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Show their . votes, to command their entire lirci. Ar.J Keed Smoot accepted this rule, and so faithful has he been that, step by step, he has advanced to the officeof apostleand is in direct succession to the' chief place, ' ;; : ; . " ; " ' Because of his office, he became, a candidate for' Senator, knowing that his office ."would command for him, through the command of the church leaders, lead-ers, the certain vote of such of the Mormon people as yield . implicit obedience to the orders of - the church head, since with them there is no anion of church and' state, because the state Is ' absolutely dominated by the church 'and free government is made a pitiable f arce. ,'. V--;" In the same spirit he .came back from Washing- i ton and ordered that an unknown, or at least un-thought-of, man should be nominated arid elected Governor tof Utah, and it .was done.. That is, he seized with his stained hands the pure American ballot and in effect cast it for the tens of thousands of his brother churchmen in the State, making an absolute farce of free government in Utah in the interest in-terest of the church to which his life is consecrated. lie has watched all his life and seen this same thing repeated over and over; he has seen every Legislature, Legisla-ture, of Utah and. every .City Council of Salt Lake City - controlled by the same power, and has approved ap-proved of it all his life, because his fealty is, to this kingdom only. . " '. ; - - V? : ; Yet the Nation, that has so long been a prominent promi-nent journal, speaks of an "implication that his oath of allegiance to the Mormon church prevented his giving complete allegiance to the United States." ( When the Mormon creed - was founded so. alien was it, so monstrous were the acts and pretensions of those at its head, that the organization was driven from .Ohio then from Missouri, then-from Illinois, and it has been a law unto itself for fifty-nine fifty-nine years in Utah. Has there ever been a time in Ohio, in Missouri or in Illinois that: decent men could not advocate any honest belief or do any decent de-cent thing they pleased to do? -? And have the Gentiles Gen-tiles of Utah ever demanded anything that Ameri-cans.would Ameri-cans.would not everywhere demand? . ' There is no implication of disloyalty here It is a true indictment and the facts cover all the years of Mormonism from the first.' s . : - . , ; AN IMPLICATION, LH? : : Speaking of the Smoot case, the New York Na- - tionsays: ' V:. 'X:-': ' ' uThe case rested on the implication that his oath of allegiance to the Mormon church prevented him from f giving complete allegiance to the United ' -states' ';;..;'V:'-''r,; '': ;.'':' " . The law shuts out an Irish immigrant from ypt-. ing, or holding office until be has . become naturalized, natural-ized, "on the implication'' that his love for the Gov-; eminent of Great Britain is too great to permit ,him to be a true citizen of the United States. N ' And this is true even when he, comes a refugee , to this country and tinder the grave suspicion that '., in his time he has shot a few landlords. r V This is true, though since, he emerged from his rude cradle and learned the history of his own country, coun-try, he has hated the British Government above all thicks else, and has looked to the United States as the one land where Irish-born men could attain to the full stature of manhood and true citizenship and - cast off hereditary despair. ; ." ' : jjat Beed Binoot was born on this soil. From his mother's knee he was' taught that the world's only real, rightful leader was right here; that there was c-e'bere who claimed, by a God-given dispensation, " tie ri'ht'to rule this people in all things, as well -.'rtaiicg to this life as the life to come; the right tLc3 ttcir business, to corariar.d. |