Show i THE TIlE GOVERNORS GOVERNOR'S QUANDARY The News makes the Ule most of the fact that the will of f tho tIm people as represented b by their petitions is that Utah should bo be prohibition That would be rather a conclusive argument outside of Utah but butI I how many negative votes can the News can call up that I h havo vc been cast in tho the tabernacle and in the bowery I i before the tabernacle the last j during two sixty years cars 1 since tho the Saints came to Utah I 1 The will of tho the Mormon people in Utah means simply the will of the church and our 11 judgment is that were President Joseph F. F Smith next Sunday to stand up before the altars in the tabernacle and declare that in his judgment and in the judgment of the Lord of Hosts Apostle Heber FIeber Grant is the theS S sweetest sin car that has over been heard in Utah since the last flew away to its native e wilds and aud were he to ask that all who believed with him should raise their right hands bands there would not be one diss dissenting vote and that would sho show exactly what public opinion is is in in the tabernacle and what cars for music musk the Mormon people have And after the vote were President Smith to recommend recommend rec rec- that petitions be sent throughout the state expressing the belief that Apostle Apo Grant was the sweetest singer that ever eer had brought enchantment to the congregations in the tabernacle that the petitions petitions peti peti- V would be just as joyously sign signed d and just as jubilantly returned to the legislature as are the present petitions for prohibition V And nd we want the legislature to make an account of these facts and to keep in mind that while it is their their duty to obey the voice of the people it is not especially their duty to obe obey the voice of J. J Grant through tho the people The high priesthood of the Mormon i church do donot donot donot not like the progress which Salt Lake is making they would like to stop it in some effectual way and stop it so hard that the old rule would be fully reinstated reinstated reinstated rein rein- stated and the management of affairs here as well us the ti tithing hing paid by officers would all gravitate back to the original source the maw of the Mormon 1 church There is nothing sincere in this movement rather we suspect that it is in direct opposition tion to the covenants covenants cove e I nants pants which the Republican chiefs which included the fIle chief Mormon priests made with the liquor sellers sellers' sellers sellers' sellers sellers' sell sell- ers' ers association last summer summer summer-by by which they received large campaign funds and a a. large number of votes votes votes- V in iq case caso they would vote the Republican ticket CV The News the other night said that no doubt V Governor Spry would before long send to the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture tura a special message on the subject of prohibition It would put tho the governor in a bad place because it would force him to do one of three things things either cither to repudiate his covenant last s summer and the covenant covenant covenant cove cove- nant which certain Republican legislators entered into when they were nominated that if the he liquor association supported their ticket and provided a certain amount of money moner they should be by bj the legislature or it would make him de declare de- de e- e clare elare dare that he was under no obligations to the liquor liquorI t I men neither he nor his party or it would place him I in the light o ot advocating something which his clear knowledge knows he had promised not to advocate a J As we look on this matter the alternative is left V to Governor Spry to choose whether he lie will still stick to the covenants he made last summer and to toI I the oath which he took when wIlen he assumed the office of governor or whether at the beck of the apostles of the church under unde cover coer of petitions obtained lie ho knows knovs how he lie will repudiate the whole business and andI aim a fatal blow at the I prosperity of Salt SaIt Lake City Citi He re has an au opportunity to prove pro that he is a strong man and a just man or to establish clearly that he hc is but an ordinary slave of the Mormon ormon church and that he has riot manhood enough to run rita counter to a spiteful decree V of that church even eyen r when he knows it would mean disaster to a great city |