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Show A SENATOR'S FALLACY. : , Senator Sutherland in lis speech" on Thursday night did not attempt to conceal that there were, ' a wrongs here which ought .to be" cured, but which he insisted should be cured within the old parties. - , Those are plausibleworids and naturally will meet the acceptance of ordinary Americans all through the country, but Senator-Sutherland has been in Utah thirty years and he cannot help but know that the progress thus far made does not present pre-sent any encouraging feature to any living soul, except some one who holds office or who hopes to obtain office through the help of the Mormon church. ' . When we say "Mormon church" we mean the men in control of the Mormon church, for really the Mormon church is simply an expression from day to day of the few men who make up the directory direc-tory of that institution. We say no progress has been made,. because Sen-. Sen-. ator Sutherl3hd, we presume, would admit that the Governor of the State and all the State, officers,-that . the Legislature that elected him Senator, were all "set aside" by Reed. Smoot to fill the various offices, and the command was obeyed just as effectually as though it had .been made thirty years sooner and had been made by Brigham Young in person. Senator Sutherland was kind en6ugh to say that the American party was a disease. It is possible that there are others who are not in perfect political politi-cal health. There are a great many just as good ' Republicans in Utah as Senator Sutherland is. There are a great many who are just as solicitous for the welfare of the party as Senator Sutherland is. There, are a great many that are just as sane, politically, as is the Senator, but the right of revolution is inherent in men. When a wrong becomes so-manifest that ', no ordinary means can cure it, and when the people are so enslaved that arguments have no more effect , upon them than they would on dumb animals, then, if it is an American State that is so involved, it becomes be-comes the duty of the Americans in that State to try radical means to remedy those wrongs. Political parties are not governed by Christian Science. When a Mormon, brought up from his mother's knee to believe that a certain man is a prophet, seer and revelator, and that his obedience - to a command of that, man is so binding that it involves in-volves the salvation of his very soul, then no absent treatment can be worked on him ; and, when he hears a great Senator of the United States proclaim in a public gathering that the way to cure that wrong is to cling to the party that is in the absolute grasp of this so-called seer and revelator, or in the grasp tX men whom he "sets aside" to make known to the, people his sovereign will, then should the Mormon . laugh; he has a perfect right to. When he says that is good doctrine and all the .church needs is o have 'that doctrine clung to ; when any American says that, consciously or unconsciously, he is lending aid and comfort to the enemies of this country ; he is giving public indorsement to the perfidy through which Statehood was gained for Utah, and his advice !s not good advice for any self-respecting American t'6 follow. Neither is he a good friend to the Mormon Mor-mon people, for he but helps continue this rule of tyranny , which no other man better understands than does Senator Sutherland, to keep its blighting blight-ing hand on all the vast interests of Utah and to keep the clamps that are on the brains of Mormon people firmly riveted. All this ground has been threshed over often End for many years, and it is not profitable, probably, prob-ably, to wrestle with . Senator Sutherland's ideas. . But.it is enough to say that there are a great many thousands of Americans in Utah who utterly repudiate repudi-ate that sophistry and who do not believe that they are politically sick, depraved or demanding what is unjust. r . . a |