| Show t IIIItRTl IV tTUI i J An noyrnouerteepOndot In a country town cure from the Democratic Demo-cratic organ In I thin city a paragraph la 6J printed Just before the city election r which contain a declaration to the t I effect that the voters of this State are I t free to vote for whom they may see fit und that no man hot authority conferred upon him by Clod or given 19 him of men to Interfere with the freedom of the Individual In tfie exercise 1 ex-ercise of his political rlRhti ° and for Tiardi It to this office Of coinno this mi3 i fling at the Mormon Church j i it HulJiorltlcR I tteferrlnE to the clipping I I tlo coreetoooIent tuye I Thin 18 the kind of talk to nave I Yes Indeed thin Is I the kind of talk I r 10 have Ir It to delrOlI to prd over 1 f I the world the Impression that Utah Is < Inhabited b > serfs and ruled by half 11 civilized chiefs who hold the masses 1 In 8laver If the object In to make the world believe that UUih 1s a region II lhr lt < whose Benlzens can neither read nor I write I and among whom patriotism I Is J an unknown virtue that they have no conception of the meaning of liberty ri and that statehood was a stupendous i j t blunder this Is I the hind of talk Utah pupurs should Indulge In df It In l denlred perntatently to Insult the members of the dominant religious I 1 I society of the State mood If the purpose j pur-pose Is I to try to goad them or their 1 leaders Into some sort of retaliation h by nil moan keep up this kind of lath 11 Keep on reminding the members of that socIety that they ore now free i I that quite recently the shackle have I hen stricken from their limbo Give 1 E41 themito understand that whereas they 1 i came to Utah an serfs amid lived here Jt nearlj half a century as slaves some i i I broly by tome means hoo successfully conmimmated cope son of v process emancipation In their behalf so that j now If they venture to go to the polls I i 1 no blood hounds will follow them 10 < t I Jr noN If they even vote ns they please i they need stand In no fear of the o I j 1 < whipping post for 110 u thing of the i putt For wI li long wean yearn 000e I i JJ tlnce the Voters of Utah divided on I national political linen the assertion iI line been Incessantly reiterated that II I t they nre now free FIt come scribbler scrib-bler for a political organ makes IIi I II-i then some stump upeiker whose mouth and brain an sadly out of Proportion 1 Pro-portion us to size repeats It then Home latent uuUldo sheet talus It I up and ia on ad IlaUllm This Iulement Is usually uccompanled by the further one that the leaders I of the Mormon people have Elven the latttr permission permis-sion to vote the ticket of their choice Why not further Inform a wondering f ° world that those magnanimous leaders I lead-ers have Riven their followers ier mHMon to breathe zo t and sleep the naiireamanflheolonioorlnooie00d II the females to seek the bargain coon I tee on curly and on unen as Porte 0 mob permit or Inclination dictate The villainous handel Implied 111 tllli rubbish Is I all that save It from hoI ho-I ing the veriest Imbetillty 0 venerable rioneirs whose faith il Is lube tl0 of tIne chiidren I of Israel croslng the rd atom eibneo ptrlotlsm Is like thaiof the martyrs of Thor 1 t I mopylat omhmoo I dovoIam 1s like that I J 1 thellllgrlm I I ruthl ooiiosorcmmorogo 1 IH like that of the 06110 sIn hundred 2 t of Halakla ye gray haired Ierang nisa > laid amount Ie toaano ins time corn er slants if a grunt romman I ea1lh ted mnsde 11 Ioslble fur pro 4I < fslon1 loHliean mod other sorlal J peels and puronitro 10 niot heeeor hat Ihlllk ye onhen oome orlbbler pub 4 hIkes to the ovoell Ihe grallflnl I newt that now < ullo roenllyo O ar free lId whet lhal pcrlhuler I twIn lmeolher mr tlh short rrnhhy hdlr I arid a luw retrelIng tor hood if feoto a thrilling eammoimo fmso a f beer saloon elinobo ii stamp nnd 100 I j tur an ggrtlIolt or his rollow Ovaloe shonnlog lorofeno tetlermlvs U Inc ox j I oeyeeotiomn Ibmot Ihe Mormons osm are free Ii hat emollolls omrgo 0111mb t 1 ykd 1Coul < yoo Ih e Udelutlto uUer I anre to thom ItnmilIy I I 0 i O the IInpollkable atlre or lIne situ I fiJ l nUonl dceibbtmeo wIth not man Inplrlt ri ii I thouwInch thrt do snot get trwmo some I n lonlitleol incas 1111k not a seiotitla not I Ill i pllrotlPm part frl1m part trolls 41 U 4 wIll lmatto lIeu of public I pubbc loftier U il thomo limo ooimoemmo of rm cord hrnier with 1 II 1 not o onItlon or homo liberty that occult 10 reenlit to 11 Turk urnoenl 0 bnfotm thom Mormon loapio hoot frco oW ul t1 al m4 ° nhnsmi nOw prenolie In Utoh and exhort l them to net inpon It my 000bng toe coo 1 4 ij oplrutoeo and spoliomenl lImp i speakers so rawn In thom cownrdlo j Itot they dore not otter pomihithy I a Imteh ts srnImsnt IbM I hns nut lent beer 1SCd upon hI thlr eerlng eom innilulr 1nd whoe soul nro held III I ij I I ueh abject slavery to the Iarty lank I f il that ralhr hon risk n blow from Itt I It-t they 000014 stultify Ibellloeln In the crost lOon nor poulble amd throw personal honor to ho nshndo ouch d o creauees huo 5 time Impodoneo 0 ntaod leforo the sturdy Mormon yoemanry and Ourz Ihom ti toke no counl III polllleA that does not cmanalo from stlf seeking aspirants who offer not life slightest guarantee of good faith I In th advice they Mve to voters Urfore such creatures an these sirib I biers Kiiil rpouters Xlstcd In Utah th Mormon people had established llbirty here and had tnliBht mankind that hrr American voter Is ns Independent n I his sphere as Cacmir was In his n llgiously they taught that Independent and Intelligent action In aim ne nttrs Df life In this world Is a sine qua non of salvation 1n tile nut Tor the coke of liberty thy endured more than death nnd they maintained It until complrlnir politicians oreanlzed political politi-cal machines that have seriously In vadcd It But ns things nre even now they can call all mankind to witness hot there Is no restraint upon liberty In Utah nave the tyranny of the port boss end Ihe certain of the part las Tf I big bet stolemeot come exception I moet be mode Tlu are voters III Uta some hundreds In camber who oct not free They aro permitted to vote hut If Ilmey allow It to he known how they vote a storm ensues and If Jhey cnture to advise others In public or In private how to vote the storm b comes a hurricane The In ju tlco and nbsurdlt of all this Is l vastly augmented when It Is I understood under-stood that of all the men In the State nl any creed calling these are the nest qualified to counsel the people In matters that relate to their mateilal welfare Not h I law It Is true hut scarcely less effectively than by legislative 0UIInt the moulh or thee mn hove Ioen cloI and their prnoonol liberties hove len eurtnlha III their aBloelntioa and conOratlons vlth their fcllo llzens So far haH this condition gone that when one of them In approaching the polls to cast his bal llot permitted n bystander to see vhat tlckit he voted the Incident was seized by stump speakers and a partisan par-tisan mecca and treated as If a crime had been committed and the venera hIe AmerIcan cltI1I who eat the vote was cenmned as a criminal might be I Tor sears these men have borne this deprivation of their dearest rights ns tmoninmmnnltlseno They Imosveeren the politician accompli his nefarious purposes ttmey have seen the teoplc robbed nnd oppressed they have seen Imperilled the credit and fair fame ol the ommonwallh alllong whoe foun lers they were numbeied and for whose welfare the feel a solicitude morn true deep and profound than their detractors are copalle of ton celvlng and yet have remained ttllent Out ot dofrone to zontehoo and out rageou prejudice they hive foregone their privileges l preferring any sacrifice sacri-fice rather than become a disturbing element In the meantime the State un has been tho loser immeasurably by U silence for their wisdom nnd counsel would have averted much of what the people ore now suffering and must yet suffer a The latriot In Utah may well 0irn for tho day when truth Juitlce nnd reason will be controlling elements In shaping public opinion and directing public affairs |
