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Show WHY HIS DILEMMA? Mr. Littlefield seemed . to be astonished in his Tuesday night's speech that one. like himself, who came here merely at the bidding of the national Republican Re-publican committee, to speak for the Republican party, should meet the accusation of being here in the interest of a certain individual and a certain church. The reason is that neither the national committee nor Mr. Littlefield has kept posted on affairs in Utah. And if it be true that at the request of the President, Secretary Taft is on the way to Idaho, then "neither the President nor Secretary has any clear idea of conditions in our sister State. In Utah nine-tenths of the men who have all their lives been Republicans are not training under the Republican banner this year, hence all the help that Mr. Littlefield can be in Utah this year is what he can render Reed Smoot and the Mormon church. All that Secretary Taft can do in Idaho is to strengthen the power of the Mormon church in that State. . Things have come to this pass in Utah this State must be either an American or an alien State. It has been alien to ail intents and purposes almost from the beginning. By alien we mean that it has been under the control, con-trol, not of a church, as Mr. Littlefield understands the term, but under a perfectly organized temporal government, that has its king and its courts ; which is so perfectly organized that were the power and the control of the Republic removed from it tomorrow, tomor-row, it would require no changes. Moreover, this kingdom is, in its very inception and methods, hostile to free government, as Mr. Littlefield Lit-tlefield understands the term, and it does not conceal its purpose to persevere until it shall rule this Nation. Na-tion. Again, it is true that were twenty-five more States represented in Congress as Utah is today, the United States Government would cease to exist ; the head of it would be at the corner of State and South Temple streets in this city. When we say this is a kingdom, we mean it literally, liter-ally, for Brigham Young describes this system as "a celestial kingdom and a kingdom of God on earth," and Joseph F. Smith is the chief of it, and claims the right to rule it in all temporal as well as spiritual matters. So, if Mr. Littlefield is as shrewd as his. friends say he is, he will see that he has not be"en working for the Republican party ; that if the party, calling itself Republican, wins in Utah, it will in no sense be a Republican triumph, but a triumph of a power which has not one loyal heart-throb for the Government Govern-ment of the United States. |