| Show HIIIA I III I1ICT1OS3 The New York Mall and Hiprexs ts Ion I-on of the few prominent papers of the country to get exclltd over the address of President Woodruff In favor of dl nntfat purity In politics delivered at the recent re-cent general Conference of the Mormon Mor-mon Church Under the hoaaing Moimon Aggressiveness It says Events In Utah are rapid fulfilling fulfill-ing the prediction frequently repeated In these columns that loaner or 1Ir the Mormnn Church would uurl ine civil Inilllutlons 01 that faille The latest And mot ominous evIdence of this dt > prrnle purpose appears in the laoedine or the nlannul1l con Terence oC I he fail mers oC Mormonlm now sitting In Bolt Lake City ttll Cord Woodruff President of that body who bj virtue ot his office Is I Accepted accept-ed no on omcl oC DIvine Authority In n sermon to 1000 members of tho Church vesterdny uttered this mo mentou nilmonillon fol Almighty requires you to unit in jour Temple work and unite In your lollllcs You should unit I to elect jour city council I nnd mine all your State olllclnls You must put aside jour Democracy and Hepub llcanlwi and ns tlerdiy Saints unite Th meaning of these words to I unmistakable un-mistakable The Mormon vote Is I to he l east ns a unit In Utah politics 1 The Interests of tho State are to be subordinated sub-ordinated to the Intercuts of the Church The right of the Individual to form party ntllllnlions In accordance accord-ance wilh hU conscience Is I to be revoked re-voked Liberty nf action Is I to given give-n y to political slavers And the vast power of tho whole sect nt Latterday faints Is to bo used ns a single force to promote the Interests or Mormonism The Mall and Jlxpress knows better than In carry on like that It Is too well posted on Utah affairs to give forth such predictions and utterances In honerly or sincerity It Is only too willing to be deceived oDd to deceive Its readers respecting the Mormon people or their doings It has shockingly shock-ingly garbled the words ot President Woodruff nnd has attributed to them 0 meaning And lgnleanc never In tended b > the speaker No Intelligent person In Utah expects or 1lre to see the Mormon vote cnt as a unit In Utah politics and certainly certain-ly I President Woodruff never counseled nor contemplated such a thing There Is I far less I danger In Utah than In some other portions of the Union or the In tcrests of the State b lng subordinated to the Church the right to form rarty adulation Is ns sacred In Utah as It Is I anywhere else In the world ana Is being exercised with a Igor uncommon even In Clotham politics If there was us little lit-tle danger In Greater New York of pollllcal slavery as there li I In Utah there would be I far less need of reform there than exists The vast power of the whole sect of Latterday Faints Is I to bo used as a tingle force to promote the Interests of Mormonism In I n forecast that lifts hen Iud by some scribbler or other very few days during each lolltlcal campaign that has occurred In this Mate vince Its admission Into the Union anti the persistency with which it Is Indulged In notwithstanding that It has been made so often with never ft symptom of fulfillment Is something amazing Th contont far ure of the prophecy ought to be out Ilclent proof of Us total lack of all reliable re-liable inspiration and there canonly be added tho stale assurance that It can never come 10 pass In the way or scruro Intended by the Mall and Express Ex-press |
