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Show THAT SMITH LETTER. The notice in the Improvement Era, presumably from the pen' of L Joseph F. Smith, to all Mormon Democrats to this year vote the Republican ticket is a double infamy. It is infamous in its counsel to voters, inasmuch as it comes 'from one whom so many of the confiding, people of this State have been taught to believe is inspired; infamous in its blackguard black-guard reference to those who are trying to Americanize Ameri-canize Utah. . - " i He treats them all alike, as men who grovel in ! the worst vices of poor human nature, though in his narrow soul he knew when writing that he was bear-v bear-v ing false witness against his neighbor. . He said in Washington that never, since he was ' ' president of the church, has he received a revelation. This letter makes clear the fact not only that he has i never received a revelation, but that never has his soul been touched by that divine light which, shin-" shin-" r ing down frointhe cross, jias entered into struggling souls, and stilled their baser natures. ; The letter reveals him as just a meanly sordid and vindictive old man, intent on pursuing his own gross-. gross-. er passions, his revenges, his avarice and his lust, and 'f ready at the slightest opportunity to hurl his hate and his low slanders at all who oppose him and his utterly base and inhuman longings. : To believe that God ever selected him as his earthly agent is to impeach both the wisdom and the mercy of God, and to make a ghastly caricature of religion. . To imagine that the divine grace which enters the souls of devout men and women arid transforms their lives, ever smote upon the embruted longings that have swayed the life of Joseph F. Smith from boyhood, is not only a burlesque on religion, but a gloomy satire on the ordinary decencies of enlightened enlight-ened civilization. |