c seem to be awakening to the dingers that threaten the liberties of tho people. 1 n an c Jitorial, published in the .SaidartfjOn'The People's Municipal Munici-pal L,etgu3" movement in Xeur York, Henry George says: "It is not merely that tho government govern-ment of the metropolis has become corrupt. It Is not morel y that municipal munici-pal government fzonerally has becoma corrupt. It Islbatilemocra'ic-ropub-hCAn government in the Uailed Slvoi is breaking dotrn. Tbe Iftik that Ilea oa us i a larger tak than that of purifying a municipality. It is that of saving a republic!" In an editorial on the federal election bill now before Congress, the tame writer saye: "Wo reprint from ths Now York Tines a careful sum miry of the federal election bill tbt has raised tho Ilonvs and is now pending lit IhoSdnat. Wo bopooarreadsn will study it closely. If they do they will see tha itdeservis tbo lenunciaion it has already received re-ceived at the hand of tho .Vtaainnf. Tho fonyi bill is dsainei to bo an enormous engine for bribery, and it proroes to interfere w ith tho immemorial imme-morial rights of tbe Slates. It strikes a deadly" blow at local self-government, and, worst of all, it prepares the wav for a deliberate defiance of the will of the eop!e, through putting tbo whole election machinery of tho country, coun-try, so far as members of Congress are concerned, into tho hands of partisan agents u ho will ba appoiulod for the specific purpose of certifying tho election of men who will c-onlinuo to support and uphold tbe robb r tarill afier the people hate pronounced against It. It is a ithout exception tho most Infamous In-famous measure introduced in Congress Con-gress since the days of reconstruction, and back of that tlmo it has no parallel in infamy except the alien and sedition sedi-tion laws, passeVl by tbefederallsis junt before an indignint psoplo destroyed that party." In a more recent editorial on tbe corruption prevailing at tin seat of government he says: On tho surface the outlook for democratic de-mocratic mititusioul wor.hy of tho name was never so dark In the United States as nov. Tho tnonay power tnat JcfJerson feared is in full control of all branches of the national government, govern-ment, and neter did a Conr.s openly and unblusbiurlyuse its functions func-tions to enable the rich t grind toe poor as has tbo Congress that has just taken a recess. If these words had been uttered byonojof tbe Moruun lea Jen and had been published Iu the DKsr.KCT News, they would have been lieral Jed all over the United States with a great flourish of trumpets as proofs of the hatred aud disloyalty of the Mormons and as an additional addi-tional reason why they should be deprived of the franchl. llut the '-task of saving the He-public" He-public" will not devolve upon the democratic rty nor any other existing ex-isting party composed of professional, wire-working politicians. They have all been weighed in the balance aud found wanting. It will be the "People'd Party," composed of the best elements of all pirtics and the noblest men and women of the nation, (hat will come to the rescue aud "save the Itepubllc " Gentlemen may sn.tr, blackguards black-guards may revile, unbelievers may mock, but as certain as the suu will continue to shine and its planetary system revolve in orderly obedience around it, so surely will the Mormon people fulfil this part of the mission assigned to them. And the time b not so far off but that somo of you who read this will see the fulfilment of tho prediction that. Instead of twin? the bated, despised, ostracl-ed iieoplu they are today, the Latter day Saints will commmd the respect and confidence of the wisest and best men and woman of this and every other nation, and the advice and counsel of their KUers will be sought by the rulers of the earth to aid them in solving the diulcult problems aud in controlling the elements of strife and discord that will perplex them aud cause their hearts to fail for fear. It would be cay to portray tho laughter, or oaths and sneers with which this "vagary of another 'crank' or di-eased mind" will be greeted. But just cut this out and pul it carefully away in yourpocktt book fcrfuther reference. Sir.ics. |